been trying to prevent this from happening and they even passed a law. People should really stop and see what goes on in schools very carefully because if we don’t our kids will get the worse out of it and it might be too late to help. School violence has been a very important topic ever since what happened in Newtown‚ Connecticut. What had happened in Newtown was that a man went into Sandy Hook Elementary and started to kill teachers and students. At the end after he killed about 20 students
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More Black Children Die in Chicago from Gun Violence than Soldiers from Chicago Die in Iraq By Phillip Jackson Recently in Chicago‚ teen gunman boarded a crowded public bus near a high school and opened fire with a handgun. I imagined this scene must have been similar to the bus bombings that are so common in war-torn Iraq. As I researched this analogy‚ I found striking similarities between what is happening in Black communities across the United States and what is happening in a full-fledged
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Makenna Byers Pd. 5 Teen Parenting In 2010‚ approximately 16 out of every 1000 children were born to teenage mothers between the ages of 15 and 19. Having a baby as a teenager changes everything for the rest of your life. Facing parenthood as a teen not only affects you but everyone around you. It is important to understand the all the things that come with having a baby which can be a struggle for people who are happily married with a job let alone a teenager in high school or college. There are
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Teen Sex and the Media “Rap It Up”‚ a familiar phrase heard all too often in today’s very influencing media sources. In today’s society teen sex is becoming an issue because of this misleading phrase. Many companies try to decrease the percentages of teen pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases through promotion of protected sex but also forget to include the possible “accidents” that may occur while having “safe sex”. When these percentages are presented it is not out of the
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Media Violence vs. Societal Violence By age 18 an American child will have seen 16‚000 simulated murders and 200‚000 acts of violence (United States 2). Over the last thirty years more than a thousand studies‚ by major medical and public health groups‚ have concluded that media violence does have an impact on children (Steyer 72). An increase in today ’s media violence comes from movies and television‚ music‚ and video games. Violence in the media can result in school shootings‚ having an aggressive
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I was fortunate to see the World premier at the Toronto Film Festival. It was an almost finished product with only some minor changes still needing to be done (mostly tweaking the temporary score and sound) but I didn’t notice that it wasn’t a finished product. Saving Face is a funny film by written and directed by first time director: Alice Wu. It is about a widow (Joan Chen) who is in her late-40’s and has a daughter who is a surgeon. She tries to set up her daughter at these Chinese dances that
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“I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting‚ dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of it irresponsible in its overt violence and commercialization of anger. As artists‚ we believe we can will action through language. If that’s the case‚ we have to take responsibility for what we say.” - Yusef Komunyakaat. Before rap’s popularity exploded in American culture‚ West African and Caribbean musicians began to tell stories with the help of a beat
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24 and is the sixth leading cause of death for 5 to 14 year olds. Most of the time‚ the suicide rate among boys is greater than among girls. Why do teens kill themselves? There are many causes. Teens experience strong feelings of stress‚ confusion‚ the pressure to perform and achieve also other fears. During the teen years there are strong hormonal and emotional changes taking place. For some teens‚ the break-up of the family through divorce causes stress. That is when step-parents and step siblings
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Rachel Lee Prof. Goode English 190 October 24‚ 2012 Teen Mom: An Evaluation Don’t worry‚ everything is going to be fine. You’re just going to have to change the rest of your life. Many people think teen pregnancy is highly unlikely‚ until‚ well‚ your stomach starts to keep growing outward. The MTV show‚ Teen Mom‚ takes us into the lives of four pregnant teenage women who face the challenges and the struggles of having a child early in life. Many people might oppose my view and say that this
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way. Substances are abused when people smoke‚ drink or take illegal drugs. Addiction means that an individual has no control over the substances that he or she takes. People get addicted for medicines‚ glue‚ cocaine‚ marijuana or even cigarettes‚ among others. Normally‚ addiction begins as abuse after which the person cannot live without the substance. Majority of the adolescents begin by tasting substances like cocaine‚ marijuana‚ cigarette‚ and many others before getting used to them (Feldman‚
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