Dez Bryant’s story of a survivor
After living a despairing, inconsolable childhood filled with obstacles Desmond “Dez” Bryant has beat the odds on his path to fulfil his dreams. Dez Bryant is a 24 year old NFL superstar wide receiver, playing for the Dallas Cowboys. Born November 4, 1988 in Galveston County, Texas where he lived with his mother. Dez unlike most kids that grow up with this kind of life used his skilled traits of adaptability, perseverance, problem solving to make it through adversity.
To begin with, Dez Bryant used adaptability to overcome obstacles in his life. First of all, Dez had to adapt to a very challenging life style. For instance, Yahoo Sports online source indicates, when Dez was born his mother was very young. She
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To start with, Desmond Bryant’s mother was not able to be there for Bryant and his siblings. Notably, NFL online source explains when Dez was only eight years old he witnessed his mother get taken to jail. His mother would serve an 18 month prison sentence putting Dez and his sibling into jeopardy. Hence, Dez used perseverance to focus on his dreams even though he was going through a hard time. In other circumstances, the children Dez Bryant has put into this world have a father figure. For example ESPN online source states that Dez is a great father, and role model for his kids. Given these points, Dez used perseverance to succeed in becoming a good dad. In addition, coming into the NFL Bryant was a troubled player, and got himself into a little bit of trouble. To illustrate, Yahoo sports online source reports that when Dez Bryant was at OSU he accepted lunch from Deion Sanders resulting in a suspension consequence. This affecting his draft stock, causing NFL teams and scouts to view him as a troubled player. In conclusion, although Dez had a label of a trouble maker. Dez would persevere to become one of the league’s top
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