The Run

I’m sure most of you know the popular song “believer” but have you realized that the narrator describes the struggles of his life. Raymond’s run also describes a similar story to this one. The protagonist's describe that their being forced to become someone they are not but keep fighting back against these tyrannical ways. In summary, “Raymond’s Run” describes the struggles of a poor black girl living in Harlem in the 1960s. She has to take care of her mentally disabled brother but also wants to…

I am sitting at my work desk reading an autobiography called The Blood of Lambs, and I recall the phrase “see spot run” in my head. Upon reflection, I remember this phrase from a particular troubling period in my youth where I struggled to become literate. Many years have passed and I realize my path of literacy was difficult and full of major obstacles. To begin with, my struggle to read began in the first grade where I found myself relocating to a new school and in a strange environment. The…

you become determined to finish what you started. The theme of the song “Hall of fame” and Raymond's Run is determination. The story Raymond’s run was written by: Toni Cade Bambara. The main characters are Hazel and Raymond, Hazel is a very fast runner. She is one of the best in the city. Every year she wins the race and is very cocky this year. Her best opponent Gretchen, gave a very good run for her money and it was a neck to neck race, but Hazel won by a hair. When Hazel was running, she saw…

In the short story “Raymond’s Run” - By Toni Cade Bambara, protagonist Squeaky, is a young girl who is in charge of taking care of her handicap brother. Squeaky also keeps her title as the fastest runner. She always is making sure no one is doing anything ,or saying anything rude to her brother Raymond. While as a reader, I think Squeaky acts differently from the other girls. Squeaky also is a young black girl trying to always be the best at running and take care of herself and her brother…

Theme essay In the beginning of the story “Raymond's Run” by Toni Cade Bambara, the protagonist Squeaky is very protective and aggressive mainly because of her disabled brother, she is also only in third grade and she lives in the big city of new york. But later she learns that being to protective can hurt the ones you love and other people around you. In the beginning we can tell Squeaky is very tough and protective even though she is only a little girl with skinny arms, she is like this most…

Math is used in Baseball in all different ways like when determining what the player’s batting average is, what the pitcher’s earned run average is, and the player’s on base percentage. These are just a couple ways math is used in baseball but they are on the more important side because they allow fans and other organizations to see your stats and see if you will be good enough to join their club and possibly help win the world series. Math is used in baseball with finding these three statistics…

The play Madea On the Run was first and foremost highly entertaining. At almost every minute, there was some type of dialogue or action that made the audience laugh. The witty and sometimes insulting humor between the characters created banter throughout the play that was easily enjoyable. At some parts they would comment on someone else’s size, love life, or give them a humorously stern lecture about hard truths, and that dialogue was really fun to watch. The other entertaining moments I liked…

Specifically, “The legitimacy of home run records has received particularly close scrutiny, in part because home runs have a special glamour for baseball fans, but also because the performances between 1995 and 2003 were so…

Around the world and through many different time periods every person has encountered intolerance, extremism and duality. The idea of the aforementioned words are constant themes within the book “The River Runs Salt, Runs Sweet” by Jasmina Dervisevi-Cesic. Throughout the story Jasmina speaks of her encounters with each of these situations and how her duality allows her to learn and come to peace with the terrors she has endured. Around the world the act of intolerance is taking place. From…

story, “Raymond's Run” by Toni Cade Bambara is a character who has to be a different person for her mother and wear “baby-doll shoes”. However, like Mulan, Squeaky uncovers her true self and keeps being herself. The themes incorporated through both…