Hollins University: Character Analysis

Until I came to Carolina I did not have a true understanding of diversity and how everyone has uniqueness that we embrace. Coming into a university with a variety of people, have learned many things that was not apparent to me while I

In the novel Sold by Patricia McCormick, Lakshmi is a 13 year old mountain girl who lives in Nepal. She has been sold to somebody as a prostitute for 10,000 rupees but she doesn't know that. The value of a human life is more than just a dollar amount.

I was pleased to have attended a lecture cosponsored by the Ethics Center, the Fresno State office of the president, the Fresno Bee and Valley PBS. The lecture began with Dr. Castro recognizing a few leaders on campus, including a past Fresno State president, Dr. John D. Welty and campus volunteer Mary Castro. Dr. Castro then mentioned a few things about Mr. Brooks stating that he is a columnist for the New York Times and an analyst for the PBS “News Hour” and NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Dr. Brooks also teaches at Yale University, one the finest university in the country. Dr. Castro continued by saying that he learned that Mr. Brooks office hours are from 9am to 1pm and how “cool” it sounded to him. I was surprised how many people attended the event. I was fortunate to find a seat. David Brooks mentioned how he has some remote roots in the Central Valley because his father grew in Chowchilla, CA but Mr. Brooks grew in New York.

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.

If had to choose a Character from the book Schooled By Gordon Korman to be my best friend it would have to Capricorn Anderson.I would pick Capricorn Anderson (known as Cap) because he is very nice and he is not like the usual boys at the school mean,jockey,and reckless.Capricorn is nice,friendly,and generous.Just like when Capricorn found a dead bird in his locker and in the middle of school he host a ceremony for the dead bird that some kids at his school put in his locker.Also Cap really loves his family and the foster home he had to go live in.Sophie is the daughter of the foster mom and her dad left her when she was a little girl.Every year she waits for him to show up at her door on her birthday.Well this year Cap was living there when

"...What impact did your father not being there have on your childhood?"(The "Other" Wes Moore -Part I: Fathers and Angels - pg. 4) This question is what connected me to the novel. The "author" Wes began the story of his and the "other " Wes's memories of their fathers. This explains how and why they grew up fatherless. Wes " the author" recalls only have two memories of his father one was when his father had a talk with him after he punched his sister Nikki and the other one was the day his father passed away. The "author" Wes father didn't choose to leave, unlike the "other Wes's father, which he never met until years later. I related to this chapter a lot, I too was raised by a single mother but my story is just a tad different. My family

The Laramie Project is a story that has a variety of characters with many differing viewpoints on a multitude of issues throughout the entire book. Issues such as the death penalty, LGBTQ rights, what type of a person Matthew Shepard was, and a massive amount of others are present throughout the entire book. The character Matthew Shepard, a gay, black student at the University of Wyoming was murdered by two white, heterosexual males, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. With the mass amount of characters within The Laramie Project, there were bound to be differing viewpoints on what type of person Matthew Shepard was. Some people thought he was a good kid and a martyr, dying at the hands of homophobic males within their town, some thought he didn't really matter just because he was gay, and murders happened all the time. A third view is that he deserved what he got.

Dr. Stephen L. Noble is a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy, a staff cardiothoracic surgeon at Naval Medical Center of Portsmouth (NMCP) in Portsmouth, VA and an adjunct instructor of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, MD. His clinical interests are broad, including minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery, health outcomes disparities, heart disease, cancer screening and prevention, and the integration of science and technology in medicine. As a rising leader in his field, he started the adult robotic thoracic surgery program at Naval Medical Center of Portsmouth and serves as the chairman of the Thoracic Tumor Board.

Legend is told from the perspective of two leading characters: Day, a renegade from the streets, and June, an elite student at Drake University and the Republic's shining prodigy. Day is a criminal on the run for stealing from the Republic and making the government look foolish. Day has to go steal plague medicine from the hospital for his family.

Coming from a diversity community and high school allowed me to have different view of points and be open about several topics such as immigration, low wages, and poverty for the worse. Being raised in a low income and diversity community and high school made me have the vision that where ever I go I would adjust to the environment and asotsphere which wasn’t the case when I decided to attend Johnson County Community College. My first semester of college was a but challenging because I was used to communicating with people that I was confortable with, and the group of people I normally interacted with throughout my entire life were Hispanic individuals. Coming to JCCC changed my whole perspective about how I have to adapt and get used to not

Service is a big part of my life, whether it is as little as holding the door for someone, to helping out with a big service project. It is a duty and gift that someone with the privilege like me has. There are two groups that I have been involved with in my senior year that I do a great deal of service, Youth Ministry at my church, and the Boy Scouts of America. In Youth Ministry we touch our community in a variety of ways, from gardening to getting parts of meals together to send to people that are in need of food, or we go visit the elderly and play board games, the list goes on. In Boy Scouts we have big service days run by people outside the troop or you have an eagle scout doing a whole project by themselves aided by the other scouts.

It's pretty odd, life that is, when reduced to its basic essence, everything on this planet seems quite odd. The fact that we are made from the insides of stars, and that we live our lives with almost no tangible point rattles the mind. We commit to being authentic to ourselves, but we are also in inauthentic because we fear freedom. In Leo Tolstoy's the death of Ivan Ilyich, and T. S Elliot's love song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the existential concepts of commitment, and authenticity are used to show that living the examined life. Living authentically to avoid living inauthentically, will bring alienation, but in the end, will lead to commitment.

Tome’s theme this year is, “Make Your Mark,”. This phrase means exactly what it states, to make a difference in a world. I know of two books from the It List that include characters that make a difference. These books are Left Out by Tim Green and The Scourge by Jennifer A. Nielsen.

Ferishta Rahimi Drew Castalia Writing102 25 July 2014 Conflict of Generation and Culture Theme: "Two Kinds" is a narrative between a Chinese mother and her daughter who are recent immigrants to America. The mother has great ambitions for her daughter and pushes her very hard to be a successful person. The author, Amy Tan, tackles the conflict between the mother-daughter relationship and the Chinese American cultural differences. Setting and Characters:

Jennifer always comes to work dressed according to UChealth’s standards. She is very respectful to all her cohorts, support staff and visitors. She always presents herself in a professional manner.