Got to Give It Up

The movie walkout was a powerful movie. It showed us just a little bit of the struggles that mexican-americans went through, or as they said in the movie, the chicanos. Paula was just a senior in her high school who was tired of seeing the things that they had to face, the inequality and the segregation. Luckily for her she wasn’t the only one tired of this treatment. There were other chicanos who were tired of seeing this and that also included one of her teachers. I don’t blame them just…

Valentine, a crook with many connections, got out of jail 38 months earlier. Valentine headed down to a small town by Elmore Arkansas where he changed every little piece of his burglary self within a day; including changing his name to Ralph Spencer. Then within a year Ralph was about to marry a daughter of a rich banker. Is it possible that Jimmy truly changed himself, or was it just all a lie. Because Jimmy Valentine was dedicated to a moral life he got a fresh start, planned on getting…

sticker in his car but he said no. Greg’s dad had just bought a brand new sports car. After Greg asked his dad he didn’t know what to do with the bumper sticker so he just gave it to Manny and told him to leave it on his wagon or something. Manny ended up putting the bumper sticker on his dad’s car. It was on the middle of…

One example is that the immigrants are afraid of the immigration because they are immigrants and they are living in fear and in the shadows they got no voice they got no right so they are living in the shadows they can't say nothing they got no voice they don't egiste but that's Bad we have to give them a voice by telling them to speak up and say give me a path to citizenship let me live in freedom. One important reason that there should have a path to citizenship is that immigrants should get…

she taught me to never to give up, have self-confidence, and be determined no matter what. Gymnastics isn’t the easiest sport to do and I often got very frustrated with it but Jeanna taught me to never give up. Whenever I was working on a new skill it would take a while to get it consistent, I would get upset and give up most of the time. But, Jeanna always encouraged me and told me if I put my mind to it I can do it no matter how difficult it is. Before I would just give up but since I had my…

because he cannot do much to help out. Candy is skeptical about his future and his American Dream is to have a sense of freedom and security (“The American Dream in Of Mice and Men”). In the end, Candy is not able to fulfill his American Dream and he gives up…

Although this book has a lot of graphic descriptions in it, and takes place in a prison, its a good 12th grade book to read and gives you a different perspective of things. I feel that students in school shouldn't be affected by the scenes in the book because it gives you reasons not go to prison at all. Since Andy is in prison, it shows hope because Andy never gave up on his life, he didn't kill himself in prison, and he was destined to get out. This resembles hope because not only did Andy…

to spend time with her after work. On 1/6/2016 I double check what time I work in the crew room on 1/7/2016 and it showed from 8:00am-10:30am, so I am 100% sure that this what the schedule showed the crew room. On 1/7/2016, I clocked in 8:00am, and got my 10 minute break around 10:00am. I came back to the kitchen on the muffin station and to…

Logans Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson the theme never give up on what you truly want can be shown through Logans Decision to never give up. In the book Lagan faces many situations that may seem almost impossible to live through. Logan never gave up even when he thought he should. He wanted to live so he never gave up and continues to work through the problems. In the end his perseverance paid off and he got what he truly wanted, his freedom. According to Logans Run , “‘But…

It all started after school when I got home my mom and I started to go to the Taekwondo studio, when I got there I had to change into my clothes and get my belt on so when testing began I can show that I can tie a belt right. Then all the people that were in my class started to show up and get dressed and I was so excited to finally get my 3rd degree black belt. After everyone got there we all had to train until the test began. So it was 5:00 when the test began and we all trained for an hour…