Importance Of Perseverance

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Essentiality of Perseverance According to Walter Elliot “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” Individuals use perseverance everyday to accomplish a big goal by using smaller goals. Using perseverance can help people through rough times. The dictionary definition for perseverance is a continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulty, failure, or opposition. Some synonyms for the word are to carry on, to hang in there, to persist, and to gut it out. A few antonyms are to give up, to quit, to give in, or to 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 a person is faced with a ruthless math problem, a tough decision, or just a rough, patch by using perseverance that person can push through and keep going even when they feel like they cannot go on. The first …show more content…

The Japanese Americans, Melba Patillo Beals, and Alice all had different challenges they had to face but they all used perseverance to get through them. They all showed different ways to preserver, whether it was standing up for themselves, speaking out, changing for others, or finding a different way to accomplish something. To persevere is not an easy task to do, sometimes people stand up for what they believe in even though they are the only ones. Melba did this when she stood up in front of her principal. She knew that he did not believe that they deserved protection. Perseverance is also finding new ways to accomplish new things like the Japanese Americans had to do, to change their whole lifestyle. When people use perseverance it helps them achieve goals they did not think possible. Authors use nonfiction literature to influence their readers by showing them how it can help people accomplish new

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