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The Narcotics Anonymous meeting which I attended was named 7 Days of NA which was located on 1212 North Wolfe Street at an organization called Dee’s Place. Just as the Alcoholic Anonymous meeting previously attended, the location appeared to be in a covert and quiet place to hold a support group. We entered through the rear entrance, which seemed to be staged that way to secure participants identity. As before at the last support group I attended, I searched around the room to see again, a 12 steps guide posted on the wall, a relatively thick NA ‘Basic Text’ textbook on the desk of the facilitator and this

During Christmastime, the family trades simple gifts to one another. Francie attends a Christmas event for the underprivileged children, where all the kids are too proud to accept any of the offers. When a small child wants to give away one of her dolls to whoever is named “Mary,” no one stirs. Francie, not wanting to let the gift to go to waste, lies about her name to bring the doll home. Although all of the other children keep their pride, she loses it, and feel embarrassed.

Her kindness changes the rattrap peddlers thoughts about the world being one big rat trap. I can relate to this because I am a very caring, compassionate person and can understand the struggle this poor man went though. He turned out to be a good man at heart and returned money he had stolen from the old retired ironworker. This reminds me of the saying “ You can never judge a book by it’s cover”. When the peddler knocked on the old man 's door dressed in rags with sunken cheek, he was surprised when he old man didn’t make a “sour” face, he was use to people treating him inhumanly. To his surprise the old man was kind to him and gave him food and tobacco but the peddler ended up stealing the old mans 30 kronos anyway. Most people would have just slammed the door in his face but this old man didn’t. This is part of the human condition, having compassion and helping those less fortunate than us. The peddler stealing is also part of the human condition because he chose to steal even though the old man showed him kindness.

Due to the lack of entertainment, Lizabeth and her friends have to resort to bothering Miss Lottie for fun, and they compel Lizabeth to ransack the marigolds Miss Lottie pours her love into. At first, she is hesitant to perform such an immature act, but her friends continue to taunt her, jeering, “You scared, Lizabeth?”(Collier 3). Their attitude influences her negatively;not only does it encourage behavior that is pointless and problematic, it also makes Lizabeth feel as if she is somehow less of a person if she does

When Mr. And Mrs. Panessa gave the idea to Mr. Schlegel about credit, they were trying to be kind to him since they knew he didn't have the money to pay back for it. " Willy looked like a dog that had just had a licking but Mr. Panessa, after clearing his throat, chirped up it didn't matter, he could pay the rest whenever he wanted. He explained that everything was run on credit, business and everything else , because after all what was credit but the fact that people were human beings, and if you were really a human being you gave credit to somebody else. " But even so, Mr. Schlegel began to abusing the idea of credit, and spent more than he could pay . He starts to avoid going anywhere near the store, since he couldn't pay back for the bill, and built up guilt while doing so. Soon later, Mr. Panessa begins to get sick, so Mrs. Panessa sent a mail to Mr. Schlegel asking for money. Mr. Schlegel got scared about the bill, and didn't help the . In the end, both side understood regretted the idea of kindness. Mr. Panessa dies, and with the loss of money, Mrs. Panessa was forced to live with her selfish daughters. Mr. Schlegel and his wife had to live with the regret of their debt and the death of Mr.

The Bronx Tale is a movie based in the 1960’s. There were a lot of differential discrepancies between races. In this period of time, it was taboo for a white Italian to have any kind of relationships with a person of color. One of the main characters named Calogero was surrounded by friends who discriminated against blacks. However, Calogero was raised in this kind of environment, he seem to be optimistic about black people.

Once inside the store, Sylvia can no longer ignore the blinding imparity between the rich and the poor. Her discovery of an overly priced toy clown prompts her to consider what could be bought for its price: "Thirty-five dollars could buy new bunk beds for Junior and Gretchen’s boy. Thirty-five dollars and the whole household could go visit Granddaddy Nelson in the country. Thirty-five dollars would pay for the rent and the piano bill too" (605). Sylvia is forced to finally address the socioeconomic inequality that works against her while simultaneously conferring certain luxuries on the rich: "Who are these people that spend that much for performing clowns and $1000 for toy sailboats? What kinda work they do and how they live and how come we ain’t in on it?" (605).

This unfortunate bear was forced to dance for the audience for one cruel man’s personal profit. It hadn’t been fed properly for days; Catherine could tell, for it was quite scrawny. Since it was not making enough money, the owner decided to feed it to a pack of angry dogs! Today, several would have attempted to stop this terrible event. But back then, this was very entertaining. No one was there to rescue the bear. Luckily, Catherine, not only had a passion for animals, but also had personal experience of how it felt to be in a situation in which you are being tossed around for profit, nothing in your control. She was willing to go beyond the limits to be the star of the day. As a result, she gave away Shaggy Beard’s silver to buy the bear and set it free! Now, Catherine was, against her dreams, betrothed to Shaggy Beard, a revolting suitor. She had made an enormous sacrifice for the bear. As you can see, Catherine definitely changed because she had courage and she noticed others were in the same desperate situation she was

While the Smolinsky family is not literally “hanging on Bessie’s neck for her wages”, this displays to the reader how desperation affected them. The metaphor acts as a bridge between the reader and the event, therefore allowing them to feel the same worry that Sara harbors through the shared experience of “hanging” without support. It is important for the audience to relate to the characters, yet this cannot happen if the author’s portrayal gives little humanity to their characters. Hence, when Yezierska writes that financial help according to Sara and her family is a “stab into our burning shame”, it shows that despite any prior notions of poverty being an “ornament”, they still have human wants and needs. Moreover, it shows that her characters are not emotionless apathetic beings that live only on their faith; they too endure deviations from what is expected of them. At any rate, repeated similes have an analogous consequence on the reader's thoughts. Multiple comparisons within a small section of text compound the anxiety, bombarding the same heavy emotions that Sara feels onto the reader in a way that they can sympathize with her, and in turn, Yezierska herself. Altogether, these literary moves go further than simply entertaining the audience, but informing them about what the world was truly

I was raised in a environment of Generations after Generations of parents grandparents and family members that had a disadvantage of attending College because lack of finical funds and knowledge of the importance of college. My fathers parents lived the American dream by coming to america from Mexico to have a surpassing life. By hard work and little education they became property owners and raised three kids. My mothers parents had children right out of high school and were considerd poor but with hard and dedication

For the first Christmas with their newly born, the Exeter spent the day at California Joyland in which Florence nagged half the time about the long queues, followed by Mr. Exeter grunts of annoyance to his wife. It wasn’t long before the couple realized it was pointless bringing

One task she would constantly do is she would clean her family's houses. Giovanna was caring and loving to everyone and soon became a midwife. Giovanna's brother, Lorenzo, went to America because he wanted to help his family financially but knew he couldn't help them in Italy so he decided to leave and send money to them from America. Then Nunzio soon decided that it was best for him and Giovanna to immigrate to America. Giovanna was very upset with this news because she was scared for him, she really wanted him to stay with her and for them to create a family. Once in New York, Nunzio sees all the beautiful buildings and only has one person he wished was there to see them with him; Giovanna. With the help from his brother-in-law, Nunzio finds work. Nunzio learned new skills and met many interesting people at work. Everything was going great for Nunzio in America until tragedy struck. While working at Brooklyn Union Gas Company, Nunzio knew there was a way in which the steel heave had to be lowered but his boss didn't listen to him. Once Nunzio went under the steel heave he knew that it

This real based true story film revives in our character some traits that we are sadly unable to explore with our current social environment. It is an environment where we lack honesty, braveness and decisiveness.

My body quivered in excitement as my friends and I inched towards the ticket kiosk. After what seemed like an eternity, we were next in line. All the lady in front of us had to do was pay for her ticket and then we get to buy our tickets. However, Roman, Joe and I watched wide-eyed as this lady pulled out a handful of pennies from her purse. After she placed fifty-six pennies with her eight dollar cash on the kiosk, the attendant double checked to make sure all fifty-six pennies were present. When the lady finally left, the three of us charged the kiosk and asked for three tickets. The attendant looked pitifully at us three, puppy-faced twelve years olds as he told us that we were two minutes after the ticket

Soon it would be six o’clock and that is when the city buses drop-off the individuals who finished work at five o’clock. I wanted to head out before the Center became even more crowded than before, Sarah wanted some fresh air so we ended up walking to the gas station on the corner of Sample and Main Street. When we got to the convenience store, Sarah committed what would be an informal social sanction in our society. Much to my dismay, she asked me, someone who was a total stranger to her six hours ago, if I would give her some money so she could buy a pack of cigarettes. Although I was a little surprised she had the guts to ask me, I did not hesitate to reach into my wallet and proceeded to hand her a Lincoln. Similar to a hungry vending machine, she snatched it, smiled from ear to ear, gave me a hug, and ran inside. To clarify, I did not see this as a bribe or a dash to maintain our friendship in case I had more questions during the composing of this essay, because I saw it more as a reciprocal exchange. Grateful for the hours she had spent on her day off of work entertaining me, I was more than willing to give her enough money for her to buy herself a pack of