“I have made clear that I was no great shakes as a scholar. I have joked
over the years that the CCNY faculty handed me a diploma, uttering a
sigh of relief, and were happy to pass me along to
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Category: Reading Response Colin Powell
Reading Response Colin Powell — Balthazar
4B
“My experience in high school, on basketball and track teams, and briefly in Boy Scouting had never produced a sense of belonging or many permanent friends. The Perishing Rifles did. For the first time in my life, I was
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Reading Response Colin Powell-Ana
“Many of my college classmates had the brainpower to attend Harvard, Yale, or Princeton.
What they lacked was money and influential connections. Yet they have
gone on to compete with and often surpass alumni of the most prestigious
private campuses
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Reading Response Colin Powell —Amy
A quote that I feel is significant to me is, “A few weeks before, my father had come into my room, sat on the edge of the bed, and, with a twinkling eye, handed me an envelope. He had cleaned
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Reading Response Colin Powell — Anthony Clement
“At this point, not a single Kelly Street friend of mine was going to college. I was seventeen. I felt cut off and lonely. The uniform gave me a sense of belonging, and something I had never experienced all the
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 Reading Response Colin Powell — Domininc Tavarez
“In college, I had become interested in the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). It was a way to stay in school and get a small stipend. I also liked the idea of serving my country, and the ROTC seemed a
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Reading Response Colin Powell – Ahsan
“The uniform gave me a sense of belonging, and something
I had never experienced all the while I was growing up; I felt distinctive.”
I feel like this is kind of significant about Powell’s life when he was growing up.
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My American Journey Colin Powell- Anthony Clara
HW 4B
“My experience in High School, on basketball and track teams, and briefly in boy scouting had never produced a sense of belonging or many permanent friends. The Pershing Rifles did. For the first time in my life I
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Reading Response Colin Powell- Matthew Gonzalez
“My parents, I said, “did not recognize their
own strengths.” It was nothing they ever said that taught us, I recalled.
“It was the way they lived their lives,”
I find this quote to be really important because by studying
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 Reading Response Colin Powell – Ludovic
“At this point, not a single Kelly Street friend of mine was going to college. I was seventeen. I felt cut off and lonely. The uniform gave me a sense of belonging, and something I had never experienced all the
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