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In John Updike’s short story “A & P”, a dynamic and round character expresses his subjective attitude towards his views, a plot twist causes him to realize his future. Sammy an opinionated cashier at A & P grocery store does not agree with his Lengel, his manager after he reprimands a particular group of customers at the store. Sammy’s further actions cause him to face the true reality of his future.

I was pleased to have attended a lecture cosponsored by the Ethics Center, the Fresno State office of the president, the Fresno Bee and Valley PBS. The lecture began with Dr. Castro recognizing a few leaders on campus, including a past Fresno State president, Dr. John D. Welty and campus volunteer Mary Castro. Dr. Castro then mentioned a few things about Mr. Brooks stating that he is a columnist for the New York Times and an analyst for the PBS “News Hour” and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Dr. Brooks also teaches at Yale University, one the finest university in the country. Dr. Castro continued by saying that he learned that Mr. Brooks office hours are from 9am to 1pm and how “cool” it sounded to him. I was surprised how many people attended the event. I was fortunate to find a seat. David Brooks mentioned how he has some remote roots in the Central Valley because his father grew in Chowchilla, CA but Mr. Brooks grew in New York.

The 1998 movie, Bulworth, dives into the realm of the scandalous American political system. From income inequality, to corporate greed, Bulworth manages to put a comedic twist on a very serious set of topics that politicians and the American public face daily. The main character, Jay Billington Bulworth is a liberal democratic Senator from California who is running for reelection (Bulworth: 1998). He has recently accepted millions of dollars in financial campaign donations from large corporations in order to combat his younger, populist opponent. At the beginning of the movie, Bulworth is sitting in his office, re-watching an old commercial from a prior election campaign. He hasn't slept or eaten for days and is considering ending his life.

Jimmy knows too well the agonies of abandonment. First, when his mother, Cecilia, ran away with Richard to pursue a better lifestyle. Then, due to his father’s, Damacio Baca, alcoholisms and violent behavior; he also had to leave Jimmy behind. In spite of the drawbacks from abandonment to being a maximum security prisoner in Arizona State Prison, Jimmy preserver’s the darkness of prison by overcoming his illiteracy. However Cecilia and Damacio is not as fortunate as their child; Cecilia is shot by Richard after confronting him for a divorce and Damacio chokes to death after he is released from the detox center(Baca 263). Therefore the most significant event in this section of the memoir, A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca is the death of Jimmy’s parents.

In the San Fernando Valley during the summer of 1962, Scotty Smalls is the new boy in the neighborhood seeking desperately to fit in. He would be welcomed on the local sandlot baseball team that practices every day which only has eight players. Smalls however can't play baseball on his first visit to the sandlot he finds himself in the outfield with a fly ball descending toward him which bounces off his glove causing the other boys except “Benny the jet” Rodriguez the team's leader to burst out laughing Smalls is humiliated and leaves. Smalls asks his Step-Father to teach him how to play, and while his Step- Father agrees Smalls cannot catch or throw the ball. Benny soon teaches him what he needs to know, and with Benny's support he gets a place on the team. Meanwhile behind the wall

Grace has been told for more than half her life that she was crazy. Her mother’s death that she witnesses was an accident, there was no scarred man, and there was nothing she could do to change what had happened. But Grace knew they were wrong. With the help of her friends Noah, Megan and Rosie, she managed to discover that the scarred man was Dominic, the first love of her mother, who was there to kill her mother, but chose instead to stage her death. Grace came down just as Dominic was taking the picture, and picked up the gun that was lying on the floor. Firing blinding, she missed Dominic and shot her mother instead. The traumatic moment of shooting her mother was blocked from Grace’s mind as it was unable to handle what she did. Her family tries to protect her from this, saying it was an accident, trying to get Grace to stop pushing. When pushing too hard, Grace discovers the truth of what happened that night, and what she did, and with the

The book “Ugly” by Robert Hoge it is a inspiring, true story about, Robert, a boy who grew up in Brisbane, Australia, with a tumor the size of a tennis ball on his face and two deformed legs. Robert had four other brothers and sisters, who were all older. The story is the journey of Robert Hoge and his life with artificial legs and deformed face, and all the challenges he faced along the way.

All refugees, the circumstances notwithstanding, face immense hardship throughout their lives. In time, these hardships give way to new opportunities, dreams, and perspectives, as even in the face of suffering, one always retains their intrinsic self. Kim Ha, the protagonist in Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again, experienced this through her family’s daring escape from war-torn South Vietnam. Consequently, Inside Out and Back Again serves as a fitting title for her story.

Chief Bromden, the son of a Native American beget and a pale parent, center of the attention by refer the real and imaginary humiliations he suffers at the manpower of the African-American fermary assistants. While their usage of him is allow, spite the fact that he is physically much larger than they are, Chief testify a better dread of Big Nurse, Nurse Ratched. The Nurse is recognized as a woman of immense divinity and direct, who is sharp for uncompassionate, shape-alike efficiency is oblique by her spontaneously endowed big and manipulative heart. Despite her government, the paranoiac-schizophrenic Chief think her to be in benefit of the ward, a large mechanized table that bum behind the rampart and possession of the hospitable, controlling

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Players must remember that the best victory was not over the opponent but over oneself.” In Bleachers, Reverend Collis Suggs plays a minor role by not appearing in the novel until the last few pages while presenting his eulogy. In this eulogy, Collis Suggs offers many situations that help him find victory in himself. He shows how he personally overcame segregation from his youth along with how Rake helps him to become a better person and how he helps others resolve their problems.

"We get pulled out of our comfort zone to help shed our lukewarm nature, eventually trusting God in all of our circumstances"~Taryn Barnes

In the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, we are introduced to the Bundren family. This isn’t the typical family you usually read about and they are far from the normal day to day families you encounter in real life. In the novel we see a very strange and distinct relationship between the members of the family. The most interesting character of the Bundren family is Darl. Darl is the closest thing to a narrator in the story. Due to the fact that Darl is nothing like the rest of his family his relationships with his family seem to be very negative, all the relationships he has except one. The one relationship that really stands out in the story is the one between Darl and Cash. The reason that this relationship stands out is because

Frank is denied originally going to his first opportunity with a client and is shoed away until he finds the case of the vegetative girl.

Chief Bromden, known as Chief Broom, is a long-term patient that serves in the psychiatric ward due to his schizophrenic condition. Because of his condition, he creates many hallucinations. For example, he believes that he can hear mechanical operations behind the walls of the psychiatric ward. In discussion of Chief Bromden, one controversial issue has been whether or not he is a heroic figure. Others contend how Chief Bromden is a hero utilizes his surroundings and observations to overcome his psychosis.

Hi Anthony it's nice to meet you. I am hoping the same as you to be able to earn a high passing grade. I am also hoping to improve my writing skills as well. I can agree with you on being able to talk about almost any topic for a long period of time, but writing it out can be hard. I hope you have a great quarter and you earn the A that you are working