The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore is about two kids who grew up with the same name- Wes Moore. The author of this book was one of the two kids and he explains both his childhood and the other Wes Moores childhood. Both of these kids had similar child life experiences. They both grew up fatherless and had many of the same setbacks in life. Some of these setbacks may be with drugs, violence, and poverty. However, one Wes Moore ended up going to a military school and turning his life around while the other Wes Moore ended up in prison for the rest of his life. This book explains both of the Moores experiences and why each of them ended up where they are at now. A risk is an elevated possibility of an undesirable outcome, which have risk factors.
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Some of these resilience factors may be individual skills, warm relationships with family and friends, education, wealth, educated parents, after school programs, good teachers, and positive family and school relationships. One risk factor that the other Wes Moore had was growing up in an environment with violence. However, a resilience factor that the other Wes Moore had was an older brother, Tony, who tried to look after Wes. In Chapter two of the book, the other Wes got in a fight with a boy named woody and ended up being arrested for pulling out a knife. However, the other Wes was able to call Tony and be picked up from jail. One resilience factor that the author Wes Moore had was the character Joy sending him and his siblings to private school to obtain a higher education. However, a risk factor that came with this was being made fun of by going to a rich school and being made fun of at that school for being too poor. This made his behavior and grades …show more content…
People deal and cope with experiences differently. People also have some opportunities that other people may not have. This book has made me really think about all of my life experiences and how I personally coped with these different experiences. Every person is unique and someone may completely take the same experience into a different direction. For example a person who might have not had great fatherly influence in their life may turn around and decide to never be like their father and be the best father that they could ever be someday. However, another person may take not have a good fatherly figure in their life and apply it to their parenting skills someday in not the best way. I enjoyed this assignment and enjoyed reading the book The Other Wes Moore. The book was an easy, fun read that easily opened up my mind to the way I view life experiences and people.References Wes Moore, (2010). The Other Wes Moore. New York City, New York Spiegal Grau, an imprint of The Ransom House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New
Some of these resilience factors may be individual skills, warm relationships with family and friends, education, wealth, educated parents, after school programs, good teachers, and positive family and school relationships. One risk factor that the other Wes Moore had was growing up in an environment with violence. However, a resilience factor that the other Wes Moore had was an older brother, Tony, who tried to look after Wes. In Chapter two of the book, the other Wes got in a fight with a boy named woody and ended up being arrested for pulling out a knife. However, the other Wes was able to call Tony and be picked up from jail. One resilience factor that the author Wes Moore had was the character Joy sending him and his siblings to private school to obtain a higher education. However, a risk factor that came with this was being made fun of by going to a rich school and being made fun of at that school for being too poor. This made his behavior and grades …show more content…
People deal and cope with experiences differently. People also have some opportunities that other people may not have. This book has made me really think about all of my life experiences and how I personally coped with these different experiences. Every person is unique and someone may completely take the same experience into a different direction. For example a person who might have not had great fatherly influence in their life may turn around and decide to never be like their father and be the best father that they could ever be someday. However, another person may take not have a good fatherly figure in their life and apply it to their parenting skills someday in not the best way. I enjoyed this assignment and enjoyed reading the book The Other Wes Moore. The book was an easy, fun read that easily opened up my mind to the way I view life experiences and people.References Wes Moore, (2010). The Other Wes Moore. New York City, New York Spiegal Grau, an imprint of The Ransom House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New