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Harley Jackson Second Period Composition Mrs.Simmons 24 October 2017 Informative Essay “Mission” A mission is a task that is assigned, and people try to accomplish it. But some missions take specific kind of person to succeed. Walt Masters, Farah Ahmedi, and Annie Johnson they all had missions to accomplish. For example, Walt Masters had never had shoes on his feet or gone to a picnic or a party, or even talked to a girl. Farah Ahmedi had lost her leg when she stepped on a landmine behind her house. Then she had to get a prosthetic leg when she was seven. Annie Johnson was a African American divorced with two sons and very little money to live on, but all set out on missions that would take determination, chance, and perseverance to reach …show more content…

Walt Masters was in the Klondike Country with his father where they lived and had recently staked a claim. Like many people in that area, the Masters hoped to find gold. Due to unfortunate circumstances and a fall through the ice, Walt’s friend, Loren Hall, is unable to stake his claim where gold had recently been discovered. Besides Loren being hurt, he faced the problem of claim jumpers anxiously waiting to jump his property. Seeing what was about to happen to his neighbor, Walt knew he had to help. According to the text, “In the face of the threatened injustice against old lame Loren Hall, he felt that he (Walt) must do something.” Walt was able to steal the claim jumper’s dogsled, avoid being shot, and reach the city of Dawson to stake the claim for his adversary. Walt’s pursuit was a success! Because of his actions, he gained the respect and adoration of the men in the territory and was awarded the title “King of Mazy …show more content…

Annie told her husband William, of her dissatisfaction in their marriage. Mr. William Johnson was secretly hoping to leave and study religion. He thought God was calling him not only to preach but to do so in Enid, Oklahoma. When they divorced, William took all the money to go to Oklahoma, and Annie took the house and the boys. She had little money and a family to support. She said there is no possibility of being hired at the town’s cottage gin or lumber mill. Then she thought maybe there is a way to let the two factories work for her. In her words “ I looked up the road I was going and back the way I came, I wasn't satisfied, I decided to step off the road and cut me a new

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