Henry Lawson Journal Analysis

Stanley B. Norvell begins his piece with directing it towards Mr. Lawson, who is an editor of the Chicago Daily News. With sincere endearment Norvell’s utilizes the race riots in 1919 to fuel his letter. Norvell begins with a clear depiction of the jobs African Americans have in Chicago. Evidently, a greater portion of blacks in Chicago have “menial and servile occupations”, meanwhile only “ten per cent are business and professional men”. Norvell reasons that the issue in African Americans’ potential is due to the fact that whites are not comprehending that a “brain is not peculiar to any race or nationality but is merely a matter of development”, rather whites believe a black person is nothing more than “just a ‘nigger’”. Furthermore, with

life and work. I could not say “no” to others and had to do what I was expected to. But at

my life forever. It has made me contemplate the basic facets of my life. Never did I think I would

today. My path forward started off very rocky. It took a life-changing turn after entering

When talking about where I’m from it is hard to say exactly where or what as I am an Army brat, meaning I have moved to and lived in many places. I was born in Alabama and spent the longest time In Kennesaw where I live now but up until I moved to Kennesaw I didn’t stay anywhere for too long. For the most part, I welcomed the moving from place to place. I saw each move as an opportunity to see a new place and meet new people. Not everywhere I went was the best, but I always looked forward to every move.

West Virginia is an amazing place, aside from the weather. In fact, I think John Denver did an amazing job describing the state in his song, “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” West Virginia is also filled with amazing people with incredible lives and stories. What I found most astonishing was that this is the only place where I have truly experienced people being a man for others. We were welcomed by complete strangers into their homes, they shared their food, and even bought us ice cream. This is something that I never experienced back home and I was shocked when I first saw this. I have been taught about being a man for others, and I never really understood it. At home, we are forced to do it because we have a service requirement, but out in

Finally something made things begin to turn around. I made my first friend! I got my first job! Not only that but I got my first car! My mom allowed me to drive to Rio Vista to visit the friends I had to leave. I was pretty much free to roam as long as I went to school, work, and came home by curfew. I was the happiest I had been since I moved to Sacramento, and I had someone near by the could enjoy the happiness with

Everything in my life seemed to have returned to a healthy course as there was balance. For the first time in life there was stability, family, friends and most importantly, my fiancé, but times like these are the most opportune moments for reality to creep up on you, when you’re in an absolute state of bliss. Nothing good ever lasts forever. There’s no such thing as paradise on earth just short lived projections of it that give the false illusion of security.

When I first decided to continue my education, I needed more than a normal academic training. I was looking for something with a more meaningful reason to existence, a higher purpose, and to fulfill the prodding determination to finish what I have started years past. A huge part of it may also be the unimaginable maturity level I had reached which withholds the unforgettable lessons learned, especially the losses of love ones.

own happiness in the old days. I am lonely, my father was gone and my children are not

My life has been challenging yet rewarding all at the same time. I have been blessed with

relatives and my Canada. Everything felt like it was being taken away from me, I felt alone! I

It is still a mind blowing story that could never happened to me before. I would never get to this point if it wasn’t for God and what he has done in my life, even who he uses to grow me and make me who I am and be confident about it. Even situations I’m facing not from other people, but just to myself. Whether it’s disorganization, not good communication skills, or not being the person that everybody else sees me to be. He sees me through all of that and just keep blessing me every day.

Martha Stewart once said, “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” What I wanted for myself was to accomplish a great task that no one in my family has done, but I had never analyzed my options. My journey had started senior year of high school, with a full mentality of being able to go above and beyond. My thoughts were so secure and my life had seemed planned out, until the rationality of my near future really hit. Although I had been successfully admitted into two private universities, I found that I had another alternative to further my education in a way that

began missing the friends that I lost all due to circumstance. As I stood there