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    program has been found to have a negative impact on juveniles and their recidivism rates. Studies show individuals that attend programs such as deterrence‚ scared straight‚ and programs that teach the juvenile discipline actually increase recidivism in youth; having higher rates of reentering the prison system (Wilson‚ 2011‚ p. 106). Scared straight and boot camp programs focus on scaring the children to get them back on track and the programs bring delinquency together who’s inclined toward violence

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    The negative influence factor which radiates from father‚ Don‚ in Lenore Keeshig-Tobias ’ essay‚ "He Was a Boxer When I Was Small‚" is a great example of how a parent ’s actions can brainwash and alter their children ’s future decisions in life. Author Keeshig-Tobias grew up in a miserable household raised by her feared‚ alcoholic father‚ who held frequent temper tantrums in order to establish his parental authority. Don has many flaws that make him a bad father‚ including his temper‚ ignorance‚

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    Censorship: Reaction of the Scared Wesley Scroggins states in the article “Scroggins: Filthy books demeaning to Republic education”‚ “In high school English classes‚ children are required to read and view material that should be classified as soft pornography”(Springfield News- Leader). He then states that Speak should not be allowed in English classes because it is inappropriate for teenagers to be reading by viewing soft pornography. Laurie Halse Anderson states within her essay “A Comment About

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    about a person. This person was special. He was the man who thought me braveness. He was the guy who always lent his ear to hear my problem .He was the clown that’s always make people laugh. He was my ultimate Grandfather. When I was in the age of childhood‚ he was the one who took care of me. My mother was dead when I was a baby due to serious accident ‚so most of the time was my grandfather taking care of me .I can’t really remember how was my mother really looks like‚ but I will never forget my grandfather’s

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    Valley Forge Essay If I was a soldier in Valley Forge I would have had to think every little detail out before I made my decision. Would I be better off leaving? Would I have a good chance of staying alive if I stayed? I wouldn’t just jump into the decision without thinking everything through. Most likely I would have quit‚ and here are the reasons why. In Valley Forge at this time it was cold‚ freezing actually. They had no warm clothes and even if they did it was torn to shreds. People around

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    When I was asked to give a talk‚ I was very excited. I was very excited‚ until I remembered that I had five minutes to talk about two subjects that were very important to the standards of the church. That is: how I am preparing myself for a mission and getting married in the temple. Then while writing the talk‚ I realized that in preparing for a mission‚ I am in essence‚ also preparing to marry in the temple. In this recent general conference talk‚ Elder Quentin L. Cook took the time to share a

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    The time before 1914 was a time of unrest and small fighting between countries. As a cause of industrialization‚ countries had had to find new markets which were often in other countries. To gain the markets‚ the country had to take over the land. This policy of conquering and ruling other lands is called imperialism. By 1900‚ Britain had control in over five continents and France had control of large portions of Africa as a result of imperialism and felt that their military could not be beat. Once

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    anything but each other when light itself would follow you around aroused by your scent as eager to join with you as i now i am thinking of the night you beat me at scrabble with the word cancer and how it was nothing that became something that killed you and how it seems the little rose is reaching out to me the green leaching out of its leaf tips and how the life is leaching out of me as i go weeks now without eating anything like you used to do just before you went silent and bone white

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    Myself It was on May 31st 1987 that I was born in a little hospital in Bangkok‚ Thailand. My parents named me Thepnaree Oonhateparuk. I have 3 siblings; one elder sister‚ one older brother and one younger sister. I am completely not like any of my siblings because I am the only who resembles half my mother and half my father. I grew up with harmony and a cozy family has helped me in pushing my passion in education. Family is the first school in which a child receives the basic values of life. I learned

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    Was Charles I the architect of his own downfall? Charles I became King of England‚ Scotland and Ireland since 1425 until 1449 where a civil war took place because of Charles wrong decisions he kept making. A civil war is regions within the same country‚ this civil war begun because of religion‚ money‚ and power. He didn’t care about these‚ which sadly leaded him to his own execution. First of all‚ Charles made his subjects and Parliament turn to his new religion‚ which was blindly Catholic‚ however

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