No More Participation Trophies! Participation trophies are the prized possessions of younger children‚ right? Are these items a sign of achievement? To some of the children that do receive the trophies‚ they mean the world to each and every one of them‚ but do they send the right message? The controversy over whether participation trophies is huge. These trophies should not be given out. Participation trophies take away the true meaning of sports and hide children from reality. To begin with‚
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Lucia Davies Fadiga 5707 Westgate Road Lanham‚ MD 20706 Why I Want To Be A Nurse Growing up in a third world country‚ Sierra Leone on the extreme west coast of Africa where the standard of education isn’t as good as the western world‚ especially in the healthcare field‚ I can remember my father asking my brothers things like what do they want to be when they grow up? What do they want to study in college? As a child I would give a quick answer; like I want to be a bus driver‚ a restaurant
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American families are suffering from the violence and substance abuse in their towns today‚ as reflected in the film “Boys of Baraka”. This film focuses on four young African American boys and their families from an inner city in Baltimore; Richard and brother Romash‚ Devon‚ and Montrey. As a result of the lack of discipline and an increased violence rate‚ these African American boys are suffering education-wise. Luckily‚ the Baraka School in Africa was designed for these children and gave them hope
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Become a Vegetarian! Shatia Davis General Purpose: To persuade. Specific Purpose: Today‚ I will persuade you why you should become a vegetarian. Thesis statement: I will tell you first where some meat really comes from; second I will tell you how some animals are slaughtered; lastly I will try to persuade you to become a why vegetarian. * Attention-getter: How many people in here eat meat? Well I’m sure some of you can’t imagine a day without meat‚ that’s why I’m here today to persuade
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Yolngu Boy Caught in a collision between the modern world of rap‚ football‚ street cred and the oldest living culture on earth‚ Lorrpu‚ Botj and Milika are three Yolngu teenagers who once shared a childhood dream of becoming great hunters together. But things have changed and their paths are diverging. Botj is walking on the wild side‚ a lost soul in search of a place to belong. Milika is more interested in football and girls than any of the traditional knowledge he is being taught. Only Lorrpu
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Relating to Boys For any author relating to their audience is extremely important if you want your message to be received. In Rick Moody’s “Boys” he is trying to relate the two boys in his story to anyone who reads it. He illustrates their lives‚ from birth‚ and shows the process of their maturation over time. The trick for Moody though is to try to take something like growing up‚ which is a very broad and personal event‚ and make everyone who reads this feel like they could be one of the boys that he
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Scholarship Boy or Not? In the essay “Achievement of Desire”‚ Richard Rodriguez takes author Richard Hoggart’s‚ “Scholarship Boy”‚ and uses it as a reference point to capture his own life experiences as a scholarship boy. Growing up in a working class house hold‚ Richard was not the average product of his environment. Much like Hoggarts’ scholarship boy‚ Rodriguez was a very dedicated student that excelled in most of his studies. Although Rodriguez had the full support of his parents he was still
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The stereotype of boys being lazy and unfocused has affected the academic standing and treatment of boys across American Schools today. Boys today are leading failure rates‚ dropout rates and more. Boys are also “considered” more unfocused‚ lazy and uninterested than girls‚ and some may say this is true as evident by the statistics that say boys have lower grades and higher dropout rates. 40-50 years ago‚ this was considered “strange” as back then‚ girls were “considered” to have lower grades etc
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New book explores literacy‚ reading among boys Generations of schoolboys who squirmed through lectures on symbolism in "Lord of the Flies" may want to thank Michael W. Smith for finally understanding their pain. In a new book‚ the associate professor of literacy education at the Graduate School of Education‚ and his University of Maine colleague‚ Jeff Wilhelm‚ document their research exploring why boys’ literacy test scores are consistently lower than girls’. The book‚ "Reading Don’t Fix No
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“BLACK BOY” This novel focuses on the struggle for identity of a young black boy in the Deep South. It is a powerful testament of Richard Wright’s life which depicts a tale of hope and determination. Richard’s life growing up as an African American in the Jim Crow South‚ paints for the reader the economic and social struggle that were clichéd for African Americans at the time. It follows young Richard through his youth‚ examining the hardships and obstacles faced by both him and his poverty-stricken
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