Pact Chapter Summaries

Baca reveals a lot of background during the first chapter of the story. He describes all the dysfunctional things about his family, thus getting audiences that can relate to his past. He targets people that have similar backgrounds, so it’s easier for them to relate to the story. Baca, revealing in details of his background, also creates curiosity to those that can’t relate to his past. They read the story wondering what he did to survive the chaos, which was his family.

Mark Pfetzer starts his climbing experience at twelve years old. He lives in Rhode Island, his director named Christian. Mark at first didn’t trust the rope, but he found where to put his feet, and gained confidence. He loved it. Mark has never liked ball sports, but instead hiking, running, karate, and fly fishing. Mark does not connect with many people his age, so Mark usually hung around people of an older age. To get his training going, Mark wanted to register for the Rock Gym, but has to be fifteen. Since he looks older for his age, he gets past by. Inside of the gym, there is a huge rock wall where he starts climbing on it. There he meets Geoff, a climber and a doctor who says he could do ice climbing if he gets sponsors. Mark starts mailing for sponsor to get $300 to climb Mt. Crawford.

In the story We Beat The Streets, the three people, who are now successful in jobs, once had to overcome some major obstacles. Some of these obstacles had some type of positive outcome. These obstacles probably shaped them into the people and doctors they are now.

The PBS NOVA documentary “Doctors’ Diaries” gives the everyday person insight into the grueling yet rewarding life of seven doctors’ journey through medical school, and into their career. The viewer follows the life of seven medical students: Tom Tarter who is an emergency room physician, Luanda Grazette, a cardiologist, David Friedman, an ophthalmologist and heath researcher, Jane Leibschutz who is an internal medicine and primary care taker, Elliot Bennett-Guerrero who is an anesthesiologist, Cheryl Dorsey, a pediatrician, and Jay Bonner who is a psychiatrist. Throughout the film, the seven doctors face happiness, hardships, heartbreak, and personal disappoint.

Wouter, Steven Messenger and the diary entries all have links because they both speak about Ela and Jan Pelgrom, Charlie Sunrise, Dr Hope Michaels and the gold ring, which Jan Pelgrom originally owned and gave to Ela before they died.

A guy – Freddie Gray – was stopped by the poslice. He was beaten to the point he fractured his spine. He died in the jail cell. When the cops picked him up, the boy couldn’t even stand up. They fractured his spine. The boy was protesting – earlier that day, he was protesting that day. “resisting arrest?”

When planning my pre-medical schedule at the University of Iowa, I found a first year seminar titled “Journey to Medical School.” All of the fears, ambitions, and everything I could think of regarding my journey to medical school was covered in the seminar. I left the class feeling terrified, but more than that, excited and prepared for what was to come within my next 8 years. One of the class periods was filled with the intellect of students who currently attend Carver Medical School. During that class period, I was mesmerized by the way the students carried themselves. They talked with poise and grace. Listening to them talk about how their journey was going made my heart putter – I was terrified, yet excited to continue on my own

Predictions: My predicted of this chapter was that it was going to say the same thing that I was thinking. But guess not. But as I started reading further into the book it give you some interest ways to so what or who care. But my real prediction was that the writer of this book” they say I say “was give us permission to literally saying who care and starting an argument with the writer of the book.

They just got married, and they are moving in together – unpacking a lot of their books

There are several issues that Jerome H. Skolnick and Elliott Currie are trying to address in their book, Crisis in American Institutions. One of the substantive issues that they are addressing is poverty in a nation of wealth. Specifically, they are addressing how to cut the poverty rate in half. They put an emphasis on building a stronger economy, with more lively communities so that there is a better nation with no bad neighborhoods in extreme poverty and where stable work is a protection from poverty and a way out of it (91). This paper is going to talk about a major issue that Skolnick and Currie address along with their positions on that issue. They used data to help the readers understand where they are coming from. The paper will conclude with me explaining if their argument and data use was convincing along with my opinion on the subject.

Sutter is a well-known, cool kid in high school with the perfect girlfriend. However, he carries a flask with him everywhere and is always drinking. He can't seem to decide what he wants for his future. After blacking out at a party, Sutter wakes up on someone’s front lawn. He is found by Aimee, a nerdy, invisible, shy type of girl who knows who he is. They go to school together. Turns out her mother makes her do an early paper route in order to pay bills. Sutter and Aimee deliver papers together and get along famously. They decide to meet for lunch and Sutter asks her to tutor him in geometry after finding out how smart she is and her interest in Sci-Fi. He then invites her to a party and haves her talk to some other people who like Sci-Fi

To support himself and his education Amir busied himself with jobs at gas stations and labs while still working hard to learn a new language and adapt to a new lifestyle. Even through medical school, he still suffered through adversity. He applied to many medical programs, even the ones out of his reach. In his first interview with UCSD, he was not accepted. After trying again, another interviewer decided to help him create a more appealing application. Trying a second time lead Amir to many achievements for a comfortable life.

In chapter 10 Jamie goes back to his village and finds out that everyone's worried about him and he has dinner.Then his father talked about how the natives stole some more things up in the coast. After what his dad said Jamie made a connection with how his dad acts and how Tethani`s dad acts. The next day he goes fishing with Tethani after he talks about his brother. And after he decides to play the flute with his brothers bone whistle which Jamie thinks it`s really sad more then usual.The reader is left to believe that Robert will shoot Shadowthai (Tethani’s little brother) later on in the story because Robert thinks that he is a coward.

The PACT narrates three doctors’ life experience for being successful. All of them were growing in and around the projects of Newark, a place which is inundated with poverty and violation; thus, they have to face many hardships during their childhoods. For example, Rameck has a miserable family: his dad was arrested in jail for taking drugs; also his mom, a drug user who is similar to Rameck’s dad, borned him while she was in high school. He had a good time while living with his grandmother’s family until the lower class moved into the community. In this case Rameck had to change his school because his family might move out of his grandmother’s house when things got hard to live with an unstable family. Regrettably, Rameck’s mother started taking heroin because the stress of being a single mother with two children. Since then Rameck felt hopeless to persuade himself to forgive his mom because he doesn’t know why she started taking heroin and if she loved the drugs more than him. However, his mom forced him studied hard in school and worked for money because she believed that taught him responsibility. Later on, Rameck began to misbehave and making bad friends when he was in University High. He was almost sent to jail for attempting murder.

So, the plot of this story is that Kido, an estranged ANBU captain, has decided to make drugs to sell to other ninja nations in order to make money. Where does Sakura play into this? Well, she's kidnapped for one. Honestly, her involvement was woefully unneeded in the end.