What is the underlying idea of the passage?

Directions: Answer the given question based on the following passage:

So many people today are gripped with a sense of fear. They fear for the future. They feel vulnerable in the workplace. They are afraid of losing their jobs and their ability to provide for their families. This vulnerability often fosters a resignation to riskless living and to co-dependency with others at work and at home. Our culture’s common response to this problem is to become more and more independent. Independence is an important, even vital, value and achievement. The problem is, we live in an interdependent reality, and our most important accomplishments require interdependency skills well beyond our present abilities.
People want things and want them now. Though today’s ‘credit card’ society makes it easy to ‘get now and pay later’, economic realities eventually set in, and we are reminded, sometimes painfully, that our purchases cannot outstrip our ongoing ability to produce. The demands of interest are unrelenting and unforgiving. With the dizzying rate of change in technology and increasing competition driven by the globalization of markets and technology, we must develop our minds and continually sharpen and invest in the development of our competencies to avoid becoming obsolete.
Whenever we find a problem, we usually find the finger-pointing of blame. ‘If only this hadn’t been like this…if only that…’ Blaming everyone and everything else for our problems and challenges may be the norm and many provide temporary relief from the pain, but it also chains us to these very problems. If we can find someone humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her way through or around these challenges, we can find the supreme power of choice.
The children of blame are cynicism and hopelessness. When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation. So many bright, talented people suffer the broad range of discouragement and depression that follows. The survival response of popular culture is cynicism—‘just lower your expectations of life to the point that you aren’t disappointed by anyone or anything.’ The contrasting principle of growth and hope throughout history is the discovery that ‘I am the creative force of my life.’ (Excerpted from Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

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What is the underlying idea of the passage?

Directions: Answer the given question based on the following passage:

So many people today are gripped with a sense of fear. They fear for the future. They feel vulnerable in the workplace. They are afraid of losing their jobs and their ability to provide for their families. This vulnerability often fosters a resignation to riskless living and to co-dependency with others at work and at home. Our culture’s common response to this problem is to become more and more independent. Independence is an important, even vital, value and achievement. The problem is, we live in an interdependent reality, and our most important accomplishments require interdependency skills well beyond our present abilities.
People want things and want them now. Though today’s ‘credit card’ society makes it easy to ‘get now and pay later’, economic realities eventually set in, and we are reminded, sometimes painfully, that our purchases cannot outstrip our ongoing ability to produce. The demands of interest are unrelenting and unforgiving. With the dizzying rate of change in technology and increasing competition driven by the globalization of markets and technology, we must develop our minds and continually sharpen and invest in the development of our competencies to avoid becoming obsolete.
Whenever we find a problem, we usually find the finger-pointing of blame. ‘If only this hadn’t been like this…if only that…’ Blaming everyone and everything else for our problems and challenges may be the norm and many provide temporary relief from the pain, but it also chains us to these very problems. If we can find someone humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her way through or around these challenges, we can find the supreme power of choice.
The children of blame are cynicism and hopelessness. When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation. So many bright, talented people suffer the broad range of discouragement and depression that follows. The survival response of popular culture is cynicism—‘just lower your expectations of life to the point that you aren’t disappointed by anyone or anything.’ The contrasting principle of growth and hope throughout history is the discovery that ‘I am the creative force of my life.’ (Excerpted from Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People)

King Martin Luther was now leading a movement against slavery that had started some 100 years ago under the leadership of Abraham Lincoln.
The King, the black civil rights leader, was spearheading a peaceful movement against the scourge of slavery, a menace that had divided the American society.
King Martin Luther Jr. was giving finishing touches to the war against slavery that had been initiated by Abraham Lincoln 100 years ago.
It was the epoch making speech of King Martin Luther Junior that ended the slavery in the US and also made the King immortal in the annals of history.

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Slavery in America was a serious issue and it had been started by Abraham Lincoln 100 years ago and King Martin Luther Jr. was carrying forward the same fight.

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