Ch 1-3 Q2 Failure

Chapters 1-3, Question 2:
  • Is "Failure" an appropriate title for the first chapter? Explain.

97 comments:

  1. Failure could be an appropriate title since he didn’t accomplish what he wanted to accomplish (putting his sister’s necklace on the peak of K2); but I don’t think his adventure was a failure. If he hadn’t gotten lost he wouldn’t have known about the village Korphe and Haji Ali. If he had not stumbled into Korphe and seen how poverty-stricken and in need they were, he probably wouldn’t have tried to build schools in the Middle East and establish pennies for peace. So I guess Failure would not be an appropriate title.

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  2. Yes,because he failes to get to the summit of K2,by getting lost on a glacier 8 miles away from the trail and then going down the mountain when he found his guide, without doing what he vowed to acomplish for his sister.

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  3. Yes, this could be an appropriate title because he did fail. He wanted to reach the summit of K2 and put his sister’s necklace at the top, but he did not succeed. So he did fail, this title was a very appropriate title for this chapter.

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  4. In My opinion Failure is a word of conceding, of giving up. To say that a man that on his resume has the accomplishments he has is sacriligous to say the least. Yes his sister that had passed away on her 23rd birthday never got her specail necklace of amber to the top of the mountain. But when you think about it what would have become of the children of Korphe if Greg hadn't found that isolated community with the desperate children than all that he has accomplished would have been not. So really I think of him not as a failure. In theory, by getting lost he has succeeded. No matter how odd that sounds.

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  5. Yes, I feel that this was a appropriate title, due to the fact that his goal was to make it to the top of mountain K2 to honor his sister. He accidently was seperated from his guide and travleved off the mountains trail and got lost.
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  6. I agree with what Michael wrote, he is completely right about the title not being appropriate. Mortensen didn’t fail; not really, he just began a new adventure. He is probably only building schools now because of when he got lost in the mountains. If he hadn’t then he wouldn’t have even met the people he’s met, and the people being educated now, might not have started school.

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  7. Hmm... Dylan and Alex, I kind of disagree with your assumptions, in short, I think you both were presumptious in stating that he was a failure. Now, possibly for the first chapter, he may have seemed a failure, I will give you that much. However, the outcome of his exploits being a 'success' in the fact that he had vowed to provide education to Korphe, after his "failure" as you both so poetically put it. So actually, as far as the question went, you both were theoretically correct, but his adventures didn't end in failure by any means... actually, I guess I am kind of wrong, since the failure was specific to the first chapter... Oops.

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  8. No, I don't think failure is an appropriate name for the chapter because although he did not make to the top of K2, he wandered into a small and poor village on his way.the poor villagers tended him while he was sick and gave him some of their valuables. he gave them in return everyting in his sack but most important to them was his knowledge.

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  9. Failure is an appropriate title, but in some ways it isn't. Mortensen did not accomplish his goal to put his sister's necklace on K2. But if he had not tried to accomplish his goal he never would have ended up in Korphe and he never would have started his new goal to honor his sister. He wouldn't have meet the school children, so he wouldn't have thought to start building schools in Pakistan.

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  10. I don't agree with the chapter name "Failure" because even though he did not make it up the mountain to put his sisters necklace there, he is making an even bigger effort to build schools for them and help them to be able to have an education. So by a complete accident he is still succeding in bigger way.

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  11. I also agree with Michael. Greg Mortenson only thought of himself as a failure because he didn't make it to the summit of K2. However after seeing that children in Pakistan didn't have a normal school, he decided to start his program. The success of Pennies for Peace does not make him a failure, so it wouldn't be an appropiate title.

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  12. I agree with mike because the trip to the top of the mountan was a faliure but it wasent a compleat falure like mike sed because he ran into the vilage because he faild at geting to the top so I can see were they get the title failure.

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  13. Think that in some ways failure is an appropriate title for this chapter and in some ways it isn't. It is because what he wanted to accomplish (getting to the summit of K2) hadn't happened.But in a way he really didn't fail because, of his failure to get to the summit of K2 the result was that he got to meet wonderful generous people in Korphe and promised them that he would build them schools.

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  14. I agree with Emilee and Michael. But I think this title is an appropriate title to a certain extent. The part he failed was not making up the mountain, but the part he didn't fail was just starting a new adventure. Even though he didn't accomplish what he wanted he still made a promise to accomplish something else.

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  15. I agee with both Emilee and Michael. The title of the chapter was not appropriate. Mortensen didn't fail at all. Just because he wasn't able to put his sister's necklace on the peak of K2, doesn't mean he failed. Because of Mortensen not being successful, he was able to stumble into Korphe and find out how poverty-stricken this town was. When he came back to the states, he tried to come up with a way to build schools for the children and he came up with Pennies for Peace. If he had never gotten lost and not reach the peak of K2, he would have never found out about the poor schooling. So, the title "Failure" for this chapter was not the most appropriate for this chapter.

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  16. "Failure" is an appropriate title for the first chapter because He fails to make it to the summit of K2, he fails to leave his sister's necklace on the mountain. He even failed to follow his guide and he managed to get lost. After he found his guide he failed to follow him again and took the wrong trail, he ended up in Korphe. I don't agree with Emilee and Michael because he did fail his real missions and only because of his failures he was able to build the schools and create Pennies for Peace.

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  17. The title failure could be looked at in many different ways. One way is that Greg failed to put his sister's necklace at the summit of K2. On the other hand failure could mean that Greg failed himself in not being able to make it. He did not fail his sister in my opinion. Also, he did not fail because when he was rescued from the mountain he was ill. He promised the people who took care of him that he would build them a school and he did.

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  19. I agree with Michael on this question. In a way Mortenson did fail, in another way he didn't. He failed because he didn't make it to the top K2. Finding Korphe and promising the people there that he would build a school is not failing. If he had gotten to the top of K2 he would have never stumbled into Korphe, and the book "Three Cups Of Tea" probably never would have been written.

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  20. I agree with Michael because Mortensen didn’t really fail. He met the people from Korphe and built schools for them. If he hadn’t met them then there wouldn’t be the pennies for peace. And also if Mortensen hadn’t wound up in Korphe, he wouldn’t be building schools for them.

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  21. I think it is and it isn’t an appropriate title. Yes because he did fail to reach the top of K2 and place his sister’s necklace on top. No because being lost lead him to Korphe. Reaching Korphe was the start of him building schools and pennies for peace.

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  22. I think that “failure” could be an appropriate title because he would have felt like he failed his sister. . But his failure seemed like fate because it led him to the small poor town that helped him when he needed help, even though they also needed help.

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  23. Failure is an appropriate title for the chapter because Greg failed to reach the summit of K2 but ultimately it benefited a lot of people.

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  24. I do believe that failure was an appropiate title for the first chapter because i think they meant that he failed to reach the summit of K2. But that is the only reason i agree with it. I say that because if Mortensen didn't fail in his attempt to reach the summit of K2 he would not have as many successes as he does today. It is Mortensen's failures which brought him to the village of Korphe. The village of Korphe opened his eyes to see that our world has a lot more of unfortuant people that know of. So basically the title for this chapter is appropiate because one of Mortensen's greatest failures which could have lead him to death lead him to some of his greatest successes which was to bring schools to places where children who aren't as fortuant as we are, to have a building to learn in and have teachers there with us to help and guide us along the way, and help them educate themselves into a life they can lead.

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  25. I think that Michael and Emilee are right. Greg failed only at not reaching the summit of K2. He succeeded at building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. If Greg had reached the summit children in Pakistan and Afghanistan wouldn't have schools; they would probably still be scratching multiplication tables in the dirt with sticks. I think an appropriate title for chapter two would be "A New Beginning".

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  26. There are different ways to look at the title of failure. In a way Mortenson did fail, but in others he did not. Yes, he did fail on making it to the top of K2 and placing his sisters necklace there, but he also discovered something just as important, something he thinks his sister wanted much more. which is helping build schools for kids that are in need of them.

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  27. I think that Failure is an appropriate title for the chapter. He wanted to get to the top of K2 to put his sisters necklace down on the mountain. Instead of making it all of the way up he went back down.

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  28. No, because in a way he did not fail. He may not have reached the summit of K2, where he stated he would honor his sister, but he came upon another, more meaningful way to do so. Helping the village, families, and children is a much more rewarding way to honor his sister, and had greater effect on his life. This chapter could have been called "Accidental Success."

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  29. I agree with what everybody else said. Yes, this is a good title for the chapter because he did actually fail to do what he wanted to. But if Mortenson didn't fail he wouldn't have found the village that needed people's help!!!!!

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  30. I agree with Jay Proulx because in a way he did come upon a new way to honer his sister.

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  31. I agree with Eddie.In his own mind, Greg thought he had failed since he didn't reach the top of K2 to place his sisters neckalce to honor her. Since he didn't succeed in that endeavor he failed.

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  32. Greg did failed his mission, but it wasn't failure because he had a better goal to acomplish like giving knowlege to children.

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  33. i also agree with jamie because he wasent a failer because he trided to bring that necklace up to the top of K2, and he tried to help every one in the little villige

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  34. I disagree with Eddie and OJ, he did fail climbing K-2, but if he did achieve this goal, he would of failed giving school to Korphe

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  35. Jay Proulx's title for the chapter"Failure" is very appropriate because in a way, Greg Mortensen's success was accidental. Greg's main goal was to reach the summit of K2 and place his siter's necklace there. Had he reached the top and followed the correct path he wouldn't have reached Korphe and gotten the idea of a school.

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  36. WEll, i do think "Failure" is an appropriete name although i dont think he compleatly failed... Greg did get lost on the trail and he didn't make it to the top...so, in some sense he failed. But if he didn't get lost he would never of found the small village of Korphe. If he didnt find this village the school would not of been built

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  37. Yes, "failure" is an appropriate title for this chapter because Greg didn't get to the top of K2 to place Chritas neckalce on its summit. In agreement with Angie it is also an incorrect title because he realized that putting the necklace on the summit wasn't the most important factor. Greg succeeded because he realized that he could achieve a beter goal in creating a school in Korphe for all of the kids that were outside scratching their numbers and letters in the dirt with twigs.

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  38. Yes and no, Greg failed his trip to climb K2 and was disapionted about that. Because he wanted to put the amber nacklace on top of the mountaine for his sister. But yet Greg found the small town of Korphe and met all of the people from the town. He fell in love with all of them especially the children. So in a way he didn't actually fail because he found a new family.

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  39. I think its an appropriate title because he attempted to climb k2 and didnt make it to put his sisters necklace on it.

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  40. I think that failure was an appropriate title for the first chapter. His mission was to climb to the top of K2 mountain to put his sister's necklace on top. He didn't even reach the top of the mountain so he couldn't do it. In some ways the word failure isn't true. Going to the K2 mountain was what brought him to Korphe and the children of need.

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  41. I don’t think that failure is an appropriate title for the first chapter because even after losing his way many times, he still got something out of the trip. He learned about the difficulties of the kids, including learning without a teacher every day, not having a school room and not having the correct writing supplies.

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  42. I think it is an appropriate title because he wanted to get to the top of the mountain K-2 and he didnt make it. So climbing the mountain in honor of his sister failed.

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  43. I think that failure was a good title for the first chapter becouse he wanted to clime k2 to put his sisters necklace on the top of the mountian. and he dint acoplish.

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  44. I agree with Michael Jent because I think it is and appropriate title because he didn't achieve the thing he wanted to do which was putting his sister, christa's necklace at the top of the peak. But, if he had succedded he wouldn't have been able to help the people in korphe. So him failing was a good thing.

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  45. No, I don’t believe that “Failure” for the first chapter. Well, yes he did fail to make it to the top of K2, but it lead him to a better journey. May have had to stop before he made it to the top, but when he reached Korphe, he thought he could do something better in honor of his sister, and decided to help the children of Korphe, by building a school there.

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  46. "Failure" is a good title for the chapter. Greg was a failure at placing his sister's amber necklace on K2, the second largest mountain the world, for his sister,Christa. When he failed he found himself alone in a village named Korphe.

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  47. I agree with Devin, because he didn't get up the mountain but he still found the city of Korpe and promised them some schools.

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  48. I think that FAILURE was an appropriate title for the Chapter. The reason is Greg's basic mission was to climb K2 in the Himalayas, and put his sister Christa's Amber necklass on the summit in which he failed to accomplish. With Greg's failure came success when the people of the town Korphe took him in to recover. When he left he promised he would build them a school in his gratitude. Even though he failed his mission he started a new mission to help the people of Korphe.

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  49. I think it was kind of a failure because he didn't make it to the top.

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  50. I agree with what Michael and Tara said because in some ways it is an appropriate title but in other ways it isn't. His failure was when he didn't achieve his goal of putting his sister's necklace on the top of K2. but it was also the start of his success. If he hadn't failed then he would never have established is schools and penny for peace.

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  51. I do think that this is an appropriate title for the chapter just because he desperately wanted to put his sister's necklace on top on K2 to show her his respect for her and he didn't reach his goal.

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  52. Yes, I think that "failure" was a good title of this chapter, because Greg Mortensen tried to attempt to climb K2 to put his sister’s necklace on the top of this mountain, and he failed his attempt.

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  53. I think FAILURE was an appropriate title for the first chapter, his mission was to climb to the top of K2 to put his sisters neklace on the top of the mountain. But he failed to climb to the top. going to the K2 mountain was what brought him to Korphe and the children of need of education and he also came upon a new way to honor his sister.

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  54. I dont agree with what Emily Dawley said because he didnt actual fail. He failed to reach the summit but with that failure he promised to help the Children of Korphe.

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  55. I agree with Emily Rexford about how "Failure" is not a good word for the title of this chapter. He lost his way multiple times but he still got a good trip into the mountains, and when he came down the wrong path and found a pour village this was the start of the pennies for peace drive.

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  56. I think Failure is a good title for this chapter because Greg failed to climb K2 & put his sister Christa’s necklace on top of the mountain for her memory. Instead Greg was taken in by the town of Korphe. When he recovered he returned the favor by building a school. So the people of Korphe will have classrooms to sit in instead of sand.

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  57. I think faliure was an approprite title because he wanted to climb the mountin to put his sisters neclace on the top of K2 which he failed to accomplish but he was successful with using his time wisely.

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  58. Although I said I thought failure is an appropriate title for this chapter, I have to agree with Emily Rexford.

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  59. Faliure is both an appropiate and inappropiate for this chatper,because he took a few wrong turns going down the trail. If he did follow the trail he mite not have discoverd the people in Pakistan who needed help.

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  60. I disagree with Daven Foote, because I think it is more important to help the children in Pakistan get an education.

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  61. failure...hmm there could have been a better title to this chapter. although he didnt make it to the top of k2 and put his sisters necklace on top of it to honor her, he still accomplished one thing. he decided to build a school for all the kids in Korphe( or most of them anyways). he did do a right thing, to climb k2. if by any chance he didnt climb k2, then there would be no reason to build a school for the children in korphe.

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  62. I agree with Eddie that Greg failed because he did not get to the top of K2. And I also agree that it benefited many people like the Korphe people.

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  63. "Failure" is probably appropriate because Mr. Mortenson had not succeeded at his original goal: to reach the summit of K2 in order to place his sister's amber necklace there. However, his failure was about to lead him to a new focus in life. As the old proverb goes, "When one door closes, another opens."

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  64. I agree with Jay P. because he did find a different way to honor his sister. His success wasn't on purpose so "Accidental Success" is an appropriate title.

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  65. failure would be an appropriate title because he failed at putting Christa's necklace at the top of K2 and failed at protecting her and keeping her alive.

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  66. I think this is and isn't an appropriate title for the first chapter because he did fail his mission but, he did gain something from it too. Instead of putting his sisters necklace on the summit of K2 he is helping hundreds of children get an education, by building them a school. I think he gained from not reaching the summit of K2!!

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  67. I think failure is both an appropriate and an inappropriate tittle because he failed the whole reason he went to the Himalayas, to put his sister's necklace on the summit of K2 to honor her death. On the other hand, his failure to reach the summit gave him another opportunity to honor her death by building a school for the Korphe village. He is also repaying them for their hospitality toward him.

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  68. Failure is an appropriate title for the first chapter because his goal was to climb K2 in honor of his sister and he did not reach his goal. I also think it was an appropriate title for the first chapter because he was probably feeling depressed about not making it and feels like a failure.

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  69. failure is an inappropriate title for this chapter. it is not appropriate because he suceeded in finding a better way of honoring his dead sister by buildinig a school. it also works because he did 'fail' to climb K2. this is not necessariy a fail because i probably wouldn't have gotten that far up the second highest mmountain.

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  70. failure would be an appropriate title because he failed at putting Christa's necklace at the top of K2 and failed at protecting her and keeping her alive. it would also be a good title because it wraps all of the chapter up into one and explains a lot about the chapter even though you haven't read it in one word. I guess it is kind of telling you that the chapter will be about someone not being able to make a goal that they have set in life.

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  71. I agree with Sara that failure would be an appropriate title for this chapter all because he failed to reach the peak of K2 and place Christa's necklace on the top.

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  72. I think it is failure because he didn't make it to the top, but it wasn’t all failure because him not getting to the top of K2 helped him realize he needed to build schools for the children in Korphe. If he reached the top of K2 he might not have realized that. So I guess failure might have been an appropriate title.

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  73. I agree with Jamie because even though Greg didn't make it up the mountain he accomplished other things by finding Korphe.

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  74. I agree with Hilary, because he didn't make it all the way to the top of K2 like he planned to do. If he had made it to the top he wouldnt have discoverd Korphe and he wouldnt have had a chance to build the children a school.

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  75. I do not agree with Tyler B. because even though he did not make it to the top, he honored his sister by building a school.

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  76. I don't think "Failure" was an appropriate title for this chapter. This is because, yes he didn't make it to the top of K-2 but he did something more important. Since he didn't make it to the top of K-2 he ended up going to Korphe and helping them. He realized they didn't have any schools and built them one. So instead of going to the top of K-2 to accomplish his own goals he helped other people. So he ended up helping the people around him, which made him feel good. So I think failure is not a good title for this chapter, because Greg didn't fail, he helped himself and other people, which is the total opposite of failing.

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  77. yes "Failure" an appropriate title for the first chapter because he fails to freach the top of K2

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  78. even though greg thought he was a failer, he wasent he tried to put his sisters neckles up on K-2 so he wasent a failer he did tride his hardest to put the neckles up now muter what you are never a failer

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  79. i agree with Michael i do agree that failure is a good is an appropriat title bbecuse he fails to put the neckles that belonged to his sisster at the top of k2

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  80. I agree with Adam Lawrence because that is what he was suppose to do instead he only got lost and didn’t reach his goal.

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  81. yes because he failed to get to the top of the mountian

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  82. I agree with devin because Greg did not success getting to the top of K2

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  83. I agree with Michael, “Failure” is a good title for this chapter, and at the same time it isn’t. It is a good title because he didn’t complete his goal to place his sister’s necklace on the summit of K2. But he did acquire another goal; too help the people of Pakistan build schools. Not only schools though, he helped them build bridges, and roads. So actually”Failure” isn’t a good title for this chapter.

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  84. I think failure is an apropriate title because he didn't climb to the summit of K2 to put his sisters necklace there. I also think he suceeded because if he would of climbed the mountain he never might of started building schools.

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  85. “Failure” could be an appropriate title and it could be not appropriate at the same time. It could be appropriate because he didn’t accomplish putting his sister’s necklace on the summit of K2 in her memory because he took the wrong path. It could also be not appropriate because he did make it part of the way up the mountain. Also when people from Korphe took care of him, he promised them that when he raised enough money, that he would come back and build them a school.

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  86. “Failure” could be an appropriate title and it could be not appropriate at the same time. It could be appropriate because he didn’t accomplish putting his sister’s necklace on the summit of K2 in her memory because he took the wrong path. It could also be not appropriate because he did make it part of the way up the mountain. Also when people from Korphe took care of him, he promised them that when he raised enough money, that he would come back and build them a school.

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  87. I think it is because he tried to climb K2 and yet failed while trying to. Yes I think it is an appropriate title for chapter one.

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  88. I think that "Failure" an appropriate title for the first chapter and is not at the same time because he didn’t make it to k2 for his sister but he did manage to make his way to Korphe, then today he wouldn’t be making schools for people who need them and giving girls the education that they need to succeeded today.

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  90. I agree with Michael Jent because I think it is an appropriate title because he didn't achieve the thing he wanted to do which was putting his sister, christa's necklace at the top of the peak. But if he had succedded he wouldn't have been able to help the people in korphe. So him failing was a good thing. He has a better and more exciting life than he would have had if he were to not get lost.

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  91. I agree with Erin because he did not accomplish what he had wanted.

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  92. I don't agree with this chapter name. Yes, Greg didn't get to the top of the mountain. But, if he didn't get lost and stumble into Korphe there would not be all the schools in and around Korphe. There would also not be the CAI organization. Women would not have the confidence they do to live their dream. Most of the Pakistani women have only the simple dream of getting an education, which they couldn't do before. Now that these schools are being built, it hopefully will end the poverty in Pakistan because they will have the education to get better jobs and afford what they couldn't before.

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  93. I agee with everyone. "Failure" is good a title for this chapter because he did fail what he wanted to accomplish. His accomplishment was suppose to be to reach the summit of K2, to put his sister's necklace on the top of the mountain. Then he got lost so he failed.

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  94. I do not agree with everyone else, failure is not an appropriate title for this chapter. Although Greg did not achive his desire of reaching the sumit of K2 to place his sister's necklace on the peak, he did do something that many other Americans would not have thought about doing. Unlike many other's Greg was kind to those of Korphe and soon became family; but most importantly, he knew how wrong it was thew their children did not have a building specifically for schooling. He sold most, almost all of his belongings to raise money for education. I agree with Kelly because it brought much confident to women, and gave them a real purpose of their life, and made them want to live it.

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  95. I think "Failure" was a good and a bad title for this chapter because he think he failed but in the end he won so much more. He failed because on his way climbing up the mountain K2 to put his sister Christa's neclace on top of the mountain in her honor he got lost. But in the mist of him getting lost he found the village of Korphe. And in finding that village he made a promise to the village leader, Haji Ali, that he would come back to Korphe and build them a school.

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  96. I think "Failure" is and is not an appropriate title for this chapter because even though Greg did fail to reach the summit of K2. But if he didn’t fail at that he wouldn’t have ever found out about the people of Korphe and would have never been able to build the CAI.

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