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<p>Quote:
Each fresh crisis we encounter is an opportunity in disguise.</p>
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<p>Assignment:
What are your thoughts on the statement above? Compose an essay in which you express your views on this topic. Your essay may support, refute, or qualify the view expressed in the statement. What you write, however, must be relevant to the topic under discussion. Additionally, you must support your viewpoint, indicating your reasoning and providing examples based on your studies and/or experience.</p>
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<p>Essay:
Crises are always around us. Some people may view them as pity nuisances, while others take them seriously. While a crisis will pose as a threat or challenge to people, they can give us valuable side-effects that only a person in a crisis can understand and receive, as described and seen in many literature and crises in history.</p>
<p>During a crisis, we are usually much disoriented physically and mentally. It is not the normal events that we experience every day. This abnormality changes how we act and react toward things. We may transform into a different person altogether a better person. In the book One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colonel Aureliano Buendia went into a crisis war. When he left for war, he barely said goodbye to his family and left searching for his own happiness in fighting. He was so absorbed by the adrenaline of fighting for the vague cause that he did not even care about that he lost himself. But amidst fighting, he realized his selfishness has caused unnecessary pain for the public, especially his family. The war jolted his mental state to put him in his right mind. It gave him an opportunity for redemption when he finally realized that he had no reason to be fighting this war.</p>
<p>When people think of the word crisis, the preliminary thought is death and injuries. Some people think of the rescue team and the helpers. Most adults have dreamt of becoming someones hero when they grow up, fight off evil dragons and saving the princess. A crisis gives the chance for people to shine. A firefighter exemplifies this point. They fight fires with their lives on the line. But while suppressing the fire, they are saving many people in the process, giving them a chance to become the hero they dreamt of becoming when they were a still little.</p>
<p>Finally, a crisis can become an opportunity to unite the people. When hurricane Katrina hit Southern United States, the destruction took away everything from the people, even families. The tragedy hit a soft spot in peoples hearts; hands all over the world joined to support the suffering families. The overall benevolence was overwhelming as get well cards from anonymous well-wishers and bags of food from crisis-relief teams across the globe rush into the area. The suffering families that slept as neighbors in the large dome gym will share their laughs and cries together. The rescue teams delivered supplies to the stranded families will go on to become lifetime friends. All over the country, churches like mine gather and pray for the wellbeing of the families. Even though simultaneous crises may have taken place all over the world, this crisis has joined the heart of people all over the world.</p>
<p>Crises are malevolent. Some crisis can leave devastating results. A war and a hurricane, like Katrina, can cleanse an area hundred miles wide of life and leave a trail of destruction. But all bad things have two sides. If anyone can look hard enough and does not yield to hope, he/she can take advantage of the situation and make the best of it.</p>
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