anxiety I was experiencing melted away into a different and faraway land when I ran with the team- “rather, when he sees them, they often remind him if the person he once was and the life he earlier shared with them,” (Rodriguez 341). Cross country provided me with a “mental calm,” (Rodriguez 340) and it was amidst the panting and the burning in my lungs that my greatest thoughts prosper and my separation between home and school
creating a strong community to improve society, Stanford graduate, lecturer, and educational consultant Richard Rodriguez talks about
bell hooks is notable for her stories and numerous works consisting of her knowledge and wisdom regarding: gender, race, and class. She has strong beliefs in these sensitive topics and understands them because of her past experiences. In her story, “Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education”, she is a reliable author because she uses strong opinions aided with emotions and content. Despite bell hooks unintentional use of detailed descriptions throughout her story, hooks establishes credibility
Rita Giordano was a working class college student who, chose to leave her district in order to get an education for herself. In his essay “The Shock of Education,” Alfred Lubrano shares the story of his friend Rita Giordano and her experience leaving her neighborhood to attend Syracuse University. Of this experience Rita explains, “I started feeling like, how do I coexist in these two worlds, college and home (Lubrano 585)?”Although Lubrano shows the college lifestyle as one that could be the reason
Berkeley, along with several co-authors, wrote the essay “Community, Commitment, and Individuality” to showcase an ideal approach to intertwine our heritage with our personal lives to form a strong community of memory and hope. He recounts various life stories demonstrating critical events in the individuals’ lives to illustrate the presence or lack of a functioning community of memory and hope. While Bellah et al. focuses on utilizing knowledge from our heritage