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7th Grade Third Quarter District Writing Assessment Courage can lead to positive changes since you are motivated to stand up and make a difference and if one did not have courage, they would not attempt to do such a thing at all; If Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Abraham Lincoln did not have any courage what so ever to make a change, our society would still be in slavery and also would not believe in equality for all. I strongly believe that if you have courage, you will change something for the best. The reason why I believe in courage being the number 1 way to lead to positive changes is because in the book The Cay Written by Theodore Taylor, Phillip was lost in a shipwreck and was taken in by a crew member of the ship named Timothy both which had sailed to a nearby cay, they both were stranded on the cay with limited resources only to have Timothy die from a fever and Phillip become blind, Phillip had the courage to live on his own and ended up being rescued, which in a way means that Phillip did not give up because he …show more content…

Also in the story “The Smallest Dragon Boy” Written by Anne McCaffrey, Keevan was always bullied because of his height and age which was at the time stopping him from becoming a Dragon Rider just like his dad, finally one day when the bully teased him and took his shovel away, they both had fought until Keevan was struck with a shovel, leaving him unconscious only to find out the day that

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