makes have total control over them. The author of The Other Wes Moore is Wes Moore. This story is about 2 Wes Moore’s that come from the same bad place but end up with totally different stories. There are two Wes Moore’s and they both grow up in the ghetto‚ but one of them finds there way out and the other one gets stuck and get find their way out. They might be the same person‚ but they have different stories. In the book‚ The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore‚ the author explores the idea of to develop
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adversity‚ some people prevail while others fold. This is evident in the novel The Other Wes Moore with the contrast of the two Wes’s. The author Wes deals with adversity far better than the other Wes. Factors like the people around the person and a person’s support system can be the largest factor of how a person deals with adversity. The author Wes Moore clearly has far more success dealing with the adversity of growing up in the inner city than the other Wes Moore. This is largely due to the
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In the novel The Other Wes Moore One Name Two Fates written by Wes Moore‚ each Wes led similar lives but due to seemingly minor decisions in their lives their outcomes drastically differ. There are choices that will come up in life and as seemingly irrelevant or innocent those choices seem can come back and affect the outcome of one’s life. The level of commitment that one puts into their work or studies no matter if they want to do it or not‚ will matter down the road. As trivial as it may seem
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Drugs had been around Wes Moore for his entire Life. It has affected him any many negative ways. They ruined his life every time he let them back in it. In The Other Wes Moore‚ there are many instances where you can see the effects of drugs and alcohol‚ especially in the life of Other Wes. For example‚ his father‚ Westley‚ fell a major victim to drugs and alcohol- resulting in Mary abandoning him. This event left Wes without a father figure at such a young age. He didn’t have a male figure in his
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Two Lives of Wes Moore The book The Other Wes Moore tells the riveting story of two boys‚ both who have the same name and were born not that far apart in Baltimore. Told through different years‚ each snippet of both these Weses lives shows the contrast they have. Moore uses multiple rhetorical devices in his story that help with his overall purpose of writing this book. Moore’s purpose throughout this whole story shows how the decisions a person makes shapes them into the overall person in the end
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most likely believe that we are products of our environment. “You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?” (W. Clement Stone) This idea could not be better represented than the two young boys that this story is about. In “The Other Wes Moore: One Name‚ Two Fates‚” written by Wes Moore‚ two fatherless
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The Other Wes Moore Topic #1 Sydney Glassburn The author writes about how both Wes’s lives could have been interchangeable. That his life could have led him to being behind bars‚ and the others Wes’s life could have been free and happy. I believe that they could have been interchanged. A major difference in their lives were there mentors. The type of mentors each of them had were very different. The author had mentors like his mother‚ grandparents‚ and aunt that pushed him to make decisions
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times‚ and I am sure that you are tired of hearing‚ The Other Wes Moore is a story of great emotion‚ about two children with the same name and very similar lifestyles‚ growing up‚ but ending up in two completely different places with their lives. The story tells of Wes Moore‚ the author‚ facing poverty and his ambition to receive a proper education‚ and Wes Moore‚ a man convicted of murder in the first-degree and sentenced to a life in prison. How could these two boys have grown up so similarly‚ but
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Everybody has their own personal biases and philosophies that they have developed throughout life. Some go through the journey without fully knowing whilst others seem to have a pretty good handle on them. By finding their way‚ through the ups and downs‚ they establish themselves and come out knowing more than when they began‚ effectively learning who they are. In my own journey‚ I have established a few knowns and unknowns and come to realize my own biases. Knowing the good and the bad‚ the things
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The person we are is a complicated mixture of how we look‚ behave and think. As people we are constantly changing‚ influenced by our surroundings. It is my belief that most people in modern society believe that the person they have become is a direct consequence of the decisions that they have made during their life. What most people don?t realise is that a great deal of decisions which have affected the course of their life were made before they were even born. In most cases‚ these decisions will
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