A man who had no eyes

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1)In your view can Markwardt sell lighters again? Why and why not? Give reasons for your answers.
Markwardt is a man that self piety him self. He thinks he is the unluckyest person in the world. No one could suffer more than him. He can do anything. Its not posible for him to acomplish any thing in life. So he is selling lighters and the story of how he became blind. He is selling people emotions, so they feel sory for him and buy the lighters and give him a little exstra for the sad story.
Most likely I think the beggar will continue to sell lighters. He might be imbaressed for a little while but nothing else will happened. The reason for that is simply this; for many many years the begar have been limitied in his thoughts and self estem. He has only been focused in in this misery of all the thing that put limitations on him rahter than keep trying to succed. He is so easy just to to dwell in the past and not put effort into future. He didn't adapt to his new situation in a positvily maner like Mr.Parsons did.

2)How does “ If you say you cant, you wont reflect in C/E patterens, in other words, how did each man respond to a life event? Why was their decision about self value the cause and how did they handle the choise the effect afterwards? What's unique about them as a pair?

Mr Markwardt is the negative charackter in this story. He didn't handle the situation well. In the same accidents as Mr. Parsons he lost his vivsion too. But the things that make him negative is; Markwardt decided to take the easy way and eventually became a blind beggar. He didn't search for a job like Mr. Parsons did. by just giving up. He had been so sorounded by the pain and...

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...d other scrap material, or a chello or bas out of big oil cans. They visoners in the youtube link belief strongly, the work towards a dream. They are deetermind and struggle. They dont let the obstacles stop them from acomplish their succes. Their self confidence and belief gets higher and higer and they become sucesfull. I think once a person deside to walk the path of overcome their fear a lot of doors of oppertunites open for them. Their path will take them higher where and how is determind by them self. Even if they don't get popular or well known my the society, in their own eyes they know they did something as simple as face their fear. Instead of say I can't do it, how can I do it! They raise the bar for them self and now say: well im going to try put all my level best into it and then see the result. Mean while allways some oppertunites show up and doors ope

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