Dear Reader,
This multi genre collection explores adversity. It demonstrates that the adversity which affects someone does not define who they are, but moreso how someone chooses to overcome that adversity does while revealing their true character. This theme is crucial to anyone who is currently experiencing any problems, as it provides them with insight into what results can be accomplished if someone decides not to let their adversity establish who they are.
During the project, the quote “It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.” appears at the bottom of each page. This quotation was said by Dieter F. Uchtdorf, a German aviator and religious leader. Explaining that how someone reacts with adversity determines their ‘life story’, it is a quintessential example of the thesis statement: it is not the adversity someone faces that determines someone’s character, but rather how they choose to deal with their adversity. The repetend demonstrates that someone’s entire future can be modified, to an extent, by how they choose to deal with their problems. For example, it is obvious that if someone who struggles with addiction does not reach out for help that they would not recover. However, this same person could admit him or herself to a rehabilitation facility and completely, positively change their life’s sequence. It all depends on their willingness to approach their adversity, in the case addiction.
Throughout this collection, multiple writing styles will be explored. The nonfiction piece is a biography about Serena Williams, an extremely accomplished tennis player, who has been through a massive tragedy along with many health scares which threatened her athletic career. The next writing style is informational, which discusses three well-known members of society: Howie Mandel, a famous Canadian comedian who struggles with medical disorders which sometimes impede his ability to perform; Stephen Hawking, an accomplished scientist fighting Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; and Jim Abbott, now a successful motivational speaker who was born without a right hand, but became a gold-medal-winning Olympic baseball pitcher for the United States. Following the informational piece, the fictional piece takes the opposite approach at proving the theme than the previous writing styles. The story is based on a young girl who has many family struggles and loses her identity because of this. The final piece, a visual, included is a painting representing a metaphor fitting to the thesis statement. This multigenre study, Determine One’s Own Destiny, displays several pieces to allow readers to gain insight into several different people who experience adversity, how they react to it, and the resulting events that follow based on their choice.
During the project, the quote “It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.” appears at the bottom of each page. This quotation was said by Dieter F. Uchtdorf, a German aviator and religious leader. Explaining that how someone reacts with adversity determines their ‘life story’, it is a quintessential example of the thesis statement: it is not the adversity someone faces that determines someone’s character, but rather how they choose to deal with their adversity. The repetend demonstrates that someone’s entire future can be modified, to an extent, by how they choose to deal with their problems. For example, it is obvious that if someone who struggles with addiction does not reach out for help that they would not recover. However, this same person could admit him or herself to a rehabilitation facility and completely, positively change their life’s sequence. It all depends on their willingness to approach their adversity, in the case addiction.
Throughout this collection, multiple writing styles will be explored. The nonfiction piece is a biography about Serena Williams, an extremely accomplished tennis player, who has been through a massive tragedy along with many health scares which threatened her athletic career. The next writing style is informational, which discusses three well-known members of society: Howie Mandel, a famous Canadian comedian who struggles with medical disorders which sometimes impede his ability to perform; Stephen Hawking, an accomplished scientist fighting Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; and Jim Abbott, now a successful motivational speaker who was born without a right hand, but became a gold-medal-winning Olympic baseball pitcher for the United States. Following the informational piece, the fictional piece takes the opposite approach at proving the theme than the previous writing styles. The story is based on a young girl who has many family struggles and loses her identity because of this. The final piece, a visual, included is a painting representing a metaphor fitting to the thesis statement. This multigenre study, Determine One’s Own Destiny, displays several pieces to allow readers to gain insight into several different people who experience adversity, how they react to it, and the resulting events that follow based on their choice.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
-Maya Angelou |
It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop."
-Dieter F. Uchtdorf