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Dreamers not doers?
“When you achieve one dream, dream another. Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation” (“Top 7 Quotes by Rudy Ruettiger”). Rudy and Shawn both realize this on their road into football fame. Rudy Ruettiger is a hardworking man who came from a blue-collar family, but his brave spirit pushed him forward to attend Notre Dame despite everyone’s doubts. Shawn Grim is from the Appalachian mountains and came from a very poor neglecting family, although he faced many hardships he earned a scholarship. Shawn and Rudy are two young men that both had dreams to enroll in college and play football, although they both had determination they both faced different obstacles along the way.
The first difference between Rudy and Shawn are they both found support in their own way, however both did not have support at first while trying to play football and register in college. Shawn Grim faced many challenges at home and
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Shawn Grim earned a scholarship for community college called Pikesville, he beat the stereotype of his town, family, and school and attended college briefly, eventually he needed to drop out because he could no longer afford to go and could not handle the stress of keeping his grades up. But he still made history in his family and was a football star. Likewise, Rudy Ruettiger attended a major college, which was Notre Dame. He also beat the odds with his family and attended the college after not being accepted into Notre Dame after applying 3 times, but he brought his grades up and worked out an insane amount so he could go to Notre and Dame and play football there and pushed everyone's doubts to the side. Nonetheless, Rudy and Shawn both made it to college in their own ways, but used everyone’s doubts as a motivation to keep pushing

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