(attention getter) Some people say luck is the most important thing you can have. That people who are rich were born lucky. (context) However, there are many examples that we can draw on from (main points) _______ and _______ that undeniably prove, anyone can be a success story if they put their mind to it. (thesis/main claim) It may be a hard pill to swallow, but the truth is that you are responsible for your own success and your own failure.
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Think about concrete examples you can use to support the main claim/thesis that the truism, “You are responsible for your own success and your own failure,” is true and valid.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) Entertainment
Tory Lanez is one of the biggest R&B artists and is very popular. He had soon gone down hill after he had shot Megan Thee Stallion in the foot about 3 years ago. Many people had changed their views on him after what he had done to Megan because of what he had said about her during interrogations.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This example that the truism is still valid because Tory was known as an amazing artists and he had now fallen down hill because of what he had said about Megan and making a ton of problems about the whole situation. He had made the situation more dramatic than it should have been and since then, people have seen how he has set himself up for failure
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) entertainment.
Jeon Jungkook is part of a famous kpop group called bts. Where the group is signed under a company called Big hit which was bought by HYBE. In Seoul, South Korea. Their story sticks out more than the rests of any other groups because of the things they had to do to make money.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
14 year old jungkook went out and started to audition to many companies to start making money to support his family. He had many calls from more famous companies but he chose a broke company. Which made him to push himself to the limit. Working every late, waking up early to practice. Their first few albums did not get all famous. In 2016, one of their song started to rise up in the charts, saving them and their company. Since then they started to get more attention from around the world. And Now they have many hit songs, many Billboard wins since 2017.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) Sports
Spencer James is a football player that came from this small town called crenshaw where people would look at it as ghetto, for it was too many gang bangers taking over around where the kids aren’t even able to come and play at the parks. He lived with his mom and brother all he ever wanted to do was play football because of his dad. His dad ran away from home and left him when he was 8, spencer then grew older and forgot about it he was looked at as the hero he wanted to always save a life or two. He will always set his problems aside just to make sure everyone was ok. He then got asked to come play football with his mom ex ( which he didn’t know) over at Beverly High he went and became the schools reliability he was their star just like back at Crenshaw high school. He became All AMerican and so on
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This proves the truism is valid because it shows that he came from someone where it was a struggle to even go out and play football and do what you dreamed to do knowing that you might die everyday and that it is even hard thinking that your father left you and plus you carry the whole town on your shoulders.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) Social Observations
Based on what you are doing now, might have consequences in the future. Some people, including myself, aren’t working hard these days towards their goals and are either doing the bare minimum, or are just doing nothing at all towards what they wanna do, and if they continue to do this bad habit of not doing anything at all, then this will affect them later on and they will feel regret on why they didn’t choose to do anything before
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This proves that the truism is still valid because the result of that bad habit is that it can affect your success in the future because only you are responsible for it and that success is not just gonna come by like a monthly thing, you have to dedicate yourself to your own strength, which is another way that you have to be responsible about it.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) ENTERTAINMENT
Jenni Rivera was a women who was a singer and composed music whom got her and her kids beyond the life they wished for. As a young teen mom she had nothing to offer her daughter, but as she worked hard to get the future she wanted she slowly started to get recognized by her work and became popular. Her tunes are still heard nowadays despite her passing.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
Within the indifference from her start to the end, you can tell she grew significantly. She put herself up to standards which made her confident into reaching success.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES sport
Mike tyson is a boxing legend and one of the most iconic figure in the history of sports and boxing . his dad left when he was about 2 years of age . he was also Sa by a stranger at 7 . his mother was a alcoholic who died when mike tyson was just 16 .
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
Mike tyson is a example of the trusim as he came from poverty with a rough childhood were he was bullied, and no one to look after him . yet he created his own successes with his peak net worth being 300 million
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) current events
An example of you are responsible for your own success and your own failure is the ukraine russian war.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This example proves the truism is valid because russia is responsible. They are responsible for trying to take over another country to expand their own.Russia is also responsible for the personal losses due to poor leadership and archaic weaponry.They should have known other countries would have teamed up with ukraine to fight against them, Russia is responsible for everything that has happened.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
Phoebe Buffay in sitcom “Friends” was homeless after her mother killed herself and her step-dad went to prison. She was able to fight her way out poverty and mature into a woman with a career and financial freedom by robbing others on the street.
By Phoebe deciding to rob people out of necessity, she was able to break the cycle of poverty. She was able to afford herself an education and begin to grow her career. Growing her career; created her success in her masseuse business.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)Sports (LeBron James) He is known for being one of the best basketball players ever. He has won 4 NBA championship rings, 4 NBA MVPs, 4 Finals MVPs, he has 20 all star appearances, and he’s won multiple gold medals. These are only some of the things he’s done. He grew up in Akron, Ohio which is very poor and he overcame adversity to become a billionaire and open schools for the needy.
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REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
LeBron James was born poor and without a dad, he also was homeless multiple times, despite all of these obstacles growing up he still managed to become a billionaire and one of the most successful athletes of all time.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)____________
Robert Downey Jr. is a widely renowned American actor and extremely successful. But he wasn’t always as after a critical success as an actor when he was younger, he turned to drugs and had multiple issues with law enforcement. After working on himself, he managed to find success as an actor and made a huge name for himself in the film industry.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This example of Robert Downey Jr. proves that the truism is valid because during his younger years, Robert started to slow down and get involved into things he shouldn't have, and eventually became an addict as well and a criminal. But he saw an opportunity to overcome all those mistakes and worked ever so hard to reach sobriety and chase after success.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)__Entertainment __________
Kanye west is a very well known rap artist especially with new generation,He is also know because of his past marriage with a kardashian,kim kardashian.He has released many successful albums and in doing so he had won many awards because of them.He had worked hard for his fame but then he had a downfall due to his scandalous commentary.
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REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
Kanye west was able to prove himself as being one of the greatest rapper alive especially with our new generation,many people loved him,he had a god family,won awards,had the money but that was up until all the sandals he recently was in and the past scandals that have resurfaced for example he started supporting donald trump in which fans started to dislike him,he also was anti semitic,he would make multiple hte speeches.Fans started to notice how he was as a person,because of all his scandals he had a bad downfall.Many people claim that he needs mental help and that he isn't mentally okay.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)____________
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)____________
NBA YOUNGBOY is a well known rapper around the world he is baton rouge louisiana he was born and raised there but growing up nba youngboy was very poor and was in the streets really bad commenting crimes and back fourth in jail but when he started rapping he became known around the world,he became successful.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid? This truism is valid because he
Nba Youngboy was able to prove everyone wrong by showing that he is one of the best rappers in
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) ENTERTAINMENT
Shou Zi Chew created an app that is popular and well-known to everyone. Even after exposing kids to inappropriate content and could harm your self-image.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
It’s a good example on how it proves the truism is still valid because Shou Zi Chew faced many legal problems, they still managed to be one of the most used apps. And your the one that is deciding on what to do.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES): Sports
Wilma Rudolph was a American sprinter and international sports Icon in track and field. She was born on June 23, 1940 and died on November 12 1994. Rudolph overcame childhood polio and went on to become a world-record holding Olympic champion. She was the first american woman to win three gold medals in track and field.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This proves that the truism is still valid because even though she had polio after she overcame it. She wanted to do something meaningful in her life and she trained and trained and eventually she went on to win 3 gold medals in the olympics, even though she was weak at first she never gave up and continued to strive for the very best. Thus proving that “you are responsible for your own success and your own failure”
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) Entertainment
Walt Disney was an a film producer, animator, and entrepreneur. He was raised on a farm near Marceline, Missouri. Growing up he was always interested in drawing and eventually started selling his sketches to neighbors, at only 7 years old.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
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“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) Entertainment
Michael Reeves dropped out of college to focus on a job he had in Hawaii. Instead of going back to college to finish his education, he learned how to code by himself. He started making youtube videos about the crazy stuff that he invents. An example is a toy baby that shoots out lasers when shaken. Those videos gain a lot of views and he’s currently at 7.14 million subscribers on youtube.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
Even without college, he was still able to learn very advanced coding and technology. He managed to be successful in his career.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)_Entertainment_
Vic fuentes is an American musiisan. He is the co-founder, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarists of the band Pierce the Veil. When he was 7 he learned how to play the guitar
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EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)__Entertainment____
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“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)____________
This is especially true when you take a look at the history of the United States and the wars they participated in. the war that I believe highlights success and failures for the U.S would be the civil war. This war was started because the United states couldn't decided if they wanted to abolish the slaves. This war highlights the success and failure of the United States because it shows how government failed to do its job and caused this war but also shows how the president found success in that mess.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
I believe this to be a great example of this truthism because this war highlights the success and failures both side of the war had through the war. With the north starting the entire war and the south losing many battles that at the end made them lose the war. This is why i believe that this truthism is could be found in the wars the U.S has participated in.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) Writer
One example that proves you can be successful if you work hard is J.K. Rowling.
She was a recently divorced single mother struggling to make ends meet. She was living off of welfare with a dependent child and public assistance working, as a french teacher.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
Rowling started writing books in cafes where she would stroll her child to sleep. Thus, starting her success in becoming an author and earning more than enough money to support her family.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)_Entraintament
Sylvester Stallone is a really known actor because of the movie rocky, before he become a hollywood actor he suffer a lot first of all his childhood were adversely affected by their parents hostile relationship, which later ended divorced. The mother had problems with Stallone in giving birth, in part of his face and tongue was paralyzed, giving him his distinctive snarled expression and slurred speech. In the early 1970s, Stallone was often destitute, and vene homeless. While struggling to find work, an outcast his entire life, Stallone saw acting as an outlet, though his face and voice were factors in his constant rejection for roles. And because he coun’t have a job he would sleep in the streets and even not eat for days, at his lowest point, Stallone sold his family dog because he could no longer afford to feed him. Until one day he got inspire on March 24,1975, when he witnessed boxing heavyweight champion champion Muhammad Ali get knocked down by underdog Chuck Wepner. He saw the moment as a metaphor for life and was inspired to write a screenplay about another underdog, Rocky Balboa. He made for $1.1 million, Rocky grossed more than $225 million at the box office and even earned Stallone nominations for the Best Actor and the Best Screenplay in 1977.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
He had nothing he only had $100 in his pocket, he become homeless and had to sell his dog because they dind’t have the enough money to feed him, they didn’t want to give him a job because of his health condition.He was interest in writing and one day he got inspiration and he decided to write a story about a underdog and he write it and also act in the movie as Rocky, the movie become really famous and also Sylvester he even was nominated to awards and won some of them now he is still a great and known actor and inspire a lot of people.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) Entertainment
One example that proves you can be successful if you put your mind to it is kendrick lamar. He was born poor with a lot of gang violence Once you are involved with gangs it is so hard to get out of that life. Since his dad was apart of gangs he was born into them. He was able to get away from that and now raps about how life was for him growing up.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
Kendrick lamar grew up having to deal with gang violence, he witnessed his first murder at the age of five. Once he started to grow up he realized that this was not he life he wanted. Even tho he was born into it he still managed to get away from that life and now is a famous rapper. He controlled his destiny and if he didn't realize the life he was living in he would've still been living that life.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)
Lindsay lohan was a talented actor who played in some movies like mean girl and parent trap, she quickly became very popular, she could've had kept her own success until she fell down a rabbit hole that was a publicized DUI car crash. Her success was going down. She lost her career chances due to her getting arrested for a DUI and getting caught doing cocaine.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This example proves my truism to be valid because it shows how lindsay had a lot of success and popularity and may still have had the potential if she was more responsible and had been careful with the issues she had like the publicized duI car crash.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)_Entertanment__
Becky G grew up not so fortunate as she is now. Her family and her lived with her grandparents but not in the same house. They lived in her grandpa's garage. Her parents could afford to get a house and to help money meets end she started to work.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
Becky g had a love for her music and wanted to pursue it for her future. SHe didn’t let her not so fortunate child hood hold her back it made her work hard to help get her family out of those problems. She helped them and focused on her music career, even had the support from her parents even when they were struggling. She always makes she she never forgets her past and shows people that she would never forget where she came from and how she got to where she is now.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) Reading/ Literature
One example that proves you’re responsible for your success is the book, First test by Tamora Pierce which follows Keladry of mindelan that takes advantage of a new rule allowing women to become knights and through the series she climbs the ranks and becomes King arthur's right hand.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This proves the truism is valid because she goes against societal obstacles and prejudice to pursue her dream of knighthood. She earns her title by demonstrating her skill through the challenges she faces and successfully catches the eye of the King.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)______________
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“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) Entertainment
One example that proves you can be successful if you put your mind to it is Matt Rife
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“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES): Entertainment
Leonardo Dicaprio was a huge name in the hollywood industry starring in films like “Titanic”, “The Revenant” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.” He once was a poor kid living in the outskirts of LA seeing great amounts of poverty, drug use and violence at a young age which allows him to now portray darker sides in his films. He has become super successful through acting and now has an estimated net worth of $300 million.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This proves the truism because since he was living this life of violence and poverty, he could’ve ended up continuing that lifestyle and kept that chain going but instead he was able to get himself out of that situation by pushing and striving to do bigger and better things.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)______entertainment ________
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“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) Entertainment
An example is Enhypen. A “fan” threw a polaroid camera at one of the idols during Newark Day2 Send Off. Fans also left halfway through the concert to start lining up for their send off.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This example helps prove my truism because the idols have worked so hard in order to give the fans concerts and meets. But there is many obstacles to come when advancing further into the industry. As enhypen gets more popular the more that is ought to happen. The idols are aware and still try their best to continue and not let themselves down in order to work hard to please fans.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)______________
Mitski had been born Mitsuki Miyazaki. She is a Japanese American singer songwriter. Born from an American father and a Japanese mother, Mitski had moved frequently during her childhood. She graduated highschool in Turkey and then attended Purchase college, the state university of New York. There is where she self created her first two albums. “Lush” and “Retired from Sad, New Career in Business”. As these were her senior projects, she performed them in front of her classmates. Mitski music has been popular ever since releasing her first couple of albums, she had been featured in Rolling Stones for her song “Your best american girl” from her fourth album “Puberty 2” but since COVID-19 her popularity very much skyrocketed due to Tiktok. Since her release of her first album, Mitski has released 6 more after that. She now has a total of 7 albums.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This example of Mitski’s success proves that the truism is still valid because of the fact that she took her success into her own hands. She poured her soul into er first album “Lush” as well as having the courage and confidence to perform in front of her classmates. She had no idea that her music could impact so many of her listeners, she was just putting out her music. Mitski had taken responsibility of her success and really made it her own.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)______________
José M. Hernandez was one of the first hispanic astronauts to make it to NASA. He came from an agricultural family and grew up poor, but regardless kept up with his studies and submitted various forms until final he was accepted into NASA.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This example proves that truism is still valid because due to his perseverance to enter NASA and spending years applying and working to get to his goal he finally managed to accomplish his dream and this shows how someone can go and be responsible for their own success and your own failure and he chose not to fail.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)
IU is a south korean singer who is now a respected by a lot of artist but she wasnt born in an easy life growing up her parents had very little money that they had to send
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EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)______________
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“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
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“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
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In the Queen’s Gambit main character, Beth was a orphange due to her mom leaving her at a adoption center from her father also leaving. She had a hard time in the center where she was addicted to the pills she took and adjusting to get along with the teachers who treated her poorly. Beth later becomes the first women world champion chess player against the best chess player in the world in russia. She started to pratice with the janitor in the basement of the adoption center later where she was adopted and got into highschool championship.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This example truly supports this truism for the fact that this girl, if it was not for her determination and passion for chess she would not later become a world class chess player. If she did not went through with her first round of playing she wouldn’t have become a success. She spent months on end reading and replaying games in order to truly understand how she make herself invincible in chess.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES) Entertainment
Xxxtentacion had a great rise and fall from stardom as his blend of rap and emo influences boosted him into a carrier like no other. Unfortunately he passed away and although he struggled with violence and personal challenges he had worked his way to great fame.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This proves the truism is valid because he had been in a juvenile detention center when he began to write his music and having to deal with extreme trauma of death, violence, abuse, and suicide, and health issues, he ultimatly climbed higher than any would have expected him to climb and gained his success on his own through his own actions.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)______________
A famous known rapper, Marshall Matters also known as “Eminem” came from rags to riches, to be one of the greatest rappers during his time.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
This truism is still valid because when Matters was younger he only lived with his mom moving from different cities multiple times because of eviction , this also meant he switched schools for about 2 to 3 times a year always making him a target for bullying. What helped him get through these tough times was just to rap, write lyrics, make songs, this helped him feel good since he also rap battled with other kids in the lunchrooms and with people liking his style of rap and his music he decides to make an album named “infinite”, in 1996, then he followed up to drop another song which became really popular, “My name is which started off his great rap career to now today having many grammy awards, for best song, best album, best music video, list goes on, but the only reason he was able to even accomplish this was because he was determined and he also loved to prove people wrong which he used as motivation to help him go from rags to riches.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES): Entertainment
George Lopez is one of the most well known Latino comedians in the world. A typical rags to riches story, from having nothing and still seeing the humor in life. Being raised by his grandmother, his father leaving him as a baby and his mom remarrying creating a neglectful and emotionally abusive household. A lot of it being referenced in his own TV show. Despite that, Lopez has many feats as actor and comedian. from having nothing to his very own TV show, receiving a star on the Hollywood walk of fame, and was one of the top 25 most influential hispanics in America.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
George Lopez is an example of “you are responsible for your own success and your own failure” was due to his background. He didn’t have much but that never changed what he wanted from his life. Being determined enough to go for an acting or comedy career despite the cards being stacked against him. In fact, even in his own TV show, he uses the stuff that happened in his childhood to enhance the comedy and made it relatable to latino audiences.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM Entertainment
The story of J.K. Rowling, how she went from broke single mother to a bestselling author.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
Rowling was a single mother who was on welfare in her late 20s after a divorce. She was jobless. But one day she had an idea, a boy who attended a wizard school. She started to jot down ideas and over time, she had a book, Harry Potter. She tried to get her book published but she was rejected multiple times by different publishers, because she was a newcomer. Bloomsbury eventually decided to publish the book and people wanted more. Rowling wrote more books and they became movies. Today, her books are ranked second in global readership.
“You are responsible for your own success and your own failure.”
EXAMPLE FROM (CHORES)______________
How Mark Zuckerberg made one of the most well known social media platform known as facebook, even with the initial legal issues at a fairly young age with no degree.
REASONING/COMMENTARY: How does this example prove the truism is still valid?
Even though Mark had faced many legal issues as a result of facebook, it has made changes that made facebook a success that allowed him to now be one of the richest people alive today. It shows that even though Mark has faced many problems, you can still rise up and create something that everyone enjoys to use.