A Different Story

The media shows much negativity about many countries and people all around the world. Many of us wonder why? But sadly there is never an answer. We live in a world where people make commercials just to make people think different about things around them. In the year of 2010 an earthquake happened in Haiti and I am proud to say that I am a survivor but when the tragedy occurred all the reporters started talking and announcing how bad the country got and how we got poor. I’m not saying it’s false…

I attended the play It’s a Wonderful Life on Thursday November 17 at 7:30 p.m. This production was put on by the Big Rapids community theatre, Stage M. The show took place at the Crossroads Charter Academy auditorium. This auditorium had a proscenium style layout, meaning the audience was seated on only one side of the stage. The location where the play was performed took away from the experience. It was obvious that the auditorium had not been renovated in a while, the seats were uncomfortable,…

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” -Michael Jordan. That quote describes what I felt like after being in Chicago.Last February I was given the opportunity to attend the LEAD conference for Student Council. The LEAD conference is national Student Council leadership convention. The opportunity to go was an experience that I will never forget and an experience that changed my life. Going into this event, I thought it would just be some seminars…

body to match, he would remind anyone of Santa Claus. UJ enjoyed his teenage years working with Japes father at their family resort. He was a self-made server that worked in every management position on his way up the corporate ladder. A remarkable story of success and determination that eventually bestowed upon him the nickname “king of grub.” During the days leading up to his start date Japes was required to go through a few interviews. These were all courtesy interviews, as UJ did not want…

As I take the time to reflect through my personal experience during this course I have came to a clear conclusion that there is now an understanding of what the term “adulthood aging” truly means. Through this course, it is without hesitation that I have gained an abundant amount of knowledge over the life cycle of an individual that prepares us when aging. Gaining this understanding has helped me answer the simple question of this paper: “What is aging?” As I take the time to put my thoughts…

developed parallel to physical growth as well as interacting with others and the surrounding. As a child, I was protected by my family, especially by my mother because my father died when I was only 4 years old. When I entered into a school that was a different world from home. I made many friends saw up and down in friendship. I tried to be a good student and daughter as well. During childhood till teen, I tried to make my mother and my teachers happy and I tried my best to see a smile on my…

In addition to the many things that people didn’t like about immigrants is that they say that cities are being overcrowded and that immigrants are taking all the jobs and people don’t like this. But they don’t realize that with all these immigrants coming that the consumer demand goes up, helping out there business also with immigrants they bring jobs and hardworking people that help there business and it also helps the immigrants by giving them jobs. Also many people complain about immigrants…

and powerful point of view. For me, this piece was particularly impactful due to it’s perspective, her relation of theories to stories, and the deconstruction of language used in traditionally european theories. For generations, students of many different disciplines encounter theories that they must come to know intimately. Despite these disciplines being vastly different in their applications, most groups learn theories written by white European men. So, to encounter a dissertation written…

No two stories are the same, even when written by the same author with similar plot and characters. Raymond Carver covers this with his stories, “The Bath” and “A Small, Good Thing.” Both stories recount a young boy, who was hit by a car and die. There is much more to each story than the analogous plot. Each story develops their characters differently and place emphasis on certain details. With the use of details, there is less ambiguity in one story than there is in the other. These stories…

Alexie, Sherman. "A Good Story." The St. Martin's Guide to Writing, edited by Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Cooper, 9th ed., Bedford St. Martin's, 2010, pp. 557-560. In "A Good Story" written by Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Cooper, talks about the stories that Sherman writes and tells. His mother tells him that his stories are to sad and that life in the reservations are not always bad. He tries to ignore her, but cant because what his mothers tells him is true. That life can not always be…