Free Bird Campaign

First, Angela Johnson’s book “Bird” is like a poem that flows together, but sometimes confusing. The author words her book very well, she uses different events in the story to describe different themes. Bird, thirteen year old, is the main character in the book. Bird is very young but she takes on many difficult task on her own, but after she makes friends everything is easier for her.

Freedom for the bird is the equivalent of the love and approval that Claudia, Pecola and Freida all long for throughout The Bluest Eye. By lashing out in their different ways, the three girls and the bird all place themselves further away from the freedom and love they are seeking to gain through their individual efforts. By denying the girls adequate love and acceptance and the bird the ability to fly, they are all denied a piece of their own humanity and the ability to live a normal life.

The main focus of this article is Richard Nares, a grieving father, who has become a hero in the eyes of many children fighting cancer. Nares has had a huge impact on two-year-old Sisi Johnson who has neuroblastoma. Sisi’s mother does not have a car and struggles to transport her daughter to and from chemotherapy as much as six times a week. Nares, who lost his son, Emilio, to cancer in 2000, has started a program called “Ride With Emilio”. This program provides transportation for low-income families with children battling cancer. The program has hundreds of patients who receive free rides to and from their cancer treatments. Nares met

I was asked to setup a Bird Sweep at T-Pit before relocation of reclamation stockpiles. Stockpiles need to be moved further north to access the sand underneath.

With the aim to raise awareness, support and push a movement and belief that one day pediatric cancer patients can be cured, Penn State students will gather for this cause. These students will not let cancer win, which is why they are not going to rest.

While working at Tufts Medical Center this past week, I had the opportunity to help the oncology clinic with a donation and was introduced to Tony Stoddard. Tony Stoddard is the father of a 5-year-old boy, who passed away almost 4 years ago from neuroblastoma. Since his son passed away, he has been working to promote awareness of Childhood Cancer in hopes there will be more research and better funding for childhood cancer in the future. Stoddard brought boxes filled with toys, band aids, and other distraction tools to Tufts Floating Hospital. We helped by transporting the boxes from the parking garage to the oncology clinic. As we helped, he was able to tell me his story and his goals for the future. Back in 2013, he contacted various officials

I caught up with an old classmate in highschool, he had always been pretty chill in school change had seeked his life, and now he attends the bathrooms of a famous company selling toys for children all over the world, Toys R’ Us. He sanitizes the toilets and unclogs when needed, he offers a cheap variety of soaps and thin cotton towels. It may seem working at Toys R’ Us doesn’t offer much money within his pay rate, but Morgan lives in a large Mansion just on the south coast of Colorado. Morgan takes care of his grandmother, due to her having an amputation earlier this year. She carried the 4 birds with her, and now he calls them his family. A little strange, right? As

As mentioned earlier, the bird sings because it wants to ask for help to be free. Furthermore, the bird sings as a prayer to be sent to heaven, thinking that maybe, someone might hear its plea. One may think that the author is making an effort here for the readers to recognize that this is how people with no freedom cope for the sufferings they are going through, just like the bird does when it is inside the cage. For instance, when a person is in so much pain, may it be physically or emotionally, they tend to cope with it by praying deeply and asking sincerely for miracle that hopefully, the sufferings end soon. Moreover, this is might be the only way for the person to find peace in his or her heart regardless of how much pain he or she is suffering from. Additionally, this might also be the way in order to gain strength to keep fighting for the freedom that a person has been dreaming to

Initially, Kids Acting Against Cancer was a small rag tag collection of children performing shows in the basements of their homes. The first production was the musical, “Annie”, which raised $200 that was immediately donated to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The organization stuck with the musical model for until 2012. In just three years, their showings of Annie and other fundraising efforts raised $85,000. As a non-profit,

Mabel explains how a little boy had to attend a public hanging, but bought a goldfinch bird for himself to take his mind off of the violence. He grew a trust and befriended the bird, telling it "his small griefs and joys. " She shows,"When the boy grew

Mrs. Keel has been married to Cecil Keel, Senior for 46 years. They have two sons, two daughters-in-law and five grand children. Ms. Keel is a member of West Broward Church and she is a tireless volunteer for her church, Seagull School, First Steps to Excellence Child Development Center in Ft. Lauderdale and the community. The list describing what Mrs. Keel does not do is much shorter than the list of what she does. Her volunteer work includes teaching, organizing, chaperoning, leading, encouraging, and supervising. She does these things and more while smiling for countless activities and groups. Mrs. Keel is the kind of person who continues to do such things without recognition. Thus, this is a fabulous opportunity to honor a humble volunteer of Seagull. She truly deserves this public recognition of Outstanding Senior Volunteer of the Year.

I want to be a free bird who doesn’t have to be confined to the 100 bars of this invisible cage I’m living in, where probably each bar represents a type of struggle I go through everyday. I want to be a free bird who can choose or rather make her own path without unnecessary inputs from the “alpha male” of the flock. I want nothing more than a world where my decisions are respected, not questioned.

Freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants. “The Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou and “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar are both poems about freedom. The authors use figurative language to acknowledge the meaningful theme of freedom. Different points are mentioned in each poem, but relate in some way. Adding on, Paul Laurence Dunbar used poetry to show negativity through the poem, “Sympathy.”

A little over a year ago my boyfriend and I learned the terrifying news that his grandfather, Pepa, had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Pepa, a good friend to me, had been suffering for months with extremely painful symptoms that severely decreased his quality of life. Finally, after months of ineffective doctors visits, the cause of the pain was uncovered. The normally vibrant and entertaining character was facing a life changing plight. Being the profound, locally acclaimed musician and song writer that he is, regret of this devastating diagnosis echoed throughout the community and beyond. Although his body was aching and his spirit put to the test, Pepa continued to write emotionally-charged music that continued to please the crowd. Weaving a poetic web of hundreds of pages of bluegrass and folk songs and drawings, Pepa commemorates the natural charm of his home state of Kentucky, paints colorful anecdotes of friends and acquaintances and recounts historical tales of wit, gallantry and often comedy. My fears of his artistry

Blackbird is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney recorded in 1968. McCartney wrote this song about the civil rights struggle for blacks after reading about race riots in the USA. He penned it in his kitchen in Scotland not long after an incident in Little Rock, when the federal courts forced the racial desegregation of the Arkansas capital 's school system. McCartney told Mojo magazine, October 2008: "We were totally immersed in the whole saga which was unfolding. So I got the idea of using a blackbird as a symbol for a black person. It wasn 't necessarily a black 'bird ', but it works that way, as much as then you called girls 'birds '; the Everlys had had 'Bird Dog, ' so the word 'bird ' was around. 'Take these broken wings ' was very much in my mind, but it wasn 't exactly an ornithological ditty; it was purposely symbolic."(Principia, 2015) During the 1960’s black people were having very hard time with discrimination. This song is so deep and at the same time, so metaphoric that it can be used as a song of freedom in any circumstances. The song says that even if you are not free, if you live in darkness, if your wings are broken and your eyes sunken, you should always try to rise, fly and follow the light that shines even in the darkest night. Blackbird is song rich in figurative language that reminds African Americans to not give up, to keep trying even if they think there is no hope. McCartney writes about freedom