Rape is a difficult subject to explain to others because it is traumatic experience that people not involved will be unable to deal with the situation. Laurie Anderson’s novel Speak focuses on this very issue. The protagonist‚ Melinda Sordino‚ must face the challenges of high school‚ family issues‚ and the inability to express herself. Mr. Freeman‚ David Petrakis‚ and sports are the things Melinda relies on to overcome the past that haunts her. Mr. Freeman is a factor that motivates Melinda Sordino
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countries have realized the significance in educating their people‚ and provide free college education. A society that is educated is better equipped to deal with the upcoming of a more globalized world. Eventually‚ countries will need to compete against people from other countries whose educational systems may be superior to theirs‚ which is why every government should pay for college for its own citizens. Currently‚ over 12 million people in the United States are unemployed‚ where only eight
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to be in the army again. In the texts‚ “Armed and Underage” and “The Perfect Weapon” they show that children are being forced to be soldiers. I don’t believe that children should be in the army at such a young age. The reason why I say this is because these young kids that aren’t even teenagers are having to listen to what people tell them and have them fight for others protection and not their own. Another reason I believe kids shouldn’t be in the army is because there families are basically leaving
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Throughout the book Speak Melinda had many topics in each of her many passages. These passages help us find out what type of a person Melinda is and what her character is all about. The entire book is narrated by Melinda. In the beginning we find out that she busted a party by calling the cops during the summer right before high school. Everyone thought she was a rat. Little do we know is that she never spoken up that at the party Andy Evans raped Melinda. During her freshman year nobody likes her
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dangerous substance goes into our bodies. Such as alcohol or energy drinks where too much can severely harm the body. What if I told you there was another substance that a lot of people consume everyday. I am talking about soda and the recent soda cap size ban. The soda ban helps to inform people on what a healthy amount of soda should look like and also helps raise awareness on important consequences that could occur when overindulge. With the knowledge of how much is too much and what damage could occur
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Blake June-2-2014 English 101 Professor Gouirand Paper 4 Draft #1 For many years prostitution has been a very looked down upon way of making money and having as a lifestyle for various reasons in the United States. Not only does this promote sex trafficking in the United States and even other countries‚ but it also promotes child prostitution. With the United States are thinking prostitution is an okay way to go‚ what’s stopping us from continuing on this cycle of legalizing
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Why the Pledge of Allegiance Should Be Revised In Gwen Wildes essay‚ “why the pledge should be revised‚” Wilde stroungly believes that the pledge of allegiance should only be used for the sole purpose of patriotism. In wildes essay she states many facts of the original pledge. Wilde states that the first original pledge‚ issued in 1892‚ read as I Pledge Allegiance To My Flag‚ And To The Republic For which It Stands; One Nation Indivisible‚ With Liberity and Justice for all.” In her essay she included
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toll booths‚ slot machines… none of them take pennies. They rattle around in your purse or pocket‚ find their way into every crevice of your car and often end up being sucked up by a vacuum never to be seen again. The mere uselessness of the coin should be a reason in of itself to get rid of this small hassle. However‚ it also wastes the United States millions a year. Today‚ it costs the U.S about 1.7 cents to make a penny. The amount of pennies minted each year varies‚ but it usually ranges between
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Racism ‚ discrimination‚ deportation‚ and segregation. These are all the things people of the latino community had faced during the early to late 1990s. American people used the latino community for cheap labor‚ which is basically legal slavery. Many families even if they were citizens of the United States were deported to their home countries. So why were people of the latino community treated so poorly in the 1900’s in America? During the 1900’s majority of schools were segregated in America.
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WHY SHOULD I VOTE Voting is not only a right but a privilege in the United States granted first under TheTwenty-fourth amendment to the United States Constitution which states that: the right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President‚ for electors for President or Vice President‚ or for SenatorRepresentative in Congress shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State and is also addressed again in Article 19
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