After reading ‘Superman and Me,’ the essay written by Sherman Alexie, one can’t help but feel inspired and get that warm feeling inside. My first reading experience was similar to Alexie’s comic in that it was a random piece of literature that was being read. The first thing I ever read was a Christmas letter from my grandma’s neighbor and unbenounced to my family, simply grabbed it and read it from beginning to end. If I didn’t know a word I made it up and kept reading as to not lose my rhythm. For as long as I can remember, I have always been advanced for my grade in my reading abilities but the problem I cross in regards to reading is the interest level.
My parents push me to be the best that I can be, which sometimes I don’t care what they are saying, don’t they understand that 9th grade is hard? And then I read that quote again, yeah yesterday was a lot easier than today but then is today going to be easier than tomorrow? I can’t say, I just have to know that with each passing day I read that quote I know there is NO easy day, unless I make it that
We have to innovate. And people get mad about innovation. They get angry if you do something different. But what is the harm in trying? What you are doing now hasn’t worked for 55 years so let’s try something new.
1.Hope can be the sole reason you are alive at this very moment, and the lack of it has caused thousands of deaths throughout history. A. The Glass Castle shows Jeannette's anticipation of better things to come in her life while she is a child. 1.Her first mention of it shows her childishness at the time, "When Dad wasn't telling us about [...] he'd start work on our Glass Castle. "(25) Jeannette, only four at the time, brags of her maturity, yet is still believes her father could actully accomplish this feat.
I had an answer, but I struggled terribly with putting it down on paper because I wanted this interview to “be perfect”. I was too worried about what I looked like or sounded like, so ultimately I had lost “my voice.” I went to my dad for more help. I had wasted a whole hour stressing over how to answer a few questions about myself. My dad told me something very important that day, he said, “The best way to impress someone is to be you”. After meditating on what he said to me I had at least something to put down.
Destiny Roberts The story “Rewriting American History” By Frances Fitzgerald is not really a revelation into the way history books have changed. She has made a lot of interesting points that the history books are now more diverse because lets face facts that we as a nation are now more diverse. What the authors have managed over the years to do is add all the history that has been made in the last sixty years, which there is a lot, and not have books that weigh a ton. This has caused problems but there are some ways to fix them. The problem is that the kids these days are learning our complete history.
Each time we would think about returning we would figure out another reason not to. We had become the courage we prayed for as children, the story we would tell our unborn baby’s, and the reason every thriving American cringes in the morning. We had learned to survive on our own, or at least we liked to believe we did. Our journey looking for ourselves, and finding a way to better survive, lasted close to 365 days. 365 days, of growing up that should have taken years.
In fact, looking back, it seems that throughout the course of American history, the nation’s perseverance would have been severely afflicted without the communal drive for survival amongst its citizens. Whether it’s a modern day single mother juggling two dead end jobs to support her children, or an African American man diligently listening to Martin Luther King Jr.’s I have a dream speech, decades ago, in attempt to better prepare himself against the struggle of oppression, citizens’ past and present have shown that the ability to know what is needed to make it through the day, coupled with the capability of accomplishing it –a technique otherwise known as survival – is an extremely important and formative part of the country. However, my mind quickly turned to the thought of other countries and their crisis and resulting capability to overcome. For example, in Germany, during World War 2, numerous Jewish families were forced to live hidden within secret attics/crawl spaces, often having to breath quietly, so as not to be discovered (and killed) by the Nazi soldiers viciously searching the perimeter below (Anne Frank). Happening currently in the Philippians, young girls are “turned out” (prostitution)
“My grandfather continued: `Yes my boy, forty years ago all this belonged to Masood – two thirds of it is now mine’ this was news to me for I had imagined that the land had belonged to my grandfather ever since God’s creation.” (125) The idea of lacking morals and empathy play a huge role in the blunt realization that something may not always be what it appeals to be. When the young narrator finds out that his grandfather isn’t the perfect man that he thought he was, and that he is truly just taking everything that Masood has left. It shows the narrator that in real life you need to make decisions and though it may not appeal to everyone you need to do what you believe is right. When they were harvesting
Something important to consider when looking at the theory of relativism is that it is just a theory. I personally believe it to be a good theory in general, but it should not be interpreted as a foundation for a belief structure. Nor should it be applied to every set of circumstances encountered throughout life. It is purely illogical to assume that one single theory will provide us with the proper guidance required to successfully negotiate every “right or wrong” decision. Relativism allows people to understand that individuals develop belief structures