WHY DO CRACK DEALERS LIVE WITH THEIR MOTHER’S Topic: Crack Epidemic Speaker: Steven Levitt Discussion: The discussion was a comparison between a gang and a business. Sudhir Venkatesh is William B. Ransford’s Professor of Sociology and author of “American Project” and “Gang Leader for a Day”. Sudhir risked his life to study a gang in a housing project in Chicago where he was held hostage for a night and went back the next day and was then allowed full access to their lives and financial
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Technology in the lives of Teenagers Kevin Palmieri Friday Sept. 26‚ 2008 ENG 4U Ms. Murray Introduction Technology in the lives of teenagers: for better or for the worse? According to Jake Willard‚ an established English teacher at West Mount Secondary School‚ “Teenagers now are far more obsessed with technology- they cannot be without their cell phone or iPod” (Willard). This topic was chosen because from personal experience‚ students appear to be more disruptive and unfocused in the classroom
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believe taking the time to teach cursive detracts from more important skills such as mathematics or reading comprehension. However‚ there are multiple reasons why this skill is still valuable for today’s students. For example‚ knowing cursive allows people to read historical documents‚ stimulates brain activity‚ and is essential for signing legal documents. Therefore‚ cursive writing skills pose benefits for public school students and should be included in the elementary school curriculum. One reason
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Lives on the Boundary: An Assessment of the Flaws in Our Educational System In the opening chapter in Lives on the Boundary‚ Mike Rose points to an underlying issue in our educational system; how to deal with the diversity in our schools of students’ knowledge and comprehension of taught material. Imperfections in the educational system makes it rigorous for certain students to learn what is being taught. Since each student is different‚ ideally each student should be taught in the way that suits
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ESSAY: composition What do you consider to be you’re greatest achievement? Why does it mean so much to you? Right now I’m here. I’m sitting in my class. My hands are completely cold and frozen but that shouldn’t matter to you. All you want to know is about my greatest achievement. What is an achievement in the first place? Taking hold of your dream? A lifelong goal you worked so hard for? But what if I don’t have this kind of an achievement? Because the first achievement I ever had was winning
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A Pet Can Help You to Live Longer Animals have played a significant role in human customs‚ legends‚ and religions throughout history. "Primitive people found that human- animal relationships were important to their very survival‚ and petkeeping was common in hunter-gatherer societies" (Anderson et al.‚ 1987). It is impossible to determine when the use of animals was used specifically to promote physical and psychological health. However‚ the use of horseback riding for people with serious disabilities
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What is a window 8 and how successful do you think it will be? In this assignment I will be focusing on the major differences between the two OS; windows 7 and windows 8. I will also be identifying‚ based on my own views how successful windows 8 will be. Windows 8 is the latest version of Microsoft operating system. For some years now we’ve had windows 7 which was and still is a fantastic operating system. Many years have passed by and it’s only now Microsoft have finally decided to release their
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Music has always been a huge factor in my life. Not only does it serve as one of my greatest influences in the world‚ but it also defines who I am as a human being. It has helped mold me into the kind of person I am today‚ as well as the kind of person that I strive to become in the future. Music gives me the strength I need to push forward‚ to achieve my goals‚ and to believe that I have the power to change the fate of our world. Sometimes in my life‚ I just feel a rush of emotions sweeping through
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Do We Live In a Throw Away Society? There are many discussions that show belief that we do in fact live in a throw away society. There are numerous ways they are trying to prevent that‚ such as recycling more different varieties of products‚ and finding out which are most harmful to recycle more. Then there’s also ways around the idea of helping out the environment‚ but in the long run it doesn’t benefit as much as we think it is. But majority votes that we are a throw away society but there are
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butt and can’t quite sit down. Which is not the same‚ you understand‚ as being hounded by greed; although I can see‚ of course‚ that is probably sometimes looked like greed to certain individuals who were not lawyers‚ when they saw a person like me driving all the way up there to the Canadian border‚ practically‚ way me camping out in the middle of winter in a windy dingy little motel room for weeks at a time‚ bugging the hell out of decent people who were in the depths of despair and just wanted to
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