<p>Prompt: Is there such a thing as luck, or do people succeed because they work hard? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from what you have read, studied, or experienced.</p>
<p>Remember to present your ideas in a clear and logical order and to support your response with specific facts, details, examples, and/or reasons. Be sure to use well-constructed sentences, and make sure your response conforms to the conventions of written American English.</p>
<pre><code> Every great man who has ever lived share one common factor. They worked diligently. Luck, although it might be present, comes second to hard work when it comes to the topic of success, and in the end, hard work prevails.
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<p>Hard work is vastly more important than luck. The lucky person will prevail once or twice, but the consistency and heart that people who work hard produce will ultimately win out. For example, one of the best trumpet players of all time, Rafael Mendez, can play one of the most technically challenging pieces "Moto Perpetuo". Mendez would go for months while practicing for over 14 hours a day. To this date, Mendez's recording has been awe-inspiring and unmatchable in quality. Another trumpet virtuoso, Sergei Nakariakov, can play the piece but misses more notes and sounds inferior compared to Mendez. Sergei started playing trumpet at the age of 12, and by the time he was 14 he was world class and featured as a soloist in front of other professional musicians. Although Nakariakov can be seen as lucky, he does not produce the quality that Mendez does through hard work. Work is the biggest component to success.</p>
<p>Hard work also surpasses luck when it comes to education. During Einstein's early years of schooling, he failed trigonometry but later went on to write some of the most brilliant papers on physics using the very same math that he once was not proficient in. He famously quoted, " I can assure you that any difficulty that you have in math is nothing compared to mine" My precalculus book has another quote from Einstein where he misses a challenging problem in the book and writes to a friend about his difficulty in mathematics. Through hard work, Einstein was able to rectify his inability to succeed in math and used math to produce his equations of general and special relativity creating the famous equation of "e=mc squared" Lucky people may perform well on tests, but ultimately the unbridled assiduousness of the hard-working individual will prevail and culminate in a product of epic magnitudes compared to a lucky A on a test.</p>
<p>Many famous athletes often bash the phenomenon of luck and stand behind hard work. Michael Jordan was not the luckiest kid in high school, being cut from his freshman basketball team, but through hours of hard work every day he became one of the best basketball players of all time. In a documentary on Michael, a coach said that Michael always was the first one to arrive to practice and was always the last one to leave. He would even hassle his teammates to practice longer. Coaches have also hailed the famous first baseman Albert Pujols as the "hardest worker in baseball". There is no coincidence that Pujols has won a ton of awards. Hard work has a longer lasting affect than does the inconsistent idea of luck.</p>
<p>Although luck may seem an incredible asset to possess, the hard-working individual always surpasses the luck-based person and rises above. Some of the unluckiest people in their respective trades such as Michael Jordan or Albert Einstein have been labeled as the most prolific men in their area of expertise. Success requires hard work only.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
Anyways, I give it a 12/12 because it’s better than anything I can output. Nice job.</p>