The Dreamer

My parents are dreamers by definition. my parents migrated from Guinea, a politically unstable country in West Africa, to Brooklyn, NY, in search of the “American Dream,” without any promises of success in their pursuit. Remarkably, despite my parents not recieving an education in postcolonial Guinea, my parents have always sacrificed for the comforts of my brothers and I, while instilling in us the importance of receiving an education. Due to my parents lack of education and marketable skills,…

Jackson Harper) who pulls a gun from his pocket to claim love from Marie (Chasten Harmon); finally it’s Doc, censured by his angry wife whose saving money vanished from the cookie jar. Surprises also happen at work and home. Laura, a sensitive night dreamer, is trying to earn some extra by baking cupcakes to sell, a business with strong probabilities of success. However, she just found out she wants to become a singer and guitarist. Her plan is to buy a Harlequin guitar and learn how to play…

During their undergraduate years, young dreamers with aspirations of medical school can choose any undergraduate major they want as long as all of their medical school prerequisites get done. While midwives typically got to school to get their Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN) as an undergraduate…

It’s 2046 and the New York Times is writing a front page story about your recent induction into the HSF Alumni Hall of Fame. What might the story say? (500 word limit) Mrs. Diaz as her former elementary school students call her is being recognized in the HSF Alumni Hall of Fame. Edith Diaz graduated from California State University Monterey Bay in 2020 and started working as an elementary school teacher in the East side of Salinas, California. Mrs. Diaz graduated from Alisal High school and was…

let other people clean up the mess” (175, 179). Jay Gatsby dies as a nobody with unacknowledged accomplishment. A potential man, the face of the American Dream, in the end, miserably lose the game to the arrogant rich people. Thus is the fate of a dreamer living in a cruel reality. The American Dream is just a false hope that misleads Gatsby to his…

Developing virtue and a transformation of character is a process, according to Wright, and it requires “moral effort.” This should be a deliberate effort on one’s part, practicing the morally correct habits of life, showing that God’s Kingdom is “turning the world right way up”, purifying the world so that it becomes the dwelling place of God’s glory. Living not to please yourself, but to please God, is the perfect example of the pattern of Christian life, just as Jesus showed not how to do it…

In the short novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby proves to be a static character through the entire book. Within The Great Gatsby, we learn that Jay Gatsby is a dreamer, that he is motivated, and that he can become very easily manipulated. Gatsby had been proven to be a static character because from start to finish he doesn’t change; from the beginning Gatsby is just as idealistic, motivated, and easily manipulated as he is in the end of the story. Throughout the book, Fitzgerald makes it…

The Great Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was formative figure in the emerging generation of the 1920’s. He was the voice no one else could capture. He wrote from personal experiences which made him more credible then others, and exaggerated the stories in order to meet the desires of the generation for the more lavish life styles in the growing counterculture. In his short stories: “A Winter’s Dream”, “The Rich Boy,” and “A Diamond as Big as The Ritz.” These stories exemplify a new…

Lola, Oscar’s sister, describes it as a “witchy feeling.” Most cultures have superstitious beliefs. In my culture women who are expecting a child and are known to be lucid dreamers have a way of telling what gender their child will be. My aunt, a naturally lucid dreamer, predicted the gender for each of my cousins. For every child, she had a dream portraying a scenario that always includes a child. The gender of the child seen was the gender of the child she gave birth…

Surprised by the Voice of God by Jack Deere reflects the author’s ideas about prophecy, revelation Revelation Deere talks much about revelation. Deere suggests that people need to hear the voice of God outside of the Scriptures. He suggests that people do not have a choice if they should believe other peoples’ visions over the Bible. Antidotes Many, many stories are presented by Jack Deere seemingly to substantiate his points. Deere’s denial of the Sufficiency of Scripture While discussing…