When We Were Very Young

When Youth Work Is Supposed To Be Difficult This morning I had a great chat with a leader of a national youth project that develops events and camps where young people are expected to work hard, study and learn more about God. It runs totally counter to much of our popular youth work models, but is also exponentially growing and spreading nationally every year, developing incredibly enthusiastic and mature young people. In contrast, one of the most popular youth work models of the last few…

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore (2011), there are many topics that can be explored. One topic that continuously constructed is a young drug dealer. In chapter three, someone displays money and headset for the other Wes if he works in the drugs, and the other Wes starts to sell the drugs. Furthermore, the other Wes and his friend “ Woody” use the drugs with older kids. In chapter four, the other Wes sells the drugs, but he lies for his mother and brother. Moreover, Wes…

Soldier’s Heart we can see what it was like fighting as a young soldier. In the two books there are many similarities and differences but the two books are still very similar. These two books are very different with the same theme. They are also very similar without being the exactly alike as far as the story itself. Soldiers Heart and Red Badge of Courage are very correlated but still diverse. While reading the two books there are still many alterations which make them both very intriguing. In…

A Scandal in Bohemia We have been telling stories ever since the first cave paintings. Stories are important to any society. When you’re young your parents/grandparents would tell you stories about some amazing people and not so amazing people. My grandma would tell me stories about anything you could think of, ‘’One day John and Steve went to go get water for their family and a big brown bear came out of the woods running at Steve and without hesitation John picked up the biggest stick he…

When we 're born, we begin life as a blank slate, but as we grow older, we 're conditioned by media and society. Within this American culture, we 've so quietly become nescient to the effects of normalization in media, and advertisements. The government has found ways to poison our culture, by tainting our media with such lethal evil. Though media has provided us with many positive gains, with this great gift comes a price. Even though media can be quite educational, I argue that media can be…

poem “We Real Cool” written by the first African-American to win a Pulitzer for Poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks discusses how she came across a group of young men at a pool hall, and what she thought they were feeling. Gwendolyn Brooks does a great job of discussing the issues, which African Americans faced during the time of the poem’s publication in the 1950’s in Chicago. Brooks does so in a clear and concise way that engages the readers by using alliteration, rhyme, and monosyllabic words. So when…

As we look back at many of the well written stories of American literature it is easier for us to get a tiny glimpse into how far we have come not only as a nation but also as human beings. Through much reading and research, we are able to look into the minds and imagination of many of the greatest writers. I would like to compare and contrast two great stories for that long list of great works. “The Most Dangerous Game” authored by Richard Connell and “Young Goodman Brown” authored by…

Erich Remarque is a story about the lives of a young group of German soldiers who fight on the French front during World War One. The book is narrated by a young man named Paul Baumer. Paul and several of his friends enlist into the army right out of high school due to the moving patriotic speeches by their schoolmaster. However, at the front lines they learn that war is nothing like they anticipated. Through the viewpoints of these characters Remarque very accurately portrays the horrors of the…

As we go through life, all humans must eventually lose their innocence. This loss of innocence may happen in their last few seconds alive, or it may happen very early on in life for them. For the people who lose their innocence early on in life, they have to live with all of the dreadful things they may have seen, and also deal with the consequences. Loss of innocence can be defined as the negative aspects of growing up. It’s a very common theme in many texts. Characters are exposed to many bad…

What if you were on trial for first degree murder? In the movie 12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose, a young eighteen year old male was on trial for supposedly murdering his own father. The twelve men on the jury were faced with different opinions and facts that questioned their morals and values in life. I feel as if this movie did have “worth” in my life. I think the movie had worth because no one should ever be stereotyped, judged, and accused based on what other people say. I feel strongly about…