Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

is depicted in Liz Murray’s book Breaking Night (2010). The memoir tells the struggles of a young girl’s journey from living on the city streets to attending one of the top schools in the country. Although our lives are quite different, Liz Murray and I show similar traits through struggle and success. Murray must over come many struggles in her life. Thanks to her persistence, she makes it to her final goal and is able to get over these struggles along the way. For example, Murray decides that she

Elizabeth “Liz” Murray ; Inspiring Figure Liz was a very inspiring person.She started out as a homeless kid but,eventually with hard work and dedication,Made her way to one of the most prestigious colleges in the world, Harvard University.I believe she is an amazing person for having the motivation and courage to make her way to the top even though she started all the way at the bottom.Thinking of how she did something like that is just amazing and that is why she is my inspirational figure. Liz was born

article When Liz Murray was a child her parents were both drug addictive and she became homeless at the age of 15. Her thought process was that it was safe to live on the streets than in a home where there was more cocaine and heroin than food in the kitchen. Liz’s mom died at age 41 of AIDS and before she died, Liz promised her mom that she would excel in school. Liz worked extremely hard in school and she wrote a personal essay that won her her an Ivy League scholarship to Harvard. Now Liz is 33, she

family of homeless addicts, Liz Murray resists the temptation to fall into the same drug-riddled path of her parents. When her dying mother asked her to “promise to excel in school,” Murray vowed to do so, in spite of many obstacles. Liz Murray might find her philosophy echoed in the poem “Invictus,” which proclaims, “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul” (Henley 15-6). Her ability to fulfill her spiritual quest proves that she is indeed “good.” Through Jean Valjean and Liz Murray

In the movie Homeless to Harvard I believe that Peter Levin the director used ethos, pathos and logos to prove to people that no matter what, never give up. Liz Murray narrates a story of when she was once poor, homeless and the daughter of two drug addicted parents. The audience can be for anyone that can relate to the situation. The most used rhetorical device was pathos which is what appeals to people’s emotions to grab their attentions, following second would be ethos which appeals to how much

People struggle internally with problems that are not always obvious to the outside world; however, we can’t usually tell what the particular problem is until it is brought into the open. In Liz Murray’s earlier years, she was homeless in New York living in subways and parks. She overcame this obstacle by making a decision that it was her choice and responsibility for her own life. She made her mind up to change her situation by achieving the goals of education and improving her life. Her family

Analysis of Institutions in Breaking Night If Liz Murray's considerably difficult life was caused by an epidemic failure of standard institutions, then her amazing recovery is also caused by an institutional support system that she was able to take advantage of. The paradoxical nature of Murray's existence is detailed in sharp, vivid focus in her autobiographical accounting, Breaking Night. The author was able to surmount the failure of her family, of social institutions, and of the education system

to Be Great,” Malcolm Gladwell in his novel chapter “The 10,000-Hour Rule,” and Jonnelle Davis in “Liz Murray Shares

cannot maintain their operation without sufficient funding. However, increased funding for homeless programs can slightly reduce homelessness. In “Does Increased Funding for Homeless Programs Reduce Chronic Homelessness?”, Shawn Moulton estimates a “fixed-effects model” to examines the effect of new federal homeless funding on homelessness. The data from Moulton’s estimate implies that increased funding for homeless programs can decrease homelessness, and the data also indicates that the “first-year

The book All Souls: A Family Story from Southie is a powerful autobiography written by Michael Patrick Macdonald. Macdonald wrote this book to bring much needed attention to the crime, poverty and even loyalty that existed in South Boston (Southie), while growing up there. Macdonald wrote about his personal experiences, as well as the experiences of family in friends that lived about Southie, during the time of the notorious Irish Mob leader, Whitey Bulger, reigned over South Boston. Although Macdonald