Tennessee

There are so many students out there in low-income communities who do not know what it is like to have someone who wants to see them succeed, someone who wants to see them achieve regardless of their race or economic status. I seek to join Teach for America for many reasons and three of those reasons are; for one, I want to help make a difference in the lives of students, I want the students that I encounter to know that I care about their education, I want to see them succeed and I want them to…

My father is dying. There is no way around that fact. He is not slipping away piece by piece, but is being taken from me in large chunks. His cheeks have begun to hollow and his eyes have begun to sink. He complains of the loss of feelings in his fingers, and the tightness in his throat. A gastrostomy tube was surgically inserted into his abdomen when he became unable to swallow. He stopped going to the grocery store with me. He stopped wanting to take walks around the 100-acre land he worked…

From what I have read and what I have seen in my life time is amazing, but the one thing that stands out is that the restaurant industry has grown stale. It has the same thing and does the same thing not one person has step outside of the box. I’m here to do just that. I’m here to blow the lid off the restaurant industry and keep it moving and a direction that it has been afraid to go. Like Robert Frost once said I’m going to take the road less traveled. The questions I ask are you willing to…

What do you consider to be the most significant thing you learned in this module (include appropriate or applicable Scripture references)? The most things I learned in this module are that faith without works is dead. “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill, and yet you did not supply their bodily…

What do I want to do after graduation? 1. I want to work as an intern at Warner Bros in Los Angeles, California. I would like an Internship in the Marketing or Advertising department. 2. My deadline for this goal is: January 2017 3. My obstacles are: I do not know if I will have the money to stay in the United States. Also, my lack of experience in the Entertainment Industry 4. The people or groups that I need to reach this goal are: I need the financial support of my parents. 5. The…

The Change in Fitness Advertisements Every day there is at least one or more fitness advertisements I pass and see. Whether it is when I am at the gym, reading a magazine, or even just sitting on the couch watching television. Fitness advertisements are everywhere. In the gym alone there is at least ten just in the free weights area, so put that into perspective and think about how many advertisements there is about bettering one’s health just at the gym. Advertisements are supposed to pull…

The dictionary defines the word “blind” as the lack of perception, awareness, or discernment. Symbolism, irony, and foreshadowing is used in many ways by the author in her short story called “The Lottery”. Shirley Jackson uses these literary devices to emphasize the idea that people will follow traditions blindly if that was how they were raised. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story about a strange tradition. Once a year, the town gathers together and one member from each…

White Americans often found Native Americans as unfamiliar individuals who occupied land to which the white settlers believed they deserved. America was introduced to an “Indian problem” in which needed to be solved before a crisis occurred. President George Washington believed the answer to America’s “Indian Problem” was to civilize the tribes. This theory indicated a goal in which Native Americans would become as close to white Americans as possible by learning how to read and speak English,…

In a small run-down motel room, with the sound of rain hitting the window, sits a tired man. “I’ve seen the promise land," he says. Despite including powerful words of a strong leader, the play The Mountaintop is disappointing. The play, The Mountaintop written by American playwright Katori Hall, performed at the Cleveland Playhouse, is based off what could have happened between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Mountaintop speech and his assassination. All taking place in his Lorraine Motel room. No…

We’ve all seen friends and families who have been in a controlling relationship and we all have tried to say something to them about or at least tried to help them leave the relationship or try to help them seek out advice to fix the relationship? “Breathing Underwater” tells a story of boy who controls his girlfriend in many different ways and even hits her. Controlling relationships deal damage on both people involved with it and sometimes the friends and families caught in the crossfire of it…