Blossoming SarahW

Renita

First that's a very good question some people may think that with success follows value but that's so not true. But at the same time there are some who have been blessed with success but they also have values which they broadcast to the world. So many people expire to be rich and famous sad to say most of them end up alone. There's an old time belief that one can have all the money in the world but all that glitter and gold means nothing when there's no one to love and to share it with. My values, morals, ethics at the end of the day is all i have to stand on. Yes i want to be successful that's why i am in school but that doesn't mean i have to put my values on the back burner, in fact they should shine as brightly as ever cause without them i would just be a dreamer never taking action to actually do. At times people start out having values but put them down because it's not the popular thing to do or because of the money. But i hold close to my chest the belief that everything popular isn't right and everything right isn't popular it keeps me in check. People judge Lealan and Lloyd because they chose a different route, the sight of kids dealing, cutting class, made them even more determine share they're story with the world. At young age they learned a lesson that takes most well into there mid 20 and so on. That it takes more to stand then to sit any day of the weak. So yea i am sure people had jokes called them names but at the same time that negative energy was out phased by the positive. Showing that no good deed goes unpunished.

SarahW

I ask this question because i believe that when reading you should always get something out of it, and not that it was just a good book but maybe gain some knowledge or a new found prospective you maybe didn't have before. Our America opened my eye's to how intelligent young kids can be. Tupac once said a rose can grow from the crack even in a place where there is no sunshine. The story was witty, informational, real to the heart, and had Superior writing skills for someone of there age. It inspired me to stand strong and never give up on my values even when faced with a tough crowd against me. Going to Columbia is just a stepping stone to the things i want to do with being a journalist. For such along time it seemed that i was stuck as the world was passing me by, so i have another chance to prove to myself that i deserve this, that i belong here and i am ready. Yes there will be times i want to give-up but that's life with all its twist and turns, to me life is a person greatest teacher and i want to learn. I am ready to be here as a student with all the work, stress, and times when i would just want to be lazy. But the key is to know your weakness and fight pass them to better yourself. To me that's what i have in common with Lealan and Lloyd the fact that their living arrangement was seen as a weakness by the rest of the world because it was the ghetto. They understood that and fought pass it everyday not to prove something to others but for themselves. At the end the in better themselves and a nation hopefully i would have done the same in the future.