No High School Or College Diploma

After graduating high school, Duddy finds a job as a waiter at Laurentian Mountains. He leaves his family back home and goes to work to prove that he is capable of making money. He accepts a challenging waiter job to show his uncle that he is as skillful as his brother, Lennie. Most of the employees at Laurentian Mountains are college students, “...first and second year McGill boys” (64), other than Duddy. Most of the college boys come from “more prosperous families and Duddy found it difficult”(64).

In 1986 when the two oldest sons of Jerry and Janie Murrell decided not to attend college, they made a decision that ultimately changed their family’s lives forever. As supportive parents, the Murrell’s used the money intended for their tuition to open a hamburger take-out shop in Arlington, Virginia to keep the boys close to home and employed (Boone and Kurtz, 2012, p. 78). The restaurant was named Five Guys and a Burger, after their family of five sons. With hard work and dedication, Five Guys has flourished to over six hundred franchises in America and Canada, and has persistently multiplied despite the recent

also dropped out of school in the eighth grade. According to the PBS website “he already had a

"I'm so sorry. You're right, this is all because of my dad and you have

Alessandro Rago gazed off into the horizon, on his rural farm in the mountains of southern Italy, which had been untouched by the new industrious technologies. These changes had not yet climbed their way into these treacherous mountains, a season of failed crops would likely kill off many of the village, for the people were already impoverish. However, there was hope of a new life, a land of unknown, but growing opportunity, America. Alessandro moved to Chicago, where he made a new life for himself and his family. Starting with a farmer looking for a chance in the new world, the generations that have come before me have shaped a family history that I can be proud of continuing.

In the essay “Working at Wendy’s,” Joey Franklin tells his story about how and why he got into the exact situation he was in, working at Wendy’s. At first he seemed as though he was embarrassed of applying there. “The urge to leave increases,” he states as he waits for the manager to come greet him. He even feels out of place filling out the application wishing that he had a reason to be there such as actually having a meal. But through the course of the essay you see the difference in how he describes his work place and how he feels about it.

David Goodman eked out a minimal living for his family by working for a tailor in a sweatshop. To help alleviate the family’s poverty, the children were urged to work as soon as they were old enough.

Janie would always respect Joe even though he was a jerk to her at times. She would put up with ever he had to say and she never talked back. Eventually, one day Janie was so fed up with it and decided to strike back verbally. Joe was haggling her a bit as he usually does. He was accusing her of cutting a cigar wrong.

Salvatore “Buddy” Scotto, a young funeral home owner, was the son of Italian immigrants who had lived in the neighborhood his entire life and tried to get his parents to move with him out to the suburbs just as many of their friends were doing at the time. When his parents refused, claiming a distrust of suburban non-Italian whites, Scotto took matters into his own hands and decided to build up the neighborhood so his neighbors and friends would prefer to stay (Osman,

Jack Rogers graduated from high school last year. Post-secondary education was never a consideration as Jack’s family and many of their friends viewed education as a luxury and not a necessity; just “getting a job” was the dream. However, Jack had never had a summer job because in the community where he lived, jobs were scarce and adults vied with teens for employment. Jack’s mother and grandmother lived in government assisted housing and neither owned a car. There were jobs 45 minutes away, but Jack just couldn’t get there. In order to make money, Jack started his own personal business for himself; he sells marijuana.

On the first day when he was introduced to us, Joe was very nervous and very unsure of not only if he still wanted to work, but also of the age group that was working at Wendy’s. Like some of the people we were later introduced to, such as his father, he too, at first, thought this job would look shameful: as if he was not qualified to do anything more with his life. In his mind he will be judged, for example, in paragraphs 45-49, his dad acts as if Wendy’s was an absolute tragedy even saying “When did that happen?”, in a very

Firstly, Junior is often left to fend for himself because there is not enough money to go around. It states “My dad was supposed to pick me up. But he wasn’t sure if he’d have enough gas money.” (Alexie 87). This displays how Junior parents usually don’t have enough money to get him to and from school. Junior still does not stop him from going to school at Rearden, because this is one of his all time goals. Even though Junior has to face all of these setbacks he still manages to have good grades. Moreover, sometimes Junior has to lie about how much money h has just so that it is easier for him to continue attending Rearden. “My parents gave me just enough money so that I could pretend to have more money than I did.” (Alexie 119). This displays how Junior must lie about how much money he actually has. Even though Junior has very little money himself he doesn't allow this to impact his academics. Therefore, even though Junior has many struggles because he lives in poverty he still works hard to design and build his own path for the

When Colin was about 25 months old, his father was reading the newspaper one morning and Colin says “Three deed on West Side” his father asks what he said and colin repeated himself, “Three deed on West Point. I want french fries please thank you.” his father looked at him in amazement. “CINDY! THE BOY IS READING THE PAPER!” Colin Singleton’s parents really, really enjoyed reading. Colin’s mother taught French at the notable and expensive Kalman School, his father was a sociology professor at Northwestern University. When Colin read the newspaper his parents realized that he wasn’t a regular child. His parents took him to a preschool for gifted children. Colin was too advanced for the school and he also wasn’t yet potty trained, so his parents took him to a psychologist at the University of Chicago.

People should have a high school diploma before they get a driver's licences for two reasons they are, some people are too immature to be handling a driver's license, some people who do have a driver's licence but no car sometimes don’t really have enough education about how to drive cars, but for a counter claim ;however, Most people would learn at a younger and better age to drive than those who learn to old and have some difficulties remembering.

Between the 1929 and 1939, The Great Depression struck the lives of many families, “living under cardboard, poverty, homelessness, jobless” and much more. However, Joe’s early childhood was just more than that. His early experiences set him to learn many lessons for a life time. There was very minimal support from who he called his family, a his cowardly father, sick mother, his devastated brother, and now his heartless stepmother. Just as things seemed to be settling and normal for the disadvantaged young man, things began to fall apart again as a never ending tragedy to him. At their new home, Thula grew frustrated with anxiety about her limited practice to become a future violinist as well as her barbaric character in raising her stepson whom she didn’t have an ounce of respect, sympathy, or care for. The hardworking and self-determined Joe grew up to always being interested in learning and actively working. He had a passion for gardening which the family used in need of their hunger and use of scarce food. As tension boiled over summery days and nights, Thula grew harsher and harsher towards Joe to a point where she informed Harry about his habits and threatened to leave him if he hadn’t let Joe go. Harry, being the coward and forlorn father he was, chose to arrange Joe with a schoolteacher and schoolhouse to make Thula’s life at home easier. From the passages in Chapter 2, the reader is able to understand how depressing, miserable, and hard Joe’s childhood was. It