40 brown bags, q-tips, chips, and water. She went to her church for help and they thought she was crazy “you want to help those people? They’re homeless” is what they said but Jess didn’t listen. She went by herself downtown and handed the 40 brown bags to the homeless. Jess had been doing this for 3 months and her one wish was for Mike to go with her.
Cold Blooded Soldier In some countries children have to join the army at a very young age, whether they like it or not. Ishamael Beah, the author of the book A Long Way Gone, had to join the army at the age of thirteen to fight against the rebels in the Civil War in Sierra Leone, which made Beah lose his innocence and struggle to understand himself. When the war happened, Beah lost his family, and he had to be on his own to escape the rebels. After a couple months, Beah joined the army and became a cold blooded soldier, who wasn’t afraid to kill anybody. However, later, with the help of teachers and a nurse, Beah started to trust people again.
Like most other people, Najaf hopes for good fortune in his life and tries to avoid bad fortune. Even though Najaf has been through what he had, his faith in God brought him through. Even in his darkest hours of despair, Najaf clings to hope and his deep love of life and people. Najaf’s faith in God makes it easy for him to get through anything which makes him an extraordinary individual. Najaf is not a regular refugee; it’s obvious that his achievements make him extraordinary.
Another way this is shown is when he allows his mother who he had not seen “….since she had eloped with a band of singers and dancers in 1964”. Even though his mother left him for thirty six years before coming back, Hassan was able to forgive her and “….took Sanaubar’s hand in both of his and told her she could cry if she wanted to but she needn’t, she was home now, he said, home with her family”. These quotes are demonstrating how big of a heart Hassan has, and even though Sanaubar hurt him, he is happy to have her back in his life and they can fulfil their journey together. Hosseini uses a change of narrator in the form of Rahim Khan in chapter sixteen to really show us as the readers how proud we are of Hassan; how much he has grown up and how he can put things like rape behind him, he truly is a man. This scene is pivotal for the text as it shows the man Hassan had grown up to be, Rahim Khan wishes in a letter to Amir “ …that someday you will return to the land of Kabul to revisit the land of your childhood.
Everything that we do is all through the communication between God and humanity, and humanity as a whole. When we communicate with others, we are sharing our emotions, our stories, and who we are, so we can all be understood. To meet that one special person, who knows everything about you, who takes your heart into their hands, and vice versa, you learn to love that other human being that God has blessed you with to have in your life. You learn about each other, you both know what makes you happy and sad, and you both feel accepted by each other despite all of the flaws you may seem to have. Trust is a gift from God, which he gave to humans, so that we can learn to trust people, and our significant other, especially during hard times.
In his childhood he suffered the constant fights of his parents. All the fights he saw between his parents marked him for life. In 1967 the family buys a house in Bath, Ohio, where Jeffrey spent the rest
They keep trying. They don’t give up”. The father was trying to reinforce his son’s faith in him and to never give up on life but there will be a brighter future ahead. They’re relationship can be related to the faith in each other and God as that is what builds their foundation and gives them meaning for
Tupac had a rough childhood growing up, he really had no role model growing up other than his mother. For example, his godfather “Geronimo Pratt” was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a school teacher, right before his birth (Tupac Shakur Biography 2). His stepfather Mutlulu a man who was very present during his childhood he had been sentenced to sixty years in prison for armed robbery in 1988. He stepfather was also on the F.B.I’s top ten most wanted list for several years. Due to the people he was surrounded by much of Tupac’s Philosophies reflected on the Black Panther lifestyle (1).
His life was one filled with passion and dedication for something he loved. Not many people on this earth would go through the trials and tribulations that he endured. Since Dr. King was born, his entire life was devoted to the wellness and betterment of not only minorities around him, but also the right and freedoms of humanity as a whole. Starting out as a Pastor in Montgomery, AL, King began his journey preaching about the importance of love, acceptance and equality as well as reducing hate. Dr. King was a man of powerful words.
Even though Malcolm X had plenty of obstacles in his life, he overcame them with great faith in his Islamic teachings. In 1929 his home in Lansing, Michigan was burnt down, and in 1931 Malcolms father Earl was killed in a car accident. After this incident Malcolm mother couldn’t bear the strain of raising four children on her own so she was committed to a state mental hospital. Malcolm spent most of his teenage years in a juvenile home until his half-sister Ella Collins allowed him to move with her in Boston. Malcolm was involved in a life of crime until his arrest in the early 1946 when he was charged with