Billy the Kid has a lot of history surrounding him. Some of it true and some left unknown. People like making his story more elaborate or more heroic than it might have been. But in reality Billy the Kid wasn’t as big of a figure as most stories make him out to be. Yes‚ he was a very good shot and had plenty of run ins with the law‚ but how people personify him range from fact to fiction leaving one to question many of the accounts made of him. Billy’s actual name growing ups wasn’t actually Billy
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start over‚That was scary.Being the new kid in school is awful and upsetting‚ and I was not looking forward to that at all.Already being a shy person who has trouble connecting with new people‚ being forced to start at a new school was absolutely terrifying. Going to a new school is like being lost at sea and everywhere look its just a big body of water.The day began just like any other day. The ringing of the alarm clock and a quick breakfast that could hardly be call a meal. I was afraid‚I did
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States. Kids Food Basket‚ located in West Michigan‚ is just one of many nonprofit organizations that serves to put an end to childhood hunger. This organization all began back in 2001‚ when a Grand Rapids Public School’s principal witnessed her students looking for food in the trash. Mary K. Hoodhood heard the story and founded Kids Food Basket to make a change. Kids Food Basket addresses childhood hunger by serving kids directly‚ creating an engine for volunteering‚ and empowering kids to help each
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The 300 Kid The phrase "300 kid" might be very foreign to you and everybody around you. In contrast in the halls of a Juvenile court it’s a phrase that is heard to often."How could you blame him‚ he was a 300 kid". A "300 Kid" is one of those unintentionally dehumanizing verbal short hands so common in the juvenile system. So what is a "300 Kid" it’s a synonym for a foster child‚ dependent child‚ a beaten‚ battered‚ and abused child. In the juvenile system young reoffending offenders are looked
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In the book Immigrant kids ‚ The author tells us that immigrants had a very difficult time making a living. When they came over to America‚ many were lacking the education and skills‚ so they had to acquire the lowest paying jobs. If you worked twelve‚ or even fourteen hours a day‚ you still wouldn’t have enough money to support your family‚ so everyone had to help. Even the children in these families had to work. These children were around eight to ten years old‚ and you would mostly find these
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S Y M P O S I U M Arts Education from Past to Present Kant for Kids Editor’s note: This article is the ninth in an occasional series on past treatments of major issues in arts education policy from antiquity through the twentieth century. Future essays will appear as occasion arises. A esthetics‚ we could say‚ is the philosophy of art (including poetry and literature)‚ and philosophy can be defined as a way of reflecting and clarifying ordinary‚ everyday thoughts and feelings that
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"If I Could Change The World" "What would you do if you could change the world?" is not an easy question to answer for some people. There are endless answer to that question because there are endless ways to change the world. Everyone has a different vision of how they think the world should be. But now I am going to let you in on a little sneek-peek on my vision of how the world should really be. First of all whenever it rains‚ dollars would fall out of the sky. It would snow in the
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between parents and kids can harm their relationships with each other. Many parents don’t realize that their relationship with their kids is really important‚ especially strict parents. Strict parents believe in tough love but that can really harm the relationship between their children and them. This allows kids with strict parents to believe that family can hurt us as much as a stranger can. Both the article Are strict Chinese mothers the best? and Study:’Tiger Parenting’ Tough on Kids talks about strict
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of the human existence that no one can avoid forever.In a sense‚ life and death are of the same importance. Like a story‚ the intro to your life is just as important as the ending.In the poem Nobody know this little Rose by Emily Dickinson ‚compares the differences between life and death.In the lines “Nobody knows this little Rose/It might a pilgrim be/ Did I not take it from the ways/ And lift it up to thee./Only a Bee will miss it/Only a Butterfly‚”(Dickinson lines 1-6) talks about life. The rose
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McJobs Are Bad for Kids I thought Amitai Etzioni’s article: The Fast-Food Factories: McJobs are Bad for Kids‚” was both accurate and convincing. His assertion that fast food jobs‚ “impart few skills useful in later life‚” and “skew the values of teenagers‚” is correct. At first blush‚ these jobs seem idea for teaching young people responsibility and self-discipline. But‚ when examining issues the author mentions as negatives such as; hours worked‚ appropriate supervision‚ job training‚ opportunity
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