Grandfather's Journey

When I was asked to be the football team manager at my school, I did not know what my duties would be. My job did not have many clear roles, so I created a more contributing manager role. I took a CPR/first-aid training course, researched football-related injuries, and learned to wrap ankles, wrists, knees, etc. I was at practices 3 times a week and at the games. I provided hydration, recorded player info, kept track of gear, aided in pre-game preparation, provided first-aid care, and arranged…

The current paper aims to demonstrate the themes of Identity crisis indianess and other diaspora experiences dealt by the author in the novel Oleander Girl. Themes such as class conflict, religion, politics, exile, racism etc which also jell up with the above themes. In between there are views on momentous and crucial gestures such as love, devotion and faith. The long kept secret of the family and dreams inserted in between provide a delightful impression to the book. The novel presents before…

finish my degree, than I need to focus on getting a job and getting my career of to a start, as I have not done any internships. If it persists, I will need to make a conscious decision on if I should leave everything behind and go on a “find myself” journey or seek professional help and perhaps get medicated. Just as Andy was damaged and could not take being living the current life he was having, I may need to change my lifestyle and do something drastic. With that said, no matter what…

“How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore / And a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished, / In squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?” (Alexander Hamilton). The opening line of Lin Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit “Hamilton”, is also the musical’s defining question. The rags to riches tale of Alexander Hamilton has captivated audiences perhaps like no musical before and with a staggering amount of immigrants entering the United States…

When choosing a film to write about, I selected the movie Holes since it was a movie very familiar to me and something I used to enjoy watching as a child. Holes, released in April 18, 2003, is a film written about a young boy, Stanley Yelnats IV, who was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, due to his bad luck and 100-year-old family curse. Having been falsely accused of stealing a famous baseball player’s cleats, Stanley was forced to go to court and instead of being sentenced to…

his dying breaths. The gradfather was viewed as a weak, socially responsible msn that gave white people what they wanted; in a sense, he was considered a traitor to those of the African-American background. What the narrator realizes is that his grandfather’s words ended up being true because agreeing to white people gives them…