Middle Passage

Who is Gabriel Garcia? To everybody he is a student from Tempe High that plays many different sports and keeps decent grades. At home he lives with a single mother in a crappy apartment. His only other family are two sisters, Stephanie and Yvette. His father, like many other families, has been absent for many years of his life. His life has been a struggle with people constantly doubting him. His journey is a long one and isn’t close to being finished. From the beginning of his life, to school,…

of high school played a vital role in molding my love of writing from a whimsical dream into a passion. And while I look back on freshman year with a naive nostalgia, freshman year was also a year I would like to forget. The year I graduated from middle school and moved on to high school was a year many of my friends moved away and I was all but left alone. I was scared and wasn’t able to properly express myself, therefore making it difficult to make many new friends. I became rather depressed…

the equality of chance in the USA. American and the model that follows live with the myth that everyone has the amount of opportunities to succeed. However, this popular belief is questioned with the emergence of a gap between the upper class, the middle one and the lower one. It is true that children from upper class have more opportunities than children from lower class. Social class in the US shows how the economic segregation still exists and the social origin of a person is a driven…

While growing older Maria said she started to experience notable changes in her body. She told me about the mobility problems she was facing since some years ago. She used to be women with perfect mobility; she was strong enough to carry her children around and performing physical activities that required a lot of effort. However as she aged she started to feel the weight of the years in her physical health. She feels pain in her hands, arms, and back if she tried to lift something that she…

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, is a book about two sisters, Blanche and Stella, and Stella’s husband, Stanley. The book opens with Blanche coming to live with Stella and dragging all her problems in with her. The time period it was written and set in, 1940’s to 1950’s, is reflected in some of the major issues it tackles like class. Blanche and Stella come from what was a well-off family while Stanley was the polar opposite. By the beginning of the book, Stella has given up her…

would have was the praise I believed I would receive for amazing scores on my work. I believed that I could stop my parent’s fighting if I showed them my work in the middle of their arguments. It never worked, and it was disappointing and emotionally devastating that I wouldn’t be congratulated for my hard work. Soon I entered middle school and I continued to put in all of my efforts into school in hopes of receiving that praise. The most I would get was a nod, an “ok”, and a monotonous “good…

Growing up within a middle class family as a first born millennial, was one that of a comfortable lifestyle. My parents were happily married, my grades were well-rounded, and my passions for soccer and creative writing flourished. Hope for a better future had never been brighter as we moved into a modeled neighborhood. It would have seemed only a dream, especially for my father who came all this way from a much more demanding life in Santiago, Chile. Life was good—well, at least for a while.…

As I previously stated, I come from an average middle class family so I never was in the shoes of a culturally and linguistically diverse student. From the stories of my peers and what I have learned in ESL courses, this relationship is arguably the most important in an ESL student’s educational career…

Doris Rambohan, female, 66 years old, widower, disabled The first person that I interviewed was my grandmother. She was born in 1949 and is considered to be a Baby Boomer She is currently 66 years old and a widower. Her husband had a stroke years ago and at the age of 73, he passed away. He retired before that, and he started to get social security benefits because he was disabled after he had a stroke. After he passed away, his social security benefits were passed down to my grandmother. Social…

The myth of Perseus is about a young man trying to free his mother from a king. This king sends him to bring back the head of Medusa, a terrifying gorgon who has killed many men. He is successful in his journey and is able to free his mother, while gaining other treasures along the way. Many of the things that happen in the story align with the concepts of Karl Marx. In fact Perseus is taking a journey to regain an upper class status that he lost while a child. We can see the hints of this plot…