Other Wes Moore Reflection

This is my first year here at Porterville College, I can say that I have learned many new things. Things that I wanted to learn, that seemed interesting to me, and more important that I was able to do was connect somethings that I have learned in my personal experience, and I think that’s what makes it more interesting and fun. In my “Child, Family, and Community” I have learned how important it is for a child to be in a safe environment where they can have the opportunity to choose from many choices. Also I, have learned about the variety of programs here in Tulare Country that help families and young kids to better themselves for a better life. Another class that I don’t regret taking is English 73X because I have learned many things which

During English 73x we read the text “The Other Wes Moore” and it caught my attention in an instant, maybe because it’s something different or because it’s about how our choices that we make as young teens can determine our

It really unbelievable how two young boys can have so many similarities, not only did both have the same name, but they were also raised fatherless. Reading the text “The Other Wes Moore” I learned how family, and environment take a major role in how our stories end up different from each other’s. Wes Moore the author writes the book hoping that his story and the other Wes Moore will help people change their life’s, by inspiring them to see our themselves as capable of taking control of their own destinies, and to realize how each decisions we make determines the path we take to the end of our life stories. Wes Moore asserts, “I guess it’s hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances” (67). Why is it that it’s hard to distinguish from last chances and second chances? Maybe because we like to think short-term rather than to think long-term and we do things without thinking of the consequences of the choses we make, or we make bad habits a routine. For example, the other Wes Moore gets arrested many times he starts to think it’s a routine he has. However, Wes Moore gets in trouble for spray-painting in the streets and when the cop let him go he thinks about how he had put himself in that situation for such a stupid. Here we can see how they both have a different way of thinking about the situation. This is why I do not believe that the other