College is what you make of it. Whether you apply yourself and succeed or allow yourself to get off track and fail is entirely up to you. Having the motivation to succeed can be called having grit. Grit is the determination to persevere and motivate oneself in order to complete a task. Students with grit will normally hold their work to a much higher standard, and those without will do enough to simply to scrape by. Normally, students without grit will not be as successful as the ones that do possess
Introduction The novel takes place in the South of The United States of America and in Harlem during the 1930’s. During this time in history, black were subject to racial segregation and discrimination. Racial tensions between whites and blacks were more prominent due to events such as the Great Depression and the Great Migration which had a huge impact on social ideologies. The social backdrop allows Ellison to incorporate the issues of 1930s American, in order to allow him to employ the significance