...a father, or father figure, are extremely important in the child’s adolescence and adulthood. In The Other Wes Moore, by Wes Moore, male figures, specifically male role models, play an important part in both Wes Moores’ lives and young boy’s lives in general, eventually making or breaking their future. The author, Wes Moore has many important male role models in his life that enable him to live up to his full potential. Uncle Howard, taking the place of Moore’s deceased father, encourages Moore to strive for higher education over a career in basketball one day as they play the game in their neighborhood. This example clearly depicts the influence of Uncle Howard on Wes Moore, the author, in his education and the influence that eventually earned Moore more opportunities in his later life, such as careers and scholarships. The harsh reality that Uncle Howard speaks to Moore and the emotional support he gives, helps Moore to get back on the right track and create a better and...
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...The Other Wes Moore "The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his"-Wes Moore (author). Wes Moore is an author who wrote a book about himself and someone else he knows who is coincidentally also named Wes Moore. The book is called The Other Wes Moore, and it takes place from 1982 to 2000. Currently, the other Wes Moore is in jail for murder of a police officer, robbery, and drug-dealing. The lives of both Wes Moores were affected by role models. The author Wes's role model was a military school sergeant; the other Wes's role model was a drug-dealer. The role models people choose will affect them later on in life. One example of how role models affected the other Wes's life is when...
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...Wes Moore's The Other Wes Moore represents the lives of two. Wes Moore, the author, becomes a Rhodes Scholar when he learns of another man who is about to be sentenced to life in prison for killing a police officer. At the time, the two Moore live near each other and are about the same age. However, they both took dramatically different path. They both have similarities, such as being African-American young men who grew up with single parent. Both showed intelligence early in life. Both also had early trouble with the law, similar child life experiences, and the same setbacks in life. Some of these problems included drugs, violence, poverty, and an absent father. But the Moore who ended up in prison faced more challenges. His mother was a drug addict; he lived in a very drug-infested neighborhood, and was engaged in the drug trade at a...
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...Cited Moore, Wes. The other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2010. Print. Deja Murray Dr. Lee Introduction to Sociology 4/22/14 The Other Wes Moore Assignment Question 1): The life of Wes Moore incorporates several sociological topics discussed in this course. Discuss how the culture of both Wes 1 and Wes 2 impacted their personalities and outlook on life resulting in different outcomes? Culture is defined as specific behaviors or beliefs of characteristics from a particular social, ethnic, or age group that defines the quality of that person. Both Wes 1 and Wes 2 derived from the same city and unfortunately one lived his dream while the other didn’t. Wes 1 father was not there because he couldn’t be and the other Wes 2 father chose not to be. The absence of a father or male figure in a teenager life coincides with their behavior while growing up. “We’re going to mourn their absence in different ways” (Moore pg3). Although their names were the same they lived two completely different lives. While Wes1 was dealing with the death of his father Wes 2 was dealing with the fact that his father wanted nothing to do with him. This tremendously impacted their lives. Wes 1 mother decided to move to the Bronx’s were drugs and the streets changed, leaving nothing but trouble and the act of skipping school for Wes 1. While on the other hand Wes 2 was born and raised in the Bronx and his mother was not bringing in much money leaving Wes 2 with...
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...Other Wes Moore’ tells a story about two boys with similar names, similar backgrounds, growing up in similar neighborhood in Baltimore. Despite their many similarities, the choices they each made are what granted them separate fates. The author, Wes Moore, ends up as a graduate of John Hopkins University, a White House fellow, an army officer and the co-author of the book. The other Wes Moore ends up as a thief, drug dealer and a convicted killer. It is not luck that determines their different fate in life, but rather their mothers who influenced their futures. In ‘The Other Wes Moore’, the author Wes Moore illustrates that if children do not have strong parental figures and proper guidance, they will not be successful in life. Among the numerous factors that led the two Wes Moores to different paths, their mothers played the most vital role. The other Wes’s mother, Mary, does not provide the guidance that her son requires so desperately. After skipping school and partying with his friends, Wes returned to his house visibly intoxicated. Instead of being concerned, Mary and her boyfriend seemed to be entertained by Wes’s state saying, “Well, at least now you know how bad it feels and you will stay away from drinking” (Moore 62). Instead of giving some sort of punishment, or talking to him about smoking and alcohol, Mary ignored the situation. She allowed him to suffer through his hangover, hoping that he will learn his lesson. As she did not address her concern directly, Wes believed...
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...Unity is a goal that many have strived to achieve in their lifetime. However, the interference of others, international and local events, and actions of society tend to inhibit this goal. Everyone has different beliefs and viewpoints of how they see the world around them, and each and every person is undergoing their own personal hardships. Communities and individuals across the globe are struggling, while others are offered numerous opportunities to achieve their goals. If possible, the people who are capable of providing aid to the less fortunate should do so, and United Way Worldwide allows this to occur. United Way Worldwide impacts the lives of adults and children as they connect people to create long-lasting solutions to enhance positive identities through the education of youths. United Way Worldwide unites individuals for multiple causes, and one of the main problems they focus on is strengthening the identities by improving education for all, especially youth. They embrace “a comprehensive approach to education that spans all the way from cradle to career” (“United Way Worldwide- Education”). Many of the children that are helped by this organization live in poverty, so they do not have the same opportunities or personal development as others living in economically stable conditions. According to Louisiana State University Online, “Students who live in...
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...Wes Moore vs Wes Moore The author Wes and the other Wes Moore are very different and similar. At the beginning, they were somewhat the same. They both got in trouble with the law at a young age. But what separates them was what their family's expectations were and there plans for the future. For example, the author Wes was sent to military school after his mother found out about his wrongdoings. While Wes Moore was going into drugs even after his mother found out. She didn't send him military school because they couldn't afford it. So the best thing she could do was tell him to quit. Wes Moore and Author Wes Moore were similar in some ways like getting into trouble when they were young. The author Wes Moore got in trouble from displaying graffiti with his friend: “I never wanted another person to have control over my body gain”(Moore 75). The other Wes Moore started drug dealing like his brother Tony. Secondly, they similarly had the absence...
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...On page 126 of The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, Wes makes the comment, “The expectations that others place on us form our expectations of ourselves.”. This becomes a central quote in the book and encompases the theme of The Other Wes Moore. When Wes makes this comment, he is pointing out that other people influence our personal goals and aspirations for ourselves. When other people; be it parents, friends, or teachers; place expectations on us, we tend to believe those expectations ourselves. For example, both Wes Moore’s grew up in communities that had low expectations for its children and teens- to just be a drug dealer and make money. The author-Wes had a mother that stuck to her word and had high expectations for his future; and even with that positive role model in his life expecting more of him, he had to work hard and sacrifice his time to beat his community’s expectations and expect himself to become successful. On the other hand, the other Wes did not have...
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...the building blocks of who we become and how we act? Due to the complex human structure and development, both psychologists and sociologists have looked to the ideas of nature and nurture for answers, but have grown more puzzled than ever. Often, society chooses to promote the one they may think causes the greater impact, but how do we determine that? In psychology, nature refers to an individual’s innate qualities (or in other terms; genetics) while nurture refers to personal experiences; both of which consists of multiple factors that will soon paint a bigger picture of...
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...physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. This is a positive definition which defines health as being fit and able to undertake reasonable task. The criticisms are that the definition deals with “a state rather than a process” and puts no boundaries on what is considered as ‘health’. (Macionis J. et al 2012 p. 741) The conditions recognised as illnesses differ quite significantly from one society to another. Illness is thought to be any obvious departure from a sickness that is subject to medical treatment. There is difference of opinion in most people mind between who think they are ill or and those who are really ill. In modern society doctors have the role of deciding who is truly ill. If the doctor decides that a person is ill then a series of benefits will follow either formal or informal. Formal help is where the doctor will give medical help such as treatment or time off work or college. Whereas informal help is like giving sympathy or release the ill person from household duties and so on. However, if they decide that a person is not really ill, that person will receive no benefit and could be open to accusations of malingering. (Macionis J. et al 2012 p.741) For doctors to decide who is really ill, they used a particular scientific measure of health and illness. This is known as the biomedical model. This model is widely used in western countries. In Britain it is...
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...Movie Review We Were Soldiers Burt Thomas Liberty University CRIS303 – B01 Movie Review We Were Soldiers We Were Soldiers is a movie written and directed by Randall White. It is based on a book, We Were Soldiers Once…and Young: Ia Drang, the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Lt. Col. Hal Moore and Joe Galloway. It details the account of both men, as well as the men under Moore’s command during the battle of the Ia Drang Valley. The battle takes place early in the Viet Nam War and the movie provides a historical, as well as dramatic recount of the battle and the lives of the men who fought it. Movie Synopsis A narrator begins the movie by retelling the story of the French involvement in the early days of the Viet Nam War. There is a graphic depiction of violence as the French soldiers are killed, and the viewer is briefly introduced to Lt. Col. Nguyen Huu An. Lt. Col An would later command the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) soldiers during the battle with Moore’s soldiers. Eleven years later, the army is establishing an air cavalry division and Lt. Col. Moore is selected to command them. Mel Gibson, in the role of Lt. Col. Moore enlists the help of Maj. Bruce “Snake” Crandall, played by Greg Kinnear. Crandall’s crew of pilots is made up of a motley group of men and his pilots and equipment are considered to be some of the best in the Army at the time. The division is redesignated as the 7th Cavalry, and Moore notes the irony in its designation - this is the same...
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...interpretation. From birth, we mingle our kids to take up sex roles of either young boys or girls. The decisions that we make as guardians and instructors, starting with the colors we decide for their nursery, the apparel we dress them in and the way that we treat them, all add to the sexual orientation parts those kids interpretation. Youngsters will inevitably build up their predispositions about gender roles and what it implies in our general public. Those inclinations add to how the tyke, and in the long run the youthful grown-up, will see the world and decipher the pictures around him/her. I need to take a look at how perception or interpretation...
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...bouncing back from hardship, going though life we encounter all sorts of obstacle that can either be good or bad, beneficial or non beneficial, resilience is someone’s way of coming back and still moving on with life after encountering something negative. Resilience is defined as one person’s ability to adapt or cope with stress and tribulation (Helen Splarn, 2012). In this essay I will taking about theorist Andrew fuller and his theory and definition of resilience and I will also be outlining the factors, both negative and positive that contribute to resilience in health care consumers, which are us, every day people and also health care professionals, those who severe in the medical field, doctors, nurses, surgeons, GP’s etc. Andrew fuller, clinical psychologist and Generation Next speaker defines resilience as “the strongest antidote we know for self harm, depression and drug abuse and is all built up on our sense of belonging” (Andrew Fuller, 2106). A person’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances at a young age shall later on influence how well they cope with schooling, social integration and future academic and work opportunities (Andrew Fuller, 2016). Andrew Fuller links the importance of keeping an optimistic point of view and thinking positively and seeing the positives of an outcome rather than the negatives about what happens on the course of life is vital in the establishment of an individual’s resilience. For example, we all have subjects that were not strong in...
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...Ice Cream is in trouble. They have suffered from a lack of leadership, poor management, lack of marketplace knowledge and a dysfunctional team. Due to these reasons, they have found themselves in a position where their third-largest customer, Stay & Shop, has decided to replace them with the Sealtest line in all of their southeast region supermarkets within the next 90 days. This decision has caused the company, and their leader, Charlie Moore, to go into panic mode in an attempt to keep the business afloat, while also increasing revenue and expanding the product line while facing external stressors that include the competition introducing premium and “mix-in” flavors and the sagging consumption of ice cream. The Issues and Problems After a lengthy review of the case study, I have come to recognize three distinct problems that CIC faces. They have an unclear and undefined mission statement, lack of voice among their executive leadership team, and a failed leader in Moore. A mission statement “basically answers one question: How do we intend to win in this business?” (Welch, p. 14) CIC is without a clear mission statement CIC cannot move into the future and be competitive. “At the end of the day, effective mission statements balance the...
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...Introduction to Personality Tyanda Trent PSY/405 November 18, 2013 Patti Tolar Introduction to Personality In doing the assignment the essayist took opportunity to educate herself and readers of this essay on personality. In the following passage the essayist will give the definition of personality. She will also give reason for how an individual’s personality is developed. The essayist will also research theoretical approaches in studying personality. Last, the essayist analyzes some of the factors that influence an individual’s personality. After reading this essay, the essayist wants readers to have clarity on the theory of personality. Defining Personality The word personality originates from the “persona”, meaning the covering that an actor can wear during Greek and Roman drama performances (Feist & Feist, 2006). The reason for them to wear the mask is to cover a deceptive appearance to portray the character in which they are playing. The present-day description of personality is not the deceitfulness of character or appearance; however, it is the action of apparent behavior that can be the label of certain physiognomies and traits of an individual. The physiognomies give the understanding of an individual, to include intelligence, physical ability, and attitude. According to Theories of Personality, personality involves, “…a pattern of relatively permanent traits and unique characteristics that give both consistency and individuality to a person’s behavior”...
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