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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.

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

My essay will be on how one character is dynamic throughout Okay For Now. Gary D. Schmidt is the author of Okay For Now. He tells a thrilling story about a young boy whose life changes very fast and it affects all of his family. The character analysis is on Doug Swieteck. This essay will be showing how Doug hates his life at first ,but then changes his mind throughout the book.

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines takes place in 1940’s, a time period of segregation. This was a time when blacks were often at fault for a crime they did not commit, such as what transpired in this book. A man named Jefferson was convicted of a crime he did not commit and was insulted during court. Now his family, friends, and even Jefferson himself were trying to prove the white community wrong about their beliefs that a black man is unequal and lacks dignity against Jefferson and the black community. Not only is Jefferson going through a period of suffering on death row, but others, like Grant Wiggins and Miss Emma, are also facing their struggles and they will try to prove others wrong and redeem themselves through knowledge,

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.

In the beginning, I felt Anderson’s heart when he wrote, “there is no replacement for a deep and abiding experiential relationship with God when it comes to authentic spirituality” (pg. 51). God is always available at the surface level, but it is down deep into the soil of one’s heart where the authentic growth and development will blossom. One must invite and permit God to come in and began that relationship that cultivates authentic encounters that transforms life from dark to light.

In the book Okay For Now, one of the main characters, Doug shows a lot of traits including being nice,proud and even sometime being mean. The book is written by Gary D. Schmidt. Doug is around 13 years old. He lives in a town called Marysville in New York. He faces many problems during this book and he has to find a way to get through them. He uses art to get his difficulties out of the way.

In a season rich with new experiences, it is an interesting time to assess my spiritual growth. This has been an unsettling time of redefining and restructuring my life and a season of isolation from the ways of ministry that bring me joy. Letting go of all expectation, labels, definitions and outcomes has not come easily for me. However, pealing it all off has been very freeing and revealing.

Culture has been shaped throughout history in various positive and negative ways. Gather at the Table explores the many ways that the past has shaped the culture of two people who come from very different places. The independent stories of Tom, who is a descendent of slave owners, and Sharon, a descendent of slaves, illustrates how much history affects the world view and everyday life of the two friends. The high contrast cultures of Tom and Sharon create cultural conflicts that are a result of their unique histories. Even though a lot of conflict is brought up between the histories of Tom and Sharon, similarities are also revealed throughout the duration of the book. The cultural differences and similarities are brought up through the people that Tom and Sharon meet along the way, through the experiences that the two explore together, and simply the prior knowledge of each others cultural backgrounds.

In the novel Catch Me If You Can by Frank William Abagnale, Frank is a well defined static character. Even though he faces different challenges throughout the novel, he remains the same a the end of the story as he was in the beginning. Being said this, he still continued to run away from his problems and did cons. He is a confident individual who ran away from home at a young age to find a life for himself. Frank is a smart, young and charismatic boy. During his early teen years, his parents started to go through a divorce, which left him torn between whom to choose to stay with. After learning about the divorce that was about to take place, Frank decides to runaway. Frank states, “One June morning of 1964, I woke up and knew it was time to go.

To be detached from the hustle and noise of our lives, yet find peace within ourselves while we inhabit this world. Perhaps the most surprising yet fulfilling spiritual discipline I have learnt this year, whilst partaking in this course is that of finding the time to sit silently of all distractions in solitude and focus only on God.

Christians are all prescribed the same things in our spiritual lives to get closer to God, which consists of quiet time and going to church. But, what if that is not working for you in your spiritual journey? In this book Sacred Pathways, it addresses different ways we can rekindle our relationship with God through the nine spiritual temperaments.

“Which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.” 2 Timothy 2:12 (ESV). The one thing about Paul never did was to flounder about, he knew God would guard the soul. Floundering means; to struggle or stagger helplessly or clumsily in water or mud. So when one flounders it takes a lot of work and it can deplete your energy as you are surrounded by the unknown. Ever been there? In times of uncertainty, one must precisely keep their eyes on Christ no matter what happens. It’s here that taking every thought captive and making it obedient to Christ moves our “religious studies” into our reality. Like Paul, we

The earth, as it stands, has become a whirlpool of things, notions, and ideal which are not of God. It is very simple to be caught in an ambush of the exotic as well as mundane. Many Christians have lost focus on God, the Bible, or their role as a follower of Christ. Pointing out the “patterns of the world,” what it truly means to renew one’s mind, along with ways to renew the mind become paramount to a Christian lifestyle.

You have no doubts about what you came here to do; you may have recently quit your job or even moved to a new city in order to facilitate your newfound calling. The old paradigm doesn’t resonate with you anymore, and you have released these outdated thoughts to accommodate your soul’s desires.