Hank William Jr. Case Study

The story of Maurice Haltiwanger stuck out to me because of the truth behind why he was in prison serving time for committing crimes that hypothetically he couldn’t help but to commit. Growing up, most kid’s role models are their parents or a close family member. Kids see what that person does and regardless of if that person is ‘good’ or ‘bad’, they want to be just like them. Maurice grew up around gang members and drug dealers, to him that seemed like a normal adult life. How was he supposed to know that what these people were

In all, Hank Williams Jr. has lived up to his expectations from his family. Despite the downsides he faces, he still continues to do what he does best. He is a very well known singer and an inspiration to

Lastly I feel like these are some of the reasons why Wes mother Joy was his biggest influence in his life. She was his hard rock. Joy was the one that no matter how hard it was financially she found a way to make sure her son was making the right choice in life and if he wasn't she was going to make him change even if he didn't like it. All of these things reflect back on to who he is today. How he acts towards people and

William B. Hartsfield will always be remembered as a man who strived for greatness and settled for nothing less. He wasn’t the type of person who came from a high classed family, but is actually a man of humble origins who became one of the greatest mayors of Atlanta (Williams 2002). William B. Hartsfield had the longest term of office when it came to being mayor of Atlanta and that is a great accomplishment in its own. Even though he reached these goals, he did not reach these statuses in a night or two, but it actually took many years of hard work and hardships that is very commendable. When one helps in the guidance of a whole city through difficult and problematic situations like depression and even a civil rights era, then they have the

In the beginning of “The Other Wes Moore”, I was introduced to two both of the Wes Moore’s. They both had similar upbringings. They were both raised in Baltimore, Maryland. They each lacked a father-figure in their life, so circumstances for their families were difficult in regards to finances. In the era that they grew in, there was a typical stereotype for a young, black male growing up with an absent father. However, both of the Wes’s found themselves in similar situations when drugs and violence came to hand. Yet, only one of the Wes’s were fortunate enough to escape the poor fate.

For a while, the national pastime, seen on television and from rump-punishing bleachers far from the bright lights of the major leagues, becomes a complex metaphor for all that Papa Chance and his sons hold sacred. Everett, the eldest, even goes so far as to mark the beginning of the turbulent 60's not with the Kennedy assassination or the arrival of the Beatles but with the day Roger Maris became "the assassin of a legend," hitting 61 home runs and breaking Babe

So during peterson's life growing up. Peterson had watched his older brother get killed by a drunk driver it was a traumatic moment in his life but he soon overcame this trama with hard work and adversity. Peterson family was very bad son 6 months after his brother died his father was arrested for money laundering in

In his childhood he faced many tragedies. At the age of 7 his brother was killed by a drunk driver. 6 years later his father was arrested for money laundering in connection with drug dealing. From that he took his anger out on the sports he played. He played basketball and ran track in high school, but was best at football. In his senior year he rushed for 2,960 yards and 32 touchdowns winning National Player of the Year from numerous organizations. After his senior year he committed to the

The story-telling effect allows for a fairly easy read that provides a great deal of information along the way. Tyson’s book in comparison to similar biographical works based in this time period was laid out particularly well which again allowed for an easy read. Similar to Dr. King’s autobiography, Tyson goes in depth in to the roots of Williams’ past deciphering his experiences and relating them to the final product. For example, detailing Williams’ life back to the ideologies of his grandparents, his childhood, experiences with racial injustice and his military career allowed for a deeper understanding of his transformation in to a militant black leader. Another effective tactic Tyson used to depict Williams’ life was to focus his relationships with several other prominent black leaders at the time.; Roy Wilkins, Dr. King, Thurgood Marshall etc. This allows the reader to find parallels and better understand the complexities of the black freedom struggle. Tyson highlights the incongruity in strategy and ideology in his detailing of these relationships yet maintains his central thesis that in the end they were all fighting for the same thing.

The documentary, “Unforgivable Blackness” directed by Ken Burns casts light on the extraordinary life story of legendary boxer Jack Johnson. The documentary is about the barriers Jack Johnson had to overcome to satisfy his hunger for becoming the best and living “The American Dream.” Johnson had humble beginnings in Galveston, Texas and it was in those beginnings that glimpses of his bright future were slowly but surely beginning to show. Through out his life, he showed independence, relentlessness, ability to improvise, call attention to himself and get around rules meaning to tie him down. Jack Johnson was a self made man who had the drive to go forward and achieve what he wanted to achieve

John Dowdy had a large congressional district, which stretched from south of Dallas all of the way to the north of Houston. It consisted of 12 counties making up about 11,000 square miles and consisted of most of rural east Texas. To put the size of this district in perspective, this district itself is larger than the nine smallest states. Large as it may have been, it was not very densely populated with only 23 people per square mile for a total of about 250,000 people which is on average nationally a low population for a congressional district. 30% of the people in the district were African-American, which was a national high for congressional districts. Despite this, some elections had an outcome of a 100% democratic win with no republican

Raymond Carver was born in 1938 and had an unstable childhood which led to his unstable adulthood. He followed his father to different cities looking for work, and the two of them worked together in a sawmill in Chester, California. Raymond’s parents were not positive role models in his childhood. In Carol Sklenicka’s Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life, Carver mentioned an occasion when his mother hit his father “between the eyes with a colander and knocked him out” in his essay “My Father’s Life,” (Sklenicka). Frequent events similar to this resulted in Carver never having the ability to experience what a family should look like, leading to Raymond himself acting in a similar way. William A. Rothenberg and Andrea M. Hussong of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laurie Chassin of Arizona State University found “moderate levels of family conflict are perceived by adolescents at age 10, with moderate linear decreases in family conflict over time. Adolescents in families where a parent had a substance use diagnosis reported higher levels of conflict than their peers at age 10, and this difference remained stable over time” (Rothenberg et al.). Since Raymond was still young during these events, he grew up surrounded by these conflicts resulting in a normalization of them. Not long after starting this job he

This is unfair, because accident can happen at any moment and anywhere, Domenick DeDomenico was doing his labor duty. Even though, he got a warning of getting fired in January 17, 2014. This could be reported to the National Labor Relation in order to claim that he was in coma for 10 days and he used to work 13 hours a day, when it supposed to be 8 hours a Labor Day. As the Commonwealth vs. Hunt case Jeremiah Horne didn’t want to pursue the union rules and he had been fined many times and won the case based on criminal conspiracy theory. Therefore, this is happening to UPS after firing 250 employees for a 90 minute strike in protest of Domenick

Not only has the media created celebrity heroes they have made then seem untouchable. For example, Ray Lewis superstar linebacker of the champion ship team Baltimore Ravens. Lewis portrayed as a staunch, Christian, and an example for other to follow. This stands in contrast to the same person who was charged with homicide in 2000 after a club brawl in Atlanta left two men dead (Bisciotti,S 2013). The charges against Lewis were ultimately reduces as part of a plea deal. Families of the victims received over one million dollars in compensation from Lewis. Lewis has been a role model since this incident. It goes to prove that although everyone can change their lives, the label of hero, is too readily dished out to athletes and sports figures.

1. From William Styron’s story and the New York Times article by Benedict Carey, therapy -- specifically psychotherapy -- is most effective to patients who are suffering with depression. For Styron, therapy saved his intoxicated suicidal life as he attended sessions (Art therapy) at the hospital; talking to professionals about his past and suicidal actions made him become himself again.