Heavier Things

what we already know by looking at our parents. In reality, identity can be defined as who someone is, the name of a person, the qualities, beliefs, etc, that makes a particular person or group different from others. Identity was never such a huge thing for me since I never thought about it, but I knew it was there. Over the years, my identity always kept changing my name. My father was the one who named me. He always…

In the article, Kozol explains when an eight year old girl told him, “Dear Mr. Kozol, we don’t have the things you have. You have clean things. We don’t have. You have all the thing and we don’t have all the thing. Can you help us?” (pg. 351). We are all equal no matter where we come from nor what we look like and deserve the equal opportunities like those who have money. There is a separation in the cities…

chubby kid ready for my first year in junior high, wondering about the new exciting things waiting for me. But if I knew that the exciting things would change into nightmares, I would have never left my bed. Walking into this enormous castle of a school, I was handed a green sheet of paper with huge bolded words that spelled out my name followed by a long list of my classes. At that moment I realized that things just…

high have won multiple, very few losing season, and are proven winners, often times former high school coaches say it’s very hard to get your pay to being that high, and some say the only way to get a decent pay and stay on this job is to win. Other things about this occupation is that normally when coaches go to programs who have been losing and not winning they are setting themselves up for failure because, the losing has took a toll on the players and fans that they just don’t care, and it’s…

jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” Our society is driven on the concept of proving who we are based on our material possessions, but ironically we just want the same thing as everyone else. We buy materialistic possessions because we want to prove that we are better than the next guy, but then we proceed to buy the same things as everyone else because we think that in order to beat them, we have to be them. “The Semplica-Girl Diaries” provides a message about how easily we feel the need…

themselves rather than something that was just handed to them. My dad, like most men, is the kind of guy that will try to fix it or make it himself before he has to pay somebody to do it. I was curious as to how he comes up with the ideas for the things he makes. He said that he does it just like his dad taught him. He would see a picture or product he would like to try and build, then he would have to picture it in his mind, “I have to see it in my mind first,…

United States of America (U.S). I understand why people are skeptical in front of anyone who looks different, but things become hard when they react to let you know it. My first week, things began in my building when a young woman decided to skip the elevator I was in, even though she had been waiting for it. Next, I had to face the reaction of people outside, and to understand the thing that was really…

journey it expresses about struggles, disappointment, and all sorts of things we usually don 't like to talk about. In the novel it had many obstacles that most people usually endure on a day to day bases because it’s reality, it’s the truth. It isn 't bad nor good but realizing that it 's part of our society is one step closer to achieving a growth mindset. It has shown me how I could do a lot even when i’m faced with negative things surrounding me and all I have to do is keep striving for the…

Basketball is my life. Okay maybe it’s not my life, but it’s more than a game to me. It’s a big part of my life and it has been ever since I could pick a ball up. Everyday as a child, coming home from a boring day at school, the only thing I would look forward to was lacing up my sneakers, racing over to the community court, and shooting some hoops. Even in the winter, when there was snow on the ground piled up to almost as tall as I was, I would beg and plead my dad to snow plow the driveway so…

show up to work drunk, one time he managed to pass out in the bushes at his job. These losses did not benefit him to try to become sober. These losses led him to continue his drinking. He felt worthless and hurt with each job loss. These horrible things happening to him still did not allow him to understand his need to stop. He spent the majority of his time and money on his drinking that he missed out on going over to Sweden to see his family, even missing his father’s funeral when he…