Big Brothers Big Sisters of America

person being labelled deviant only makes the person more deviant because they are being told that is what they are. When O’beirne labels the women, she’s discussing in her article as “extremely disadvantaged”, and “one of the largest problems in America” I believe it shuts down the people she’s trying to speak to, it makes people immediately defensive while reading her article and unreceptive to what she’s trying to say. I think if she rewrote the article with a stance on how can we help these…

Two step-brothers, Roy and John, are sitting on the fire escape on their Harlem apartment. Roy, the mischievous younger brother, is planning to go to a rockpile across the street where the neighborhood kids play. John worries that their mother may get mad, since she prohibited him from going there. As John sits on the…

In today’s society, people all over the world are beginning to speak up about what they believe in more than they would at least fifty years ago. One of the topics people are speaking about is the conflict of same-sex marriage. This past year, America passed the law of same-sex marriage to be legal in all fifty states. An issue people still may face, who are gay, would be the view of their relationship by the Catholic Church community. Although same-sex marriage is frowned upon in the Catholic…

Once upon a time, there was the most adorable and handsome baby boy ever born in Lomé, Togo. This baby’s name just happened to be Kodjo Dijfa Junior Alodjinou and he was born into a big loving family. At the time of this baby’s birth, he had two sisters and one brother. His parents weren’t done expanding the family and they knew that with their desire for huge family, they also had to do all that was possible to ensure their kids had the chance at a life where they would have the opportunity to…

united countries and fed wars between them. Some would argue that after World War II, nationalism has been on a slow and erratic decline. There are many areas of history too look at during the period after World War II in 1945 to modern day in 2000. The big incident which happened right after World War II, the next war, the Cold War. Then there is the alliance of NATO, the European Economic Community, later known as the European Community, the French 5th Republic, collapse of the Berlin Wall,…

Richard Connell was born on October 17, 1893, in Poughkeepsie, New York. Most well-known for his short story Most Dangerous Game. He also wrote over 300 other short stories along with writing some screenplays in Hollywood. Richard Connell He won the O. Henry Memorial Prize, the prize for best short story, twice for his short stories “A Friend of Napoleon” and “The Most Dangerous Game.” Connell was the son of a writer for a local newspaper who became a congressman and influenced him very much.…

vacations or every weekend, after finished the university around 70% go back to their parents’ house. I moved to the city with my sisters when I was 16’s and I just visited my parents in vacations (every 4 months), except for my brother we never gone back to live with my parents after the university. The youngest that got married in my family was 27 years old, three of my sisters start having kids and marriage after 31, so I am still in the age range in my family, but I am older for a…

three movements that Kenji Yoshino describes how America moves through gay rights in his novel, Covering the Hidden Assault on our Civil Rights. Covering is something that everyone does, and is defined as “to tone down a disfavored identity to fit into the mainstream” (ix) as Yoshino describes. Kenji Yoshino writes Covering from his own experiences as a gay Japanese American lawyer. Yoshino was raised by his parents to be “100% American in America and 100% Japanese in Japan” (118) and believed…

her dreams and went far with them. She became very successful and no matter how much she struggled, she never gave up. In the novel, “Bread Givers” she defied the stigma of being a woman, injustice and traditions. Her life begins as the younger sister of four girls; her father was an Orthodox rabbi and her mother a woman who followed her home country traditions. The family emigrated from Poland to New York in the 1920s. For the family, the American dream was to leave Poland and for Mr.…

the twentieth century a family immigrated to America. This family went by the name of the Smith’s and were composed of a man and his wife in their early thirties and their three year old son, Cain.The Smith had very little skills in the fundamentals of English and education so they were extremely poor and lived in poverty. Cain really understood the economic position that he was in when he met another young boy by the name of Abel. Abel lived in a big penthouse on the other side of town with…