Perseverance: The Key to Life-Changing Missions

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Ideas and Missions Change the World Why do people undertake life changing missions while others only undertake missions to improve the day? Everyone has their own reasons for undertaking a mission. From survival, to striking it rich, everyone has a mission they want to accomplish. Ernesto and Apollo 13’s crew had different missions, but both needed to work hard and persevere to achieve their goals. Ernesto had to work hard to fit in, and determine who he could trust; whereas Apollo 13’s crew had to make quick decisions to survive. In the story Barrio Boy, Ernesto Galarza is a Mexican who moves to an American school. He is faced by hardships such as the fact that he has never seen, or let alone, spoken English. He has to determine …show more content…

Apollo 13’s crew was on a mission to the moon when an oxygen tank exploded. “Houston we’ve had a problem here,” reported Lovel. The ground control also faced many setbacks. They had to find out how to improvise electricity, save oxygen, and use supplies wisely. Paragraph 10 says, “Ground controllers in Houston faced a formidable task. Completely new procedures had to be written and tested in the simulator before being passed up to the crew.” The crew had to persevere to make quick, life saving, decisions as a team. After a long while of decision making, worrying, and improvising supplies, the crew finally made it home safely. Ernesto had to learn to fit in and learn a new language to improve his life; whereas Apollo 13’s crew had to make decisions in a matter of seconds to survive. Regardless, both had a mission to undertake, and be successful at. Everyone has their own missions, whether they are daily activities and goals, or wanting to change the world. Everyone has their own ideas on how to accomplish a mission. Maybe we should all go a little farther to to make those missions

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