Overcoming Challenges in Life Essay

Most of the time immigrants underestimate the difficulties they might face in their new destinations. Such as overcoming language barrier, adapting to the new culture and environment. One of the writers who discussed the issue of challenges immigrants face was Lan Cao. This essay will clearly analyze the weaknesses and strengths of the article "The Gift of Language" by Lan Cao. In the excerpt, the author tells about a Vietnamese girl and her mother who immigrate to America during the Vietnam…

ethical dilemmas when a car is asked to make decisions (as cited in Knight, 2015). Bonnefon and co point out that complex situations raises ethical questions such as should the car minimize the total number of deaths, should the car prioritize the life of its driver at all cost, or should the car respond differently based on the different situations and the probability of survival for the parties involved (“Why Self-Driving Cars,”…

Jack Nicholson portrays Melvin Udall, a misanthropic, yet eccentric, author with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Throughout the film, Melvin engages in ritualistic behaviors (i.e., compulsions) that disrupt his interpersonal and professional life. The issues raised from this film are Melvin’s broad pattern of difficulties with cognitive (e.g., perceives himself to be exempt from social graces), affective (inappropriateness of emotional responses), and behavioral experiences…

his dead master. Both of his friends wouldn’t joust, showing that William is braver than the average man of his time. You can’t talk about “A Knight's Tale” without talking about William’s humble upbringing. He went from living the life of a peasant to living the life of a knight. Lastly, he fought for his love, Jocelyn. He jousted over and over again trying to impress her and it worked. The next apparent archetype in “A Knight's Tale” is the temptress, being none other than Jocelyn. From the…

positivity and optimism To have the right attitude with your people is extremely vital. Your job as a leader is to fight against the negativism. That doesn’t mean you sugarcoat the challenges your team faces. However, it does mean you motivate and energize your team with “can-do” attitude about overcoming those challenges. • Leaders celebrate the success with their…

all have a protagonist and an antagonist entity of some kind. The protagonist is usually a human which of course faces a challenge or turmoil of some kind. The antagonist is the one that usually brings about the conflict and isn't always human, for example it could be…

Abraham Lincoln “Lincoln struggled with depression for most of his adult life” (Baynton 2010). Abraham Lincoln was born on Feburary 12, 1809. He was the sixteenth president of the United States of America until his assassination on April 15, 1865. Lincoln life was successful because of tunneling, limelight affect, and temperament success which all ties into the studies that Brafman did in his book. Ron Brafman is a psychologist and has taught university courses in personality and growth. His…

father, that when his neighbor wants to change it there is no way he can do it. People do not like changes in their life and always like to follow their routine. Taking down the wall would interfere with the one neighbor's life, even though it does not seem like a big deal, and the change would be too difficult for him. Opening up to his neighbor would pose many obstacles and challenges which is why he put up the barrier in the first place, so there were limited to meeting once a year. Even when…

greatest deciding factor of an individual’s life is their journey through college; which can be a brutal process if not fully prepared. Whether it's someone graduating college and getting their selected degree and starting their lives soundly, or running into barriers that keep them from getting a degree and consequently ending their college career. Having first hand experience with letting barriers decide my future, I know the struggles of overcoming obstacles that seem impossible to overcome.…

My gut sank to an unbearable low as I watched my thirty-two-year-old mother require support to limp just five steps to the restroom; cancer stripped her of life. At twelve-years-old, I felt distraught in my inability to save her and return the endless love that my Haitian parents poured into my nurturing. However, the hope the physicians brought us has inspired me to become a doctor so that I, too, can serve as an envoy of hope to sufferers of illness. My father is a physician I strive to be…