To Stay Alive

Human Services professional Informational interview The human service professional that I chose to interview was Betsy Zimmerman. Betsy is a case manager in in Norfolk, Virginia at Counseling Center LLC. This is an agency that focuses on client-centered treatment to help individuals who are struggling with substance abuse. Betsy Zimmerman received her bachelors in sociology and criminology at Christopher Newport University and she received her master’s in counseling education from Georgia…

Marginalization is often whereby something or someone is pushed to the edge of a group and determined to be of lesser importance. Gender equality is in place to lessen the ideology of marginalization, but why is it, then, that women are still marginalized in so many areas of their lives? Throughout history, women have been marginalized in multiple aspects of both their public work and the domestic sphere. Although women have made major strides toward abolishing the inequality between men and…

Gender and the Workplace “According to the Education Department data, more than three quarters of teachers in kindergarten through high school are women” (Rich). Teaching was once a career for men, but when women entered the work force 1960s, they did not have many careers open to them. According to Philip N. Cohen, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, “a job primarily done by women, people tend to believe it has less value” (Rich), could play a role in why fewer and fewer men are…

“Greasers can 't walk alone too much or they 'll get jumped, or someone will come by and scream "Greaser!" at them which doesn 't make you feel too hot if you know what I mean. ” ~ The Outsiders, Chapter 1, Page 2. This quote which kicks off the book helps to bring together what the narrator and main character Ponyboy character is as a Greaser. The Greasers are what the East side poor kids of Tulsa, Oklahoma with their slicked back long greased hair and switch blades, are called, kind of like…

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a realistic fiction novel. This book is about Ponyboy, a fourteen year old boy, who is being raised by his older brother because his parents have passed away. Ponyboy and his brothers are members of a gang called the Greasers who are in constant conflict with the Socs, an opposing gang. The greasers proved to be the heroes in the story, not the beloved Socs, the three greasers who showed the most heroism are: Ponyboy, Darry and Johnny. Ponyboy has shows multiple…

he kills himself by electrocution and becomes one himself, turning into what resembles the “Ghostbusters” logo. He is bigger and stronger than the Stay Puft Marshmallow man who reveals as the last destructor in the original. The Ghostbusters defeat Rowan and all his evil specters by reversing the portal and sucking them back into the unknown. The Stay Puft Marshmallow man is defeated by the Ghostbusters crossing streams of their guns and blowing him into a liquefied pile of melted marshmallow on…

Johnny puts it, and does many things like track, reading, and watches sunsets. That is something that differentiates Pony from other greasers. Also, Johnny wants Pony to stay that way. "’Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold…’" (Hinton 126). Many greasers would want to be tuff like all the other greasers, but Johnny wants Pony to stay the way he…

Where do you take place in society? What does that place mean to you? The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton makes you wonder how your place would change if you were in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. Would you be considered a low class, poor greaser? Or would you be a wealthy, living the high life Social? No matter how you answered those questions, you should read The Outsiders. The narrator of this book is a fourteen year old boy names Ponyboy Curtis. Yes, that is, in fact, his real name. One of his brothers…

things become very difficult in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Review: with the help of S.E. Hinton, the author herself, Francis Ford Coppola captures this dramatic, thrilling movie almost perfectly. The song “Stay Gold” by Steve Wonder which begins and ends the movie was a great choice because Johnny quoted “Stay Gold, Ponyboy” on his deathbed. The actors’ images were captured exceptionally. The greasers’ hair looked just as I had imagined it by the description in the book, especially Ponyboy. Another…

One difference is that they have different opinions on whether or not Ponyboy should change. For example, Johnny tells Ponyboy to stay innocent, kind and just the way he is. In the letter that Johnny leaves behind for Pony, he speaks of Pony’s fondness of sunsets and says, “That’s gold. Keep that way, it’s a good way to be” (178). Johnny does not want Ponyboy to become harsh and cruel…