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The Other Wes Moore Blog 2 (Chapter 4 - Chapter 6)

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( " American Psycho " via Tenor.com) What music played a special role in the other Wes Moore’s life? What role does music play in your life? The creation of music has been a part of everyone’s life in some way or another since the dawn of time, whether it was used to escape from the outside world or to listen to it for fun. At some point in our lives, music has made an impact on our world. Like how it had an impact on the author's and the other Wes More’s lives. Music was a way for both of them to escape from all the problems they were dealing with, and being able to listen to music did just that. For this week’s blog post, we are going to be answering the question: What music played a special role in the other Wes Moore’s life? What role does music play in your life? In the art of music, there is so much nuance that can be seen and understood about every genre that is out there in this world. But what makes music so special is the personalization that can be done to it.

The Other Wes More Blog 1 (Introduction - Chapter 3)

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                                                                                         ("One making decision for future life" via Adobe Stock) Page 27: Tony lectures Wes about taking school seriously and staying off the streets. Talk about the relationship between those two.  What advice do you give your siblings based on your mistakes in life? As we are living in a day and age where mistakes can completely alter someone’s life and their ability to make a name for themselves due to the nature of social media. But in the book called The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates , written by Wes Moore, the author goes into the true story of two boys named Wes Moore who happened to live a life that was seemingly the same, but as the boys started to become older, that is where their paths in life are completely different and take a turn. However, in this week’s blog, we are going to take a dive into the question of: What advice do y

Are we products of our environment or products of our expectations?

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For this week’s blog post, we are going to dive into the question: are we products of our environment or products of our expectations? And what it means to be a product of our environment in this day and age. In the time that we are living today, it can be easy for anyone to fall into a trap without realizing it. However, as humans, we are products of our environment, and we start to become our expectations that are placed, whether they are within ourselves or in our society. But with these expectations that are derived from our environments, it can be said that, as humans, we are the direct product of the environments we are exposed to.                                                                                                                                       (" Woman Thinking Images" via Freepik) As long as humans have existed, they have been shaped by many and all external sources that we surround ourselves with. And with that, everything that we are made up of c