I Was A Man For My Life

was August, and I was seven months behind on the mortgage. The house had now gone into foreclosure, and on the twenty-eighth, it was going to be auctioned. Despite what that letter said, I still trusted God to perform a miracle. That letter did not faze me a bit. My faith was solid, and nothing or any person was going to shake it. After all, I was following the direction of the Lord.

If you knew that an injustice was occurring,would you sit and let it happen, or would you fight to make a change. In Antigone by Sophocles the main character’s brothers fought and killed each other to be king. After they died only one brother was buried and the other, Polyneices was left unburied and roaming in purgatory. The new king,Creon, made it illegal to bury Polyneices, but Antigone decided that she must bury her brother. Antigone did do the right thing when she buried her brother.

Five days had passed this time since anyone had heard from my mother. I remember praying to God to protect her from harm and for me to find her. The next day she showed up, but not in the way we had hoped. One morning as I was getting ready for school my sophomore year in high school, my phone rang to the voice of my stepfather. My stepfather had told me he heard a call come over the dispatch scanner at his work and my mother’s name was mentioned. The sheriff had informed my stepfather that my mother had been involved in an accident. My stepfather asked me to go to the emergency room and see what condition my mother was in because he lived a half hour away from the hospital. When I arrived at the hospital I found my mother cut out of her clothes, covered in her own urine, massive amounts of blood all over her body, and lying lifeless on life support on the table. At this point, no one knew whether my mother would be okay. My mother had bleeding on the brain as well as a tear in her shoulder, a shattered face, and a chest tube draining fluid from her lung which had collapsed. All I could do was pray! My mother’s life was in God’s hands now. Three days later she woke

In Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”, there is only one main character, Dave Saunders, and a handful of secondary characters. Dave Saunders is a seventeen year old, “long, loose-jointed limbed” African-American boy living in what seems like the South, either in Alabama or Louisiana, judging from the fact that the Illinois Central railroad runs through the area where he lives. Dave is struggling with growing up and is trying to achieve a sense of maturity that he is not yet ready for. His idea of being a mature adult is to own a gun, since all the men he works with on the field own one and practice shooting them. He thinks that if he gets one and shoots with the men, they will

I am going to write a sequel to the short passage, “ The Man Who Was Almost A Man,” which was written by Richard Wright. I am going to start from the time where Dave received the pistol, to the time where he got in trouble.

Nowadays, there are so many short stories, talking about the science fiction, the philosophical, and the allegory in the world and society. One of the most favorite short stories I really like to read in my life was the literature. For me, themes in literature is a sort of the commentary built by thinkers or a simple language to help everyone knows more about the ideas, motifs throughout the stories. Without literature, we lack insight and understanding of human nature between the character and the reader in society. There are one of the most beautiful and famous short stories that I fell in love are called "The Man Who Was Almost a Man." For this story, the author illustrated the effects of education on the human soul and the marriage in life. They believed that knowledge is

I keep on praying and looking for answer from him. Now the hold day it went like this listening and praying to hear from god. Just when it got closed to the time going to church he spoke to me and told me what do. He said when you get there I will tell you the word that I’m going to gave the people. The woman of god ask me do you need the office to get some pace from others that was coming in the church. I said yes then open the door to the office, and just went I open the bible. He gave me the word that I was waiting for all day to gave to the people. The word was that your prayers has been answer! I gave it to the people just as he ask me to do. Now when I was giving this word to the people they was looking at me like, I did not know what I was talking about. I looked at them and said god said this is his word. Prayer his been answered! I did what he said and sat down. Now let me tell you my pastor was not there that night when I gave them the word from

In this short story by Richard Wright “The Man who Was Almost a Man” ,the author focuses on transformation from teenage to adulthood through the protagonist in this story portrayed by a young seventeen year old boy Dave .Growing up in such harsh environment from a very young age has led to Dave's perspective about what being a man is legitimate according to him. The challenges Dave faces through his pre-adulthood years play a vital part towards his forthcoming years as an adult .Dave assumes that to be a man he must have authority and power which hails from a pistol that will empower his masculinity over his friends, coworkers and family members.

First of all I would like to thank Professor Lamb for creating a safe environment to speak openly about our own experiences about drugs and alcohol. Once upon consulting my field instructor earlier this semester, she had posed the question… “Are you just sitting in it?” The “it” referring to my anxieties since my father is an addict. As I reflect on this semester, I believe there were a few times that I was “just sitting in it,” but as I heard some colleagues open-up it instilled a sense of courage and relief that I was not alone. I appreciate that you, Professor Lamb, created a safe and non-judgmental space to share our thoughts, feelings, comments, questions, etc. Thank you for giving us assignments that were not just “busy work” and that challenged us to get comfortable with the uncomfortable.

Intro: “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright, and “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather, are two narratives that explore the journey of two African-American boys who take on unethical measures for control over their oppressed state towards a prosperous future. Many of the problems these characters face are similar but under different circumstances. While Dave Saunders works in a plantation under a white owner, he slaves his life away to support his family. The unequal treatment he receives from his coworkers, Mr. Hawkins his owner, and his own family, only hinder Dave’s self-esteem, and is belittled to feel powerless as a plantation worker. And Paul, although with an education and many more opportunity, he still feels powerless due to his identity and familial relations that do not understand him. Although different stories, both men experience troubles coming from the lack of money, lies, and their struggle of identity lead them to each conquer a different route of controlling their life at the end. While they think a sense of power will help them escape their oppression, it will only guide them into different directions.

In the short story “Being a Man” by Paul Theroux, who explains his severe dislike of being a man and society’s overlook about manhood. He also describes society’s view of generosity and what it means to “be a man”. He argues how society obligates men and women to act in a certain way in regards to their gender roles. Theroux’s argument about how people are being controlled by society’s version of what masculinity represents. Thus, people joint to make certain decisions such as career choices based on society’s expectation instead of their liking. As he describes, certain carriers are not suitable for men or women based on society’s definition of masculinity or feminism. This definition puts pressure on people making important decisions in

On the eve of my twelfth birthday, my father sat me down to have a talk- He says, “Mary Amelia;” his using my full name and not what everyone usually calls me had me paying attention right away. “You’re my only daughter and you’re about to become a young woman. I don’t know much about what I, as a father, should tell you; however, with your momma gone, I feel it is my responsibility to say something in the way of trying to prepare you for womanhood…

Recently, I have understood more about what it means to “lose [one’s] life” (Matthew 16:25). Since my health crash, I have realized that my motivation for most of my actions have been to avoid pain. I wanted to improve things in my family to “avoid the nagging of my wife,” as I told one of my mentors, a temple sealer. He told me, “Brian, that’s fine your motivation is where it’s at; however, the Lord intends you to serve and love your wife as the Savior does. Charity is the deepest and purest motivation for keeping God’s commandments. Brian, it’s okay if that’s what gets you started. I would encourage you to seek deeper motivations through greater gratitude and charity from your Heavenly Father. Your blessings and enjoyment of those blessings from our Heavenly Father depends much upon the ‘WHY’ of your obedience. Is your heart at war? Or is your Heart at peace as you serve others? I know you’ll do great. I believe in you.”

My personal experience of God is based on my life experiences and a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I have experienced God’s presence in my life and I have felt the Holy Spirit guiding me. I first felt God’s call as a teenager and prayed that one day I would become a pastor. But my new Christian faith was not strong enough and I soon succumbed to the desires of this world. I refused to recognize God’s call and it took decades for God’s prevenient grace to bring me back into fellowship with God’s Son. More than a decade ago I felt God’s call again but this time in a completely different way. This time my faith was strong and I had that personal relationship with God’s Son. During my Emmaus Pilgrim Walk in 2007 my teenage prayers came back to me. Calmness overcame me like none I had ever experienced and for the first time in my life I knew that God had set me aside for this purpose. I felt God’s call in a way I had never felt before and I knew that the Spirit had been preparing me all these years to become a pastor. I realize now that God saw me as I could be, not what I was at that time! God never gave up on me and I now believe that God answered my prayers so that everyone else would know that only God could have changed my heart and the direction of my life.

He began a fund-raising project. The goal was a dozen laptops and a server for a school. It would not be any ordinary school. Not one run by the government or dictated by Al Qaeda or the Taliban. One that is open to education for all.