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- 661: Homeless Youths
- ... have it pretty well - Nice homes, loving families, and nearly all they want. Now, imagine the stress of a teenager who has no home. It seems pretty hard to understand how these youths survive. Between school and home (wherever they call home), destitute children have unbelievably tough lives. School presents itself as a very hard place for homeless children. A lack of clothing makes them reluctant to attend school because they view their clothes as less than adequate. Their peers may scoff at them and as a result practically all suffer from low self – esteem. Children who live in one room with their ...
- 662: Child Labor
- ... by cold water being thrown in their faces. Three-year-olds could be found in the cotton fields, and twelve-year-olds on factor night shifts. Across the country, children who should have been in school or at play had to work for a living. By the early 1900's, many Americans were calling child labor "child slavery" and were demanding an end to it. They argued that long hours of ... on their lives. His obvious goal was to reveal to the world the horrors of child labor and move people into action. There is a big difference between children who worked at odd jobs after school or did chores around the house or the family farm. No one could object to youngsters working as trainees and apprentices, merely learning skills they would use for the rest of their life. The campaign ... sixteen in dangerous trades such as mining. For all children, the NCLC demanded an eight hour day, no night work and mandatory work permits based on documentary proof of age. The NCLC also wanted compulsory school-attendance laws, but they didn't put much effort into it. It was hard enough to get honest child-labor laws passed and obeyed. Lewis Hine once entered a textile mill to find thirty- ...
- 663: Education: Past, Present, and Future
- ... our education system is the best in the world. In the past, Education in America was plain and simple. We've all heard the stories of how our ancestors used to have to walk to school 5 miles in the snow in the heat of summer. These shameless exagerations were meant for us to think that school back in the "good ole days" was very dificult and surpassed the level of difficulty students today have. In reality, school, although most early schools were combonation classes with a variety of age groups as students. Almost each individual was given an equal amount of personal help from the teacher. Also, life wasn't as ...
- 664: Winning for Zorich
- ... mother was babysitting other kids in the neighborhood. She would read to him and help with his homework and make sure his hand-me-down clothes were clean. chris's stuttering problem tortured him in school. In class one day he had to read an essay he wrote in front of the class. When he started to stutter he heard the kids starting to laugh he stopped half way through and sat down at his seat with anger inside him. When he got home that night he told his mom what happened and she helped him with the problem. At the end of the school year he wanted to read his essay to the class. When he got in front of the class he read through the poem and mumbled just a bit. When Zora was told she had severe ... mother went to very low extremes. Chris would got to bed at 6 p.m. so he would not be hungry at night time. He knew he would awake to a nice warm breakfast at school. When Chris was accepted to Chicago Vocational High School in 1983 the football coach asked him, if he wanted to be on the football squad. He started attending the afterschool football practice and enjoyed ...
- 665: Fashion Essay
- ... the line between what was once considered the black style of dress and the white styles has become less and less evident. This is especially true with the younger kids in junior high and high school. The baggy pants and shirts with labels and bright colors that were once reserved for the inner city black and Latino kids, are now being worn by whites in wealthy suburban neighborhoods. I lived in ... with brighter colors. There jeans were available in relaxed fit and even baggy. Hip Hop had now become a large market for young teenagers and people in their early twenties. I went to a private school with a very strict dress code and even there you could tell that the new urban fashion was having an effect on the way some students dressed. They would try to get baggier pants and ... the front. Whenever we had a casual day all the kids would go to the mall and you would see the baggy jeans and bright shirts on everyone. When the weather got colder kids at school started wearing the bomber ski jackets, so many people at my school had them that the school maid them illegal to wear. Also more and more guys started wearing the large hiking boots that ...
- 666: Juliette Low: Founder of the Girl Scouts
- ... on plays for her family. One summer Daisy made a club called “The Helpful Hands” and all of her cousins were in it. They sewed clothes for the poor. Juliette Low went to Miss. Blois School in Savannah, Georgia. She also went to Stuart Hall in Virginia to become a lady. It wasn’t very fun there. Daisy loved to climb trees, race through the woods, and swim. At Stuart Hall ... she had to walk slowly and quietly every where she went. For her birthday one year, Juliette’s parents sent her a Bible. When she read it, it made her feel closer to them. Another school Juliette went to was Edge Hill School, which was also in Virginia. Juliette thought that Edge Hill School was more fun than Stuart Hall. Daisy joined the Theta Taus Club. They held secret meetings, and had special feasts. Daisy always got “ ...
- 667: Written Speech On Teen Suicide
- ... without any explanation. Sadly, teen suicide occurs nearly 5,000 times each year. Even more amazing is that 400,000 to 2 million teens attempt to commit suicide each year. Psychologists and therapists, teachers and school couslers, leaders of youth groups, and researchers who study society and young people have come up with a list of reasons as to why the teen decided to kill themselves. The list of culprits is ... expected to take their lives. On July 7, 1987 Todd became one of those men. He shot himself in the head in his room. His parents didn't expect anything. He just graduated from high school, had a bright future ahead of him, and didn't really have any physical or emotional problems. Even after they looked through his journal there wasn't really any clue, but his last entry read ... little about his appearance, it could be a way of saying, "Why should I care? I'm not good anyhow". Lack of interest. If a teenager begins to lose interest in friends, hobbies, sports, or school, he or she may be losing interest in life. Long periods of sitting and staring into space or sleeping during the day can be signs of serious depression. Getting rid of personal items. When ...
- 668: The Path I Have Chosen
- ... a lot to handle, but with hard work and dedication anyone can achieve what they want. A student doesn’t necessarily have to be book smart, but determination is a must.” (Vaughan). Obviously, a high school diploma is a must before college. Once in college, students go through a mandatory pre-medicine program for neurology students that includes classes in biology, physics, mathematics, and general and organic chemistry. After satisfactory completion ... courses, the Medical College Admission test is taken in the senior year of the student’s curriculum (Jakubiak, p 145-146). After graduation from a college, students who are accepted attend a four-year medical school. There are only one hundred forty-one medical schools in the entire United States; therefore, acceptance in these schools is hard to attain. The surplus of those interested in admission greatly outweighs the number of schools, making it a competitive field. Two of the deciding factors to acceptance are grade point average and personal achievements. For the ones fortunate enough to gain admission, the first two years of medical school are spent in the classroom and laboratory. The students study medical sciences including cell biology, physiology, pharmacology, human anatomy, pathology, neurology, and biochemistry. Medical students also go through doctor-patient relationship and social behavioral ...
- 669: Go Ask Alice!
- ... doesn’t notice her. If she would ever sleep with a boy she would sleep with him. Alice hates her look. She wants to be pretty and slim. Lately she loses fascination about all things. School is bovring and she doesn’t even go to parties. Her parents want to move. Her Dad is invited to become the Dean of the Political Science at - . Alice is happy and is not hard for her to leave the old school. But she misses her old house and her grandparents who she calls gramp and gran. Alice has a brother called Tim and a sister Alexandria. The two are younger than Alice. At her new school it is horrible for her. Nobody speaks to her the first days. but her brother and sister like the new school. Finally she finds a friend at school. Her name is Gerda, but Alice’ ...
- 670: Gangs
- ... wedding anniversaries, to welcome the New Year, and to enjoy many other special events. Alcohol is a legal drug for people over the age of twenty-one. By the time most teens reach senior high school, nearly all will have faced a choice about whether or not to take a drink. Although this drug is illegal for teenage use a large percentage of teens use alcohol. Many teens die in automobile ... chosen to say no. Each year it is blame in the deaths of more than four thousand teens (Claypool, p. 42). No crime kills more teenagers in America. Kids who are drinking regularly in high school seem to be fully aware of the penalties and laws against underage drinking, possession but don't care. They agree that driving while intoxicated is a key role in fatal car accidents, yet they still ... worries about problems, which are problems at all. Many kids drink to make them feel older and mature. It makes you more confident and sociable. Another cause of teenage drinking is escape from stress of school if they are overwhelmed with work or that they get really worried over slipping grades and that they just need to relax. Drinking will only make things worse. Many teens drink because of peer ...
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