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Never give up. Don’t quit.<br />
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By: Victor Fteha<br />
Magen David Yeshivah<br />
Perseverance can prove useful during<br />
childhood in several ways. For example,<br />
I once received an unusual grade in Jewish<br />
History. It was the lowest mark I got<br />
my whole life. Instead of pondering about<br />
it uselessly, I pledged upon myself that I<br />
would study hard for my upcoming tests,<br />
particularly Jewish History, my weakness.<br />
To my disbelief, my countless efforts<br />
earned me a 112. That was actually the<br />
highest mark I got this year.<br />
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It’s hard to beat<br />
a person who<br />
never gives up.<br />
By: Abie Nahamias<br />
Magen David Yeshivah<br />
When someone’s business goes down, he<br />
shouldn’t just say he failed and go into a<br />
new business. He should never give up<br />
and keep trying. Also, learn from the failure.<br />
The way the business failed he should<br />
never let that happen again to his business.<br />
Recently, when I was playing a basketball<br />
game and I lost, I didn’t just give<br />
up and say. I failed. The next game I tried<br />
not to fail and not let that failure make me<br />
do badly from last game. So, the game I<br />
was playing now I tried as hard as I could<br />
and recovered from the other games failure<br />
and played amazing the next game.<br />
By: Yvonne Mizrahi<br />
Hillel Yeshiva<br />
One day, Jessica was walking down the<br />
street when she saw a flyer hanging on<br />
a pole. Jessica went closer to see what it<br />
was for. It was for an art contest. Jessica<br />
got excited because she was great at art.<br />
She took the flyer home and showed it to<br />
her mom. Her mom said, “That sounds<br />
fun. We have lots of art supplies in the<br />
garage.” So, Jessica worked very hard day<br />
and night. Finally, the day of the contest<br />
was here. The judges came to look at all<br />
the projects while the contestants waited<br />
aside to present their projects. When it<br />
was Jessica’s turn, she did a nice presentation,<br />
but she heard people mumbling bad<br />
comments. She was discouraged. She decided<br />
to go home and practice her techniques<br />
and take more art lessons.<br />
By: Terri Elmann<br />
<strong>Bar</strong>kai Yeshivah<br />
In school, I wrote a story. I gave it to some<br />
people to read and they loved it. I read it<br />
and decided it needed a little fixing. I fixed<br />
it up a little but now my story didn’t make<br />
any sense. I ended up writing an entirely<br />
new story but it was also very short and<br />
bad. I started to give up. I wanted to write<br />
stories like Harry Potter but it was no use.<br />
I wasn’t good enough. I took Harry Potter<br />
and read it. I decided I shouldn’t give up.<br />
I could write an interesting story, the best<br />
that I can. I started to write another story<br />
but, by page 14, I decided it needed more<br />
details. I started again, this time from<br />
when the character was being born. I am<br />
currently on page 7 and hope to write up<br />
to 200 pages.<br />
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