In the text “Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Advice for Living” By Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ms. Ginsburg starts her Op-Ed with questions she’s been asked by schoolchildren. The questions refer to if she always wanted to become a lawyer & judge, and …
Author: Gilbert Espinal
RAB Source Entry #1 – Gilbert
Part 1: MLA Citation
Sainato, Michael. “‘Slavery by Any Name Is Wrong’: the Push to End Forced Labor in Prisons.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 27 Sep. 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/27/slavery-loophole-unpaid-labor-in-prisons.
Part 2: Summary
The article titled “Involuntary Servitude: …
RAB Proposal Paragraph – Gilbert
My research question is How is the US prison system a modern day institution of slavery? This topic interests me because people inside my family have been in prison as well people I know outside my family. I have seen …
Mother Tongue and When I was PR – Gilbert
PART 1 – “Mother Tongue”
“Fortunately, I happen to be rebellious in nature and enjoy the challenge of disproving assumptions made about me. I became an English major my first year in college, after being enrolled as pre-med. I started …
Saved – Gilbert
During the beginning of my sophomore year of high school, I had fallen into the routine of avoiding school and ignoring all my schoolwork. I had felt as if I had lost all motivation and drive, I even had friends …
Mentor Quote – Gilbert
“In my estimation, all that we suffer in the present time is nothing in comparison with the glory which is destined to be disclosed for us…” – Romans 8:18
When I was younger I would think of school as something …
Reading Response Colin Powell — Gilbert
“As soon as I got home, I put the uniform on and looked in the mirror. I liked what I saw. At this point, not a single Kelly Street friend of mine was going to college. I was seventeen. I …
Reading Response to Malcolm X — Gilbert
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“I’ve never been one for inaction. Everything I’ve ever felt strongly about, I’ve done something about. I guess that’s why, unable to do anything else, I soon began writing to people I had known in the …
Success Tips – Gilbert
Tip 1: Participation
This tip is important to me personally because I’d be absent from class, either physically or mentally, and working on my participation allows me to be present and make better connections. I plan on using this tip …
Douglass and Resilience – Gilbert
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“I would sometimes say to them, I wished I could be as free as they would be when they got to be men. ‘You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a …