Itara Whitaker
English 1100
8/20/2018
Writing Sample Assignment #1
Many people during the civil rights movement if not everyone was struggling. People had
to do what they had to do to survive, and not in a matter of comfort and convenience. During
that time Martin Luther King Jr. stated “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in
the moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy”. I believe that this is greatly related to today’s society.
Anyone can have a successful career or have it made, but most of the time that doesn’t last
very long. When people are in a time of struggle it tests what that person is really made of.
When a person in not in a state of comfort and convenience, it can either do two things. First, it
could send a person in a downward spiral of defeat, or it could boost a person up to do better
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