Bullets were flying everywhere as the sound of firing and explosions rang through the war zone. The smell of blood and gunpowder was fresh in the air‚ the child soldier licked the blood of his mouth and surged forward with his remaining strength‚ pulled the trigger of the grenade and flung it hard at the enemy. Yes‚ my friends‚ for more than a decade now the world has watched in dismay as hundreds of thousands of children and young teenagers have participated in nearly hundreds of these gruesome
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Imagine this‚ you are a 2 year old Golden Retreiver‚ you got adopted by a loving family shortly after being born at a farm breeder. Two years later‚ your family can’t afford to take care of you anymore. The next thing you know‚ your family drops you off at a shelter. Months and months go by and no one has adopted you yet. The walls and floors are cold and lonely. You no longer look forward to your owner coming home for work‚ because they won’t‚ they left you here. The shelter is starting to become
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Child Abuse General Purpose: To inform my audience about child abuse. Specific Purpose: After my speech my audience will understand the different forms of child abuse and how to prevent this to happen. Thesis (Central Idea): Child abuse can be a harmful situation but us as a community we can prevent this to keep happening. INTRODUCTION: Attention Getter: “Bruises fade but the pain last forever”. Orientation: Child abuse happens when an adult mistreats or neglects a child. Thesis (Central
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2303 18 June 2013 Child Abuse Introduction I. The National Child Abuse Statistics stated that every six hours a child dies in the United States due to abuse or neglect. Child abuse is one of our nation ’s most serious public health problems. II. No‚ I was not abused nor have I witnessed abuse‚ but scientific studies show a link between child abuse and neglect of children and a wide range of medical‚ emotional‚ and behavioral disorders such as depression‚ alcohol abuse‚ drug addiction and
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Welcome Speech ‘At Home or Outside: How Safe is my Child? 23/1/13‚ ICG A very good morning to all of you and a warm welcome to this seminar on ‘At Home or Outside: How Safe is my Child?” Thank you for sparing your valuable time to be here to discuss and deliberate on an issue that is slowly making our society hollow and will cause a major collapse of all value systems if timely action is not taken. It can be very difficult to talk about child abuse or more specifically child sexual abuse‚ which
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out of 601.4 children were victims of child abuse‚ 2.34 children out of one hundred thousand die from injuries relating to their abuse‚ a third of all girls and a sixth of all boys are sexually abused before age 17‚ every ten seconds a child is abused‚ killed or raped in the United States‚ today up to five children will die from abuse or neglect‚ today six children will commit suicide (Unites States Children Bureau‚ 2010). There are various types of child abuse that come with different affects‚ signs
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Child abuse has many definitions in our world today‚ but only one definition in the dictionary. Child abuse is the infliction of injury on a person under the age of eighteen by a parent or legally responsible care taker. Although the legal definitions of child abuse and neglect vary from state to state‚ to put the definition simply‚ it is when a parent purposely harms a child. This type of maltreatment has become a leading cause of death for young children outstripping deaths caused by car accidents
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Have you ever ran from someone who was trying to kill you while running through the jungle to escape and get freedom. This is the life of a child soldier. “Nearly 20000 of Uganda’s abducted children” (Hope for Uganda’s Child soldiers). The issue of child soldiers came to worldwide attention when a 14 year old child soldier was executed in 1999. Child soldiers is a very big debate now. The two sides are they are victims and they are perpetrators. I think that they are victims. They are victims for
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Child abduction or kidnapping can be a parent’s worst nightmare. As much as we try to teach our children about strangers and always being aware of their surroundings‚ the possibility of them being abducted/kidnapped cannot be ruled out completely. As legally defined in the state of NJ‚ abduction is "when someone uses deceit or force in order to take a person or a child away from their home or relatives... [the perpetrator often] knows or has some sort of relation with the abductor" (US Legal n.p
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your age. Suddenly a commander walks up to you and says‚ “Take this.” He hands you a couple of pills. You do what you were told and take the pills. The next thing you know...you just shot‚ and killed‚ the rest of your family. This is the life of a child soldier. History shows us that the issue with children soldiers is not new. Since the 1980’s‚ Liberia‚ Uganda‚ and Renamo Forces have had over 13‚900 children soldiers. All over the world today‚ there are still‚ approximately
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