Characteristics For Life

By: Ally Black

Attitude-Approaching everyday with enthusiasm, confidence and a positive outlook

Mattie Stepanek

• Mattie Stepanek• Has a illness

called dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy

Cinderella Man • Cinderella Man• Family stayed strong

even through hardships

Perseverance-refusing to give up in the face of adversity no matter how difficult the task

Booker T. Washington • He was a slave until he

was 9 years old • Then he taught an all

black school• Then he was

recommended to be the principal at Tuskegee University

Rudy • He wanted to play

football at Notre Dame• He was small• He didn’t have good

grades• But he got in and he

played for Notre Dame Football

Empathy-trying to understand another person’s experience; to put yourself in their shoes

Helen Keller • She was normal till she

was 18 months old• She had a fever and

that took away he eyesight and hearing

and her speech

The Blind Side • He was homeless • His mother is on drugs

Responsibility- keeping promises, making obligations, and being accounted for your actions

Cal Ripken JR.• He was the first player

no to miss a game over a time span of 16 years

• Him and his brother were the first brothers to play on the same team in the majors and be coached by

their dad

The Pursuit of Happyness

• He doesn’t get enough money to pay the bills

• His wife leaves him

Tolerance- understand and embrace people from different backgrounds

Arthur Ashe • He was a little colored

kid and was sad he couldn’t play tennis against the white men that were usually the best.

Remember the Titans • The school gets a new

colored coach • The players wont play

for him• So he keeps the old

coach on staff