<p>I write the body paragraphs first, leaving lines at the top to do the intro second, then the conclusion last. English has never been my best subject and for the past two years of high school, I was assigned into the worst English teachers' classes where all we did was copy definitions from a vocabulary book. Any constructive criticism would help as wel!</p>
<p>*<em>Prompt: "Tough challenges reveal our strengths and weaknesses." This statement is certainly true; adversity helps us discover who we are. Hardships can often lead us to examine who we are and to question what is important in life. In fact, people who have experienced seriously adverse events frequently report that they were positively changed by their negative experiences.
Do you think that ease does not challenge us and that we need adversity to discover who we are? Plan and write an essay in which you develop you point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. *</em></p>
<p>People need adversity to help them discover who they are. If everyone took the easy way out, they would never know if they truly believe in their choices or not. A challenge is the only way to decide who we are. Les Miserables and the movie Wall-e are both examples of challenges that help in the discovery of beliefs.</p>
<p>During the 1800s, the French government was in a state of peril. The country was in extreme debt from previous wars, yet the king would still spend a lavish amount of money, especially on his wife, Marie Antoinette. In the streets, people were starving, even having to steal loaves of bread. This was the spark that created the story of Les Miserables. Javert, the cold-hearted police officer, was determined to capture Jean Valjean because of his escape. He intensely believe that criminals will always be criminals, no matter what. Throughout his encounters with Valjean, he begins to see that Valjean is not the evil thief Javert believed him to be. With his lifetime's highest belief proved wrong, he takes his own life from atop a dam. Jean Valjean was his most challenging case in his entire time with the police force. If he had just captured him the moment he was able, then he would have never realized that criminals can change themselves fir the better.</p>
<p>In the animated film of Wall-e, humans have abandoned the planet Earth in an attempt to save the population from pollution. The survivors live aboard a plane, where robots attend to every single need. When the captain discovers that there is a hope for life on Earth, he is set on taking the ship back. His co-pilot, Otto, does not let him take charge of the ship like he wants to. A major struggle ensues between the two and the captain wins, taking back control of the Axium ship. Because he was so set on returning to Earth, he gave up the use of his hover chair and walked to Otto to shut off the auto-pilot function. even though he had major bone loss and was obese, the captain put everything on the line for his beliefs when Otto challenged him.</p>
<p>Adversity is the test of enormous proportions. Without it, people will never know what they truly believe in. What they think might be their true belief can be proved wrong when they are faced with a difficulty.</p>
<p>I gave myself a 3 on this essay because I thought it was a 4, but as always, students always over-grade their essays and I bumped it down a number.</p>