<p>is it OK if our essay addresses a general failure that covers many specific failures? or does our essay have to focus on ONE incident of failure? </p>
<p>I think it was left as an open ended question for a reason – it is your essay and your decision on how to approach answering it.</p>
<p>It’s ok if the essay addresses a general failure that covers many failures. It’s not that much about how much failure but how the failure or failures affected you as a person and what you learned.</p>