Upward Bound

spindly legs, wearing a pair of khaki shorts, his eyes fixed on the ground. The man grabbed the boy's ear and jerked his head upwards, with his other hand forcing an orange into the boy's face.” (Naidoo, 11-12). In the story "Out of Bounds. 2000,” an Indian boy named Rohan lived in the suburbs described as the "squatters" they move next door as being "out of bounds." The community would supplying them with water when needed. But when more young men such as him move to that area fear of theft…

6 Movie Paper: The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is a classic 1980’s John Hughes movie that exemplified many social psychology theories and ideas. The movie opens at Shemer High School with five students who are dropped off by their guardian for an all-day Saturday detention. These students are Andrew, Claire, Brian, John, and Alison from varying social groups. Each student is assigned a stereotypical nickname with John Bender designated “The Criminal", Andrew Clark is "The Athlete", Brian…

For my first outside listening experience, I decided to address one of the tutorials I went to in Upward Bound at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. I attended this tutorial on Tuesday, September 26th. Our councilor is Brandelyn Hall. That following evening she asked some of the students, who were seniors, to stay after for the workshop about financial aid. Generally, our tutorials are always held in Merrick Hall. Before, all the students dismiss to the specific…

times they had raided newsstands, fruit stands, and apartments” (Wright 17). The friends of Bigger have a big effect on whether or not he has control over his future, because if he keeps on hanging with them and doing these reckless things, he is bound to get caught, and his destiny will be…

A strong work ethic, as my father says, can get a person anywhere they want to be. Eight years ago at young age, I witnessed one of my epiphany moments of my life. Up until that point, I never really considered myself a “hard worker”. However, even if I was failing at something, I never gave up. My parents thought me perseverance, hard work and determination. This in all gives me the work ethic I need to accomplish anything. Growing up on two completely different part of the world has made a…

Nathaniel Hawthorne “was born on July 4, 1804” (Carton 2). When he lost his father, at age four, it was so devastating because he never had the privilege of knowing who his father was. When a child loses a parent at such a young age, the imagination creates pretend memories. When he was old enough, he began searching for facts to fill in the gaps of those memories. “He supplemented the images of his father’s nautical life that he gleamed from the logbooks by reading travel narratives, histories,…

family church, Davis Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. As a youth, she expanded her activities into ice skating, playing volleyball, and participating in the NAACP. While in high school, she added involvement in Junior Achievement and Upward Bound, and as well as working part-time at the San Pablo Library. Herlisa attended all public schools in Richmond, Calif., including Cortez Elementary School, Adams Junior High, and Kennedy High School. After high school, she attended the…

Because social mobility was, in fact, an important part of society, people were able to start as the lowest of low on the social class ladder and move their way up in a variety of ways, both in Andersen’s stories, and in Denmark in the nineteenth century. In the tale “The Sweethearts,” the top makes its climb up the ladder with the help of others. The top is shown lower on the social ladder immediately when its proposes to the ball laying next to it in a drawer. The ball immediately refuses, and…

Eliot explores a myriad of interpretations of the meaning of logos in the Four Quartets through Einstein’s theory of Relativity, by examining it through the bending of space and time, ultimately using this lens to arrive at the conclusion of the Incarnation. This curvature of spacetime opened the doors to the reality of a new method of understanding the world: non-Euclidean Geometry. Non-Euclidean Geometry differs from several key postulates of traditional Euclidean Geometry. These reworked…

Fear, horror, death, and gloom are prominent traits of Gothicism, a dark type of Romanticism, a style prominent throughout the 18th and 19th century. Edgar Allan Poe, a well-known gothic writer has written many works, two of his works, “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Pit and the Pendulum”, are perfect examples of gothic literature. In “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Poe introduces the Usher family, an ill and suffering family, both physically and mentally. With only two heirs left,…