You just aren’t prepared for it when the rug gets pulled from beneath your feet. I had a very good relationship with my son’s father. Except for the fact that my son’s father always wanted to roam the streets, get into trouble and do bad things. I knew there would be a day where that all came to an end and he would have to pay for all the wrongs that he has done. The sad part is he left me with a 1 year old toddler and that’s all that I had left when he got placed in prison.
Tom made a good choice when Mayella was trying to trap by backing away and trying not to harm her. When Atticus announces the news of Tom’s death, he says he got killed because he was trying to escape prison. “I told him what I thought, but I couldn’t in truth say that we had more than a good chance. I guess Tom was tired of white men’s chances and preferred to take his own. Ready, Cal?” (Lee 238).
There are some good points and also has bad points in the two stories. In “Gregory”, the soldiers gave Gregory two chances to escape because they are justice but he didn’t. And in “Just-”.The barber wanted to kill Captain Torres to save more people. But at last he didn’t because he still want to live in the world peaceful. However, justice is still the most part in both stories.
They only see their immediate need for protection, becoming a part of a family or money and they fail to see that being in a gang will ruin their lives and dreams while stealing their future. The very entity that they believe is saving them and their future is actually killing them and stealing their lives. The crossfire of gang violence destroys the lives of everyone it touches, especially the ones who are initiated into these gangs. They are lost and confused young people who do not see a better future than the crime that surrounds them. Many of their futures do not contain a career and family, instead their future consists of incarceration or death.
The story was impacted in such a huge way because if Dantes had never looked for vengeance when he escaped from prison he could of just got out and lived a normal life without him having to waste more of his time having to hunt down all those people that hurt him. All he could of done when he got out of prison was to have forgotten about the past to start a new life. “I regret having helped you clarify your past and having told you what I did. Why? Because I've instilled in your heart a feeling that wasn't there before:vengeance.” (Dumas 58) The theme of also impacted Dantes a lot ,because he had already wasted fourteen years of his life because of what his enemies did to him , and now he was going to waste many more years on them trying to set his plan of vengeance in action.
When he came out of prison he had doubts about his innocence in the matter and was convinced that he was indeed a convict. “Under the whip, under the chain, in the cell...he recognized that he was not an innocent man, unjustly punished” (Hugo 23). Later in his life Jean Val Jean does overcome this and turns out to be a huge benefactor for his community, giving to the poor and providing many jobs. This however is done only with great resistance from society, as they do not accept convicts as normal people. Jean Val Jean had to conceal his identity in order to help people.
Towards the end of the chapter he provides strategies and exercises that we can practice and use in order to change our Perfectionism ways. The Pursuit of Perfect by Tal Ben-Shahar Are you constantly trying to keep up with your busy and sometimes stressful life while at the same time striving for happiness? We all want a perfect life but in reality and as most of us know, there is no such thing. We work so hard on something and we sometimes get let down and we often feel like a failure. In the Pursuit of Perfect by Tal Ben-Shahar, he sheds some light into the possibility of obtaining a happy life even with the struggles and challenges that may come our way.
Wars have been waged, people have died, and relationships have been destroyed all in the name of freedom from persecution. Even after grotesque amounts of destruction and blood shed just to live a normal life, groups all around the world are still persecuted for their differences by those in society who are ignorant enough to believe that their way of living must be the only correct way to live. Through broadening our mindsets and being open to the possibilities of various styles of proper living, the world’s population can become more unified. Prejudice and racism are a significant part of society, but they can go away in the future through stripping power and meaning from the derogatory words that plague our world and from our parents being more accepting, they can teach us their accepting ways, and through passing acceptance down to future generations, it can be amplified. Prejudice is incurred by the hate we feel towards people whose customs and behaviour differ from our own; the fear of the unknown is the basis of all prejudice.
When it comes to low self-esteem if you are being encouraged by a group of people or individuals on a daily basis then you will to start to believe in yourself as well. The whole changing process must start with you as a person first, which means no one can change without believing in him/herself first. Once you believe in yourself you will begin to accept new challenges in life, love yourself, all while taking pride in things you do and become better socially. When you have high self-esteem you become very confident and positive towards yourself and everything you do. When it comes to this change it will be most beneficial to the individual with the low self-esteem.
He wanted to pay the cost of giving up his culture in order for him to feel a sense of belonging. Sunil got bullied at school everyday because he was a ‘darkie’. He wished ‘he was somewhere else, wish he were someone else.’ He thought that if he wasn’t black, people would like him and stop picking on him al the time. “Naturally growing up, I didn’t want to be a nigger… I just wanted to fit in.” there was one time when sunil tried to wash off his black skin when he got told it could be possible. When Sunil started to