Have you ever gone through a hard time? Using perseverance can help many people through those rough times. The dictionary definition for perseverance is a continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition. Some synonyms for the word are to carry on, hang in there, persist, or gut it out. Some antonyms are to give up, quit, give in, or hang back. The origin of the word perseverance is Middle English, from Anglo-French perseverer. The common author's purpose of perseverance is important because when you are faced with a hard math problem, a hard decision, or just a rough patch by using perseverance you can not give up and keep going even when you feel like you can not go on. The first example is from Melba …show more content…
The second piece of nonfiction literature id from the reading “Desert Exile.” The Japanese Americans had to overcome many challenges while in the internment camps. They had to change their lifestyle completely. This is going to make them do things differently, which will force them to persevere. The third and final piece of nonfiction literature was from the book “Lucky” In this book Alice did not breakdown or give up because she was raped she decided that she was going to save herself. The only way she could save herself would be to persevere through the challenges that stood in her way. Authors use nonfiction literature to influence their readers by showing the, that it is easier to overcome challenges while using …show more content…
The Japanese Americans had to use perseverance all the time while in the internments camps. Everything changed when they arrived there, privacy was no longer a given, food was only served at certain times, and they were ripped away from friends and family. The camps were also very unsanitary. One incident was when a women was dumping a bedpan into the trough where others wash their faces. “My mother quickly made several large signs in Japanese cationic people against such unsanitary practices.” This shows how they did not give up and let themselves live in filth. They stood up for what they believed in which was that bedpans are not supposed to be dumped into the face washing toughs. One thing that was a big change for the Japanese people was not have privacy. “The lack of privacy in the latrines and showers was an embarrassing hardship especially for the older women, and many would take newspapers to hold over their faces or squares of cloth to tack up for their own private curtain.” Many Japanese women had to persevere through not having privacy while using the washroom or the laterins. They did not just give up and let themselves be embarrassed they found a way to feel somewhat confidental while using the latrines or washroom. There were many hardships the Japanese Americans had to go
“ I am a slow walker but I never walk back.” Sometimes it takes time but you always want to get to the end. Even if things get in your way or something is hard, you never give up and you keep pushing forward. In my opinion, perseverance is an excessively essential trait to have in the case of survival. Shackleton needed to get out of the Ice to survive, he canoed for a severely long amount of time. It was very tiring and even so Shackleton didn’t give up. In the book Hatchet Brian needed a fire to survive. He kept trying but nothing seemed to be working, he never gave up and he just kept going.
In any case of war, the will to continue on and live is essential for survival. The feeling of going on no matter what horrendous situation is called persevering. Giving up is never a good option, the chances of survival or accomplishing is almost to none. A real-life example is the legacy of Louis Zamperini, a famous Olympic miler who was taken as a Japanese POW which is written in author Laura Hillenbrand’s book Unbroken. Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken portrays the message of persevering in the direst situation is essential for survival.
During World War II, there were constant efforts to make Japanese-American internees and American POWs in Japan invisible. Each group resisted diversely. Both United States POWs and Japanese internees were negatively affected by World War II. Two examples of this are Louie Zamperini from Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand and Miné Okubo. Louie—an American POW—and Miné—a Japanese-American internee—both experienced efforts being made to make them invisible by dehumanization and isolation in World War II camps and both resisted.
Robson, David. "Life in Camps." The Internment of Japanese Americans. San Diego, CA: Reference Point, 2014. N. pag. Print.
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.� Dale Carnegie believed that perseverance could overcome even the harshest obstacles. Perseverance is inspired by a purpose, an unsatisfied drive to achieve a goal. During a cataclysmic event, only people with a purpose endure.
A specific case is Jennifer Eagan subjecting herself to constant literary critique, a situation that many would avoid. The difference between Eagan and others is one thing, she wanted to improve. In order to improve one must face challenge. In reality everyone faces a difficult situation at some point in their life, but the severity depends on the person. Some may perceive an AP class to be difficult while others might say that sitting in class has a certain level of difficulty. These situations don’t create perseverance because one puts themselves in front of every difficult situation, but instead because they make a habit of it. It is the act of unconsciously carrying out habitual actions that creates perseverance, not intentionally putting oneself in difficult
The confrontation of adversities is inevitable throughout a person’s lifespan whether it be a hard and impossible adversity or an effortless adversity, everybody faces them. The tragedies and hardships that an individual undergoes undoubtedly helps them grow for the better because of the experience and wisdom that somebody is able to bring to new challenges. Novelists and writers are known to go through adversities which allows them to write books with more experience and emotion than the average author. A good example of one of these writers is an author named Elie Wiesel. Wiesel was an author of many books including Night, and he was able to present his
The speaker is attempting to reassure the person and encourage them not to give up. Having this kind of strength is known as perseverance. Perseverance is fighting through the pain, not giving up, and not letting the struggle get the best of you. Many students show strength in this way without even realizing it. Students are under a lot of pressure to do well in school, and excel in sports or other extracurricular activities, and have a balanced social life, yet not go crazy. Several of them also face constant struggles while trying to do these things and it is hard for them, but they persevere. They stay up all night doing homework, give up pointless little things that waste their time, and do their best to stay strong. School is rough emotionally, but with the strength of perseverance and the motivation of graduation, students manage to make it through. A good friend of mine from church, Mr. Steve, recently passed away because of cancer. He was one of the best people I knew, and during his fight with cancer, he showed true strength. Mr. Steve never let it get the best of him. He was a server and could not stand the thought of not being able to help others. Even though he was slowly dying and losing strength, he still came up to the church and did his job. While his physical strength was failing, his loving attitude remained the same. Mr. Steve was a role model to me. He showed me what
Perseverance is a very powerful word, many people go through hard times and don’t make it to see the other side. My story of perserverance starts sophomore year during football season. As two-a-days started everyone was excited to get through and get to play our first football game. As the season progressed I started feeling pains in my shoulder constantly; a few weeks go by with the pain continously getting worse. I specifically remember the first incident during a game, it was against White Oak about half way through the third quarter, as I was running to go make the play, as I dove to make the tackle I landed on my side and I felt a pop, not thinking anything about it I got up. When I reached my two feet something just didn’t feel, my shoulder
The first word that popped up in my mind was perseverance. The word perseverance means to steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. Many of you know that the Aledo football team is one of the best in the nation we are known on a national level of being the bullies we were called bullies because we blew out a team 99-0 but would you believe me if I told you that Aledo was not always the best but at one point we were the
The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines perseverance as the continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition. In today’s society, there are so many walls and barriers that prevent humans from achieving their dreams and goals and people begin giving up. However, great poets such as Homer and famous music groups such as Mumford and Sons have used the strife of humanity to compose works that can be used to inspire and institute hope for humanity. With perseverance, there are three key aspects, struggle, loyalty, and strength. The struggle is what allows humans to learn, grow, and better themselves, the loyalty demonstrated provides motivation for success, and the personal strength allows the person to build
It takes lots of perseverance to get through some of life's challenges that you have to overcome. I think both my mom, and Buck, had to really persevere through most of their lives and both had learned a lot from their experiences. My mom did not have it quite as rough as Buck did. They both had very different struggles and Buck had it worse, but they both had many challenges to get through. I think that perseverance takes loyalty, and determination in order to get through tough situations that you may have to go through in your life . I think that my mom, and Buck both were determined to get through
For perseverance is constantly tested in trials and assessments in abundance of adversity, calamity and catastrophe. But it is through only a strong and adamant mentality can perseverance be of any use, as without motivation, perseverance is merely stillborn. But much like the water that slowly chips away at the stone, or the ice that gradually shatters the solid rock, perseverance is much the same, demolishing through the predicaments and headaches that life has in store and burning through the barriers of conflicting emotions. For whether you wear perseverance over your heart or on your arm, no matter who you are, perseverance is buried deeply within our core and is a unshifted behavior that enables even the most average of humans, to perform marvelous masterstrokes revolutionized in many aspects that will move even the most sturdiest of mountains and carve through the most impenetrable of
Maybe it is effortless for those who had never felt the sear conditions of internment camps to say, “stay there.” But when you have witness savage crowds torch your mothers and fathers homes by wish and stone your sister and brothers on impulse; when you have witnessed soldiers overflow with loath burn, curse, and even murder your sisters and brothers; when you have witnessed an excruciating amount of your one hundred twenty thousand japanese brothers thrown into the frightening ring of oppression in the heart of a free government; when you unexpectedly find yourself flummoxed and stuttering as you search for an excuse to tell your nine year old sister why she cannot go to the new ice cream bar that opened around the block, and notice despondency
Perseverance is a commonality in everyone’s lives. Every single person that exists persists towards a goal, and every person has persisted a goal for as long as people have existed. However, even though perseverance is common, it is also what makes people stand out the most as well. No person becomes a great and influential individual by half-trying something, and then giving up. Everyone must learn to push through tough times and failure to get anywhere in life. No matter what the situation is, perseverance is the key component for one’s accomplishments and goals because one must try first before they can achieve their goals; whether that goal is survival, being a hero, becoming a dominant administrator, or anything one can desire.