Nikki Araguz is a trans woman who fully transitioned and began a stealth life before she met Thomas Araguz. Thomas’ family argues that the couple wed without him knowing about her transition, though Nikki says that is absolutely false and she has been honest with him about her past all along. Thomas, a firefighter, died July 4th on the job. His family has taken Nikki to court, arguing that she is not legally entitled to his estate because their marriage was homosexual and thus illegal. Reading the full story on the case above was nothing short of troublesome and unsettling.…
TED KELK, AN HONORABLE AND INSIGHTFUL MAN Ted Kelk (b.1927 d.1991) was a strong, passionate and articulate gay man, doggedly directing public attention to the terrible injustice the laws of Queensland imposed on gays, determined thereby to achieve law reform, and as a man of courage, determination and vision, he indeed became the catalyst for gay law reform in Queensland; Queensland born, and brought up on the family farm near Nambour, Ted entered teachers’ training college at only 16, then taught at Dajarra, a little country school near Cloncurry. A brilliant scholar, fluent in six languages with a smattering of several others, his love of travel and appreciation of other cultures definitely contributed to his linguistic proficiency.…
I think that hard working is a characteristic of Chris Gardener because after everything he went through with his wife leaving for New York and him not being able to pay his rent and having to take care, feed and give Christopher shelter he had to keep going he had to make sure he got to places on time pick up Christopher and bring him to the homeless shelter by 5:00. Another Characteristic of Chris Gardner is persistent, because no matter how many bad things came along and try to bring him down like the IRS taking out $600 from his account for not paying taxes he kept on going and finding ways to get money he never let anything bring him down he had to keep going because he had to stay strong for Christopher he couldnt tell Christopher that he was not doing good he couldnt tell him that they were broke and would have to be sleeping on subways and bathroomsa lot more.…
Compare and Contrast Argument Essay Adam sheppard and Christopher McCandless are two men who set out in a journey tho for different purposes, both journeys had a meaning to them. Adam shepard's journey is to disprove the point that the American dream is dead by literally starting at the bottom from living in a homeless shelter to getting a stable job a place to live and have some money saved up. On the other hand Christopher McCandless was on a journey to find happiness for himself and help the people that he meet along the way pursue their dreams and achieve their own happiness. While Sheppard's journey was used to prove a point about the american dream, McCandless journey served a greater purpose or left a greater impact because he was…
Have you ever had a “conference” with your family? Sitting in the kitchen or living room and talk about important things in a family. The article I read for this assignment, “CONFAB” by Ian Frazier, talks about having a conversation about something important with children. At first, he begins his article dealing with having conversations with kids. He mentions that making time to have conversations with kids is important.…
Bud's best buddy. Like the gunfighters of the 1800's, Jerry Clark is traveling west. Like the knights of old, Jerry Clark is going to slay an iron Dragon!!! The imagination of a six-year-old can be very vivid. Fantasy is not a luxury Jerry "bugs" Clark can afford.…
Alex Purcell, an undeclared freshman at The University of Texas at Arlington establishes an emotional connection by showing how she overcame her own struggles with an oppressive mother. UTA students can look at this article,and be relieved that their not alone. It is common for parents especially at this stage, to be afraid for their children. However, there are limits, and it is easy to cross them. By publishing this article on The Shorthorn, she is raising awareness of this issue many deal with during this transition.…
Christa Bailey is one cut away from making the Olympic softball team when threats from an obsessed fan jeopardize her dream and her safety. Forced to put her life on hold until the risk is eliminated, she reluctantly turns to ERT officer Rayne Hutchinson for help, praying the police catch her stalker before she is cut from the team or does something stupid… like fall in love with her unattainable protector. But Christa’s stalker is something far more sinister than either of them could have imagined. With her life at stake, can Rayne keep Christa safe from this patient…
The quote ”A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on the myths of a struggling commonality”express the fact that a nation is built on the coming together of common citizens as well as establishing a feeling of struggling. This feeling creates an environment where our society feels it must work hard to keep the nation together. Andrew O’Hagen has taken the reality of different nations in our world and has put them into one sentence. Andrew O'Hagen's view is one of that may be controversial due to the fact that it completely embraces the ideological factor of nationalism where a nation is defined under specific rules and not defined by the diversity of the citizens. A nation under his perspective may be considered more of an ethnic nation which is a nation where there is one common culture, race and religion compared to a civic nation where there a combination of cultures, races and religions.…
Reading a standard American history textbook from cover to cover, one would likely not run across many references to the natural world. Occasionally the author mentions the influence of mineral discoveries, or devastating natural disasters such as earthquakes and dust storms, but never how the environment molded the societies that developed within it. Ted Steinberg’s Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History is a noticeable departure from this methodology. His ambitious goal is simple, “to change the way you think about American history.” (Steinberg, ix)…
“A newspaper is the lowest thing there is” is a notable quote from former mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley, and an interesting one considering Chicago’s most famous journalist immortalized him in his unofficial biography of Daley entitled “Boss”. Mike Royko, the author of the book, tells the story of Richard J. Daley and his life at the top of Chicago’s political throne as its mayor. Part biography, part history textbook, part critique all play into the writing of this book. And the end result? The inner workings of Richard J. Daley and his Democratic political machine of Chicago are one of the most fascinating and shocking phenomenons in American political history.…
Bunny Colvin is an officer who takes his job of making Baltimore safer seriously. Unlike Rawls, he does not care about just getting through a case to get the stats for completing it. Colvin wants to take the necessary steps to improve the city. He even devises his own system to help reduce the drug related issues the police must deal with by simply making certain areas of the streets where drugs can be sold without police intervention. Colvin respects the idea of a safer city and a more efficient police force as can be seen when he describes how Dozerman was shot for something that was not worth his time.…
In the excerpt from Don’t Believe Everything You Think, Thomas Kida discusses the human belief system and the factors that influence them the most. He exemplifies how our beliefs may correlate to us making poor decisions when it comes to spending money and falling for quackery. Laslty, Kida highlights some major aspects of memory that many are unaware of- the fact that our recollection of past events are not always as accurate as we may believe, and that they are capable of fluctuating based on our feelings, mood, or environment. One of the points Thomas Kida made in this excerpt is the obvious yet so often overlooked fact that we are greatly influenced by the people we surround ourselves with and those we love.…
The Goal The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox was an interesting read. The novel introduced many concepts that can be used to create success at work, home, in school and in life. In life we set goals and have expectations that we desire to seek and achieve, this should be done with the idea that we have to consistently and constantly make improvements. These improvements will help us achieve our goals. This novel is about a plant manager by the name of Alex Rogo who manages a plant for a company called Unico that is ultimately failing.…
Chris McCandless died alone in the Alaskan wild while living completely off of the land. “Some readers admired the boy immensely for his courage and noble ideals:” while “: others fulminated that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity-and was undeserving of the considerable media attention he received” (Krakauer xi). These quotes represent the feelings of many who read Into The Wild, but most people ignore the important aspects of Chris McCandless’ personality and his self imposed purpose. McCandless was a kind, intelligent and free-spirited young man who may not have been completely prepared for his journey, he was able to accept death in the end, knowing that he lived a life that too…