How do people motivate themselves to persevere over seemingly enormous odds?

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Here put the title and author of the non-fiction article you read.

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Still i rise - Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

The words bitter and twisted lies, states that people have judged her possibly for her actions and when she says " like dust, i'll rise", it shows how she seemed to motivate herself and push the judgmental comments and people away from her to persevere.

from her point of view it seems that she is blocking out thw people that hate on her and she explains these terms with the message of her not quitting and ignoring the hate and begativity

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Here explain how specific words gave you insight into the narrator's feelings

Here explain how those feelings gave you insight into a unit question.

"Raymond's Run" by Toni Cade Bambara
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"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in gulf stream and he had gone eighty four days without taking fish"

The old man being alone and not catching after eighty four days brings out the feelinsg of determination and perseverance.

Using this quote, to stay motivated the old man focuses on the main goal and pushes himself to catch more fish. this can be an answer to the unit question " how do people motivate themselves to perservere over seemingly enourmous odds.

" i wish i could feed the fish he thought, he is my brother. but i must kill him and keep strong to do it. slowly and conscientiously he ate all of the wedge shaped strips of fish. he straightened up wiping his hand on his trousers.

This part of the text shows how killing the fish would affect him by feeling vulnerable.

"i hate a cramp he thought. it was a treachery of ones own body. it is humiliating before others to have diarrhea from ptomaine poisoning or to vomit from it. but a cramp, he thought of it as a calambre, humiliates oneself especially when one is alone. if the boy were here he could rub it for me and loosen it down from the forearm, he thought. but it will loosen up."

this connects to the unit question "how do people motivate themselves over odds?" it showing how the old man and the boy are a bond, when the man says "if the boy were here he could rub it for me and loosen it down from the forearm, he thought. but it will loosen up."

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" These quotes led me to think an answer to the unit question might be (3-4 sentences)"

Look at what you wrote in 4.1
Initially, I thought that the answer to a unit question was. . but each of these quotes helped me think of the unit question differently because. . they helped me to deepen the answer I gave in 4.0 because . . (8-10 sentences)

This poem brought out the idea to change
your mindset of how you think. This is
different from the other texts because the
change made involved only the mindset and
nothing else. It shows people how our
mindsets and how we view things can affect
us in either good or bad ways depending on
what our mindset is. Changing your mindset
is a way to motivate yourself to become the
best person you can be mentally and have
the best life.

Here explain how the story brought out ideas, that are different from the other texts, but relate to unit question.

Here explain how the story brought out ideas, that are different from the other texts, but relate to unit question.