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Bouncing Back By Melissa Balmain Analysis

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Resilience People have learned to be resilient in order to overcome serious hardships. A person’s resilience can be seen through how they handle bad experiences; to be resilient in the face of adversity. People who never give up and always fight back even when it gets hard are resilient. Some believe that resilience is a trait that can be learned. In the article “Bouncing Back” by Melissa Balmain; she writes about different people’s hardships and how they learned to be resilient because of their tenacious experiences. Balmain recounts Jennifer Loredo, a master sergeant in the army who was serving in Afghanistan with her husband when a roadside bomb left her without a husband and raising two kids on her own. Moreover Balmain mentions how …show more content…

Many people throughout history have also faced adversity and have been resilient through it. For example, Tyler Perry; he had a terrible childhood, he was physically and sexually abused as a child, kicked out of high school, and tried to commit suicide twice in his lifetime. Still, through all his hardships, he produced and starred in his first theater production, I Know I’ve Been Changed, which failed. Therefore he obtained odd jobs to pay for the production; finally on the seventh run the show broke through. Through all his hardships he never gave up and today has a successful career as a writer, director, and actor. Oprah Winfrey also endured a rough childhood because of sexual abuse, she had a child at fourteen who passed away two weeks after. She continued on to finish high school with honors and get a scholarship for college. She worked her way up from TV anchor to a creator of her own network. Scientist Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with ALS and through his colleague, friends, and family’s support he became a great scientist. Through his perseverance Hawking managed many accomplishments such as his published book on the theories of the Big Bang. Nelson Mandela was also a person with great resilience who dreamed of racial equality and spent 27 years in prison for it. I have had to be resilient too as I’ve had panic attacks since I was in seventh grade and continue to deal with them today. Through my family’s

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