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 When the majority of us envision achievement, it is academy award winning, joyful, and proof that none of the things that we did were in vain. Achievement is fun, it forgives our toil. However, if we only want achievement, we exclude ourselves from the best teacher of life; failure. Failure is even more deserving in the long run than success because it makes us stretch, grow, and evolve. Failure strengthens. When we fail, we have ours options are only to give up or try again. With each second that we decide to stand up again, we are strengthened to withstand adversity. Strength is needed most in the later years of our lives when more adversity comes into our way. We would never be aware of overcoming adversity if we never failed. Failure also makes one a problem solver. Success would make one arrogant, but failure forces us to restrategize, be creative, and resourceful. Most of the world's greatest achievements, from scientific findings to inventions, were sparked by failed attemp...

Gender, as a construct, has traveled a very long distance from its traditional, binary, static nature to its modern, multidimensional, dynamic nature, far beyond the traditional Western view of gender as strictly related to biological sex assigned to an individual at birth. Sex refers to biological characteristics of the chromosomes and anatomy of the body, while gender, on the other hand, is a complex construct a complex interaction of the inner self-perception of the person and the outer self-perception of the person by the outside world. Gender identity has some association with the sex assigned to the individual, also known as cisgender. however, there has been an emergence of individuals whose gender identity is not the same as the sex assigned to the individual, also known as transgender and non-binary gender identity. Non-binary gender identity is an "umbrella term that refers to individuals whose gender identity is not exclusively 'man' or 'woman' including...