2. Helen Keller: Blind, deaf, and author of If I Have Three Days of Light, etc.

Lincoln is a great president in American history. He led the great struggle to save the Union and end slavery. He has always been one of the most admired presidents in American history. It was this great president who received a lot of flowers and applause, but his life was extremely bumpy.

From his life, we can see that Lincoln's youth from seven to twenty-four years old is full of pain, and from thirty-nine to forty-nine, Lincoln's political life is full of setbacks. Until after countless hard efforts, he was finally elected as the sixteenth president of the United States at the age of 51, and went down in world history as a great president.

Zhang Haidi is also a very good example. Zhang Haidi got a spinal hemangioma when he was five years old, which led to paraplegia. From then on, Zhang Haidi began her unique life. Although I didn't have the opportunity to walk into the campus, I studied hard, completed all the courses in primary and secondary schools, taught myself college English, Japanese and German, and studied the courses of universities and graduate students. So it has become an idol in many people's hearts.

Extended data:

"Born in sorrow, died in happiness" means that only in this way can we know that sorrow can make people (or countries) survive and develop, and comfort and enjoyment will make people (or countries) go to extinction.

Born in sorrow and died in happiness, it is selected from Mencius' Gao Zi Xia, which is a well-argued, eloquent and powerful reasoning prose.

Firstly, the author lists six examples of people who were tempered by poverty and setbacks and finally took on great responsibilities, which proves that hardship can motivate people to work hard and achieve new achievements. Then, the author further demonstrates the truth that sorrow is greater than heart death from two different angles: the development of a person and the rise and fall of a country.

Finally, let nature take its course and come to the conclusion that "born in sorrow, died in happiness". The full text adopts the way of enumerating historical cases and reasoning, and deduces them layer by layer, making the article compact and meticulous. In addition, the article uses parallelism and antithesis, even if the tone is patchy, it also creates an unstoppable momentum and effectively enhances the persuasiveness of the argument.