Adversity Essay Examples

What is adversity? Well, it is just another word for problem. Whenever someone encounters a problem, they are forced to make a decision. As a result of this decision making, a new experience is bom. When people encounter different adversities, it is expected that panic mode will kick in. However, the majority of the time,…

“The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!”- Joyce Meyer. In the book Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese, main character Saul is forced to overcome a great amount of adversity throughout each chapter, these hard challenges hurt Saul physically, mentally and…

Childhood is considered as an important milestone for overall personal development. Positive personal, social, and environmental experience during childhood shape children to be a better human in the future. However, 28 million children globally have experienced different forms of adversities (e.g. physical, sexual, emotional abuse, maltreatment, poverty, racial discrimination, family or community violence). In Australia,…

Who are you? Where do you belong? Have you ever thought why you look similar or different to other members of your family? Like, why do you have brown hair and your brother has red hair? Ahn Do is a refugee from Vietnam and Saroo Brierley is an orphan from India who was adopted by…

The five sense, sight, smell, sound, taste, touch and the ability to hear. When anyone mentions these, connotations are associated with each of these as memories following each enter one’s mind. When someone stumbles upon a new sense it is automatically embedded in the memory. People constantly reflect on those memories and past experiences to…

The article Beautiful Minds by Scott Kaufman takes about the interface between the mind and the body. On how our outlook on adversity and how one chooses their mind set to control those problems have different results on our health. In Kaufman’s opinion there is a lack of research between having a psychological illness such…

Can an individual possibly be so restricted yet free at the same time? In the short poem titled: Caged Bird, the caged bird is a metaphor for an individual making the best of being trapped in a cage despite the complete restriction that is evident based on the poem. The experience that is described in…

Success by Overcoming Adversity: Realizations I used to think that life was unfair. I always thought that some people were divinely more gifted than other people, and that their success was a reflection and progression of their gift. I would think that celebrities and public figures are “lucky” with their success, but it now dawns…

The Roman poet Horace once said “adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”. And on the surface, there are numerous examples that support this statement: our founding fathers, Martin Luther King Jr., and even our current president Barack Obama. But for every George Washington who exits out…

Prompt: Share an essay on any topic of your choice. It can be one you’ve already written, one that responds to a different prompt, or one of your own design. On a lazy summer day, I read I Love You, Michael Collins, a story in which a child writes letters to Michael Collins because he…