No Excuses (Gladys)

I believe that I must go as far as I can in both my academic and career life. I need to learn not to settle for anything less than the greatest because I know I can achieve more if I set my mind to it. That is how I would become one of Howard’s “best and brightest.” It all starts with getting a good education and striving to be on top.

To be a citizen is to up hold ones responsibility as a citizen. You use the rights you were given to achieve greatness throughout life and pass it on to your kids. You must also up hold your civil duties such as voting and taking an active role in the government, you can’t have a democracy if none of the citizens are involved. The government would therefore fail.

Participation in world both directly and indirectly can affect how the world functions as a whole. People like Martin Luther King Jr. and Fredrick Douglass are examples of how a single person can change the world and make it better by aiming high and walking down the right path in life. By being a good citizen, you can make the world better in a major or minor way. Either way, you have an affect on its out come.

Fredrick Douglass was born a slave and died an African American hero. He never let his pass or the color of his skin hold him back from achieving greatness. He aimed high and truly had a major role in forming the world we have today. That is definitely someone I look up to because I seem to always let my pass keep me from moving forward. Instead of doing my best where I am now, I use excuses keep me from doing just that.

Great people like Fredrick Douglass push me to “till and turn over the soil” because compared to the position they were in and the obstacles they had to overcome, life is a piece of cake, and I can’t let excuses keep me from getting my slice.