the road not taken questions for middle school

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN QUESTIONS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL HOW TO

She grew up relying on her mother to teach her how to take care of her hair. Amber is half-black and half-white like myself, although her parents are the reverse race to mine, so her mother is white and her father is black. And she grew up with parents that also didn’t know how to take care of their hair. Though she had grown up in a different generation, my mom’s media influences were the same as mine. While my hair had come a long way from the tabletop style of my elementary days, my hair was still crunchy, short and falling out because she didn’t know how to take care of her own afro. I’ve lived with my mother - who is black - since I was 13. From what I remember, the people in the media that did have afros were black but were usually shown as destitute, ratchet antagonists to the protagonist with flowing, magnificent locks.īut whether or not people of my race - mulatto - had afros in the few times they were shown in the media, I learned everything I once knew about taking care of my hair from my mother. Whether it was blonde, black, brown or red, all of my media influences had silky hair that most often flowed to a long, breezy length, a length that my hair has never achieved without extensions. There are more white people represented in the media than black people, especially black people with afros. While there were not many people around me with afros outside of my family, there were even less people with afros in the television shows and movies I turned to for entertainment. Frizzle, “Take chances, make mistakes, get messy.” Take the road before you with confidence, and always go down swinging. In the words of my favorite teacher of all time, Ms. Don’t live in fear of making the wrong decision, live in fear of never deciding at all. What you have learned from those mistakes have made you better. Those mistakes have played into who you are as a person. You may look back at those decisions and sigh, but I’m asking you not to dwell there. You only get to make those kinds of decisions once, and you may make the wrong decision from time to time.

What would it be like to be sitting in the library at the University of Alabama right now? What would my life be like if I had kept playing volleyball and had gone to play for that small Christian college? All I’m saying is you only get one life. Coming here was a great decision and I don’t regret it necessarily, but I do still wonder. I had other options, but in the end, the purple and gold pulled me in. Coming to the University of North Alabama was a tough decision for me.

The road not taken questions for middle school