As a girl growing up in Moreno Valley‚ California‚ it was not easy overcoming the challenges I faced. Being raised in the “worst part” of town‚ meant I was destined to be nothing in life. Though these are what the statistics told me‚ I believed otherwise. I attended the “ghetto” schools of the school district in Moreno Valley‚ but nothing came close to Moreno Valley High School. Before entering high school for my first year‚ I was told to be aware of gang members‚ drug dealers and so forth. I have
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the most difficult points in an adolescent’s high school career is dealing with the constant pressures to engage in sexual activities. These activities may be fun and games until someone ends up pregnant and has to alter their everyday lives to balance parenthood and school. While in retrospect the adolescent mom is not the only person who is being affected by this new family member. The complications of school would not be the only stressor on their minds at this point; in-fact life can become more
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Being a Teen Mom So I got pregnant at the end of my sophomore year. In fact‚ I got pregnant two weeks after I lost my virginity. How lucky was I‚ huh? From the beginning I lost most of my friends. I was called many names‚ slut‚ hoe‚ stupid‚ and irresponsible. And of course I had to walk around with a baby bump for nine months! From time to time people ask me how I dealt with it. My answer is proving them wrong. Today’s society seems to think that you just threw your life away. I started educating
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Teen pregnancy has been gravelly increased in the last few years. Bad media influences (Many programs at TV programs or sexual content movies as well as other mediums) can be the factors that teen girls nowadays are getting a wrong advice that teen motherhood can a common way to live. Partners and friends’s bad influence is making them think that is right to have sex at a young age and will make them feel more popular. In that regards‚ this essay by Cristina page is restating the issue that more
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Technology is growing and expanding really fast these days‚ everyday we hear about something new that can be used to solve a life problem or improve life style. GPS stands for the Global Positioning System‚ it’s very cool and useful technology and that’s why we see it used in many fields these days. What makes this technology interesting and important is that GPS is integrated in most of our electronics these days and it’s very useful. GPS technology helps business when tracking utilities are companied
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CASE APPLICATION: LEADERSHIP Growing Leaders How important are excellent leaders to organizations? If you were to ask 3M CEO George Buckley‚ he’d say extremely important. But he’d also say that excellent leaders don’t just pop up out of nowhere. A company has to cultivate leaders who have the skills and abilities to help it survive and thrive. And like a successful baseball team with strong performance statistics that has a player development plan in place‚ 3M has its own farm system. Except
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Tiger Moms: Is Tough Parenting Really the Answer? When I first started to read “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” I had the same point of view that the majority of the audiences‚ this ways of raising her daughters were too extreme. I thought that her parenting methods were incredulous and things such as calling a kid garbage it should never be done. Then I started to see Amy Chua’s point. She is a “Tiger daughter”‚ her Chinese parents raise her in the same or maybe even in a harder way‚ and from
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Becoming a teen Mom At the age of nineteen‚ instead of partying and hanging out with my friends‚ I had to become a mature and responsible adult. On October the 25th I got the most shocking news a teenage girl could ever imagine. There was so many thoughts going through my mind‚ I was scared‚ nervous‚ shocked and did not know what to expect from this situation. What will my family and friends think of me? My friends and I made a pack that we will never have children. I broke our secret society code
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Tiger Mom” by Amy Chua‚ I was surprised how Chua shared in detail about her life journey as a parent and raising two children. This is a book about Amy Chua’s experiences in raising her two daughters‚ Sophia and Luisa (Lulu)‚ in what she believes is the “Chinese mother” style of parenting. She is quick to point out in the first chapter‚ entitled “The Chinese Mother‚” that she uses the term “loosely” as it would be ridiculous to try to assume that every mother from China is a like a tiger mom. Just
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The notion of growing old has for many been visions of hopelessness‚ neglect and despair. And if you add to these the perceptions of inadequacy‚ lack of energy‚ social withdrawal‚ difficulty concentrating‚ and problems with memory‚ the realization that we are growing old can be traumatic. At no stage in life is it ever smooth sailing‚ every stage has its bumps and bruises. Our ideas and attitudes towards aging are very important in how well we cope with and enjoy the passing years. As I look forward
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