The Hard Way

Badass U Articles Summary How to Succeed in College (The 5 Badass Ways)! Are you going to college or going to be going to college? Let me give you this warning: you only get one shot to do it right! Who am I to say this? I have been to several huge universities (University of Texas and Arizona State University), I started over several times, went to several community colleges, strictly online colleges, joined all different kind of clubs, lived in different dorms, apartments, and at my parents…

understand what it means to get to where I want and be able to answer if what I want is really what I want and not because that’s how someone else got theirs. And if it is, why in the world are my still sitting and thinking that there’s no way I can achieve it or what way do I choose to go to achieve…

This point is one of the more major parts of the theme of betrayal, as Miller makes most hit hard with this text, “the family has an uncle that they were hidin' in the house, and he snitched to the Immigration”, things went south for him, “They grabbed him in the kitchen and pulled him down the stairs”. Not only is the way Miller presenting the story unsettling, it is also downright brutal on the way he dealt with it, using words like “grabbed” and “pulled”, to show that Vinny has no control on…

Angelou affirms that regardless of the abuse the speaker suffers that she will rise; she won’t disappear, she will not be defeated, and she won’t be held back. In the same way as Soyinka’s poem reinforcing the point Angelou’s poem is based on. “Telephone Conversation” includes several instances of the word ‘silence’. Often one of the ways people use to indicate prejudice is through silence. Together, both poets imply that the black race is being held down through the use of…

Exercising your body helps in improving your concentration. When you engage in moderate physical exercises, your concentration improves by a big margin. You will realize that exercises basically help the brain to ignore distractions. This can go a long way in improving your concentration levels. 10. Practice mindfulness throughout the…

Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships,” at some of the concepts in Tannen’s chapter “The World of Conversational Style” it is clear to say that there are different ways a person can convey a conversation and the way a person carries their communication style. Tannen connects some concepts that can relate to the way communicating with technology can affect our skill with one another. For example, the effects behind a screen like a text message or an email to being in-person can…

As a child, having rules to follow wasn’t unheard of with my family. There was always a way to behavior with friends/family, at school, at home and out in the street. Often I found myself getting into trouble because I didn 't listen and also the fact that I always found some kind of way to slipping out of having to doing something that I knew I was supposed to do. But out of all the people in my family my mom was the strictest. When expectations set high, not meaning them meant my siblings and…

again. Well you do know how that’s gonna go that friend may not pay you back once again. The term “People like us” is usually used when speaking, or thinking negative of another race or culture. Unfortunately me being Black I’ve heard this term way too much. I have said in the past and maybe just the other day to my son look at those officers pulling over than man. It’s one black man and two police…

But this difference does not mean that one way is right and the other one is wrong. Quite to the contrary, both O’Brien and Bowker can learn from each other and deal with Kiowa’s death in an even better way. “The Man I Killed” and “Ambush” both concern O’Brien’s feelings of guilt over killing an enemy combatant. Guilt is often associated with death. When a friend or loved one…

He knew that the only way to keep Inka out of the path of danger was to tackle the man before he neared her, or in other words, as soon as humanly possible. He jumped, pinning him to the ground as sirens rang nearer. Oliver decided to take a shower to try and clear his head…