https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2 en-us 2022-09-12 13:07:22 UTC 2025-10-07 13:55:24 UTC hello@padlet.com japrietog3 https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2292443888 Wes going to jump from a plane by the instructions from the Black Hats that were in charge for seeing a place without obstacles to jump. Telling us how he decided to enter to the Army after high school and also about how he changed an now he like to learn books like Powell book and also Malcolm X where he finds a purpose of life, by the help of Colonel Billy Murphy, Wes learned about how the time matters. And also Wes tells us his role that he has that is a regimental commander with only 18 years old that it too young for his age. Finally he decided to jump telling us how he feel during the time he was in the sky.]]> 2022-09-12 14:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2292443888 japrietog3 https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2292480618 It begins with a telling about who is Cheryl that has two children with Wes and how he meet her in Dunde Village because she was living down the street. He finds her at the moment she was consuming heroin making Wes confront her and also affecting Wes because of many factors like the addiction to drugs the mother of his children was having and also the people she invited to the house that were stealing Wes money. Seeing them in the corner for drugs in the same situation like Cheryl.]]> 2022-09-12 14:33:05 UTC https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2292480618 japrietog3 https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2292747676 Wes decided to go to his friend Levy house to talk to him because Levy get out of the hustling game that Wes wanted also to get out. Levy told to Wes that it will not be easy, telling him about Job Corps that was a program created for help disadvantaged youth that was helping to Levy for obtain the GED to be a hot-water boiler repariman. But Wes was doubthing of it because he doesn´t have the money require to support his family and also by the experience of his aunt that say it was like a jail.]]> 2022-09-12 16:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2292747676 japrietog3 https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2292764298 Wes decided to go to the Job Corps were he recieved a GED a month later and completed the course, reading at the level of a sophomore in college. Becaming a leader. He selected carpentry as his vocational speciality were as a project he decided to make a house for his daughter in seven months he maked a house of five feet high and an arm´s length across making Wes finally graduate from Job Corps ]]> 2022-09-12 16:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2292764298 japrietog3 https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2292782574 Wes decided to take some jobs after graduating were he recieve over nine dollar an hour. Wes decided to visit West Baltimore neighborhood to pick a package, he was amazed about how the game of the drugs had changed. After he went to his home by the pressure he was having with Mary, Alicia and Cheryl because of the money they need realizing that this problems had not dissapeared he pick up the plastic bag he had and poured nine ounces of cocaine, falling down again to the drugs game he was trying to forget.]]> 2022-09-12 17:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2292782574 japrietog3 https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2292817943 Mary the mother of Wes saw a news report about a jewelry store that was attacked by four men were a man was killed named Sergeant Bruce Prothero a veteran of the Baltimore country police department who was killed after running toward the thiefs that get $438,000 recieving three shots falling down the green bushes surrounding the jewelry store. After the police captured the first two suspects that say that they do not shot, Mary saw the faces of the other two suspects that were her son's. The police get into her house and began to investigate about tracks but nothing founded. Wes in Philadelphia with Tony were arrested in their uncle's house and later on Wes was in a trial discussing about his innocence because he did not was during the theft but finally he was founded guilty making Wes reflect about how his future and fate is in that moment.]]> 2022-09-12 17:26:54 UTC https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2292817943 japrietog3 https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2293248823 Moore visits Mayor Shmoke in the time Wes was a brand-new second lieutenant in the Army Reserve being the far from a general as an officer can get, showing us an explanation about Mayor Shmoke that was a mayor of Baltimore during twelve years telling us the destruction of the Murphy Houses and his frustration at the glacial pace of change in his city that had worn on him with problems that have not solved like the murder rate and the sexually diseases transmitted, alongside the teen pregnancey rate. Mayor Schmoke is going to retire in the final year of his third term for spending more time with his family. Finally he asked to Wes if he had enjoyed his internship with an answer of Wes with "I've loved it,sir".]]> 2022-09-12 23:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2293248823 japrietog3 https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2293325475 While Wes was thinking about what to do after he recieve his associate's degree his adviser told him about John Hopkins admissions but he do not was shure about it because of the people that study there did not sound like him but he changed his way of thinking after he talk to Paul White the assistant of Jhons Hopkins he reached that it was more than a chance it was a chance to go home because of the relationship with his mother that now he wanted to pass more time with her because she becamed his friend. After having bad expectations for being approved he finally was accepted so he reflects about how lucky he was instead of the Bronx kids that they were not supported to make what he was helped to make.]]> 2022-09-13 00:59:55 UTC https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2293325475 japrietog3 https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2293352135 Back with the talk Wes was having with Mayor Schmoke, he provided him a help to decide what to do after Wes finish school introducing him to the Rhodes Sholarship showing him his class and also people like James Atlas (writer from The New Yorker.) and Frank Raines (Head of the office of management and budget in the Clinton administration). After Wes complete the internship he will be in a semester in South Africa, reaching out it was a real chance for prepare and understand the Rhodes experience and legacy. And also at the final part Mayor Shmoke told Wes to understand the history, who Cecil Rhodes was and his legacy before applying for his scholarship.]]> 2022-09-13 01:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2293352135 japrietog3 https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2293540580 Wes travel to South Africa were in the airport he met Zed a tall and thin muscular man, telling us later on that he recieved a grant to travel to South Africa through the school for International Training a program that offers the chance to live overseas for a semester or more. They purpose is to spend their time learning the language, the country and about themselves. Describing how he see Cape Town describing it at something very beautiful by the natural things and cultural diversity. Until he went to Langa saying that the purpose of it was "isolating black africans in small, destitute enclaves where laws were instituted to control the residents and police entered to harass, not to protect". p.164.

]]> 2022-09-13 03:49:18 UTC https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2293540580 japrietog3 https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2294714110 Reminding him the situation of this place to Baltimore and Bronx. Later on, he met his host family, where he understood that the poverty that he knows is not what is in that place. Saying that he had no idea of what poverty was until that moment. He meets a woman named Mama that her tribe was the Xhosa also he meets Zinzi the son of Mamma and his friend Simo. Wes with Mama interact with each other, telling to Wes about her husband and his role as a freedom fighter during apartheid. And also in this fragment" she talked about the hopelessness the people felt during this time and the pain of knowing that this level of segregation, this level of poverty, this level of depression was being imposed on a people for things they were in no way responsible for, or should be ashamed of". p.167 ]]> 2022-09-13 16:40:16 UTC https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2294714110 japrietog3 https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2294721854 After this event, Zinzi was going to be a bush, where he will learn how to be a good father and a good husband. Where he and the other boys that took the same travel as him will be meditating, praying, eating and healing together. Finally, he saw a man that captured his attention because he was wearing a white outfit that was going for him with dignity, pride and admiration by his family, he was now a man, something that Wes not was at that moment. And he admired it.]]> 2022-09-13 16:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2294721854 japrietog3 https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2294726786 Wes did not understand how she can hold too much damage, and she said because of Mr. Mandela told them. Wes finally talks with his mother, where Joy (Wes mother) told him about a man with the same name as Wes that was being wanted by the police. ]]> 2022-09-13 16:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/japrietog3/h0b4oeesywnnmps2/wish/2294726786