The Bus Ride : A Short Story : The Bus Ride

To begin with, the bus from in Into the Wild is a very important part of the book. It is where Chris stayed a long time and also died. After Chris McCandless died Jon Krakauer and a group of explorers visited where he had stayed. They found several things in the bus such as: pants, books, a sleeping bag, boots, his journal and tools to help keep him alive for a while.

Women have long been fighting for their right to be seen as equal to men. Even to this day, women continue to fight for their rights, things such as the right to non-gender discriminatory wages. While there may be some arguments over the state of gender equality in the modern world, it is undeniable that there have been great strides made toward recognizing the female 's worth in the workforce and as a human being. Despite these strides, however, things are still not yet ideal for women and many of the issues females face today are the very same issues that have been plaguing them for decades. While it is unfortunate the oppression of women has been so long-lived, the length of that exposure has thankfully enabled many talented writers to both lament over the fact and emphasize the need for gender equality.

Janie and her grandmother represent a culture of women that were stereotyped into a specific gender role, putting them as the last class in society. They received no compensation or respect for their services. Their work specifically benefited only those they worked for, and supported. Through compromising themselves in this way these women were subjected to even more maltreatment.

Introduction- The East Bay area is an economically diverse community with many satisfactory and unsatisfactory aspects. Each city had its differences and distinctions in people, settings, and cleanliness. As the bus left the station and went around the corner I could tell that we were in a low poverty city. With loose trash and debris in front of houses and apartment buildings, the area looked torn down and not very visual pleasing. Already familiar with the city of Emeryville I knew to expect a more upscale location. With plenty of name brand stores, and new apartment complexes, it was obvious this city was clean and very different from the previous location. As the bus

Virginia Woolf, an avid woman novelist of the early twentieth century, faced many difficulties on her journey to becoming a successful writer. In her speech, which she delivers to the National Society for Women’s Service, she recounts her experiences as both a newly acquainted journalist and already established professional, all while giving detailed accounts of her struggles with the ghosts of oppression. These personal experiences not only help to establish and defend her credibility, they also serve as a means of developing her perspective on women’s functionality in successful careers. In addition, Woolf utilizes various rhetorical devices, such as the extended metaphor and parallelism, to portray the constant struggles of women in the workforce. She attempts to shed light on what obstructs all social advancement for women – the Victorian ideal of femininity – while encouraging her audience to confront this internal obstacle. Though she intended for her speech to be advice for women in any and all professions who are facing their own internal battles against oppression, Woolf insists her story is only one of many that have yet to be told.

Sandberg’s grandmother served as an example that break the stereotypes that showed women as the unimportant, worthless and weakest gender. Her grandmother, who was also called “Girlie”, was born in a poor family which needed more support that’s why she dropped the high school and started working. No one in the community interested whether the woman got an education or not, however boy’s education was the family’s only chance to give financial suppor. When she got married and her husband was having troubles at work as their paint business was struggling, she jumped in and took some of the hard steps and helped to save the family from financial ruin. She also sold knockoff watches to support the clinic where she was treated and she ended up with profit margin that Apple would envy. These examples put together all the images that show the real power of women, their abilities and flexibility to overcome different

During my ride along with Officer McNairy of the Castle Rock Police department we had two cases of harassment, one welfare case, and one traffic violation that we worked on. Both harassment cases were easy enough, as was the traffic violation which we let go with just a warning. Welfare cases don’t normally go to police officers to manage, but on the day of my ride along one was. I had a very good time during my ride along and will probably do more in the future.

In Cry, the Beloved Country, the city of Johannesburg enables Gertrude’s desires to control her life, yet the desires that govern her are shamefully careless. Before Gertrude left Ndosheni, she had been surrounded by villagers who essentially knew many or all of their community’s people, including her. With the fear that several people would know of or observe her actions, Gertrude was encouraged to act upon the ethical desires widely accepted by her people. On the other hand, Johannesburg has little to no sense of community—being a heavily populated city and the majority of its inhabitants strangers to one another—which allows Gertrude to pursue the amoral desires within her, and for them to occur unnoticed by relatives. When Stephen Kumalo, her brother, finally receives word of Gertrude’s illness, he leaves for Johannesburg and finds her in a shabby, dirty house, crammed between similar buildings. Anxiously standing in front of his sister’s door, awaiting what would be their first encounter after several months, Kumalo overhears a “laughter in the house, the kind of laughter of which one is afraid… perhaps because it is in truth bad laughter,” (Paton 59 emphasis added). The bad laughter he hears is a product of Gertrude’s careless desires; her undisciplined lust for men. The context in which this laughter comes from is what makes it bad, especially in Kumalo’s mind, for he is not just her family, but a priest as well. Without a close-knit community to direct

Because I remain alienated from the rest of the other students who walk, I became a target of the daunting school bus. Even though the pupils on the bus and I settle in the same town, people of white-skin receive a bus while others take a dreadful course to school. In addition to the social unjust blacks endure, the school bus harasses people of my skin color. On multiple occasions, racial slurs and derogatory messages would be directed at me as the bus passes. The desire to take revenge on the bus grew every day as the harassment continued, but the punishment that would follow the actions taken upon the bus would be severe. However, after a plethora of malicious events have been purposely done to African Americans such as myself, a plea of action was necessary. At the onset of the following morning, the children of my family and I decided to put an end to the intimidation the bus put on us. Although our mother would look down upon this action, we decided to dig a trench to put the bus in its place: the dirt. After we took revenge on the bus, persecution toward race halted. Since my entire family unified under one cause, we were able to overcome this problem despite the community's prejudice against people of black

The most well-known limit placed upon women in a work setting is the wage gap, or the difference between a man’s salary and a woman’s salary. Authors dive into the subject of the current wage gap because of its presence in modern society, and one author who does speak out about the topic is Caroline Fredrickson. Fredrickson, president of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, writes in her book Under the Bus: How Working Women Are Being Run Over about how the gap between a man and woman’s salaries does exist in today’s progressive society. To argue her case, Fredrickson reveals, “In the past decade, women have not made any progress at all, with the wage gap overall remaining stubbornly at 77 percent…” (44). This gap of seventy seven percent implies that the majority of women are paid only seventy seven percent of what a man is paid in any given position.

One activist, Edith Stern, described the average woman’s situation as an around the clock job with little to no pay and very little free time. This aptly describes how hellish a woman’s life would have been, to be working that much with no vacations from the unrelenting experience. Stern also states that the woman’s life is comparable to that of a slave’s life. This demonstrates how degrading and monotonous the work must have been for the women who had to suffer through it for years. Even though the women’s activist movement was in full swing, there was also the younger generation of the 1950’s and 1960’s fighting for change at that

The Ride is the story of the heinous and gruesome murder of ten year old, Jeffrey Curley, a case that is familiar to many in the Massachusetts area. The book works its way from the grisly crime to the years afterward. It focuses on the family of Jeffrey, heavily weighted on the life of Cambridge Firefighter Bob Curley, Jeffrey’s father. Charles Jaynes and Salvatore Sicari, both from Jeffrey’s neighborhood were convicted of the murder. Within this essay I will demonstrate from The Ride the relationship between reporting and suffering that may have been brought on for the crime victims of this case, the relationship between the victim profiles and the victim family profiles, the role in which the family may have played in the

Louise Mallard represents a self-image of a fragile woman, who’s strength, passion or any kind of emotions she has remained deeply hidden behind layers of suppression. If she ever breaks free of confinement, she will find no other society willing to take her in and Mrs. Mallard will have gained freedom just to find out that she has no future ahead. She is only freed when her husband passes away. This overwhelming joy she feels hearing the news

The long days and nights on the bus with Mr. Donald Trump, it grew older and older place after place; Trump will not even let me drink after a hard day’s work because his brother died of alcohol poisoning. Some days people think he is a joke and do not take him serious because of his 19-point plan for Presidency. To inform you all, Trump is in it for the long haul and he has the money and resources to stick to it out till he wins the presidential candidacy. One of the primary reasons he is running is because he is scared where our government is taking American people. Everyday I stress the importance of chapters of the novel Hardball written by Chris Matthews. Some of the chapters are prime learning tools, they help each politician take it to the next level and become a prime politician.

In Kent Nerburn’s story, The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget, the quote to consider is related to the story because first of all in the quote it states “...that every day is its own miracle...”. In the storyline, it was a miracle for the elderly woman because that may have been her last time out downtown and if she got the wrong cab driver she might have not made it to her destination safely. Additionally, in the quote it states “... in mankind’s most precious minority: the living.” In the story he states “ What if that woman had gotten an angry driver, or one who was impatient to end his shift?” Instead of going straight to her destination which was a hospice so she knew that she was going to pass soon he drove her around to all the places in downtown,