...4.1 percent of people who are sentenced to death are actually innocent. Sadly, James Richardson was one of that 4 percent. It was an average day on October 25, 1967 with Mr and Mrs. Richardson and their seven kids. The morning of that day the two parents left for work sixteen miles away from their home in Arcadia Florida. They had their neighbor, Bessie Reece, as their babysitter while they were away. Three out of the seven kids were eligible for school, so the babysitter mainly watched the four young ones. After the three school kid ate lunch from home, they returned to class and the teacher noticed them looking ill. Along with sending the kids to the hospital, someone from the school also checked on the other four at home and found them...
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...hidden metaphor in the story which was interesting to decipher. My thoughts immediately after reading the text were that Kid Death was really a metaphor for Nick who had always hid behind a mask to appear frightening and cool but once you “took off his mask.” He was just another Geek like Kid Death. I also thought that the Angel must also be a metaphor for something, and I realized that it was a metaphor for the angel that had saved Nick. I thought that Kid Death and the Angel bundled together represented what we perceive as the “Devil and Angel on our shoulders.” The Devil is Kid Death and the angel being the angel. This showed nicks inner battle to either remain behind a mask and be cool like Kid Death and make Bad things happen. Or be good like the angel and not be so cool but still be good, in the end he chose the path of the Angel and this changed his life since he started being good and not always acting tough since he knew what happens if he does. Before the seminar, I had a pretty clear idea of what the subject of the story was. I remembered the general area of the subject of the story was to constantly travel the good path in life. In the scene near the end of the text where Nick was “frozen in time” and was looking at the angel saving his brother. He could choose to follow the path of the angel which symbolized him being good or choose the path of Kid Death and keep being bad (or keep on his mask) . He chooses the path of the angel and chooses to remain good. By selecting...
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...bullying and other horrors that make life miserable for young people, forcing them to fight for their own survival. Parents are worried about two main things and that is the exposure to violence and psychological burdens that reading or watching the Hunger Games can bring. How are parents supposed to react to children killing children; therefore is this survival of the fittest? The Hunger Games book has parents worried about their children feeling the burden of economic sacrifice. They view the Hunger Games as a punishment that must be tolerated because it puts physical and mental distress on their shoulders. Parents feel that the book has too much violence. Parents are concerned how to approach their children and talk to them about death. Parents are worried about the way the story is told and the outcome it will have on their children after they read it. Parents are worried about what age is appropriate for their children to see the movie because their worried that children will see these scenes, and have their minds warped into believing that violence is painful, and wrong, and can have devastating long-term effects on both its victims and perpetrators. This book glorifies innocent children being kidnapped and being used for military advantages. The book and film is relying on appealing to emotions that some children are not ready to...
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...December 10, 2012 Carol J. Amato, M.A. Should minors be allowed to drink alcoholic beverages in their homes with their parents’ consent? Underage drinking is a big problem throughout United States. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 required all states to raise their minimum purchase and public possession of alcohol age to 21. This Act helped decreased the cause of deaths of minors because minors didn’t purchase it. This law only prohibited the minors from purchasing it but not from drinking it. The president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, for example, accused the university heads of "not doing their homework" on the relationship between the drinking age and traffic fatalities (Tetelbaum 2009). The university was accused they said the deaths only occur between the ages of 18 – 20 but actually the deaths were occurring 16years or younger due to underage drinking. They believe underage drinking shouldn’t be allowed even if it’s at home. What are we really teaching our kids? This is something I talk about all the time at school with my kids and encourage parents to discuss with their kids. The more we discuss this topic with our generation they more they will understand the importance of underage drinking. Underage drinking costs Americans taxpayers approximately 61.9 billion dollars annually and in 2000, only 71 million was spent on prevention. Whereas 1.8 billion dollars was spent on drug prevention, and countless billions are poured into alcohol advertising and...
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...Secondhand Smoke. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/secondhand_smoke/health_effects/ HealthMed, 2011. Relationship Between Prenatal Smoking and Respiratory Illness in Infants. Retrieved from http://ehis.ebscohost.com.library.gcu.edu References Arizona Department of Health Services (2008). Bureau of Tobacco Education and Prevention Strategic Plan for A Tobacco-Free Arizona. Retrieved from www.azdhs.gov/tobaccofreearizona/reports/pdf/tfa_strategic-plan.pdf Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to(2013). Smoking and Tobacco Use. Health Effects of Secondhand Smoke. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/secondhand_smoke/health_effects/ HealthMed, 2011. Relationship Between Prenatal Smoking and Respiratory Illness in Infants. Retrieved from http://ehis.ebscohost.com.library.gcu.edu Tida Bayoh Tida Bayoh Effects of Smoking to Infants Effects of Smoking to Infants Resources Available * Arizona Department of Health Services Community 602-542-1040 * Tobacco Free Kids 202-296-5469 * American Cancer Society 602-224-0524 * Center for Disease Control 1 800 QUIT-NOW or 1 800 785-8669 * * * Resources Available * Arizona Department of Health Services Community 602-542-1040 * Tobacco Free Kids 202-296-5469 * American Cancer Society 602-224-0524 * Center for Disease Control 1 800 QUIT-NOW or 1 800 785-8669 * * ...
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...struggles and hardships. The death of his younger brother Allie seemed to take the greatest toll on him. His death had also much grief to him. Holden and Allie shared a special relationship that couldn’t really be replaced. His death affected Holden to such a great extent that he has difficulty forming new relationships throughout the story. Holden’s brother Allie was eleven years old when he passed away from leukemia. When Allie died, Holden went to his garage and broke...
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...Golding, Roger is a malevolent, sinful, corrupt child who murders two kids, including Piggy, and feels no remorse. He perfectly portrays Satan by throwing rocks at little boys, torturing two twins with the names of Sam and Eric, and ending two other children’s lives. He also moves close to pushing a rebellious boy, Jack, off a cliff towards his death. To Roger, Piggy is just another bump on the road who needs to be paved over. Roger murders Piggy without a second thought, and recklessly disregards the value of human life, even when he has the option to prevent the death....
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...harmless rite of passage. Parents have an incredible big influence on the sibling’s behavior. The problem with parent is that they favorites their children, and puts them into categories like ‘’the smart one’’ and ‘’the atlete’’. That was some different reasons and opinions on bullying between siblings. Outline: In two different texts, we are seeing some positive and negative aspects of sibling rivalry. In the text ‘’A nasty case of sibling rivalry’’ we hear about Joanna Briscoes relationship to her little brother, and how they actually saw the conflict as being a matter of life or death. It was a fight between aggression and strategy. The psychotherapist Philip Hodson says: ‘’they have entered an evolutionary struggle for the milk supply (also known as the love supply)’’ according to Phillip Hodsons saying, we are standing in the middle of a love fight. The children fear to get abandoned by their parents. According to Karen Doherty co-author of Sibling Rivalry, it is normally behavior for kids to kick, punch and fight at some point during childhood. Today Joanna Briscoes stands and wishes to apologies to her brother, but he has to sat it first. In the text ‘’Sibling rivalry leads to success and...
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...Media Socialization of Death New movies have a lot of violence and bloodshed. “With television, analysis of programming for 20 years (1973-1993) […], the level of violence in prime-time programming remained at about 5 violent acts per hour” (Gerdes 20). The fact is, the media show an immense amount of death and killing and pass it off as if it’s no big deal. The media socialize children with death to the point that parents no longer need to. Kids are exposed to death at a very early age. Children accept truth and facts from the media much faster than from adults. Finally, murders involving children and young adults have reached all time highs in recent years. First, kids are exposed to death at a very early age. During the 18th century, children were looked at very differently than they are now. They were looked at as economic liabilities which live in a sort of vicarious bubble. This means that they can play and help with chores, however they are not developed enough to understand complicated concepts such as death. Children were shielded from death and developed no thoughts or opinions on it until later in life. Children’s understanding of death in the 21st century is completely different. Children as young as three realize that death exists and may or may not be final; children as young as five understand that death is final (Children & Adolescents). The reason children understand death at such young ages is due to the media opening them up to it. This...
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...A Song in the Front Yard by Gwendolyn Brooks is about a girl that always played in the front yard. As time went by she watch as the kids in the back yard played and had more fun than she did. Now she is hungry for that fun even if it means being bad. She wants to live life and not be stuck in the front yard. Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson is about death. Stating that she could not stop for death means that the speaker didn't have a choice about when she was to die. Gwendolyn Brooks was born on 7 June 1917 in Topeka, Kansas--the first child of David and Keziah Brooks--Gwendolyn Brooks is "a Chicagoan." The family moved to Chicago shortly after her birth, and despite her extensive travels and periods in some of the major universities of the country, she has remained associated with the city's South Side. What her strong family unit lacked in material wealth was made bearable by the wealth of human capital that resulted from warm interpersonal relationships. When she writes about families that--despite their daily adversities--are not dysfunctional, Gwendolyn Brooks writes from an intimate knowledge reinforced by her own life Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born 10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886, was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke...
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...her older brother, at a very young age. The story is partly told in flashbacks from the last summer with her brother and the neighbor’s kids playing in their backyard while reenacting the death of Henry VIII’s wives. The present part of the story describes how the unnamed narrator’s oldest son, Mark, has a friend that suddenly passes away in a car accident. The story draws parallels between the death of Terry and the death of Mark’s friend and how both deaths play a role in their ordinary family life. Losing someone as close to you as a brother, has inevitably affected the life of the narrator. She reveals how it has caused superstition “Mark and Coco are four years apart – we had been two apart, Terry and I. And maybe it was superstition that made me wait that extra stretch of time before getting pregnant again”. It has also caused drastic changes to her friendship with the neighbors whom she had spent countless hours in their backyard, reenacting the death of Henry VIII’s wives. “We weren’t really friends, anymore. And neither of us said a word to the other, not a single word.” It is here very clear how the friendship between the two girls were lost in high school. Though it’s very commonly seen that childhood friends lose touch when they get older, and especially when they reach high school, it’s hinted that it may be because of Terry’s death. Terry was described as being the most entertaining when reenacting and he passing away is highly likely the reason they stopped playing...
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...development of an individual | A predictable event is something which has a high likelihood of occurring and is expected. And an unpredictable event is something which is not expected. Unpredictable events tend to have more of an impact on an individual’s life, because they would not be expecting it and would not be prepared for it, for example the sudden death of a family member. Marriage is a predictable life event, majority of people get married in their life time or at least plan to. The point of marriage is that it brings two people together, who plan to be together for the rest of their lives. It brings about many changes to a person’s life, including emotional and social development. Angelina Jolie has been married three times. She is now currently married to Brad Pitt who she loves very much and so this would affect her emotionally as she now has a life partner, someone to care for her and to share her problems with this. The effect of this is that it will allow her to be more content and happy in life as she has someone who loves her so much. Also she has new family and friends to get to know and begin new relationships with such as friends and family of Brad Pitts, so this would affect her social development, allowing her to be more confident. Angelina’s intellectual development would be affected as she would begin to think more about their future together and whatever big decisions she will make she would think of her husband and how it would also impact him. Finally...
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...The Reader Text type = Novel By = Bernhard Schlink Text about = Apocalyptic Germany giving way to the new or emergent post world was Germany. How do the crimes of four bears effect the children ? This is the central theme of Schlink’s “The Reader.” Idea 1 = Michael represents innocence and his choice of sexual relationship with an older women demonstrates both his journey into ‘adulthood’ and the interlocking of two generations. The oedipus complex is used to demonstrate Hanna and Michaels relationship. Hanna’s nickname for Michael was “kid” and for her the appeal of Michael was his innocence. Hanna is archetype for the horrors of the holocaust, the bears of guilt and strain of illiteracy. Michael wanted to gain experience and understanding and go from viewing himself as as a child, “I had run away like a child, instead of keeping control of the situation, as I thought I should. I wasn’t nine years old anymore, I was fifteen” to someone who had experience and knew their “ … way around women, and could be comfortable and open in a friendly way.” Michael’s journey to enlightenment and adulthood had a massive effect on him, “ It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station.” The metaphor ?? demonstrates how much of an impact one person can have on one’s life. Can I use “The Odyssey is the story of motion...
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...Teen suicide is the third-leading cause of death for 15- to 24-year-olds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.gov), after accidents and homicide. Parents should start understanding why teen suicide is important because parents never know if their child is having thoughts about committing suicide .Teen suicide is important because between bullying and domestic abuse teens struggle and go through challenging situations. For example, in school teens stress over how they look, what other people are thinking about them, and if they are cool. Also females often get into abusive relationships with boyfriends and they feel like they have no other way out but to kill themselves. Bullying has a big impact on teen suicide because kids are often picked on for no reason and they feel helpless. This leads to a lack of self-confidence and they may begin to...
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...between a local story such as the city council closing three city parks to save money, or a major celebrities death for the lead story for our local nightly broadcast I would choose to make the city council closing three city parks to save money the lead story. I would make this story the lead story because as the news director for the local television station I have a responsibility to the local public to keep them informed of news stories involving their town. Unlike the big networks, or the 24 hour all news stations who serve a worldwide audience, My local television station serves a local public who may depend on me to stay informed of any significant news stories that involve their town. Chances are the celebrity death story has already been broadcast on the big news networks as well as other forms of media like radio, and internet. So, as the news director in charge of the local news I would run the city parks closing story as the lead because not only is it my responsibility to run stories that involve the local population of my viewing area but it is my social responsibility as a journalist to report stories that are relevant to the viewers. I believe a city losing its parks would be more important to the local viewers then a celebrity death. I also believe the ratings would still be better because I would still cover the story about the celebrity death I just would not lead with it. I think some people would tune into the news broadcast to hear both stories. Most...
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