A Walk To The Jetty And Marita's Bargain

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Success is an accomplishment of one's desired aims or overall goals. Success is a broad term and there are many different forms of it. In this essay I will be discussing different forms of success and how they are worth it. I will be comparing two experts: A Walk To The Jetty by Jamaica Kincaid and Marita’s Bargain by Malcolm Gladwell. In these two articles they both strive for success in different yet similar ways and sacrifices important things in there life in order to get there. Yet the obstacles in these stories differ, the way they go about making changes in their life to succeed are homogenous. In Marita’s Bargain, Marita’s success she strived for was educationally based. She attends a KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) academy which
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