Non Fiction Essay Examples Page 2

That urge that one develops to enable them go through a lot of challenges and distraction just to come and persevere and finally they achieve their goals, this can be summarized by the term Grit. Duckworth tries to focus on one’s personal characters’ traits that she refers to it as grit. She goes further to…

Throughout time there has always been different perspectives on whether you learn more from failure or success. They always say if you fail to always keep trying until you succeed, but once you succeed what happens next? I disagree with the scientist’s statement because Skloot’s account of the story does not support it. The novel…

Cells are very important to all human beings because they contain all genetic information for us to pass on to our offspring, without cells we would be nothing. Rebecca Skloot wrote, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” which is an effective story because she’s discovering data about Henrietta Lacks and her family and, telling the…

Many people including myself, once believed that the smarter someone was, the more likely it was for them to become successful. Unlike these people and myself, Dr. Duckworth believes that someone’s IQ nor talent has anything to do with their chances of becoming successful. Dr. Duckworth was a seventh-grade math teacher in Chicago who noticed…

Grit is overall a book about hard work and how you should never give up. It opens up about how the author Angela Ducksworth wins an award called the MacArthur award (p.29). She wins this award after her father always tells her how terrible and underachieving she was all of her life. This is the…