The Human Spirit

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. As Abraham Lincoln has stated, the human soul has and can survive many atrocious and scarring things. It is also stated that to find the true intent of a person’s heart is by providing an individual with power. People have been able to overcome many hard and “impossible” obstacles in this life. It is the human spirit that pushed and pushed to use those hindrances as stairs to a way of a better life. All throughout the known history of humans’ phenomenal changes have occurred, most of these, ignited by people. The human race is powered by nothing more than a population of independent humans. Each mortal is individually pushed, torn, and grown by that of nothing but merely a spirit, the Human Spirit. It is what to pushes on, and reaches for that which is hoped for.
The theme of the human spirit is present in The Crisis by Thomas Paine articulating thoughts and feelings of the fears of the people as they are about to go against Britain:
I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupported to perish, who have earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent (Paine 161).
This quote is a perfect example of the human spirit because it shows how people are spiritually stretched and strengthened during times of hardships. It gives the people hope built from reasoning that their needs were not being met but simply ignored. Thomas Paine encourages the people to take action for themselves by focusing on all the bad things that were hap...

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... is more than just a theme in a book or play. It is a way of life, it is protruded in The Crisis, The Crucible, as well as Before My Heart Stops and The Minister’s Black Veil. The human spirit is the way humans grow in this life. It is what drives to reach for more and obtain that which is hoped both emotionally and spiritually.

Works Cited

Cardall, Paul. Before My Heart Stops. Utah: Shadow Mountain, 2010. Print.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "The Minister's Black veil." Prentice Hall Literature...The American Experience . New Jeresy: Pearson Education Inc, 2002. 336-349. print.
Miller, Arthur. "The Crucible." Prentice Hall Literature...The American Experience . New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc, 2002. 1233-1334. Print.
Paine, Thomas. "from The Crisis Number 1." Prentice Hall Literature...The American Experience . New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc, 2002. 160-163. Print.

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