<p>I was writing an SAT essay and I got stuck when I had to come up with an example from literature or history. </p>
<p>The topic is: Do people truly benifit from hardship and misfortune? </p>
<p>Can somebody tell me an example or two when people benifit from their adversity and learn from this experience?</p>
<p>I really really appreciate your help!</p>
<p>:)</p>
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<li><p>japan after world war 2 - 2 major cities reduced to ashes after being atom bombed by the us - economy in ruins - the people were inspired to reconstruct and resurrect their country to an even higher echelon than before - today one of the major powerhouses and central economic centres of the world</p></li>
<li><p>the great depression of 1929 - a time of pervading depression, starvation, pessimism and unemployment for the american citizens - F.R. roosevelt implemented social security act, FDIC and stricter rules for monitoring credit - this laid the foundation for a safer, sounder economy - investors became privy to the fact that they should not be swayed by popular optimist and eager advertisement - all in all this incident laid the groundwork for a scenario wherein chances of the repitition of such an incident were greatly decimated.</p></li>
<li><p>duke senior in as you like it by william shakespeare - banished by his usurping brother into the forest of arden - his banishment turns out to be a boon for him since he comes to learn valuable lessons from nature in the forest and is longer surrounded by the envious conspiracies which were constantly tranpiring in the court and fawning sycophants as he had been previously.</p></li>
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<p>hey can you give me some examples for ‘’ creativity is important " ??</p>
<p>Haha, you’d think there would be a hundred examples of the importance of creativity, but I can’t seem to think of anything.</p>
<p>creativity-</p>
<p>galileo scribbling creative ideas in his notebook that no one could even understand, but then led to the invention of the helicopter</p>