1.Why is Jamil’s success special?
2. What difficulties did Jamil encounter on his road to success?
For one, he did not have his father around constantly, making him lack in learning from a male role model. The second part is, he was always abused by the law for being black, either on campus by school cops, at the mall by security guards, or just on the streets by the police force. Also he was failing many of his courses, barley passing with 50's and 60's.
3. What does Jamil say about having purpose?
Jamil says that at the age of 16 or 17, we (for the most part) have not realised our purpose in the world and what we want to do. he also says that at this age, we are not we will be in a few years. Learning from Jamil's story, once we have a purpose for us to follow, and if we like it, we can make the most amazing changes, like Jamil went from a kid that was always in detention and getting suspended to a Yale U graduate.
4. How does this story relate to you?If so, how?
This story does not relate to me much. Only similar factors between me and Jamil except that I am a human, and so is Jamil, we have lived a great period of our lives in Canada, and that I am just entering high school, but he has been through high school and university. He had set out to be a lawyer, I am setting out to hopefully be an automotive engineer.
I think his success is special because he was failing throughout his high school years, scoring 50's and 60's. He also states “I almost dropped out of York after six weeks,”
but he was later ,with a lot of effort, he made up for what he
had lost, and realised that he had the ability to join Yale. He
was also known to be always getting in detention and
suspended for having fights with other students. Also, he
struggled through hard times without his father to be around
and support him.
2. What difficulties did Jamil encounter on his road to success?
For one, he did not have his father around constantly, making him lack in learning from a male role model. The second part is, he was always abused by the law for being black, either on campus by school cops, at the mall by security guards, or just on the streets by the police force. Also he was failing many of his courses, barley passing with 50's and 60's.
3. What does Jamil say about having purpose?
Jamil says that at the age of 16 or 17, we (for the most part) have not realised our purpose in the world and what we want to do. he also says that at this age, we are not we will be in a few years. Learning from Jamil's story, once we have a purpose for us to follow, and if we like it, we can make the most amazing changes, like Jamil went from a kid that was always in detention and getting suspended to a Yale U graduate.
4. How does this story relate to you?If so, how?
This story does not relate to me much. Only similar factors between me and Jamil except that I am a human, and so is Jamil, we have lived a great period of our lives in Canada, and that I am just entering high school, but he has been through high school and university. He had set out to be a lawyer, I am setting out to hopefully be an automotive engineer.
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