In my life for the first time [and,] the image made me believe [of] my mother that I could change [were] the way things *were*.
remove and & of because it makes no sense in the context of the sentence and move were to the end of the sentence.
Answer:
the central idea of the poem is that there are many challenges and obsticals on the way to success
The three friends used to be 'bad boys'. They believed that they could do many things. After seeing the presentation, they believed that they could accomplish really anything.
