Tony Moore

Responsibilities Matter According to statistics, African American high school student’s graduation rate is at 69 percent. ( Education Statistics P1) This statistic is impacting since it is relatable to The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore Both Wes Moores’ lives significantly took different turns, what the outside expectations wanted was for them to fail. Outside expectations contributed to the other Wes because he became part of the stereotype of the average African American male, while Wes proved…

trying to accomplish. It’s all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.” This quote by Rudolph is a prime example of how hard the inner-city life can be to overcome. In “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates,” it portrays the struggle of the inner-city life between the two main characters as one has the discipline to escape the inner-city life, while the other is trapped in it forever. Living in the inner-city can be really…

and absence of the gardener, the prospective seed perished. This is the image that comes to me when I read The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. Both Wes Moore characters are dealt very similar cards with numerous factors shaping their outcomes. So how did the paths of these two diverge? These two characters had very different crowds of people surrounding them. The author Wes Moore had…

visiting the prison a couple times Wes Moore (Wes 1) was able to see that they lived somewhat of a similar but different life style. Sharing many of the same experiences, but one handling situations different from the other which was the main reason they sat on opposite sides of the table one being the visitor and one being the visited. The other Wes Moore (Wes 2) would have no opportunity to life on the outside as he served a life sentence with his brother Tony for killing a police officer…

The title of the book is “The Other Wes Moore” written by Wes Moore. The book mostly tells how these two boys with the same name had two different fates. The book was about two boys who had the same name and grew up close to each other. They both grew up fatherless and had different childhoods. Both Wes Moore’s hung out with their crews and both Wes Moore’s got locked up at one point of their lives. The author Wes had more support than the other Wes. The author Wes had good role models like his…

Both of the wes moores lives were different and similar in lots of ways. but one choose the right way for life, and the other took a risk and choose the wrong way in life. These two people are similar because they both had low income, lived in poor places and grew up poor. The wes moore that choose the right thing to do srrn where he was heading if he did not stay in school, so he choose to finish high school and get a good job to make some type of money to move on with his life. However some…

In this quote, Wes Moore, had decided to start work as a lookout to gain some extra money. Tony his half-brother is furiously asking his younger brother where he got the money to buy so many new pairs of sneakers. Wes informs Tony he’s become a popular neighborhood DJ, which is the same story he’s been telling Mary, their mother. Unlike Mary, Tony doesn’t believe Wes, and he asks Wes again and again. Wes keeps lying until Tony takes a swing at him, punching him in the face. Mary walks in to see…

In The Other Wes Moore author Wes Moore unravels how the other Wes and his fate diverged. Wes#1 and Wes#2 narrate pivotal life events that teach them how to become a man and use the skills they acquire to survive poverty and manhood. Growing up in poverty without a father, as well as, learning to become a man is harsh when one does not have a father figure to look up to and a loving family that encourages success. In order, for both Wes Moores’ to be successful they need parental guidance,…

According to statistics, African American high school student’s graduation rate is at 69 percent. This is impacting since it’s relatable to The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore. Both Wes Moore’s lives significantly took different turns, there outside expectations were for them to fail and to make responsibilities their priorities. Outside expectations contributed to the other Wes because he became part of the stereotype of the average African American male, while Wes proved it wrong.…

The book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore is a nonfiction history of two young men with the same name. Both of them lived in the United States, in the same town, and in the same neighborhood, but one of them made poor decisions, and they ended up in drastically different circumstances. Both young men were born in Baltimore, Maryland, with just a year of difference. There were a lot of alcoholics, drug dealers, and low social class people in Baltimore during the mid-1970s. At the end of the book…