People Who Have Persevered
Sydney Sotiros
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What is Perseverance?
Perseverance is the act of not giving up even if horrible obstacles are thrown at you. It's when you want to achieve success and go forward in life. In this newsletter, there are many examples of people proving their issues wrong. They moved forward, but it was no where close to being easy.
Winston Churchill
Jackie Robinson
Short Video Focusing on "Famous Failures"
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"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
Losing to Win
In the short video, Losing to Win, the main idea that they try to get across is that winning is not always everything. The girls in the video are on the school,Carroll Academy's basketball team. This school isn’t just your everyday, average school. You were either court ordered here or sentenced to go. The students don’t have normal lives outside of the school either. Each girl on the basketball team has either faced neglect at home, has abused drugs, has ran away, has bipolar disorder, parents are alcoholics, has been abused, or their parents are divorced. All these girls have the same thing in common, it’s hard for them to trust. One of the main problems that these girls face is that they have been on a 218 game losing streak. They have struggled to win game after game. The scores are brutal with outcomes close to 103-12 or 52-5. With each loss, the self confidence of the girls drop. They already lack self confidence, but add on losing to all these different schools, it helps to creates a negative attitude and a negative self esteem. They already have a hard time trusting others, basketball just seems to add to that pain. A solution to these issues is that the girls are to stay on the basketball team. Being on the team has created a family that they originally didn’t have. They didn’t have a place to go until they became part of the team. The girls can finally get away from most of their troubles and just be free on the court. They learned to talk to each other freely and have more trust in individuals than they had when they first arrived. A time to remember for them, is when they finally scored 30 points. Even though they still lost, they communicated with each other to make the opposing team actually work. The score was closer than the ones from the very beginning of the season with an outcome of 53-32. Even though they lost, they still triumphed. Everyone can take from this video that you have to persevere through the hardships that life throws to you. All in all, the resilience of these girls has shown to be a greets success than actually winning.
You have to persevere through the hardships to achieve success.
You have to believe in yourself.
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What Can You Learn From Others?
People can learn many things, not just by achieving their own goals, but also from others. Knowing that people went through the same thing that you might be going through makes it easier. People can almost follow the same exact steps that others took to accomplish the same goals. Also, if people know what others went through, it make you a more sympathetic and empathetic person. It would allow you to helps others with their own problems too. In all, it pays off to know what others went through to reach success.