Walter Dean Myers

Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, tells the story about a teenage boy who goes to fight in the Vietnam War. The young boy is a black, seventeen year old and goes by the name of Richie Perry. By the time he graduates from Harlem, he decides he is going to go fight in the Vietnam War for the United States Army. Perry is sent off to basic training and when he is ready to leave for Vietnam he begins to have horrible thoughts and illusions of the war and fighting in the front. Perry has been told…

In chapter 5 of the book Bad Boy, Walter Dean Myers talks about how the summer of 47 was one of eager anticipation for black people across the country. The New York Amsterdam News, his local weekly Negro newspaper. It suggested that the U.S. was now going to treat Negros as equals for the FIRST time. This also was the summer when he could meet his father George Myers. He was a smallish browned skinned man who wore thick glasses Walter describes him as. During that time he also tried to hang a…

This Realistic Novel called Fallen Angels was written By Walter Dean Myers and was publicized in 1988. This book is very controversial and viewed very differently by some people. Which is why I chose to ultimately read it and do a report about. Some people loved this book and some people hated it. I was one of the ones to completely fall in love with this very dramatic and realistic Novel. It was written about the Vietnam War. Walter Dean Myers was a war veteran who enlisted in the war at the…

always frightened the people into hiding. Afraid of facing death in the eye or having your friend die in your arms. But what if there was more to the war then meets the eye? What if you were your own worst enemy? In the novel, Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers uses both the setting and time period to explore controversial topics. He explains how the time period affected the protagonist, Richie Perry, by individualizing him from the rest of the group due to his skin color. He has to overcome the…

In the short story “Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and the novel “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck the main characters changed what they valued in life by resolving an internal conflict. While each character faced a different struggle they both valued family in the end. Kino experiences a change in what is valued in life. Kino’s values change once he found the pearl. When he found the pearl he was more focused on the money that came from the pearls worth instead on focusing on…

The faculty salaries in china are categorized into two; the base salary which is the amount fixed for each step and a variable amount determined by annual performance review. The base salary is paid by the government regardless of institution or discipline with some regional cost of living adjustments. The performance bonus is paid by the institutions, and is determined by system of work point quantifying faculty activities of the year (González, Liu, & Shu, 2012). The size of the bonus is…

Interesting and to be honest the first order of business after viewing the video was to establish a connection between this TAMUC Dr. Dawg and their institution. In general terms to review their academic credentials, as such evidence points to the fact that the individual in the video is Dr. Rusty Waller, Educational Leadership from Texas A&M University- Commerce. Specifically, from their Center for Faculty Excellence and Innovation (Moseley, 2017). Dr. Dawg or Dr. Waller presented within the…

Each professor has a different experience but they all show the importance on creating and keeping a global community. Also, all of these professors have more than 10 years of experience in teaching. Therefore, the result of this small study may not be relevant for adjunct professors, community professors, or professors who are just starting this career. Also, in this sample, all of them experienced traveling abroad, thus this results may not apply for professors who did not traveled abroad.…

For the biographical interview extra credit assignment I interviewed my friend Steven. Steven is a twenty-year-old junior studying communicative disorders at Cal State University, Fullerton. He was born and raised in Placentia and has lived there all of his life. A proud resident of Placentia, Steven would like to stay at Placentia the rest of his life because of the nice weather, the peaceful environment and because all of his family and extended family live in close proximity to him. Steven…

Marcus acknowledged that he didn 't always see eye to eye with his White professors, especially due to the position of power that faculty held, but he treated it as a learning experience. He felt that he was often on "opposing sides of the table": All of these interactions shaped a great understanding of how I engaged what I perceived to be power. It gives me a fuller understanding of how to assert my own power. Even if they were in negative situations, I gleaned some sort of lesson from the…