One month ago‚ Mack Beggs‚ a high school senior‚ earned the Texas girls’ state championship and completed a perfect season. Mack Beggs is a transgender boy. The state of Texas refused to allow Breggs to wrestle with the boys because their laws state that high school athletes must compete by the gender listed on their birth certificate. Wrestling fans called Beggs derogatory terms like “faggot” and “it.” Negative Facebook and Twitter comments questioned Beggs and made him seem like a lesser being
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Finally‚ they drove up the igneous road to see the very top of the volcano above them‚ the glow of the molten lava shining above and around the rim‚ the gleam even more notable against the dimmed sky. Caroline parked where the path ended and unlocked the doors. She turned to Rachel‚ who was about to open the door but turned to her when she felt her gaze. “Good luck‚” Caroline wished her‚ and she nearly missed Rachel’s quick twitch of a smile. “Thanks‚” she responded with a curt nod before opening
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Don’t Mess with Texas Trash‚ garbage‚ junk‚ debris-all alternatively known as litter-scattered across the 268‚597 square miles of Texas on our highways and landscapes. Where former First Lady Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson aspired to see bright and colorful wildflower blanketing the great Texas countryside‚ oftentimes we only see disturbing amounts of garbage. This is what I aim to change. Through my school’s Key Club I have had the opportunity to have a positive impacts in reducing the "over
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The story why don’t we complain‚ is a story that brings up the face about american worries‚ or lack there of. The author’s first example was when he was on a train‚ and its freezing outside. Unfortunately the temperature in the train was is the mid 80’s. In the 50’s ‚business men wore heavy black suits which was not the most comfortable attire for a hot train car. When he decided he was going to ask to lower the temperature the people around him told him not to bring it up. Why ‚ because american
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Don’t Drink the Water Review This winter‚ Beavercreek High School put on the production‚ Don’t Drink the Water‚ a play Woody Allen wrote. The play‚ intended for young adults to older adults‚ contains humor that‚ considering the jokes pertain to government‚ politics‚ and country stereotypes‚ stands too mature for younger audiences. Don’t Drink the Water‚ starts with Axel Magee‚ the son of a United States ambassador stationed in a Soviet country. Axel‚ forced to take on his father’s role as Ambassador
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Stephanie Rennie Class Project 2 March 27‚ 2012 Boys Don’t Cry The movie I chose to watch is the 1999 movie Boys Don’t Cry. This is an intense‚ sad‚ and emotional movie that displays the true life story of Brandon Teena’s gender identity disorder. The main character played by Hilary Swank‚ is a girl named Teena Brandon that lives life as a male named Brandon Teena. Throughout the movie you see the struggles and danger he faces in an unforgiving community. Gender identity disorder
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Why Prisons Don’t Work The article “Why Prisons Don’t Work” (1994) by Wilbert Rideau‚ was written from personal experience. Currently‚ the prison system in our society does not work because it focuses on punishing criminals after the fact of crimes being committed (Rideau‚ 1994). These crimes are committed primarily by young‚ poorly educated‚ and unqualified men (Rideau‚ 1994). Therefore‚ the prison system should focus on educating these young men‚ rather than locking them up for life. First‚
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AT&T was started over 130 years ago in 1875. It started out when Alexander Graham Bell began work on the telephone. Initially it just made telephones and licensed to companies to Many changes in the company structure 6‚000 patents 7 Nobel prizes Analysis I. General Environment A. Technology Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and earned the patent in 1875. AT & T was incorporated in 1885 with objective of building and operating long distance network. AT & T was the
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mother “all you had to do was break down the sounds and put the corresponding letters on paper”(1955‚ p. 2). All people all over the world just needed to learn the sound of each letter in the alphabet. As an example a child learns the sounds C‚ A and T not the word
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Confessions of an Instant Messenger In this context‚ Conor Boyland is arguing that using AIM‚ and Facebook has become an addiction to himself‚ and other teenagers alike. He states that communicating via the Internet is damaging social skills‚ wasting time‚ and even going so far as to becoming a drug to certain individuals‚ who can’t go a couple of hours without messaging on their phone‚ or the Internet. Throughout the passage‚ where he does not compel anyone‚ he does advise readers to
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