Promise

In chapter 3 of “No Promises in the Wind” by Irene Hunt, Josh and Joey are leaving the freight train. Both of them wanting to leave the place that reminded them of the friend they lost.They entered a small town, and they both hung around the depot, grateful that no one payed attention to them. A man came out carrying groceries, and gave them a few cans of food.They took them gratefully and presumed their walking. They eventually stopped to rest, and Josh decided to face the problem. He asked…

After reading “The Promise”, I have really started to see the importance of the social imagination in today’s society. According to Mills, it is the responsibility of scholars to differentiate between the individual’s personal troubles and public issues in society. And it’s only once that we can differentiate between these two things, that we can then find solutions to these issues. A personal trouble affects only one person directly. While it may affect people close to them, it doesn’t affect…

Henson promised his master to take the group of 21 slaves from Maryland to Kentucky in order to save his master from being ruined. We could tell what he promised by reading it on paragraph two as they clearly tell us what he promised. He made the promise because he was afraid that if he doesn’t do it then the sheriff will come. He was afraid of the sheriff coming to take everyone who belonged to his master and separate all of them. He didn’t want that to happen because all of them had built a…

I can define freedom as having a family that there until the end, having a God to praise and get us through all of our hardships, being strong, feeling safe wherever you are, being able to get an education, and never giving up hope. In “The Promise Land” the author mentions how her living in America is better than her previous country, Russia. She talks about how they now have better homes, better furniture, the skies are a beautiful blue, there are many friendly people, and how everything…

Porter, Eduardo. "The Promise and Failure of Community Colleges." The New York Times 17 Feb. 2015: 1-5. Web. This article touches on the downside of community colleges. Community college director, Thomas Bailey makes an argument that “Community colleges have the students with the greatest problems-yet they get the least resources.” The article also pulls in a few statistics on graduation rates between community colleges and 4 year universities. Only 22 percent of these students graduated from a…

“The Promise of Research with Stem Cells” by Susan Solomon “The Promise of Research with Stem Cells” by Susan Solomon is about the benefits of using stem cells for research in order to find the reasons of different types of diseases and their cure. She described how expensive drug research is and the potential loss that comes with it sometimes when it has a side effect. On the other hand, the research with stem cells will be so much better because everything will be tested on the cells before…

name: Peggy Hartwick Draft 1 Due date: September 28th 2015 Writing Log 1 Assignment Description Why Windows seven? In “Apple's Get a Mac - Broken Promises” advertisement, two men argue about MacBook and PC (Fischmann, 2009). The PC man tries to convince the MacBook representative that Windows Seven is going to be unique and without problems. Since Microsoft creates a new OS every few years,…

The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream was written by, the three men whom the story is about, Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt. This book explains the promise between three young men to change what society is trying to deem these young men will become—which is nothing, but drop-outs and drug dealers. Sam, George, and Rameck swore to each other that they would be better than the stereotypes, they would become doctors, and they would give back to their…

Joshua Polo December 20, 2015 SOC 300 OCCUPY NATION The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street by Todd Gitlin Todd Gitlin gives a great overview of the Occupy Wall Street movement and all the issues that the movement represented. A short time after the Occupy Wall Street movement began in New York Todd Gitlin wrote Gitlin gives a great interpretation to the ongoing battle for equality. He shares on the minds of the movement, then talks about the structure while also stating…

The movie "Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation" aims to document the history and opinions of Quebec Inuit during the military relocation of the 1950’s (National Film Board of Canada [NFB], 1995). The film begins by conveying the historical groundwork for the introduction of the Inuit relocation project. Canada and America, both tense from the Cold War, begin to see Canada's northern regions as an important line of defense against Soviet influences. Discussions with the Canadian…