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- 1711: Teenage Rights
- ... officers. I was told that I was to receive a citation upon the next time I threw this Gang Sign in public, for Disorderly Conduct. Upon our leaving a police officer followed the car of John Doe for a block and a half and then pulled over his vehicle. There was no reason for the officers to follow his car in the first place. Upon pulling over his car I walked over to John and proceeded to ask what they pulled him over for. I was told to back away from his vehicle by the police. As I did this I was then told to place my hands on ...
- 1712: Teenage Pregnancy 2
- ... receive welfare, to live in homes which provide protection from predators and a chance to learn motherhood and morality. We can put an end to this, but we need to act now! Works Cited DiConsiglio, John. "Pregnancy: Who's to Blame?" Scholastic Update 8 Mar. 1996: 10-11 Harvey, Marie S., and Spigner, Clarence. "Factors Associated with Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents: A Multivariate Analysis." Adolescence 30.118 (Summer 1995): 260 Klein, Joe. "The Prdator Problem." Newsweek 29 Apr. 1996: 32 Palar, Barbara Hall. "Real-family Solution for Tuning Out." Better Homes and Gardens Feb. 1996: 48 Rosemund, John. "Cutting Back on TV." Better Homes and Gardens Feb. 1996: 46-48
- 1713: Suicide Is Not Choosen
- ... s life one day. Works Cited Befrienders Corp. "Youth Suicide." June 1999 Online posting: http:// www.jaring.my.befrienders/youth1.htm. Internet Burchfield, Robert Dr., ed. Oxford American Dictionary. New York: Oxford UP, 1980 Cloud, John. "What can the schools do?" Time May 1999: 39-40 Metanoia. "Suicide: Read this first." June 1999 Online posting: http://www.metanoia.org/suicide/spagebw.htm. Internet Santrock, John W. Children. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997 "To Understand and Prevent Suicide as a Means of Promoting Human Well-Being." American Association of Suicidology. Online. June 1999 United States. Congressional Record. Senate. Senate Resolution #84 ...
- 1714: Stinky Solution
- ... companies recruit smokers at an early age, chances are they will keep that business for years, even generations to come (Ayer 18). Although, is the real reason teenagers smoke because of good marketing? No. As John Banzhaf, executive director of Action on Smoking and Health, an anti-smoking lobbying group, says, Even if you ban all advertising...it will not cause everybody to quit (Tanamachi n.p.). Mr. Banzhaf is right ... is not the solution, because chances are that that problem will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Tell the teenagers of the world that smoking hurts the entire American population. As President John F. Kennedy said, Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. Stop smoking. Works Cited Ayer, Eleanor H. Teen Smoking. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 1999 ...
- 1715: Sinking Of The Titanic
- ... people who died when the ship sank, probably died from hypothermia, because the water temperature was so low (Maddocks 131). There were many important people who died in this horrible tragedy. A U.S. millionaire John Jacob Astor died trying to save his wife and children, a week later his body was found horribly mangled ("Mute Testimony Of The Wreckage" 712). Other important people who died on the ship such as Thomas Andrews who died, and he was the builder of the ship, and John George Phillips who died while trying to send morse code and no one responded ( Maddocks 126-127). Among the other people who died was the captain Edward J. Smith who went down with the rest ...
- 1716: Serial Killers --
- ... she was pregnant. Just before his fourth birthday, Ted and his mother left Philadelphia to join her uncle and his family in Tacoma, Washington (Michaud and Ayensworth Hugh, p. 99). Bundy s mother later married John Culpepper Bundy and that s how Ted got his last name. Ted didn t like his new stepfather but to his mother John was the whole world. Ted did anything he could to upset his stepfather. For instance, Ted became friends with a black kid that lived down the street because his stepfather was prejudice (Michaud and Ayensworth ...
- 1717: School Uniforms
- ... used uniforms to needy families. In Seattle, Washington the South Shore Middle School has implemented a mandatory uniform policy for 900 middle school students since 1995. The Results were staggering principal of South Shore, Dr. John German, reports that "this year the demeanor in the school has improved 98 percent, truancy and tardies are down, and we have not had one reported incident of theft." Dr. German explains that he began ... less than in schools without such a program, sometimes 80 percent less. School officials believe that durability, reusability and year-to-year consistency also increase the economy of the school's plan. Works Cited Donohue, John W. There s Something About a Uniform. America 20 Jul. 1996: 18- 20. Gursky, Daniel. Uniform Improvement? The Education Digest Mar. 1996: 46-48. Mancini, Gail Hinchion. School Uniforms: Dressing for Success or Conformity? The ...
- 1718: Migrant Labour
- ... manufacturing/ industrialized nation and the ever emerging capitalist economy. Those in power had to ensure the advancement of their economic base and as the sastainment of the base of their economy the migrant labor force. John Browett in "The evolution of unequal development within South Africa" also expressed the view of the importance of South Africa in sustaining its" capitalist mode of production, their white privilege and power along with the ... manufacturing/ industrialized nation and the ever emerging capitalist economy. Those in power had to ensure the advancement of their economic base and as the sastainment of the base of their economy the migrant labor force. John Browett in "The evolution of unequal development within South Africa" also expressed the view of the importance of South Africa in sustaining its" capitalist mode of production, their white privilege and power along with the ...
- 1719: Men Fear Death
- ... people see death as the end, almost wasting the talent the person could have had or what they could have done. This is the case in the literary work titled Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther. This is a story written by Gunther about his child John Jr. It seems that in society we view death in a young person with an especially sad expression. In the story, the parents of Johnny do whatever they can to support their son in his ...
- 1720: Joel Poinsett
- In 1825 President John Quincy Adams appointed Joel Poinsett as the first U.S. minister to Mexico. His first assignment was to persuade the Mexican government to sell the U.S. the province of Texas, thus continuing the rapid ... following his own personal agenda in regards to acquiring Mexican territories, and beginning a war to do so. Unquestionably the most important domestic issue in the years prior to the American Civil War was slavery. John C. Calhoun recognized that, ...if the treaty ending the conflict was silent on the subject of slavery in the ceded territory, the North will oppose it, and if it should prohibit slavery the South would ...
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