a young kid living in the ghetto and deep down inside he was trying to break free from the guns and drug. He was doing what every other young kid was doing in the ghetto selling drugs and sitting on a park bench. It was thought be that he shoot another young man several time just so he could get ahead because he felt that Darryl was a treat and he was competition. He was not always a bad kid he liked electric model trains and he also had helped a local cop Andre get gym mates for the kids in his community
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The reason why i think that kids should not be playing sports‚ is because one thing is that Most children would rather play on a losing team than sit on the bench of a winning team From the article “More Kids Are Suffering Sports Injuries”. What many people don’t see is that people are dieing because of the sports‚ that they do and most of these sports can cause deaths in them or even breaking something in there body. And also one reason why this is not a good thing for people to do‚ is because they
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Vanessa Olson Mrs. Novak September 17‚ 2012 Final Draft Are Parents Really to Blame for Their Kids’ Behavior? Watching how children‚ or even teenagers my age‚ act‚ I wonder how or why their parents let them get away with their behavior. What causes some kids to talk disrespectful to others or throw temper tantrums for the littlest reasons? My parents would tell me how‚ when they were my age‚ no one acted out like how children do today; that parents do not have the morals or values that the
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My piece is on Butterfly kid (girl) and this can be found at The Baltimore Museum of Art. This piece is surrounded by many types of information how it depicts one person covered with butterfly wings. It stands tall at about 6-7 feet in height. There’s so much to talk about the uniqueness of Butterfly Kid and why it stands out to me the most when I went over to the Baltimore Museum of Art. Getting the descriptions of the Butterfly Kid just right is a challenge in it of itself. This piece was released
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point of view of a group of young teenagers who decides not to go to school anymore‚ and they think they’re really “cool” because they skip school and ignore all their responsibilities as young people. This poem is also written seemingly in “street kid” vernacular to emulate a certain group of people. According to an article by Tom Brady on Soapboxie‚ the author puts “Emphasis on street credibility and savvy in many Black communities have given rise to the thug culture. This culture stresses the negative
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Do you think kids should have homework? I don’t know because sometimes it takes hours to do. Right now I usually have homework in math science and English everyday. I don’t think we should have homework because it’s too much work to start and it gets in the way of after school activities and most importantly can cause some health problems. The first reason we shouldn’t have homework is it’s too much work. In school we sit in a classroom doing work for almost 7 hours (besides lunch). So why do
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one hundred twenty-eight million school aged kids able to learn but only one hundred eleven million of them can go to school leaving seventeen million of them without education. What makes it worse is that thirty seven million of those kids in school will learn so little that it wouldn’t make a difference whether they were going or not. That’s only seventy four million kids going to school with good education while in America there are ONLY 2‚000 kids out of school which is a huge difference which
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What happens when someone can’t see the sun revolve around them. Well in the book Diary of ja Wimpy kid‚ Greg can’t see that anyone but himself matters. In the book Greg has to deal with going to camp and doing community service but he doesn’t deal with it in a good way because he doesn’t like doing anything but playing video games and he only worries about personal gain. The theme of this story is that it’s hard to really ever enjoy anything when you only think of yourself. My first piece of
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TV… Television and the media. TV is bad for children. We all seem to know this. Like eating our daily fruits and vegetables‚ or cutting our sugar intake. But why? Can’t kids just learn as much from TV as they do from books? The problem here is not what they watch‚ (be it good or bad) but it’s what the child is missing. Did you know that children who interact with parents rather than a TV show have faster learning abilities? In fact‚ while interacting with parents‚ the child encounters words
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Throughout the story‚ David Sedaris‚ socially compares himself to the popular kids. This is evident by the way Sedaris talks about the popular kids. His idealization of the popular crowd is so profound that when he overhears the other kids at the Labor Day celebration he did not realize that there are other popular groups out there. His social comparison is that of an upward social comparison. An upward social comparison occurs when a person compares his or her social worth to people who they think
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