Facts & Statistics The numbers continue to rise every month... - It is estimated that 160‚000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students. Source: National Education Association. - American schools harbor approximately 2.1 million bullies and 2.7 million of their victims. Dan Olweus‚ National School Safety Center. - 1 in 7 Students in Grades K-12 is either a bully or a victim of bullying. - 56% of students have personally witnessed some type of
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Becca Dix In Spoon River Anthology‚ Edgar Lee Masters shatters the myths of small town life in America by his use of style and tone. Masters characterizes the Town Marshall and Jack McGuire by their Thoughts‚ similarities‚ and their point of views. The Towns’ people thought of him as “ Grim‚righteous‚strong‚courageous‚ and a hater of saloons and drinkers”(19) just because they thought of him as a terrible man for killing a swede while he was drunk‚ which derived his hatred for alcohol. A waste
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Your Message Can Wait! “BEEP‚ BEEP‚ BEEP!” A new message was delivered as you drive back home from school. Maybe from your crush trying to reach you to set up a date‚ or maybe a message from your mom asking you to turn off the oven when you get home. Whatever the occasion it might be‚ it is just very tempting to pick up your handheld device and reply back. So you do. OOPSS! You just fell into your own trap. The moment you picked up your phone‚ you immediately lost total focus of the road leading
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Technology; Is it getting too Involved in our Daily Lives? Over the past few years technology has advanced in so many ways. It has become a large part of different areas in people’s lives. Younger generations cannot function without help. Could too much use of technology harm people’s health‚ meanwhile‚ leaving a gap between generations? If you look around‚ technology is a large part of every aspect of our modern day life. There are computer controlled cars‚ planes‚ and houses. Most people need
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in his inescapable trap since the first moment we made eye contact. Harmless I thought of him. As his photographers assistant I was quite the unexpected choice of lady for him‚ not famous nor excessively wealthy. Just a poor innocent young convent girl reeled in to the isolated lonely depressing life that followed. For the next 16 years people assumed I lived in luxury while others suffered under my husband’s command. No‚ no not in the slightest. Quite the opposite. I was alone. So alone. I spent
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Sean Yong English 10 Ms. Phillips December 4‚ 2012 Persuasive Essay Being Single vs. Being in a relationship Have you ever been in a relationship? If not‚ you’re on the right track‚ but if you say yes to this question you would want to listen carefully because what I’m about to say is true. Being in a relationship may feel good for the person who is in it‚ but they don’t realize the demerits of the relationship. Trust me‚ I have been in one. I believe that when you are in a relationship‚
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Dear Mr. Larson‚ I have been made aware of your plan to build a beneficial facility for young people in Chino Hills. Please read the following letter that will explain to you that building a youth activity center would be most beneficial to our wonderful city. Many may say that no one would come to the James Larson Youth Activity Center because of its membership fees‚ but any child who cannot afford the fee because financial problems in their family can submit their information and will be
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Persuasive Essay “Shame” by Dick Gregory is a story about a young boy (Richard) who got humiliated as a kid trying to impress a girl at his school. He wanted to be like other kids at his school‚ but he couldn’t because he was poor. “Thank You‚ Ma’am” by Langston Hughes is a story about a little boy (Roger) who thought he had to steal his way through life until he met a large lady (Luella Bates) he tried to steal from changed his life. While the two characters are different in that they have
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A Persuasive speech on sexual discrimination Good evening‚ my name is Evan Morrison. I am here today to talk to you about sexual discrimination. Sexual discrimination means that a person gets treated in a less favorable manner because of their sex‚ and I imagine young people go through tough times at school just because they like the same gender or when a boy wants to be a girl. In this speech‚ I will try to change your views on discrimination and hopefully make a change and put a stop to all of
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Persuasive Speech Attention Getter: I would like to start my presentation off by telling you all to ask yourselves a series of fairly straight forward questions. I want you to take a look at you’re‚ any hand and ask your selves “Who’s hand is this?” Do the same with your other hand‚ and now both legs and your arms if you would like. If I am not mistaking the answer to all your questions are mine right. They are your hands‚ legs‚ and arms. What I am trying to get through to you all today is that
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