I wouldn't have thought that the late night visits Matt and Willis were having would have kept me so drawn to the story like it did. I found these visits to be the rising action of the story. It had me hooked. I wasn't ever sure what Matt was going to do about the certain conflict he was faced with.…
However, as great as that scene was there was a low point in the play for me. Robbies (Ashley Wilkerson), crying, sadly wasn’t all that believable when she tried to execute the emotion of a 16 year old girl who just broke down. I feel as if she overplayed the part of trying to sell her pain to the audience. It really didn't take anything from the play, but that moment was the lowest point as I felt out of touch with her character at that moment. Overall, everyone performed to near perfect standards really selling the emotion of black Jackson, Mississippi citizens enduring…
It was Thanksgiving morning and heading to downtown Detroit. It wasn’t my typical Thursday morning with the sun glaring through the glass beating down on my face. I was with my best friend, Josh, and his family. I remember his mom saying “Helping those less fortunate is more rewarding than you think guys.” Didn’t think feeding homeless a Thanksgiving dinner was fun, I was ignorant tot the idea of it, but I didn’t know going to help less fortunate would open up a perspective on life I did not know about.…
To begin, in my community I have come to respect those who help others in food pantries and in special needs schools through personal experience. One day my mom and I took a new route to my grandparents house and we came across the RCS Food Pantry. The next day we pulled up and talked to this sweet lady and she said that we could help package food for the homeless, so every Monday we would go and help out, it was a touching experience to see the look the homeless gave us when we gave them the food. One man I talked to was in the military and wasn't able to get a job because of his PTSD, it was sad the way he ended up but I vowed to help in the ways I knew how.…
Being a member of the Appalachia Volunteers of Boston College has been one of my most defining experiences in the past 2 and a half years. The Appalachia Volunteers Program is a yearlong program than includes weekly Sunday night meetings based on the program’s mission “to love, learn, and serve” and culminates in a weeklong service trips to the Appalachian region and beyond. Through both the meetings and my experiences on these service trips I have gained new perspectives and learned more about myself than I had ever thought possible and I will be forever grateful for that. Love is all around. The Appalachia Volunteers Program introduced me to the concept of agape, and showed me this unconditional, selfless love first hand.…
In my opinion, it is an inspiring and heartening film. The effort John has paid during the recovery treatment has set a good example to the audience. Although John has gone through the relapse, he still didn’t…
The chapter was not as accusatory as the past chapters which helped to create a more open subject that the reader could follow and relate to. The absence of anti-white accusations made me as the reader feel less defensive…
Our morning at feed my starving children was pretty overwhelming at first. There was a large group of volunteers. I have volunteered at feed my starving children several times, but this was the largest group I have ever been in. At the beginning of the session they explain the packing process and the different types of meals that they send. We had the unique opportunity to pack the Potato-W which is made for…
In the 2016 presidential election, I heard each candidate talk about a broad range of topics, ranging from abortion to foreign hot spots. Is those topics important? Yes, but what about the problems that the working class face on a daily bases. Due to the fact that in our society today most of the job opportunities are temporary, it doesn’t guarantee long-term financial security. When someone from the working class lose their job it can then lead to them being homeless and not able to provide food for their family.…
When Byron and Kenny went in to the hot dog shop, woman at the counter was so mad, turning her head red as an apple. Another is some real videos of the dark-skinned people’s meeting in church. I think that this was effective; it made us to think about the reaction of Kenny. He was so shocked that down in Alabama, it was so different with Michigan, in terms of segregation. Next, the chapter of welfare and the frozen people were deleted.…
As I was watching it, it evoked a lot of unpleasant emotional feeling such as sadness, anger, sympathy, pain, and powerlessness. My eyes were full of tears throughout the documentary as Susan describing how Alan was living his life and how it influences her and her family. Watching the documentary evoked those feeling because a lot could have been done to improve Alan’s conditions, but because of the lack of knowledge great deal of wrong were done that could have been prevented. The guilt that Mitzi (the mother) carried her whole life that she was responsible for her son condition, and Alan condition would have been so much improved if he would have got better care and one-on-one attention from the beginning. Watching the film, I also felt extremely powerless as today we understand the problem and know how to address it, for the most part, but in some places of the world there are still people who are experiencing the same situation as Mitzi, Bill, and Susan.…
Professor Janine Ledoux, my instructor for a class on Health and Nutrition, invited me to join her in serving food at the Blessing Center - a non-profit charitable aid organization located in Redlands, CA. My experience at the Blessing Center, serving food to the homeless members of my community introduced me to a world I was naively unaware of and shed light on the positive difference compassionate people can make. My time at the Blessing Center allowed me to delve deeper into how issues such as homelessness, joblessness, and hunger affected my community. One man was particularly eager to share with me how his family has struggled with homelessness and hunger ever since he was laid off from his construction job during the 2008 recession.…
Volunteering at the homeless shelter is one of my favorite things to do. A few weeks ago, on a serene Saturday morning, my family and I volunteered at Loaves and Fishes. It was special to see just the sheer amount of people who had come out to volunteer on that Saturday. If you think about, they could’ve been doing anything on that Saturday morning. Yet, they decided to help give back to their community.…
I also didn’t like how Jack didn’t appreciate what his mother is doing for him. Being different is a good thing because you won’t have to be the same as others. The theme is to never take good things in life for granted because you’ll never know when those things will be…
It showed me that no matter who we are, rich or poor, we all want the same outcome in life, to be happy and make the most out of it. Most importantly it taught me that everyone lives differently. My dad struggled everyday of his life but that did not make me think any less of him then my parents who gave me everything I wanted. My family showed me one thing that no amount of money will ever be able to buy, love and compassion, which is within each and everyone of us; we are all the…