The film from Homeless to Harvard is about a young girl named Elizabeth referred to as Liz. Liz has an older sister, father, and mother. In the beginning, of the film Liz is a young girl that watches her mother fall into a drug addiction. When her mother falls into drugs, she is no longer able to take care of Liz therefore it leaves Liz to fend for herself. Her father wouldn’t look after her and her sister only cared about going to school. Her family doesn’t show her love her family is always doing their own thing no one really cared about Liz. Liz never really went to school but when she did go to school it was rare. When she got to school it would only be to take test she would always pass, she was smart. When she wouldn’t got to school she would read the encyclopedia. Her teacher was one of the only people who cared about her wellbeing and her education. Liz had no friends in her whole childhood, Liz would get bullied because she was the smelly kid that had lice. Her mother later on left back to her abusive father’s house with her eldest daughter while Liz stayed with her father. Because she wouldn’t show up to school Liz was taken away from her father had to be put in a child care system, another reason was because her father didn’t take care of her and motive her to go to school and get her education. She was able to go back and live with her mother, sister, and grandfather by the age of 15. When Liz went back to her mom she later found out her mother had aids and developed a drinking problem. Liz started going to school again. While in school Liz made a friend named Chris, …show more content…
She wanted to be something in life and not a nothing like bother her parents and sister. She didn’t let any obstacle get in her way what she wanted she tried to get. She wouldn’t take less that an A on anything and made sure that she would get nothing less and if she could she would try to get
Her life changed so rapidly, going from outgoing to a shut-in, laughed at due to her iniquities. Not wanted to deal with the frustrations of public school, she decided to go to Lexington School for the Deaf. She exceled there (well rounded) and was valedictorian her last 2 years
on the atmosphere in which she was living. The scholarship being taken away from her,
“Homeless on Campus” covers that students in college can be homeless, whether the circumstance is that the student has left an abuser, lost a job, or are suffering from drug abuse. Eleanor Bader references Aesha, Johnny Montgomery, and Asad Dahir’s stories of hardship and how they ended up displaced. Aesha left an abusive partner and ended up in a shelter, “It was horrible” she said. Johnny was kicked out of his mother’s house for not getting along wither her boyfriend, “She chose him over me,” he said. Asad was in a refugee camp and was resettled in Ohio with his little brother. Bader uses words such as poverty, problem, and sneaking, giving the report a sad and serious tone. “If seen from the perspective of the students,
She was responsible, stood up to Trujillo, and followed her dreams to go to college and obtain a
of her life at the Civil war, because she loved helping people and that what she decided to do
college. Even though she might have grown up with a hard life, she fought for different ways to
In order to fulfill her dream, she went to school unlike other girls. She learned academic subjects like Latin and Greek. More
who had many struggles in her life. However, regardless of her faults she strived for
In the third act of “Homeless to Harvard’ our protagonist, Liz, is riding the train down to the New York Times office to be interviewed for a twelve thousand dollar scholarship to Harvard, her dream school. This scholarship is the only chance Liz has at affording the tuition at Harvard and without it, she would probably have to return to her life of poverty and homelessness. When she steps off her train in the subway, she immediately notices her old friend Chris sitting on the floor. They were both “at risk” students in high school and developed a friendship after throwing mud at each other in a montage. This friendship was only strengthened after Liz decided she must leave her home after her grandfather pushed her and Chris followed soon
Before setting out, she gave herself a list of rules she had to follow so that her experience would be as real as it could be. Her first rule was when looking for a job she couldn 't mention the skills she had learned from her education. Second, she had to take the highest paying job that was being offered to her. Third, she had to live
In Judy Daniels’ article entitled "Humanistic Interventions for Homeless Students: Identifying and Reducing Barriers to Their Personal Development," the author is successful in describing real-life examples of the effects of homelessness on school-aged children. She starts out with the story of Angie, a high school student who lives in a tent with her mother and two siblings. After being caught for fighting with her classmates, Angie is sent to the counselor’s office where she confesses her frustration with her current living situation.
She wanted to take advantage of every learning opportunity to get the most out of her classes. In the article, she explains how she was an excellent student, and preferred to study all the time then do anything else.
she set out to become she did and fought hard for
One of those characteristics is motivation. She would have had to be extremely motivated in order to accomplish everything that she did. She would have had to go through many years of schooling and she must have had a lot of trial and errors. She had to go through over 300 different experiments in order to find a lipstick that she thought was suitable. Another characteristic that she showed was determination, she had to have been extremely determined to be able to go through all of her science experiments and goals.
In the beginning of the story, she dreams of going to an expensive school for fashion after she graduates. However, she is extremely discouraged and doesn’t know how to get there. She is also unsure if she wants to leave home and if she’s capable of being on her own. After competing in the game show, she learns a lot of things about herself. She learns how to get what she wants by using her wit and charm. She sees that taking risks are worth it, and she finally realizes she has what it takes to fulfill her dreams. Although she is unsure about going to fashion school at the end of the novel, she knows who she is and what she can do.