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    A street child is a young person‚ under the age of fifteen‚ who lives and sleeps in the streets‚ whose family ties are broken and who can’t or won’t return home. Street children live in the streets without their families. Each child has to learn how to survive alone‚ since no adult takes responsibility of them. Often they are very young and completely ignored by their families. These children don’t like to be called as "street children". They live‚ or rather struggle to survive; they are usually

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    Code of the Streets By Elijah Anderson In the article “The Code of the Street” by Elijah Anderson‚ he allows a glimpse of everyday life through the eyes of two completely different worlds wrapped up within one universe. He compares street families to what he refers to as “decent families”. Although the meaning can take on different perceptions to the eye of the beholder‚ the author described it as a code of civility at one end of conduct regulated by the threat of violence.   Within these most

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    The Street That Got Mislaid by Patrick Waddington Marc Girondin had worked in the filing section of the city hall’s engineering department for so long that the city was laid out in his mind like a map‚ full of names and places‚ intersecting streets and streets that led nowhere‚ blind alleys and winding lanes. In all Montreal no one possessed such knowledge; a dozen policemen and taxi drivers together could not rival him. That is not to say that he actually knew the streets whose names

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    shocking‚ unexpected twist. “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” is an episode that informs society about the fear of prejudice and hysteria. In this episode‚ a loud shadow in the sky passes through Maple Street. The shadow is actually a meteor. Unexpected and strange things start to happen like the electricity and cars turning off. The people who live on Maple become very curious on what the meteor has done to the neighbors living on the street. A young boy named Tommy tells the adults that everything

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    There are so many avenues for kids to take. Peer pressure is tough! Friends can take their vulnerable friends down the wrong path. No doubt about it.     Life on the street is full of distractions. Many kids on the street do not have the love at home and when that happens‚ they look in the wrong places. Three boys‚ without fathers‚ working mothers‚ living in the hood of Newark New Jersey faced these very issues. Drugs‚ gangs‚ and prison were a reality for their friends. They flirted with this type

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    the Streets Culture in urban communities‚ also referred to as inner-cities‚ are growing increasingly violent. In the article‚ The Code of the Streets by Elijah Anderson‚ he begins to take an in-depth look at the root of the evil. He deduces that economic factors‚ parenting and the troublesome environments largely influence the violent norms within this culture. Anderson notes that two groups coexist simultaneously in the inner-cities which he labels as the “decent” and the “streets.” Although

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    Street Foods

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    the Study Street food is ready-to-eat food or drink sold in a street or other public places‚ such as a market or fair‚ by a vendor‚ often from a portable stall. Most street foods are classed as both finger food and fast food‚ and are cheaper on average than restaurant meals. According to a 2007 study from the Food and Agriculture Organization‚ 2.5 billion people eat street food every day. In the Philippines it is easy to prepare and eaten and consequently have become the staples of street vendors

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    Illegal Street Racing

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    Introduction Street racing has been identified as a threat to civil society with significant social and economic impact . Street racing is illegal in Malaysia ‚ as reckless stunts on public roads endanger the lives of many . One of Malaysia ’ s subcultures include the ‘ Mat Rempit ’ biker gangs ‚ estimated to be over 200‚000 which comprise of bikers who either take to illegal racing in large numbers or perform extremely dangerous

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    Judi Lin is 19 year old former street racer. She used to tear up the streets of her hometown until she got torn up herself. "I ’ve been through six cars in the past five years‚" Lin admitted. "Two out of the six were (demolished) in street-racing accidents. Both of them were a total loss. The first one‚ I was street racing a Mustang on a rainy day and I broke my collarbone. On the second one‚ I was at the illegal street races and wasn ’t wearing my seatbelt. My forehead hit the (windshield)‚ and

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    Miguel Street

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    The Novel Miguel Street has been variously classified as a group of short stories‚ as a series of sketches‚ and as a novel. The latter classification is supported by the fact that it is unified by a single narrator and by several patterns and themes. Furthermore‚ although each chapter is dominated by a single character‚ those major characters reappear as minor characters in other chapters. At the end of the book‚ all the characters who still live on Miguel Street gather to present to the narrator

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