I hear laughter and yelling in the hallway, and then I hear a loud noise (loud as someone has been dropped to the ground) I also feel a sense of vibration from the ground, I turn around and find my best friend, Saad, on the floor, I see him get up and not bother to beat up the bullies, instead he continues to class. Saad is a 13 year old who attends my school, PS/MS 194, he can go through many things as well as do many things, all of the things he does can save someone from hurting themselves, Saad’s qualities can also help you not get a detention/get suspended. While many people admire the rich or famous, I admire Saad Shah because his qualities of perseverance, tolerance, and respect has taught me how to be a better student and community member. …show more content…
For one thing, Saad can manage to get through a math problem he can struggle on. For example, while Saad is working on how a bottom of a 3D shape will look like after being cut in a specific way, he can get confused on this type of question, but the great mind he is, he looked at his notes and eventually solved the problem. Another thing that is quite evident of what Saad could do is avoid the influence of fighting or using profanity. I admire all of these skills a lot because from being a kid who would never look back at his notes led me to get bad grades, as to now, when I look at my notes my grades are outrageous compared to when I never checked my notes. Also, growing up in the Bronx, our community wasn’t and still isn’t so bright, seeing Saad play soccer and ditch the influence of fighting and using profanity has helped me develop a passion for soccer now, and I now share the word so other people don’t become a statistic towards this
Farah Ahmedi wanted a life free of war. Aengus was desperate to find his true love and Walt Masters was motivated to save a man's claim. Whether if it was one's determination to find love or determination to save one from danger, Farah, Aengus, and Walt all worked hard to succeed at their own goals.
“I wanted to be successful. I definitely didn't want to be poor.” Said Andrew Cherng, this quote clearly represents how people in Annawadi thinks by surviving and searching opportunities to get out of the slum area and live a better life or a better future for them and their family. As I see in slums such as Annawadi I saw many opportunity for them to succeed such as Abdul family was doing pretty okay as a trash recycler until the family was accused in killing Fatima in the fire. As I believed there are many ways of getting out of poverty, but for me the one of the best way of getting out of poverty such as in Annawadi is through corruption.
Maybe, but it also wouldn't be wrong for Aeson to answer to such a question with "mind your own business".
The author also tries to add the sense of hopelessness when Dr.Sasaki, the only uninjured doctor began to rush to help the injured. “Dr. Sasaki worked without method,taking those who were nearest him first and he noticed that the corridor seemed to be getting more and more crowded...he decided that all he could hope to do was to stop people from bleeding to death” (Hersey 25). Under the circumstances, Dr.Sasaki begins to realize that there were not enough doctors and nurses because they too were affected by the noiseless flash. He realizes only the people who were injured not as severely can be saved while the seriously injured were left to die. This makes the readers want to feel sympathy towards the Hiroshima citizens.
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.
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.
A not-so-average girl of Mason County, Jourdan Scott is surely a character. Her interests are broadened beyond many horizons. Jourdan is not a girl that could really be put into a specific category. By category, I mean a popular, mental classification most tend to place others in based on their interests and social groups. This eighteen year old ranges all the way from the gamers to the rednecks, from the introverts to the extroverts, and from the good girls to the rebels. Her way of life differs from most, which is what makes her out to be such a unique individual.
Throughout The Once and Future King, the author, T.H. White writes of might leaders, who control their subjects through tyranny. The examples given by Merlyn, to Wart, the future King of England, show him exactly how not to rule the country. Three scenes out of this story come to mind when thinking of this theme. The scene in which Wart is under control of Mammy Ant, the scene where Mr. Pike is under control of the moat, finally the scene in which Wart is shown that leading through just and equality leads to a perfect society. Although some may disagree, the lessons young King Arthur is taught do not ultimately lead him to believe that governing by force is desirable.
The dynamic change that the narrator experiences at the end of the short story is that he becomes more sympathetic. He starts to see that sometimes you have to take a stand for what you believe in. He did not want to be apart of what had just happened at the store with the girls. From the way other customers were judging them by the way they were dressed. Along with how the store manager embarrassed them with their inappropriate appearance. In my opinion he would not have had such a dynamic change in the story if the store manager would have addressed this in a different manner. The manager could have approached the three girls individuality in a private setting instead of getting into an altercation in front of all the customers in the store. The way of knowing he was making a dynamic change in the story is when he quit. He learned that it was time to make a stand in his life for what he did not feel was right. He has witnessed first hand how hard life is going to be. In a short time he saw how
One of the protagonists and main characters in the story Hamadi, by Naomi Shihab Nye, is a girl named Susan. She is a 14-year-old freshman in high school, who lives in U.S, Texas. She is reaching the point in her life where she starts to question her surroundings and the world, which leads her to an interest in a family friend, Saleh Hamadi, who’s an old-fashioned man and very wise. She is a complex character in this story because she has many different relatable traits, has many thoughts and relationships in the story and changes throughout the story.
Interviewer: Good evening, and welcome to 60 minutes. Can you imagine the terror of fleeing the only country you knew, just to go home? Tonight we talk to Rashida, an Afghan girl who's faced starvation, language barriers, and even pirates, to return to a home that she didn't even know. Welcome, Rashida.
Sixteen year-old Adam Daley, son of a pilot and police officer, was helping his best friend Todd with his assignments at school when all computers and electronics suddenly turned off and stopped working. The students are dismissed from school because not even the lights will turn on, and people find out that anything relying on computers, such as automobiles and planes, will not work. Fortunately for Adam, his vehicle is a 1981 Omega, which is able to function because it is not controlled by a computer. Using his car, Adam drives Todd and Lori Peterson, a girl that Adam has a crush on, back to each of their homes.
Will-power and determination plays a major role when it comes to people accomplishing goals and performing the tasks they are given. When a person possesses these two qualities they are motivated, focused, will not give up easily, determined along with many other things. The word determination is defined as, “the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose.” Will-power is, “the strength or will to carry out one’s decisions, wishes, or plans.” In the short story A Worn Path by Eudora Welty, the main character Phoenix carried out the meaning of these two words throughout the whole story. She had experienced many road blocks during her journey, but she did not let them stop her from reaching
This made her more persistent, and a feeling that her Grandfather was with her at all
Have you been ever asked the question if you were stranded on a island what or who would you bring? What did you say? I have been asked the question, and I would bring Les Stroud from the show survivorman with me. There are many reasons he would be a amazing person to be stranded with. These include that he's a survival expert, knows first aid, and he would be able to keep me company. Les is someone that would actually know how to survive unlike me. He is someone who knows what needs to be done when trying to survive.