What drives you to pursue your dreams, goals, and your future? Farah Ahmedi and her mother constantly went all around the place while trying to find ways to begin a better life in Pakistan. Annie Johnson went out of her way, made a plan, and got to work for her children, so they could begin a better life than how it began. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi did his absolute best to do what was best for the sake and survival of his family and his friends. Individuals are driven to undertake/pursue missions for family and friends, children, and to begin a better life. They want to carve their own path and not follow the path that others believe they’ll eventually end up on. Just as it states in the story, The Other Side of the Sky, it says, ”We sustained
Farah Ahmedi was a girl who was desperate to escape her war-torn country of Afghanistan by crossing the border into Pakistan. Annie Johnson was a fierce woman who wanted to support her family by starting an intricate business that cooks meals for factory workers. The next mission missionary was Theodore Boone who was a 13 year old boy who wanted to prevent a bypass from being built through homes and farms, but not until his friend's farm was in the danger zone. However, all three wanted to help, whether it was them self or others.
In both “The Scarlet Iblis” and “Under a War Torn Sky” death and determination play a large part in each story. For instance, so far in “Under a War Torn Sky” Henry’s plane had been shot down by the Nazi’s and numerous people have died. Henry’s dog also died and sad part about it is that Henry had to kill him dog self because his dog got ran over and he couldn’t bear to see him in pain. This story takes place during World War II, which effected numerous of people. Some events in the story have actually happened. Also, in “The Scarlet Ibis” Doodle died because of his big brother. Death in both stories are caused by another person or force. Both of these stories relate to determination also. In “Under a War Torn Sky” Henry was determined to save
There are many reasons why people take risks even though it is crazy and impossible. For example, in the memoir, “The Other Side of the Sky”, it shows that Farah Ahmedi is climbing a mountain with a prosthetic leg. In the fictional story, “Rikki-tikki-tavi”, in this story the mongoose, Rikki-tikki-tavi takes the risk of going into a snake 's burrow which has a high possibility that he will be killed. In the poem, “The Song of Wandering Aengus”, Aengus goes on a crazy mission that might take his whole life to accomplish which is to find the “glimmering girl” because he is in love with that girl. Aengus wanted to find the “glimmering girl” that he in love with, while Rikki-tikki-tavi and Farah Ahmedi wanted
In “Under A Painted Sky” Stacey Lee describes why the character needs to go to California for her Mom’s bracelet. The theme of “Under A Painted Sky” is the story of two girls who have to grow up early due to life’s circumstances as they try to survive a journey to follow two different dreams that were heading the same direction. it is about family, loyalty, friendship, survival, faith, and romance. Stacey Lee’s story “Under A Painted Sky” describes Sammy making friendships and surviving her journey to California. She faces many events in the story, for example meeting three people, Cay, Peety, West that helped her travel. In conclusion, Sammy faces many events in the story. In “Under A Painted Sky” the author explains friendship, family,
In An Uninterrupted View of the Sky by Melanie Crowder, Francisco is living a life of school and soccer and is planning to create a shop with his friend Reynaldo. Everything turns around when his father was falsely accused of making cocaine and is sent to prison with their mother leaving him and his little sister in the prison. Francisco had no choice, but to stay in the prison with his little sister to survive. In the prison, they are aware of being judged by their skin. Prejudice based on skin tone generates discrimination and racism.
Dreams lead to false hopes and are deceiving! That’s at least what some say. But throughout the dream unit we have seen and have read about achieving our dreams and not going the distance. It is worth it to dream because dreams give us hope and purpose, working hard at our dreams can have a great outcome, and Dreams can lead to more than we can imagine.
Do you want your child to have a higher risk of skin cancer or other terrible diseases? Do you want your child to never be able to play outside with all their friends? Nobody wants their child to have an unhealthy life or be sad because they have no friends to play with. Everyone wants to hope for their child to have a happy and healthy life. Humans not thinking about how the world’s climate change is dramatically changing does not make the climate not change. There are many scientist that have proven that climate change is happening and it has been happening for many, many years. Understanding what is happening
October Sky Essay Relationships are important in a teenagers life. Rather it’s with friends, family, or even strangers. Everyone around you can make a big difference to the way you look at yourself and where you end up in life. Relationships between teenagers and good or bad people can change their life forever. In the book October sky by Homer Hickam Jr, it shows that relationships can affect many things in a teenagers life.
Reaching the “Im”possible Do people take missions to help others? To get away from danger? Or, to endure in daring circumstances? Well, in that case these three characters, undertake their missions to do all three. According to the book, “The Other Side of the Sky,” by Farah Ahmedi, Farah Ahmedi had a mission to advance over the border of Pakistan.
The enlightening and inspirational true story of Homer Hickam in October Sky directed by Joe Johnston reminds us all to aim for our goals and never give up, even while battling difficulty. However, Homer was struggling for a great deal in his pursuit of rocketry, he was even struggling for his life. Born in a coal mining town, son of a foreman, Homer seemed destined to work the mine when he grew up. But in October Sky, Homer has to overcome what the mine represents: isolation and darkness.
Have you ever been persuaded to do something? That feeling you get that tells you to go out and do it, is called motivation. Motivation is very underrated for the fact of that people are motivated everyday by the choices they make in everyday life, big or small; Chris McCandless’s motivation happened to be a big one. Two years before Chris McCandless’s death, something within himself clicked, and he was ready to travel ‘into the wild’. There are many controversial thoughts of what was Chris’s “breaking point” on going out and accomplishing this task. My thoughts include that there was an external and an internal forces as well as family problems and emotional damage.
Did you know that some people’s favorite time is night? Most people who favorite time is night, they can get a lot done. My name is Catalina, I love the night. I can get a lot done at night. Also, I love looking at the sky, I have a hefty telescope that lets me look deep into the sky. When I look into the sky, I see a lot of elegant
Name :Abdelmunsef bader Teacher: shorn. Date: June 25, 2015 Assignment: Essay about the movie October sky. From the deep of earth to the moon in space What do you know about the space race? I would explain my answer according the movie October sky.
To have a goal enables a person to do his/her best in whatever they set out to accomplish. Achieving academic excellence in high school has given me a love of learning. This desire for more knowledge propels me towards a college education that will prepare me to do my best in my future. Having the perseverance to become healthier has inspired me to work toward being a dietician. I have chosen this career goal because an increasing number of people in our country are struggling with obesity. In addition to these goals of a higher education and a career path, I would like to be a mother and raise my own family. Family is very important to me because I believe that family has a major influence on one’s personality. Without the influence of my family, I would not be who I am today.
In a small part, every aspect of my life motivates me to strive for my dreams. My family; parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, nephews and nieces motivate me and push me harder to achieve my goals and aspirations. Me being the first in my family to graduate high school, and enter into college is a tremendous amount of pressure. I want to be able to prove to them that they can reach their dreams no matter how old or young, if they are determined. Mainly, I want to show them that everything is obtainable if you work for it. My boyfriend motivates me to be the best verision of myself that I can be, we both chose to go to SFA together, after I stated I wasn’t interested in going to college. He motivates me to be better, faster, stronger and more determined. He teaches me to set high goals and reach them. Lastly, my coworkers motivate me to continue to improve my already strong work ethic. As their manager, they depend on me to teach them how to succeed in our work environment. Having people look up to me motivates me to no end. I love to set examples and be a leader to show people anything is possible.