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There is at least one person in everyone's life that has influenced him or her remarkably. An individual is not required to be physically near you every day to make an impact upon your life. What does it mean to make an impact on someone's life? To me, making an impact means to imbue confidence in someone to drive him or her to do something. I believe that we were all created to spread and gain knowledge from each other to bring substance in our own individual lives. Eric Thomas, a phenomenal speaker, educator, author, activist, and minister has made an incredible impact in my life through his motivational speeches.
Eric Thomas was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Detroit, Michigan. His childhood and adolescent years were challenging. Eric decided to escape from home and live on the streets of Detroit at the age of sixteen and became a high school dropout. At age seventeen Eric met a pastor who became his mentor and ultimately changed his life. As a result Eric earned his GED and enrolled at Oakwood University. Through this, Thomas realized his destiny was to...
Emmett Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago Illinois. He went to an all black school, but was taught to treat everyone equally (Death of Emmett Till). Chicago wasn’t as racist as the South, so Emmett was taught to respect everyone at an early age. Till wasn’t close to his father because his mother left Till’s father when he was very young (Vox). Emmett Till never got to know his father because his father was killed because of rape (Vox). He had a rough childhood, and to make things worse, he contracted polio at age six. As he grew older, he outgrew polio and his mother remarried and then left her husband again (Vox). Her ex-husband would threaten Emmett’s mother, and Emmett would have to stand up to her ex-husband (Vox).
Thomas Day was born in Dinwidee, Virginia in 1801 to a free slave mother. With the law that allowed children to be born free if their parents were free, Day was born free and did not have to be a slave. His family had been free since the early 18th century. He and his brother were educated by private tutors and they were trained by their father in cabinetry and carpentry. Thomas’ brother eventually began to study theology and he emigrated to Liberia in 1930 and was a Baptist missionary, eventually became one of the signers of the Liberian Declaration of Independence and a prominent statesman there. He’s known as one of the founding fathers of that nation.
The man with the most impact that changed history was Thomas Paine. He created a pamphlet called Common Sense . Not only did he have an impact he had a somewhat negative life. His burial was very awful. Paines beliefs in religion was different from other people. That belief caused him to create a book the age of reason.
Have you impacted the United States like Bill Clinton has? Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946 in a small town of Arkansas. His father died before he was even born. He was not raised to be religious, but at a very young age he was attending church every Sunday morning alone. Growing up he had to see his stepfather’s abusive behavior towards both his mother and step-brother. When he was 17 years old and attending school he got an invitation to meet President John F. Kennedy at the White House Rose Garden, that’s when he realized what he wanted his career to be. During the 1992 election, on November 3, he became the forty second president. Clinton’s reputation suffered dramatically from a scandal in his personal life. Although Bill Clinton had an affair while being President, he impacted the United States by eliminating the federal deficit and overseeing the strongest economy, managed to remake the images and operations of the Democratic Party, and reforming welfare and changing the environment.
No black school was available locally so he was forced to move. He said "Good-bye" to his adopted parents, Susan and Moses, and headed to Newton County in southwest Missouri. Here is where the path of his education began. He studied in a one-room schoolhouse and worked on a farm to pay for it. He ended up, shortly after, moving with another family to Fort Scott in Kansas. In Kansas, he worked as a baker in a kitchen while he attended the High School. He paid for his schooling with the money he earned from winning bake-off contests. From there he moved all over bouncing from school to school. "College entrance was a struggle again because of racial barriers."2 At the age of thirty he gained acceptance to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.
Because of its complex history, Louisiana has had many interesting people affect its’ history books. According to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, the definition of impact is to have a strong effect on someone or something. In normal-person speech, that means to influence a person or thing. Certain men that have had a positive impact on Louisiana’s history are the influential Charles Elson “Buddy” Roemer III and Captain Henry Miller Shreve, but the former had a greater impact because of his actions have saved the state from financially hard times.
Influence is one of the only factors that affect people's decisions, it gives the motivational support to those who are uncertain. It can change any current views in an instant, especially when it comes from people closest to you. The adversities of influence can be demonstrated in
I have realized that just by using the knowledge I have and some of my time, I too can make a difference. Now more than ever I have a passion to make a significant change for the better to this world of ours.
"Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it."(Anais Nin). This means that every person one comes in contact with has an influence on his life. One should never forget the people who go out of their way to be nice to them.
Most I’ve met throughout my career and by helping them with what at a time in their life was very difficult. I had no idea what to do for a video, since my speech is affected by my disabilities, so in a search for the answer to the topic question, I sent out a mass text message. I was overwhelmed, humbled, and the video issue solved. I will read from those whose lives I have I touched through my job as a legal assistant and radio personality.
One person cannot change the World, but I believe that one person can change something in this World. Whether it is within their own community or worldwide, each individual is capable of change. As a young child I have always been a quiet, shy person often distancing myself from everyone around me. It was difficult for me to make friends and connect to people on an emotional level, all I had was my family and a few friends I have known my entire life. Luckily when I was seven years old I began to play basketball, little did I know that an orange basketball would change my life forever. I have met some of my best friends, travelled too amazing places, and gained indescribable knowledge because of basketball. Not only did basketball change my
An event in my life that has left a lasting impression on me would be the lesson that I have learned about life. Last summer, I went to a revival crusade, which was held at the Meadowlands. There was this speaker there named Stephen Hill. He spoke of Christianity being a relationship between people and Christ, not about being a religion. I learned a lot from that revival, and I have not been the same ever since. Not only is my outlook on life different, but so is my personality. All the burdens that were so heavily laid on me were gone the day I got saved. Instead of being dependent on my family and friends, learned to rely on a being that I cannot see, but can only hope and have faith in. Faith believes in something that we cannot see. “ Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of faith is to see what we believe”, (St. Augustine). This event took me out of my depression, and made me realize that I wasn’t alone. God was always watching over me. It helped me overcome the battles that I was fighting within myself.
It's true that we all need to make a difference in times of crisis and need, but we also need to strive to make a difference each day. I know that I can make a difference in the lives of many people by simply lending a helping hand or showing kindness to others. I try to take the time to cheer up my grandmother and older friends in the nursing home by paying them a visit. I know my parents stay very busy and it helps them out when I come home and lend a helping hand without being asked. I can help a friend with their homework, or sometimes help by just being there to listen to them.
There have been a vast number of lives that have touched mine. Many different people have shared a piece of their soul in my formation. However, it is my mother who is the most important and most influential person in my life. My mother raised me by herself since the day I was born. My father was abusive and she left to make a better life for the both of us. She has worked as many as four jobs at one time. My mother wants to make sure my brothers and I have a better life than she did. It hasn’t always been easy for her, taking care of us on her own, trying to pay bills and making sure we had everything we needed. My mom has always had us involved in sports at a very young age. We always were doing something or involved in something growing up. We went to summer school all through elementary school because she wanted us to get a head start. I remember when we were little she enrolled us I a manners and more class and I can recall when we would go out to eat people would compliment us on how well behaved we were.
I can safely say that hearing the news that my friends and I altered the life for the better of a complete stranger has impacted how I live my daily life as well. Now I treat strangers differently and worry when someone acts out of the ordinary. I can’t imagine what would happen if we hadn’t stopped. I can only imagine if Stacy would even be alive at the moment.