The Other Wes Moore Success of Extrinsic Factors - By Marc Reyes What affects the successfulness of a person and how does that account for people around them? There are two different ideas that could determine this being one’s intrinsic interactions with their genetic make up and who they are personally‚ nature‚ and one’s extrinsic interactions with their environments and experiences with people around them‚ nurture. The Other Wes Moore provides multiple outlooks on these interactions and how
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addiction‚ loneliness‚ pain and all kinds of hardships through important points in their lives. What defines most of us and makes us who we are however‚ are these tragic and painful moments of struggle. The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore taught me that my own struggles and obstacles shouldn’t and cannot ever bring me down. In the introduction of the novel‚ Wes Moore says that “…our destinies can be determined by a single stumble down the wrong path‚ or a tentative step down the right one.” His statement
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In the book The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore‚ two people by the name of Wes Moore turned out to have different fates. One became a Rhodes Scholar while the other became a convicted murderer who’s going to spend the rest of his life in prison. How did one become more traditionally successful than the other? One can say that it’s because of how their mothers guided them and the environment they grew up around. Children don’t know any better‚ they depend on the guidance of a father‚ mother
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permanently. In the memoir‚ The Other Wes Moore‚ both Wes Moore’s nature and how they were nurtured influenced their decisions‚ successes‚ and failures. Drugs in both Wes Moore’s environments have similar effects on their decisions‚ successes‚ and failures‚ as opposed to their role models‚ who had different effects on them. Environment plays a crucial role in one’s life. If someone was stuck in a bad environment‚ it would have a negative effect on them and vice versa. In both Wes Moore’s cases‚ drugs were
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In The Other Wes Moore‚ Wes reveals his confusion with his own motivations to the audience. I believe that he was so driven to understand the other Wes Moore because of the realization that that could’ve been him. The two Wes Moores had similar upbringings; Both lived in very poor areas with high crime and violence surrounding them. Wes was confused because they both didn’t end up the same way. He was successful while the other Wes was not. Both men grew up without a strong father figure in their
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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 impact
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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 the
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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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Uma Scharf “The Other Wes Moore” Essay “When we’re young‚ it sometimes seems as if the world doesn’t exist outside our city‚ our block‚ our house‚ our room. We make decisions based on what we see in that limited world and follow the only models available” (Moore‚ 178). Role models play a huge role in shaping an individual and the paths that they go down in their lifetime. In the case of Wes Moore and the other Wes Moore the different role models they had played a large role in shaping who they became
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“I sat back‚ allowing Wes’s words to sink in. Then I responded‚ "I guess it’s hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances"(Page 67). In "The Other Wes Moore" the environment of both Wes Moore’s were completely different from each other. They both made some stupid decisions over time but who is perfect? It is expected of everyone to make some mistakes‚ in my opinion the main influence on their choices came from their environment. In their environment they had peers that would
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