Lorraine Hansberry's A Rasin In The Sun

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Good Morning, I would like your attention. My name is Nicholas Toth and I am a Fellow student in your class. Jackie Robinson states, “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” Connecting what Jackie Robinson stated to the claim, “How can our actions affect others? Our actions can have an impact on someone's life experience by losing money and a death in the family.

While money lost can be minor, some can be major. In A Rasin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry, One of Walters's business partners, Bobo confesses to Walter running off with the money, Bobo says “When a cat takes off with your money he doesn’t leave no road maps!”(Hansberry 128) The actions affected someone else because Benteha, Walters's daughter, could no longer go to the school she wanted to go to. Due to Walter losing his money, his daughter could no longer commit to her dreams of attending college. Another piece of evidence from my own life is when we were at the arcade and didn't have enough money to continue. Okay, guys, we are out of money, my sister still wanted to play but we had no money. I had to explain to my sister that we were out of money because we spent it all on games. Both connections are similar because they both spent money and could not fit the needs of one of their family
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In Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, Beth had contracted scarlet fever but it looked as if it was getting better, when they came back home, the sister got the bad news, Beth had died. Beth has succumbed to scarlet fever. This action impacts someone else’s life by making the sisters have to live without one of their loved ones for all of their lives. A detail from my personal life was when my dog died because they were sick, it made my family sad. While one is more severe than the other, they both share the same principles of death and grief. In conclusion, other actions can have effects on others or