“He heard people singing. Behind him‚ across vast distances of space and time‚ from the place he had left‚ he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.” Jonas woke up in a cozy bed in a clinic‚ wrapped in three blankets‚ and his head accommodated in soft feather pillows. For a moment he forgot everything that had happened. He looked around and noticed Gabe sleeping soundly next to him. Then‚ he remembered the nightmarish event that luckily was over. He also remembered his community
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Just last week‚ the Wisconsin state appeals court ruled that the two 14 year old girls accused of plotting and attempting to kill a classmate in order to please a fictional character will be tried as adults. This decision came about because of the seriousness of the crime and because the court felt that if‚ convicted and sentenced in the juvenile courts that the girls would not receive long-term mental health treatment. However‚ does prosecuting them as adults really allow for their mental health
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The court cases conflicted about the curfews and internment camps reasoning if the implementations were constitutional or not. Yasui‚ Hirabayashi‚ and Korematsu refused to relocate into internment camps and took the cases into Supreme Court. As they argued about their rights throughout the Constitution‚ the main argument was about implementing the Executive Order through constitutional reasonings. Although all three cases were overruled‚ the court ruled that curfew during war times and the exclusion
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were growing up‚ and fast! They all wanted more freedom! They wanted cell phones‚ later curfews‚ and more allowance money. They grew attitudes too. The parents knew they had no choice but to do to their
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Sydney Ganus Mrs. Dunlop and Dr. Hinch Junior Exhibition 8 February 2010 Kent State Shootings (Research Paper) Faced with the problem of a violent protest‚ the Ohio National Guard chose to open fire into the crowd as a solution‚ but increasing security around the ROTC building and preventing its arson would have been a plausible solution. This event takes place in May of 1970 at Kent‚ Ohio. Richard Nixon has just been elected president‚ taking office in 1969. In the midst of the Vietnam
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Sameness is when everything is the same like color or personal lives. The community is by far a dystopia because there is complete control. There is also a lack of knowledge in the community‚ for instance no one has memories‚ they are all held by a person called the receiver of memories. Each family can also only have two books.In The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ explains the ideas of sameness‚ complete control‚ and lack of knowledge. There is a huge lack of knowledge in Jonas’ community
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Oppressive governments and the psychological manipulation of the people are the strong themes and warning signs that these two powerful works of art‚ 1984 and V for Vendetta‚ attempt to delineate. 1984 and V for Vendetta have their similarities and differences yet their worlds are built around these basic tenets. Yet varying with their degree of control‚ both the novel and the film depict despotic leaders and repressive governments. Both of these leaders use intricate methods to keep control.
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youth in the justice system. The four "core protections" of the act are: • Deinstitutionalization of Status Offenders (DSO) -- the deinstitutionalization of status offenders and non-offenders requires that youth who are runaways‚ truants or curfew violators cannot be detained in juvenile detention facilities or adult jails; • "Sight and Sound" -- The "Sight and Sound" separation protection disallows contact between juvenile and adult offenders (i.e. if juveniles are put in an adult jail
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want the culture of the home to go away. Though at times‚ Alice would secretly make sure the house wasn’t decaying as fast as Mrs. Bertha. The elderly lady had to be the only person that accepted Alice for being an atheist‚ which explains why Alice favors her so much. "It is 1889 and it is still a shock to these people that some of us do not believe in God. Do you know what they call me now? The murderer! They suspect that I’m the unknown murderer!"
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the decisions they make. Many of these children grow up to be very respectful of the needs of others. The children of an authoritative parent may also have a much higher self-esteem and are popular amongst their peers. An example can be setting a curfew and making sure the child is in the house by that
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