I nominate Dr. Nick Lynchard because he’s a very influential teacher and cares deeply about his students. When I tool Psy 101 with Dr. Lynchard he spoke about more than just his subject matter and focused on teaching us things about academia that nobody else does at this level. I’ve never been concerned about how my outward appearance or the way I carried myself would matter in meeting people or getting accepted into better colleges. He taught me about how to get in to graduate school and the politics behind that and what I could expect. He put great stress on the factors of cinching down and doing well in classes that I had little or no interest in and to fully submerge myself in the life on the fields I am interested well before I’m actually
Just imagine if you lost someone who was extremely immediate or someone you barely even knew. Afterall, they’re two completely different situations, but both Wes’s encountered one or the other. Many children experience this complication and don’t always turn out to be at their highest quality. Moreover, leaving them with a boundless affect, having they just lost someone remarkable to them. Although this may be true, could it affect them if they weren’t there at all.
Darrell Mercer is a small kid from Philadelphia who is moving to California and meets a bully named Troy Hobbs. Darrell is getting bullied a lot and gets tired of it. He also asks a girl to the dance named amber Lynn. And he also joins the wrestling team to get stronger and to get more confident.
Where we’re from, who we know, and how our mental makeup is, is very important in our lives. It can be the deciding factor between life in prison and a life dedicated to giving back to others. In The Other Wes Moore, The lives of two young men are examined through three distinct lenses, how the role our environment, social capital (How we get ahead by helping each other) and how our mindset can dictate who we become later on in life. Both of these young men grew up in roughly the same environment, the ghettos of Baltimore, Maryland and the Bronx, New York, respectively.
Mistakes are inevitable, but the lessons that can be learned from them are far more outstanding than anything else. As the Roman poet Horace once said, “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”, in which he implies that even the worst hardships faced in life can lead to growth in an individual. Ann Patchett heavily emphasises this idea in her novel, State Of Wonder, as the main character Marina Singh retreats and avoids her adversity until she is thrown into an opposite, unfamiliar environment that exposes and forces her to face high-stress situations and potential failure in return for mental growth. Marina wasn’t always the black and white, restricted character she depicts herself to be in the beginning of the book-she was actually a very passionate student that aspired for success. As a student under Dr
In life, there are many possible roads that a person can take. Some may be smooth and lined with gold bricks and success, and some may be bumpy and paved with dirt and frustration. The things that a person does in their lifetime that leads to the end of the road comes along with many accomplishments and even more failure along the way. There are some things that can prevent these defeating things from happening such as a good supportive family and having role models in life. As exemplified by the memoir The Other Wes Moore, the author suggests that regardless of environment, lives can end up entirely divergent due to family support, choices and consequences.
Jeremy Fink has a big fear of change. This shows that he doesn’t really like to try new things and he is not really a risk taker. Jeremy, a 12 year old, has been living without his father for five years now and that has been tough on him. That is one of the reasons he doesn’t like change, because the biggest change he can remember is living without his father. Another example is Jeremy’s food choice.
The upbringing of a child contains many factors, many of which correlate to where a child grows up. The people, culture, and experiences of someone’s childhood are the greatest determining factor for what kind of person they will become. So how does the nature and nurture of one’s upbringing impact the decisions that they make, and their life in general? Author Wes Moore explores this question in his memoir, The Other Wes Moore, as it relates to two lives in particular. Moore main purpose in this book is to explore the overarching impact that a collection of expectations and decisions, not always one’s own, can have on someone’s life.
My character is Sherman Butler. He believes that the government should be very strong and play a huge role in the people's lives, only if they can protect his state's interests. He has chosen that he wants a strong government for various reasons. One reason is that, he has over 80 slaves working for him. If the people cannot have a say against slavery, the government won't do anything differently about the situation and Sherman can keep his slaves.
People choose to be good because it is in their nature to be that way, as seen in “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” through the character of Mr. Utterson. He displays that not everyone is evil and does not want to do any harm to anyone, unlike his friend Jekyll, he decides to do monstrous things and thinks it is fine to get away with it, with no consequences. In “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” Jekyll says “But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the safety was complete. Think of it-I did not even exist! Let me but escape into my laboratory door, give me but a second or two to mix and swallow the draught that I had always standing ready; and whatever he had done, Edward Hyde would pass away like the stain of breath upon a mirror;
When thinking about all of the qualities that help build a strong friendship, always lending a hand will make you stay friends even longer. Being a helpful friend can always make you more of a leader. In both Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco and Fox by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks, the central characters, Mr. Falker and Tricia, and Dog and Magpie develop a strong friendship from Mr. Falker helping Tricia and Dog and Magpie helping each other. The road to building this relationship has a lot of similarities and differences between the two texts. In both texts, Mr. Falker always helps Tricia, and Dog always helps Magpie.
Making bad decisions and mistakes are a part of life, whether you fix those mistakes you made or let those mistakes or bad choses ruin your life. In the book Dear Martin By Nic Stone, Justyce has made bad choices but he chooses to fix all the mistakes he made in the past. The character of Justyce experiences growth throughout the novel, as he begin to conflict and develop into a content person.
In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Utterson is a man that is full of surprises. Stevenson introduces Utterson as a, “scanty, lean, long, and dreary man with a ‘rugged countenance’ (1). By this description,one can assume that Mr. Utterson is a grumpy man without much emotion, old with age, and incapable of socializing with people with much respect. With a dark and dreary appearance, Mr Utterson closely resembles Mr. Scrooge from Charles Dickens' novel, A Christmas Carol.
In my opinion, the theme in Wonder is that beauty is more than what is on the surface. It's more about what's on the inside and how a person acts more than how a person looks. In the book Wonder, a boy named August Pullman is born with mandibulofacial dysostosis. This disease, of course, leaves him growing up with not a normal life. He learns to fight through it though and acquires many friends during his school year.
8 Billy Eichner In American Horror Story: Cult? Yip, you read that right – Billy Eichner in American Horror Story. It’s hard to believe I know, it doesn’t seem like the type of show you’d expect to see him in but it’s been confirmed that funnyman Billy will play a character named Harrison Wilton in AHS: Cult and it’s rumoured that this character will be close to Sarah Paulson’s character although we still don’t know how they will be connected.
