Journal 10- Daryn

Jim Clyburn is a congressman. He ran for many races and lost most of them. Until in 1992 he ran for the United States Congress and won. Clyburn never gave up when he was running for these races. In the book Jim was talking about how he never gave up and he said, "While I breathe, I hope. And I've always felt that wherever there's life, there's hope. I never gave up. I kept running for office until I got it right"(quoted in Isay 215). He just kept pushing through and following his dream. He has now become popular. In 2016 Clyburn was unanimously picked to stay assistant Democrat leader in the next Congress. All of Jim's hard work has paid off. He has now been in the office for 26 years and counting.

This is Jim Clyburn taking on the stand.

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Vito De La Cruz is a public defender. He didn't meet her father until she was fourteen years old. He lived with his aunt and they were migrant farmers. They were moving around all other. They never stayed in one place. When he was about thirteen years old board patrol came to his work and started taking immigrants. Vito was so fearful that they were going to take him. However this gave him some insight on what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. Vito didn't know it at the time, but it did. So he went to law school and started working as a staff attorney until he became a public defender.

This is Vito working a case.

These two profiles are similar because they both have traveled a bunch. They both traveled around for their jobs. These two men also had to work for what they got. Jim ran for the election multiple times before he finally got elected. Vito grew up working on a farm. That was a lot of hard work for both of them, but in the end they both got to do something they loved.