Man-Thing

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,…

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…

There are many things that we do to seem good or to be good. We clean our rooms so that our parents do not reprimand us. We do our homework so that we get good grades in school. We volunteer so we can help others. All of these things are actions that we consider to be good, however do they have a good will despite the reasons we are doing them. According to Kant, doing something out of good will means that it is being done precisely for the sake of duty. To do something out of good will is…

our country and how everything will be ruined. The thing is I think we spend too much time focusing all our time and resources upon the wrong issue of immigration. The main issue here is we have spent more time trying to keep immigrants out than trying to make the system better and help them assimilate into our society. The fear of what immigrants “could do” has been spread through all forms of media to make it seem like it’s a terrible thing and that they should apply like everyone else to…

The only point on a funeral is to send the ones who has passed a nice place in where ever they go. People believe in a lot of things in religion and things but the true way to understand what death is like is to experience it but not a lot of people come back from being dead not like a zombie. The way we live our lives is what people say at our funerals the ones that love us tell you how…