Extrinsic Factors Of Success In The Other Wes Lee

The purpose of The Other Wes Moore is to give readers a look on how one can be successful in a world full of failure and bad people without getting involved and jeopardizing their future. In this book by Wes Moore he gives the reader background knowledge of both Wes Moore’s childhood, which caused them to be the person they are today. The environment you grow up in, expectations held by adults in your childhood and the amount of education you receive can justify one future when they grow up. Throughout the Other Wes’s life he lived in gang afflicted and urban neighborhoods.

As children, we grow up believing that the limitations of our dreams are beyond our own knowledge. Without the restriction of our own obstacles, the possibilities are endless. The perspectives we possess as we are younger are completely distinct from the persona we have become, as we gain knowledge of ourselves . As we grow older, the aspect of reality creates barriers within our own goals. From aspiring to become the richest entrepreneur to becoming a successful physician, the doubt and the reality of the world control our willingness to succeed in our own desires.

Sociological imagination played a part in this story because the author Wes Moore made connections on how personal experiences relates to public issues. He grew up in poverty and maintained ambition to receive proper education. Thus this tells readers not to let where you came from or your downfalls hinder you from being successful. The Author Wes Moore displayed that education was the key to all future success. He also showed that there should always be a backup plan in case the funding runs out. In the book it wasn’t luck that determined the fates in

Success is measured differently by every person and each and every culture. The journey to success in most cultures, however, is generally idealized in the same way: one person working harder than everyone else to achieve his or her goal with their own merits as their only advantage. In Outliers: The Story of Success, the author, Malcolm Gladwell, argues about how wrong that ideology is and the truth behind successful people. Throughout his guide, Gladwell employs the help of many argumentative techniques to convince the reader of his message.

According to Marian Erickson, “Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.” Real people’s lives depend on this quote everyday, which leads to the outcome of each problem individuals face. In the passages, characterization of the main personas helps one understand the theme. Conflict and symbolism also help lead to the overall idea that life is not always guaranteed to be full of success. The book The Other Wes Moore, the poem “If,” and the informational text “The Art of Resilience” all share a common theme of how choices and luck contribute to the success of life.

Arslan Khan Professor Gurnee English 096-Section 16562 23 September 2015 Essay 2 Rough Draft The same name but two completely different lives: this is the idea that revolves around the book The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore. The audience reads the book from the perspective of the author Wes Moore, where he tells about his life and all the struggles he faced during his childhood. The author Wes Moore goes on to tell the audience about key events in his life and it’s up to the readers to see how those events affected the author’s resiliency.

Comparing my life to the two Wes Moores, I realized that my life was privileged compared to theirs. “The Other Wes Moore” is a book depicting the lives of two men with the same name but having completely different lives, one with a fortunate ending but the other with a tragic one. This book helps show how your decisions can affect your destiny and helps influence your choices in what you make of your life.

Many people have made it to fame and success and many have tried but failed. Look at the athletes, some make it to the pros but most do not. Those that do make it have skill, those that do not make it also have extraordinary skills. So the question that stands is what possibly can affect the out come of success or failure? This same question is evident in "THe Other Wes Moore." The author Wes Moore finds success and goes on to live a great life. While the author Wes Moore finds success the other Wes Moore finds himself in a sticky situation that holds him fast like a spider web to a fly. Both Wes's were given similar opportunities and support to succeed and live a great life. In the end it all came down to who took the opportunities and who

Today, thousands of kids grow up with hardships, but have potential to be successful. One example of this is in The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. The book is a memoir that tells stories about Jeanette and her family. For the most part Jeannette’s child hood was filled with hardships, but did this make her as successful as she is today? Jeannette Walls is successful because of her hardships she experienced as a child, which shaped her into who she is today.

In the story “The Other Wes Moore” Wes found himself in many bad situations.His mother was not the ideal role model for a young teenage boy.She did many things that made impressions on the way her child turned out, such as partying and having illegal drugs inside of the home.Overall, Wes is the only person who is responsible for his actions and the consequences that come with them.

The novel Outliers, aims to investigate the very thing we want for our family, our students, and ourselves. For most of our lives we have believed that with hard work, anyone can achieve success. That had to be the reason that poor immigrants like Andrew Carnegie and college dropouts like Bill Gates achieved unimaginable wealth. Most of us were taught that working harder than anyone else would lead to ultimate success.

One of the great things about the “The other Wes Moore” is the simple retelling of two completely different lives. It is interesting how Moore does not advise but rather hopes that each person will develop their own idea and construct about what the moral of the story may be. And furthermore about how it applies to an individual’s life.

Outliers, written by Malcolm Gladwell, is about how a person becomes successful and analyzes the factors that cause the success. According to the author, success is the combination of talent, deliberate practice, family environment, opportunity, and practical intelligence. These factors are complementary and influence each other. However, among the many factors of success, the only thing that can be controlled is the deliberate practice. Therefore, in my view, success is due more to deliberate practice.

Success in our careers, in our investments, and in our life decisions, both major and minor—is as much the result of random factors as the result of skill, preparedness, and hard work.

According to Tracy (2012), your character; one of ambition and drive to excel, pushes you on an onward path towards success because the more an individual desires to exceed, he will put into play the actions that will guarantee that level of success.