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Motivation
Lynn W. Morgan
Madison High School
Mrs. Miller

Motivation
“Motivation: something (such as a need or desire) that causes a person to act.”(Merriam December 1, 2017) Motivation is the key element in people's lives, because it is what shapes our lives. Motivation is what caused Hitler to start one of the most massive genocides in human history, as well as it is what made Martin Luther King Jr. put his whole life in the civil rights movement, or what made Thomas Edison keep trying after 10,000 failed attempts at perfecting the light bulb. Motivation is absolutely necessary for staying alive, for achieving accomplishments, and for looking to the future and settings goals.
Why in people’s lives
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