The foster care system in New York City is deeply flawed. Sixty-four percent of foster care children are impoverished in their adult lives‚ 50% of girls are pregnant within 12-18 months of aging out of the system‚ and 80% of all inmates on death row grew up in the foster care system. Foster care children should not have to fight against these statistics. The Felix Organization is providing solutions‚ through Camp Felix‚ Beyond Camp‚ the Felix Friendship Circle‚ and the Secret Santa Gift Exchange
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Heroes are strong and brave. A hero is someone who saves someones life and sacrifices themselves for another. Ponyboy is a hero. Johnny kills someone‚ but it was done in heroism. Dally is a hero. However‚ a hero does not have to be a perfect person‚ they can do bad things sometimes. Ponyboy is a hero because he saved the children from the burning church. He risked his own life for someone else because he believed they deserved to live. He is also always there for the rest of the greasers
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Crimes‚ drugs dropouts‚ and violence? Do you really want such a young boy around all of this? Do you really want Ponyboy to live in such a corrupt environment? Ponyboy should definitely be put in a boys home because Ponyboy is surrounded by too many bad influences‚ he seems like he wants to have a good education and Pony could go into depression. Ponyboy is surrounded by many bad influences that could affect his life. The environment that Pony lives in is a very corrupt environment‚ which has to
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was curled up on the pavement a few paces away from the choking Ponyboy. I felt like stabbing myself with the switch in my hands as I watched the prone body of the drunk Soc lying next to me. At that moment there was a silent battle raging inside my head‚ I wanted to run away and hide and leave Ponyboy but also how I wanted to just start that night over. “We can’t just waste time here‚” I was starting to get frantic. Then‚ I saw Ponyboy get up and stare at the dead body. “Johnny I think I’m gonna be
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neglect and abuse in the foster care system is a subject you do not hear about every day. However‚ this is a real problem that affects millions of children living in foster care or some kind of transitional care system. 75% of children in foster care prior to leaving the system will have experienced sexual abuse (Sexual Abuse: An epidemic in Foster Care Settings). According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services‚ nearly 475‚000 U.S. youth reside in foster care‚ close to 30‚000 leaves
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Miss. Rivers ELA 4/5 Outsiders Essay Did you know that rival gangs have faced many of the same struggles? In the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton there are two rival gangs‚ the Greasers and the Socs. The Greasers live on the Eastside of town and don’t have a lot of money. The Socs live on the Westside of town and are very wealthy. There are three problems that both gangs face: drinking and smoking‚ having parents who do not care about them‚ and rivalry with the opposing gang over a variety
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Background does not matter when you are a hero. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton‚ the author argues that heroism defines a person by their actions not by their background‚ history‚ or looks. The events at the church‚ the incidents that happened before the church and the aftermath all show the changes that happened over time that would eventually negate Ponyboy’s history and background and regard him as a hero. There are different points of heroism in the story and different forms of heroism
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Have you ever been so hungry that you felt like you were going to die? Well that is how 12.9 percent of the world feels every day. You should donate to the Care Dinner Foundation in order to help them feed as many people as possible. CARE Dinner Charity’s mission is to feed homeless families‚ as well as families that are unable to afford food..This charity does not only give to America‚ but it also gives to other places all around the word‚ for example Africa‚ Asia‚ and even Europe.These continents
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human nature’ The Outsiders – Text response essay In the novel ‘The Outsiders’ by S.E Hinton‚ we see how hard times bring out the best and worst in human nature. Human nature is basically what people are like deep down. As the characters change and their life grows and gets harder‚ we are shown their true colours. Some of them change for the best‚ and some for the worst. Hard times include a large variety of matters. Based on the novel that we are working on – ‘The Outsiders’‚ some of the issues
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In the book The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton‚ Ponyboy had a few things similar to me. For example‚ we are honest to our friends. We both go to a good school that will give us a good education. And the last thing is we both have a brother. I will also be talking about how we are different in these paragraphs. I do not smoke and Ponyboy does. Ponyboy lost his parents in a car accident. And Ponyboy is in a gang‚ and I am not. Even though Ponyboy and I have several differences‚ we still have
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