Robert Lee Frost's The Great Depression

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Amidst all the struggle and pain life brings those who live it, it’s a learning process. Let’s face it, life has its ups and downs; it’s rough, it can be a real bitch. Everyone struggles, it's not supposed to be easy, and it never truly gets any easier. “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” (Robert Lee Frost): Robert Frost endured The Great Depression, he saw what they called the Unsinkable Ship, he persevered through the Civil rights movement. Robert Frost has seen many things and struggled through his life, poems were his muse, they took him away from the shaken society he lived in and took him into his own perfect world in which he wrote about everyday life, but not in his perfect world.
Robert Lee Frost, the son of the teacher and newspaper editor of The San Francisco Evening Bulletin, and his wife Isabelle Moodie were together for several years and …show more content…

Pick up and rely on the Lord to help overcome troubles in which one faces, one has to make an effort to change, it's not just going to be that easy. One may mess up in spite of Him, he is an all forgiving Lord, He will welcome one back into His unconditional loving arms He never turns His back on His children. Never give up, society needs to learn to pick itself up and keep going. Life must go on it doesn't stop for just anyone. Society will continue to fall apart and collapse into itself, it affects one's life of course but never lose faith and sight in the Lord he will get one through anything. Through all struggle and support one’s every need if people just live for him. If the little things continue to affect the way people live to the fullest, happiness is lost. Live life to the fullest live for the Lord believe in His ways and trust in Him and one will never worry a day in life. He leads His people to the promise land. It is ones choice whether or not his lead is

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