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  • Essay / The Lost Boys of Baltimore: The Other Wes Moore

    I read a great book in my English class, I found it very interesting and like the book, it's a true story. We called him. The Other Wes Moore. It is the story of two boys growing up and living in inner city Baltimore, Maryland. They both had the same name, Wes Moore. The story is about how both boys had to struggle throughout their lives and how they both came from single-parent families, without a father. We'll call them Wes Moore (A) the author and Wes Moore (B). The reasons for Wes Moore's (A) success are that he had a strong support group and came from a well-educated family. Wes Moore's (A) father had a big influence on Wes Moore (A) when he was a child. He was also a well-educated man and a great role model for Wes Moore (A). Went Joy grew up in Trelawny, Jamaica, living on a farm with her great-grandfather, great-grandmother and siblings. When Joy was a young girl, she moved to the United States. Her parents believed in a good education for their daughter. Joy attends American University in Washington, DC. When Joy attends college, she joins an organization to help students at her camp. It was called the African and African American Student Organization. Joy works a lot, but she sincerely believed in a good education for her own children. So when she returns to New York, after the death of her husband. She moved in with her parents in the Bronx. She enrolled her children in private school at Riverdale High School; it was the same school that President John F. Kennedy attended as a child. Joy knew she didn't want her children to go to a public school in New York, due to the high dropout rate. She wanted all of her children to go to college and graduate......mid-school......had an associate's degree from Valley Forge. Wes (A) dreamed of going to Johns Hopkins University. So Wes (A) wrote to the assistant director of admissions at Johns Hopkins and met with Paul White. Les Wes (A) and Paul had lunch and talked for hours about his days at Forge Valley Military School. Wes (A) and Paul became good friends and last month Wes (A) received a letter accepting him to Johns Hopkins. After Wes (A) interned with Mayor Schmoke, he went to South Africa for a semester abroad. For Wes, it gives him the experience of discovering South Africa and seeing the beauty and culture of the country. Wes (A) had been to another country, but to Africa much more so because of apartheid and the man himself known as Nelson Mandala. Wes (A) had learned a lot about South Africa and the apartheid movement. He also learned his middle name Waitende, which means