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Personal Narrative: Jackie Robinson's Life

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“Life is not a spectator sport.” Throughout life we face many challenges and many barriers that will try to keep us from accomplishing what we want. There are multiple ways to address these challenges, and the solution to a problem is different for everybody. Jackie Robinson faced one of the toughest and most widespread barriers, the barrier of racism. He had to face racism whilst trying to achieve his life dream, which was to play on a Major League team. Robinson overcame his challenges through a set of nine values: citizenship, commitment, courage, determination, excellence, integrity, justice, persistence, and teamwork. These nine values have become something that anybody can live by and can use to overcome their own values. In my own life I …show more content…
However, this didn’t seem to help much and I remained behind in math. My mother started helping me learn what I needed for math when I came home with a very low grade in math. With her help and an hour or so every night spent studying math, I managed to help get my grade higher. It wasn’t the best grade, certainly not an A, but it was still good enough that they did not try to hold me back because of it. I went on summer break that year, already not looking forward to the next school year. Towards the end of the summer, after much thinking and weighing the pros and cons, I finally came to the conclusion that I wanted to be homeschooled. I told my mother only a few days after I came to my decision, worried that she might turn me down and make me go. When I told her about wanting to be homeschooled she first let me know that I should have told her earlier, as I had only two to three weeks before school started. However, she didn’t turn me down and instead told me to give her all of the reasons that I wanted to be homeschooled, to ensure that they were good reasons and I wasn’t simply getting the back-to-school jitters. I wrote her a list of all

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