Mason: A Short Story

Through the years, many citizens have worked to maintain the museum. In 2012, the Drumright Historical Society began work to bring the story of The Negro American Series back to the public. At first, they began to share the story with their own city through museum exhibits, speeches to civic groups and their local newspaper. Next, they began to share with the State of Oklahoma through organizations such as the Oklahoma Cultural Heritage Trust, the Oklahoma Museum Association and the Oklahoma Historical

Would author Wes’s life turned to opposite direction, if he didn’t have strong social capital? Two years later, author Wes graduated from military school; he applied to Johns Hopkins University and eventually got an acceptance letter. Author Wes said, “his SAT scores were hundreds of points below the average for students entering Johns Hopkins, and despite him being a junior college graduate and an Army officer” (Moore160). Despite having a low score, because of social capital he earned admission to the university where he did his

In the book Wes (the author) gets ready to jump out of the plane; he contemplates his life and the person he longs to become and begins to consider all of the people who influenced his life, which helps him, realize that he wants to stay at Valley Forge to attend junior college, It shows how much he grew, by recognizing how much the people in his life have influenced him. Wes had the resources he needed to succeed because of his support system. His mother and grandparents put him through military school which he attended until he received his associate’s degree. Attending military school helped Wes make the connections he needed to get into a good college. Wes knew that he was going to go to college and he stuck to that plan and received a scholarship and completed his master’s degree at Oxford University.

Furthermore, he gave up in school/started getting bad grades until a certain teacher came into his life. This teacher is name Mr. MacFarland. Mr. MacFarland was a fun-loving/ jovial person who loved his job and loved helping students learn education. Before that, Mike started going to his classes his grades started to improve tremendously and they figured out that he was placed in the wrong track. Therefore, he was placed in the college prep courses but he started to struggle because he was not prepared. Mr. MacFarland really helped him because he was a well-respected teacher who was willing to help students who do not get as much attention as they should. This teacher helped Mike talk about his future and get him into college at Loyola

Skateboarding and Snowboarding are Mason’s two main hobbies, though he gets pretty mad when someone cuts him off. Mason claims that his best quality or trait is honesty, just like people say “ Honestly is the best policy”. Mason says if he had won One Million dollars from the lottery he would give it away due to not knowing what to do with it, which i find an extremely kind gesture and shows true care for others. Saving Private Ryan is Mason’s favorite movies, he says he likes it just due to the fact that it’s an awesome movie. Mason’s favorite band is Sublime, he said if he could go back in time he would go to the Early 90s to watch them perform. Mason claims that he is similar to the character Finn from the TV show Adventure Time because he is very random at times, also i believe he’s daring and adventurous like Finn as well. Getting his license and not being able to drive are the best and worst things about being a teen to Mason. He also has a fear of spiders due to the fact they’re extremely

When his college money was stolen, Weaver’s tenacious self was replaced with a discouraged man who worried about how he would provide for his mother. “There’s always next fall. I’m sure I could get them to hold it over for a year” “he said, but I could hear in his voice that even he didn’t believe it” (357). Weaver didn’t believe that he was going to College anymore, and he used to think he was going with no doubt. Hope is a strong leader of a person's life.

Kelsey’s recent ongoing stress is resignated around his academics and family priorities within the past two years. He was an Engineering major in one of the top schools in Wisconsin, he felt pressure to make his family happy and pursue his academic major. Before applying to the Mechanical Engineering program, Kelsey bit off more than he could chew. Seeking membership into a fraternity, visiting home every other weekend to assist his family financially and emotionally during his mother’s bankruptcy period, and taking a huge course load of 16 credits. As a result of his commitment and sacrifice, sadly his grades failed as a result. Within this year, Kelsey went from withholding a full ride (scholarships, grants, fellowships) and summer internship to losing everything including his studentship at Wisconsin. During this tough time in Kelsey’s life, I observed the frustration he endured during this strategic time. He found himself questioning his

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I agree with the author that the ranking of the school has become the most important thing for students to consider when applying for university. Since the students also believe it that way, colleges try to increase their ranking by using these students. The author says, “Colleges are increasingly deploying huge marketing machines that flood students’ mailboxes with glossy brochures whether or not those students are qualified.” To earn a higher ranking, the college must have a lower acceptance rate. Therefore, colleges are creating a false hope for families in order to receive more applications, so they can reject more and directly increase their acceptance rate. Other than that, the students also suffered a lot in order to get into the top college. Because of the low acceptance rate, the applicants need to be perfect in high school. They need to take almost exclusively AP and accelerated classes, participate in many clubs, serve the communities and sleep an average of four hours a night. This might affect the students’ mental physical health. For example, Kathleen developed extreme migraine, scoliosis, and ovarian cysts when she tried to get into the university she

One day in Red Bluff Julia was walking down the street and she saw that somebody was lying on the ground so she went to see who it was. The person who was lying on the ground was her best friend Baily. Julia saw that Baily had gangrene fingers and spots on her arms. Julia had wanted to save her good friend Baily so she went to find help she almost tripped on a dead cat in the middle of the road. She was able to find somebody, but by the time she got to her good friend Baily she was already gone from where she had left her she was gone. She had turned to face the person who was going to help her but she was gone.

“You’ll love it there,” my mother said, trying to convince me for the fifth time that I was destined for this school. “Did you know, that your little friend Cole’s brother goes to TVMSC? Cole might even be going”. This was just another way to convince me, even I was pretty certain Cole would not attend. Let’s just say my Cole was a person

Things that we take for granted are the things that Jacob struggles with the most. For example, when Jacob was little, it was extremely hard for him to be in a loud room and socialize with other kids. Now that he’s fifteen he’s able to play basketball in front of large crowds at the Special Olympics games. It may not sound like a lot, but it is a huge accomplishment for Jacob.

It was late one day in June, and the sky was as blue and clear as sparkling wine. I sat back in my hammock reading the book Unbroken enjoying myself, and my uncle came up and asked me if I wanted to play poker with him, 5$ buy in. I jumped at the idea finished my page and went inside the house. Poker is a pretty big thing in my family and I’ve grown up playing and my uncle was one of the best, so spending time with him playing poker is always one of my favorite things to do. We proceed to set up the table, “Texas Holdem“ he says, Jacks to open”. Nothing weird, so we get the game going and the pots getting pretty big when all of the sudden he drops his cards. I stare the cards dead in the eye and see that i'm going to surpass him! He looks

Overcoming Hardships The story "On Being 17, Bright, and Unable to Read" by David Raymond is about a boy who struggles with dyslexia. A different story "Zero" by Paul Logan is about a boy who drops out his first year of college. Although these stories are different they share similarities where Raymond and Logan both go through being bullied and having low self esteem. However they both overcome this hardship to find themselves in a better place with confidence and motivation.

Making the decision early on to go to college was not easy for Cole. She recalls in one visit to her guidance counselor that the counselor asked Cole why she was taking hard classes and before Cole had time to respond the counselor implied that Cole was taking the classes because that was where the boys were.