The Importance Of Traveling To Puerto Pe単asco, Mexico

Volunteering at the St. Luke’s showed me that poverty comes in all forms. In the four hours I volunteered at St. Luke’s, we had all kinds of people come in for a meal. Hispanic, Black, White, Asian, men, women, old, and young can all experience poverty. The experience at St. Luke’s also showed me how, despite the resurgence of some parts of Buffalo, there are still many people experiencing difficult times, and they could use a little help from others in the community. () Helping out those people that need it is definitely a good way to build

The assignment that really inspired me was writing about the video, From Homeless to Howard, where we learned about peoples perception, and stereotypes. I would like to say that watching the video with James Ward was amazing, he’s 19 and his perception of the world is a lot different from those who had never been homeless or had to carry adult duties at such a young age. During the video, I tried to imagine what my life would have been like if I were homeless and so young. I know that my perception of the world would be a lot different. The things that I complain about now, wouldn’t be my biggest issue. Surviving while homeless would be my concern.

Based on the article “Changing the Face of Poverty” the issue that Diana George is responding to is poverty and its representation in the world. George first discusses how the nonprofit organization Habitat for Humanity tries to eliminate poverty by constructing houses for Americans who are suffering because of poverty. However, she states that the images which the nonprofit organization uses are pictures that try to “evoke the desire to give or to act, so that the benefactors don’t turn away” (George 240). These pictures may not completely depict all people who are suffering from poverty.

I was issued to travel to the monstrous Guadalupe Mountains in Salt Flat, Texas. To give you a sense of where it is, it’s in West Texas near El Paso, and extends into New Mexico. The address is 400 Pine Canyon Salt Flat, TX 79847. Source: Geology of National Parks by Harris, Ester Tuttle, and Sherwood D. Tuttle. Because of the intense thunderstorms/high winds during the summer and occasional snow during the winter, I chose October. There’s calmer weather, cooler temperatures (between 50’s and 70’s), and vibrant fall colors. Source: Geology of National Parks by Harris, Ester Tuttle, and Sherwood D. Tuttle. After reading up on some of the history, the Guadalupe Mountains got it’s name from the ranchers that homesteaded in the Guadalupe

Many people tend to take things for granted. We overlook the things that some people wished they had so they can live without struggle. It usually just comes so easily for us and we don’t realize how hard other people’s lives are. Jeannette Walls knows firsthand what it’s like to be without these modern luxuries. In her memoir, “The Glass Castle” she writes about how she sometimes grew up without things like a place to live, clothes to wear, food on the table, electricity to power the house and keep her warm. In her upbringing, her parents never really supplied her with the things she needs or took very good care of her so she learned how to survive with the little she got. She learns throughout her life that she should never take anything for granted and to appreciate the good things in life because she doesn’t get most of the essentials that other people have normally. Throughout the story she always knew to be grateful and value every little thing she got because she didn’t get much.

After landing in Mexico and meeting up with the people I would be working with during a three-day mission trip, we were crammed into a bus and spent the next two hours getting to know each other. We were there to build homes for a multitude of families in the town of Xochimilco, Mexico. When we arrived late in the afternoon, we were led to an empty school where we would spend our nights. Sleeping on the floor next to school lockers with bugs buzzing in my ears in a country I did not know well was an interesting experience to say the least—but that was just the beginning. At dawn, the real work began and so did a change in my thinking that had a dramatic effect on my perspectives about life.

Every country around the globe has its own unique culture, social belief and structure, and values. American culture is not different in this regard. Two of the most significant values of American culture are a strong work ethic and the competitive spirit. This paper will examine how these values define American culture, how these values affected me personally growing up, and how these values influence my attempts to influence others.

Growing up in one of the most neglected zip codes of Miami, I have faced challenging obstacles all my life. These challenges were not only limited to financial worries, they included peer issues as well as moral ones. Growing up in a neighborhood where police lights and drug dealing were the norm taught me valuable life lessons that most people could never understand. I believe this upbringing has molded me into the person I am today, a person who sees hardships as a way to grow and excel, a person who sees life through a producer mindset, rather than a consumer one.

The Dogs of Bloodshed ANIMAL FARM Camryn Cooper- Quiroz P2 - January 30, 2015Introduction In the novel Animal Farm, the nine dogs represent the Secret Police of the Russian Revolution. The dogs are led by Napoleon, who represents Joseph Stalin, and follow every word he says and command given out.

Immediately I was introduced to an unimaginable degree of poverty. Hungry families were living in small rundown shacks. Soon after sunrise construction began- building a volunteer bunkhouse and renovating families homes. With growing mold, broken utilities, and overall structural deterioration, homes were unsafe living conditions for any human being, let alone a family.

For Esperanza, the House on Mango Street is “not the house we thought we’d get,” (Cisneros 3). It is “the house [she] is ashamed of” (Cisneros 106); she desperately yearns to live in a big house with “real stairs… a basement and at least three washrooms” (Cisneros 4). However, in many ways, this house and this dream are unattainable. One of the many things that keeps minorities in poverty is the fact that as minority families move into a neighborhood, slightly wealthier white families move out of it. “Esperanza is aware of how white residents have fled the community to avoid sharing space with people whom they consider to be beneath them” (Roszak 66). A study from Brandeis University shows that this experience is not unique to this book, in fact, housing equity is a large factor in racial socioeconomic inequality. “Residential segregation artificially lowers demand, placing a forced ceiling on home equity for [minorities] who own homes,” (Shapiro 3) thus making it harder for minority families to get out of poverty at all as their houses, a major source of investment, lose value compared to inflation. Esperanza’s family has dreamed of the bigger house, and yet, the house they own is this one, the one on Mango Street. Even if they were to succeed in getting a bigger house, the house of their dreams, it is likely that house too would become less valuable and keep them in poverty. Other women show that the cycle of poverty is hard to break, for various reasons. Ruthie, the daughter of an apartment owner on Mango Street, failed to escape poverty also. She “had lots of job offers when she was young” but instead married and “moved away to a pretty house outside of the city,” (Cisneros 69) using marriage as her source of upward mobility. Unfortunately, her “fairy tale” escape from Mango

Seeing a kid who will hold a gun before they hold their first book. Seeing a teenager my age injecting himself with heroin instead of injecting himself with knowledge. Seeing an elderly person who, when looking back at their life, will remember nothing but memories of misery. These things can't be read in a book or seen on a television. The truth is, you will never understand what people are truly going through until the day you look at them in the eyes. With members of my team, I worked tirelessly to build a home for a man named Serafin who no longer had a roof to live under in the slum. It was both the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, and the most rewarding. Serafin now had a home where he and his family could live in, and I had a new set of eyes to look at the world through. Later that day, I experienced what life was on the other side of the spectrum. Ironically enough, hours after being in Ciudad Bolivar, I found myself at a family wedding in one of Colombia's most luxurious country clubs. Most people were wearing articles of clothing and accessories that individually were worth more than everything a person in Ciudad Bolivar would own in their

Philip shares with me his personal experiences working with the individuals who found themselves living on the streets during the years of 1986-1996. He explains why eventually he dealt solely with those individuals who would not go in to the missions and shelters or even accept food from the mobile soup wagons. Philip relives the moment that he first realized that houseless people were not in their current situation because of a life misled or because they were lazy or criminal, as may be the common

Nigeria would be of a seed if there was any Nigeria before 1914. Britain was so ambitious to change our way of life; hence Biafra problem started. Maybe Biafra would be beautiful and civilized if there was no Fredrick Lugard in 1914. Lugard tampered with what was organic that has led to early graves over 5 million Biafrans, that was when Biafrans rejected fact of being unjust. The death of the over five million Biafrans cannot be in vain. Then read the New York Times report of 1966, 1968, 1969 and 1970 about the persecution of the Biafran people. We must agree that Nigeria was created as a trap to destroy Biafran people and to serves the interest of Britain. Radio Biafra (Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of IPOB) has made it clear that Biafrans do not understand what Nigeria

The following week, we spent most of our time in the poorest parts of the city. There we went door-to-door sharing the love of God and had Vacation Bible Schools for the kids. This is when I realized how blessed I truly was. For the first time, I got to see the privations and penury environment that the citizens of Third World countries had to endure. The unpaved streets were covered in trash. Many houses, made of tin sheets, had collapsed on themselves. The people had to share wells, where they drew their parasitic water. Men, women, and children sat on the sides of the roads begging for money, because they were sick, hungry, and needed money for food and proper medication. The site of these atrocious states of living broke my heart, and showed me how blessed I really was for not having to face these problems.