taking risks like that, that 's what life is." The summer before my junior year, I decided to take a huge step, public high school. I was homeschooled from 3rd to 10th grade because medically, it was my only option. Taking that step was the best choice I 've ever made. The one school that stood out to me was Minarets High School, this innovative school that prepares you for the real world, and works with you, for you. Everything about it was exactly what I wanted for high school. I…
major themes of race, class, gender, and character that we continually talk about in class. Clare Kendry is a woman with Negro blood who partakes in the precarious practice of “passing” as a white woman in public. In this section of the story, Clare visits Irene to inquire why she chose not to respond to Clare’s letter. After a heated argument about safety and consequences, Clare invites herself to the Negro Welfare League’s annual dance that Irene helps organize. Irene reluctantly agrees, and…
person. Memoir feels sterile, without a personal evocation. In the year of 2009, when I was around 6 years old I traveled to Mexico with my sister, aunt,uncle, and cousins. Both my parents couldn’t go because my little brother had just been born but they wished us the best. It wasn’t your average…
goes all the way back to my teen years. I have always made myself available to help someone else by learning all I can, which if someone did not know how to get something done, and they knew that they could call on me. At the time, I did not know the name for being place to heed someone’s call until my adulthood. My family has always referred to an act of kindness as being a missionary worker, but I had to tell them that there is another name for the work that I do and it is called a social…
together. However, when Lowell left the family, Rosemary was left alone. Fowler shows us how Rosemary changed when Lowell comes back to Davis for an unexpected visit. In the past Rosemary would be the one babbling on and on, never being able to shut up, but during this visit Lowell notices how quite and jaded Rosemary had become. “I’m more like you than you are tonight”, Lowell states, showing how Rosemary couldn’t even be her old self with someone she used to be so close to (202). Societal…
My interaction with M on my last visit home. There was nothing unusual about coming home except this time I wanted to talk to my family about how I was feeling. I felt ready to open myself up to being vulnerable (Being vulnerable) This being a challenge because I am one who needs to express my feelings and the others in my family either don’t or tell me I am too sensitive. In the last ten years I have lived away from my family. For 9 of those years I lived in small town about an hour away…
I cannot tell the future, but I have a good idea of what I want to do and where I will be. Ever since I have been little I have always found joy in helping others, knowing that I had done a good deed has always brought a smile to my face. My initial thought when I was younger was I wanted to fly planes, not as a commercial pilot, but for the Air Force. Later on I realized that I couldn’t help too many people while flying in a plane so I looked to joining the Army with the ultimate goal of…
about a blue care, but says he doesn’t like it. He makes his teacher promise to not let anyone hear it or see it. Jake adds more to his blue car poem and agrees to get his teacher hang it up only if she leaves his name off. Jack is asked to write a poem about his pet, but he doesn’t have any pets. Jack writes about the how he got the dog he use have. Jack says its too sad but agrees to let his teacher hang it up as long as his name isn’t on it. Jack really like the poet Walter Dean Myers. He…
Last year I had the opportunity to travel to Guatemala, and visit my relatives for the first time. It felt like a special moment; there was tears and laughter when we all reunited. Even though we were there for a month, it felt like only a week. I had already gone used to waking up, and saying hello to my grandma. It seemed like a routine, walking to my aunt and uncle’s house to eat breakfast, and brush my teeth. After, I’d watch Mario head to school on his motorcycle, while I would help Marcos…
If someone was to ask you the question if racist are born or are they created what you say? At this moment, I feel like peoples answer will be roughly about 75% on the side that they are born, while another 25% of people would say that they are made. However, if I was asked this question I would say I believe that it would be 50% born, and 50% made. The reason I believe that is because, no child is ever born to have bad intention, the only reason children learn this bad intention is either from…