Essays on Struggle

They say life is full of ups and downs. There are challenges we face in life that can hold us back from achieving God’s divine purpose for our existence. These challenges might come in different ways, but the Bible assures us that we are overcomers...

No matter how bad of a challenge you may face in life there is always a positive outcome behind it. In that moment you may not see how it could impact your life in a better way, but you would have to wait to see...

The Victorian Era was a time when England began to experience industrial advancements in cities, in addition to a noticeable surge in businesses and in the overall economy. The increase in production of goods resulted in the increase of the middle class. The thriving economy...

Each of us experiences unique opportunities and challenges that set us apart from others. Although everyone endures some sort of hardship, successful leaders are the people who learn and grow from those experiences. My dad’s kidney failure has led to some major opportunities and challenges...

Everyday is a struggle to make the right decision between what is right and what is wrong. Or what is good and what is evil. Or what is moral and what is immoral. In “Just Lather, That’s All” by Hernando Tellez, the barber encounters this...

Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, is an unidentified comparison between the witch hunt in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, and the Red Scare which targeted Americans suspected of communism, especially those that were in entertainment and the arts, during the height of the Cold...

A house across the river from the beautiful Chicago scenery, a beautiful family, and a wealth of opportunities are what Jurgis Rudkis and his family had initially thought of America. Many migrants traveled hundreds and thousands of miles abroad in cramped, dense, disease-ridden ships with...

At every moment in life, we are faced with choices. It is how we handle these choices that determine which way our life leads and whom we become. Robert Frost illustrates this in his poem “The Road Not Taken” using imagery to display the everyday...

The movie Hidden Figures presents an interesting view of three African-American women working at NASA during the civil rights movement. Knowing this movie was based on a true story gives viewers a unique perspective on what some people faced during that era and how they...

From all the scalars of communism Karl Heinrich Marx (1818–1883) was the most critical. He did a doctorate in philosophy but was not an expert logician. Classes are clearly of huge significance in Marx’s perspective of history. A class just exists when it is aware...