Out There

Obstacles, we all have faced them and we all have overcome. In both of the realistic fiction books, The Outsiders and Out of the Dust ,written by S.E. Hinton and Karen Hesse there are characters who go through mourning for family members. Ponyboy Curtis lives with his brother Darry, in oklahoma and is caught between a gang war in the late 1960’s. Billie Jo from Out of the Dust is a young girl who has found herself in the middle of the dust bowl with her family who owns a farm in the panhandle of Oklahoma in the 1930’s and her father tries to grow wheat but is unsuccessful due to the animals and the weather. Billie Jo’s father owns a farm and wanted a boy hence the name Billie Jo and that she looks very similar to her father, her mother also lives on the farm and is pregnant with her little brother Franklin. One day there was a horrible accident that injured both Billie Jo and her pregnant mother. Ponyboy Curtis is a teenager from Oklahoma whose parents died when he was a young age. Pony Boy lives wmentally brother who isn't really able to but does anyway. In both of the books one of the protagonists had to face the barrier of a close one's death. In peice of…

In today’s society, eating out has become a way of life for most people, because they are busy with work and other things. People find it less stressful to eat out because they do not have to worry about cooking which can be time consuming to an already busy schedule. Luckily, everywhere you turn there is a restaurant offering something to eat. The struggle is that it becomes challenging to find the perfect place to eat, because these places offer unhealthy fast food, are too causal and noisy,…

Literature Review Most literature on parent/child coming out issues pertains to adult LGBT children and is written by social workers, psychologists, and physicians. Very little has been written regarding parents and adolescent coming out conflicts, and even less so about LGBT minorities. Key words: adolescence, coming out, gay and lesbian adolescents, Latino parents and youth, parents, intergroup conflict, social identity, family influence, teenage suicide, parent-adolescent conflict, religion…

Coming out is now more loved than feared however some media outlets that can reach out globally and religious views that shun upon them can strike fear into the hearts of the LGBTQ community. “Coming out” is a term that the LGBTQ community often uses as a way to describe their gender identity or sexuality as well as their pride for it. For approximately 150 years the LGBTQ community has been holding social movements in order to gain equality. One of the first well known cases was brought to…

“Down, But Not Out.” “There it is Privates!” Drill Sergeant Gonzales yelled. As we all rounded the narrow and winding road through the Ozark Mountains, my heart began to race. All 250 of us slowed down to form a formation in front of what appeared to be the biggest climb we had seen and were not expecting to see for the next few weeks. Screaming at the top of his lungs, Drill Sergeant Galloway said “This is Engineer Hill, and starting in two minutes you all have thirty minutes to make this…

Marsha Norman Marsha Norman’s work shows a raw clarity that exhibits pain in all its various forms, a true to life depiction of the life that goes on around us. Through my research into her work, I have discovered that she is a playwright I truly love, I just hadn’t known it yet. Her talents span different styles of theatre and she creates a resounding truth in her works that reach out and grab the audience by the heart. It is through her skillfully constructed text and heart wrenching…

the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.” (Hesse p.g. 132) The Book Out of The Dust was written by Karen Hesse and is a Historical Fiction novel about a young girl named Billie Jo going through life in the dust bowl. As in accelerated reader, it is worth three points and the grade level is 5.0, there are 277 pages in the novel. The book is about a young girl named Billie Jo Kelby, the main…

Foster Care: Aging Out Imagine being in foster care in and out of foster homes for as long as you can remember. Maybe even your whole life. And then one day you realize that your 18th birthday is approaching. For most teenagers this is a very exciting day, the day that they become an adult and can no longer be called a child. The day that they can stay out past their city curfew and don’t have to find a way to sneak in the clubs with their friends. But for you, this is the day that you really…

Narrative: My Coming Out Story I came out of the closet twice actually. The first time was in the eighth grade when I came out as a lesbian to the whole community (If they cared to ask anyway). The second time I chose to come out of the closet was at the end of my sophomore year of high school, only this time I was coming out as transgender. Choosing to come out the closet for a second time wasn’t any easier than the first time, if anything it was even harder. My second coming out is the one I’d…

were aged 14-19 (Statistics Canada, 2011). Once these young persons reach the age of 18 they age out of the foster care system. Aging out of the system refers to the transition out of the foster care system when they reach the legal age at which the majority of other youth leave their homes in pursuance of independent living (Lee & Berrick, 2014, p.78). However, not only do the circumstances and levels of readiness vary between youth from stable families and youth in the foster-care system, they…