...done for the boy? Should he be sent to foster care or not? Pony boy lives in a horrible, dangerous environment with his two brothers. His neighborhood consists of enemies of the greasers, the group Pony boy is in. Foster care, on the other hand, displays a more distinct, healthier environment for him, so he should be put into foster care. For his own safety, ability to make friends, and getting rid of bad habits, he should be put into a foster home. The first reason he should go to foster care is that foster care has a much safer neighborhood than his current surroundings. In a foster home, pedestrians are less probable to inflict damage upon him. He also is not as probable to hurt himself in foster care than he is with his brothers. Additionally, people in a foster neighborhood are not as likely to bully or be mean to him. In his present neighborhood, people are more likely to be hateful to him. In the book, it states, "'Need a haircut, greaser.'" The medium sized blond pulled a knife out of his back pocket and flipped the blade open." This evidence explains that other people could harm him in his neighborhood. According to his relatives, others can still be rancorous to him in a foster...
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...As we go through life, we all learn some important lessons. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph is the main character that learns an important lesson about human beings. Ralph and the boys get started on a deserted island as a result of a plane crash. There are no adults, no rules, and no laws. There is just the island, the boys, and their free will. Ralph is the boy who tries to establish authority to keep the boys safe and in line, but he learns that the chaos on the island can lead the boys to do very bad things. Ralph has great leadership qualities, and he shows them throughout the novel as he tries to lead the other boys so that they don’t go crazy. Ralph finds this conch shell with the help of Piggy, and he blows on it very loudly so that if there were any other survivors on the island other than Ralph and Piggy, they could find them. He blows on the conch shell, and tons of boys emerge from the woods and come together. Ralph didn’t just get leadership, he was voted by the boys to be leader. He won leadership over another boy named Jack. Jack is one of the main reasons that Ralph has to learn a hard lesson in this novel. Ralph has to be strong in his leadership, and he has to be a sharp, quick, logical thinker. Ralph conducts numerous meetings of the boys and is very clear and strong in his messages. The boys could get out of hand during these meetings, and they did, but Ralph was always there to take charge and calm everyone down again. But even Ralph...
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...we’ll mash you” we hear about this boy Charles who get threatened by some guys at his new school, because he is the ”new member.” How bad can it actually be? Next Term, we’ll Mash you is about a young boy named Charles who is sitting in a car with his parents. They are going to visit St Edward Preparatory school where Charles is going to start. When they come to the school the mother consider it as a lovely place. Charles and his parents are waiting for the headmaster, but meanwhile is the headmaster’s wife taking Charles out to see some of the boys and see what he might be letting himself in for. After seeing the boys at the school, he finds out how they are treating new members. ”Inside the car it was quiet. The boy sat on the back seat, a box of chocolates unopened, beside him and a comic folded” inside the car is there a quiet unhappy boy who is sitting in the back seat, while his parents drive him to his new school. The atmosphere is quiet because it is tens inside the car, nobody are talking especially not Charles. He has nothing to say, because this is not his own option for the new school. His parents have choosing the school for their own sake and not for his. Charles parents want him to go at that school because they have heard; there is nice people, and a friend of them Simon Wilcox has also gone there. In the car is he sitting with an unopened chocolates box, which symbolizes his self-worth? A chocolates box shows his bad confidence, because it seems like...
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...Mark Twain’s coming of age novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn features a boy who embarks on a series of adventures. The young boy sets off on a journey with little knowledge and no resources. Huck encounters a fellow slave that he was friendly with on his escape from abuse and torture who helps Huck grow his personality. Jim, the runaway black slave, who Huck was taught to bring shame upon, helped Huck morally grow throughout the story. Hucks decisions to save vulnerable people from disaster constitutes moral growth because he is able to reject the poor moral teachings of his father and Miss Watson and embrace his own value structure that recognises the humanity of his fellow man. The 13 year old boy basis his adventure off of bad teachings...
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...There are more than 1,000 single sex classes in the United States. Single Sex classrooms are a bad thing because they cause boys and girls to not to be able to work as good together. Not being able to work together makes a lot of people not get jobs and have to worry about financial needs. Although I understand that single sex classes can provide the right learning environment, I still believe single sex classes are not good because they cause poor social skills with the opposite sex. Same sex classrooms are not beneficial, therefore American schools should not create same sex classrooms because they promote poor social skills, cause gender stereotypes, and high tutions. Having same sex classes protes poor social skills with the opposite...
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...write,they taught spartan boys to steal, and they didn’t get freedom. If they continue to do this then the answer will still be no. If they did different things then their answer will be a yes. One of the reasons is because Spartans only learned how to read and write. Spartans need to learn more things like math. For example, Spartans need to know what places they are going to be in which spot in the battle. They need to also know the sizes, shapes, and measurements of their weapons and armor. Spartans didn’t learn anything else then that's not...
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...Image a young boy out on the streets.That young boy decides to steal from a nearby store.He gets caught but what now? Should this young boy go to jail or go to Circle Justice? Some people will say that he should go to jail while others say he shouldn’t. If the boy went to jail he would have to serve his trum in there and at a young age that is not good. The American Justice System is not fair because the result of jail can lead to dangerous things,schools are changing, and how people change in Circle Justice. The first reason The American Justice System is not fair because of the results lying in jail. In “Restorative Justice and a Better Future,”by John Braithwaite it says, “his drug habit for the next 20 years.” This is good information because it decide how jail had effected a teenagr and...
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...Clubs Coming To Help Big Bad Bullies: Chayzée Smith’s Story Everyday, millions of innocent kids are bullied around their school. They are pushed around, physically abused, and can’t do anything about it. The bystanders around them decide not to help either. The daily routine is the same: Get to school quickly and get out even faster, to avoid those kids. The thing is, that they don’t tell anyone, or get help. This is what it was like for elementary student, Chayzée Smith, except worse. Usually, Chayzée would leave quickly and run home as fast as he could, sometimes though, he would try to take a chance, and stay for basketball or table tennis at the school, but “the violence of the neighborhood always found its way into the after school program” (Smith). That was the other problem. His neighborhood was a rough one, always getting involved in drugs or violence. Smith would get beat up, or pushed away from anything and everything. Sometimes, he would even see things he shouldn’t or be involved in bad drugs. These issues abused Chayzée in many ways, and he couldn’t find a solution to this mess (BGCA). After a couple of months, teachers started to realize what was going on in Mr. Smith’s life. They realized what Chayzée was going through. So they decided to stand up in...
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...Rainbow badges for Boy Scouts! For a century the Boy Scouts have been known to some as a household tradition. Grandfathers, fathers, and sons have all had the life in common, joining at a young age, striving to earn their badges and build character. What most don’t know is that for that century that the Boy Scouts has deemed it illegal for anyone who is gay to be a scout. Boy Scouts have been known for building character, unification, and building strong leaders of tomorrow. It seems almost petty and sad to think that such an organization would discriminate against anyone based on their sexual preference. Why should they, or anyone for that matter, reserve the right to tell others they can’t join based on sexual preference? Where is the message of unity and working together as a team? Just what message are they sending to scouts of the future? That it’s acceptable to just and exile others? The Boy Scouts have been known for being heavily faith based. It’s been no secret that many of its biggest supporters are churches. There is nothing wrong with that but one would certainly never guess that an organization that thrives on religion would find the time to discriminate against any one person or group. Every religion, of course, has its own beliefs. Many spread the word of love, all things that or good, or simply the good book itself. Many are followers of God and it seems at times they often forget the wise words to love one another or the saying, “only God can judge me.” What...
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...characters in the short story are a man and a boy. We are told that a refugee woman left her baby by the old man and then she never came back - That's how the man got the boy. The man doesn't know something about the boy and that's why they are choosing a day to celebrate the boy's birthday. As a birthday present the man wants to take the boy to a place without war. On their way to the place, they talk about the color of different uniforms when they see four soldiers. When they arrive, they eat their lunch, close their eyes and sleep for a while. In the end of the story, we are told that the man wakes up and discovers that the boy is gone. Different thoughts go through the man's head and those are interrupted by the boy when he says "Gotcha!" Characterize the boy and the old man. The two main characters in the short story are the boy and the old man. The old man in the short story feels that he hasn't been a good father, which is expressed different places in the story, such as: "I haven't been a good father, letting you go without birthdays this long… You're entitled to one every year, you know, and I've let six years go by without a birthday. And presents, too. You are supposed to get presents." (7. 30 - 32) The old man does not like the war and he does not like the soldiers. Every time the boy talks about something which has to do with the war, the old man gets a bit sad and upset. The old man does not want that the boy talks about war and things like that, which...
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...Death can cause different responses in people. When someone you know dies, many thoughts go around your mind. Some people become murderous in revenge, others become sad and depressed and shut out the world. The Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of boys that are in a plane crash and became stranded on an island. The boys are forced to adapt to their environment and struggle to survive and in the process, several of the boys are lost. Simon’s death is the most important event in the Lord of the Flies because it leads to character development in Ralph and Jack, it also emphasizes the depravity of man. Simon’s death is the most important event because it is a significant event in the plot that adds to themes and helps character's develop. Simon’s death is the arrival of evil on the island within the boys, this is where they begin to realize they are becoming mad. After Simon was killed on the stormy night down on the beach the...
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...gray. McCarthy narrates the story of a father and his son in an unknown location after a horrible event has happened. They must attempt to survive in a world where suffering surrounds them. The father and son go into a nation that is overridden by cannibalism and murder. The goal they have is to survive. The Road is extremely repetitive novel. I started the novel with very high expectations and as I continued to read, I came to realization that I did not like it. This book had a decent idea but I did not enjoy the format in which it was written which really made my dislike for the book to develop. A sentence will start out really simple and McCarthy will...
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...The first significant quotation to me is, when the man is studying the country to the south. He walks out onto the road and wonders how long it would take to get somewhere warm before it was too late, even though he has no clue what time of the year it is. “He thought it was October but he wasn’t sure. He hadn’t kept a calendar for years”(4). I feel like this is a good quotes to be in the novel because it shows loss of time. To them, time doesn't really matter anymore because of how many years have passed and the fact that they don’t know when or if this will ever end. This I feel can relate to me when i’ve been counting down something for so long it just doesn’t seem to matter any more and slips my mind because I feel like it will never come. “When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him”(3). This is a major example of how the man cares for the boy. Every second he can, he...
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...should not be in our society. Everyone may have different perspectives on this issue but they keep it themselves, and not be disrespectful to others. Ones who have a passion of something that the other gender is ‘supposed’ to do, should be able to share that passion with others without the fear of teased or told not to do that, from those who think they shouldn't do that. In our society today people have the fear of being teased or bullied because they are not follow the roles of their gender. Perspective one states that being a girl is bad and that you can avoid the badness of being a girl if you don’t act like one. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout’s brother, Jem, teaches her that being a girl is bad. However, being a girl is not a bad thing, to some people I can see why they think that. Some girls are snotty and mean, but others aren’t and saying that it is bad to be a...
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...Being good at something is wonderful, because it shows that you are not useless and can succeed in life. But finding something you are good at is another talk. Every person is expected to be talented at one thing at least, but that is not always an easy task as you might think. Living up to expectations is difficult and unfortunate not to achieve them especially when they come from you parents, who are the ones you would like to disappoint the least. This is the aspect dealt with in the short story, “Every Good Boy”, which is about a young boy who struggles to find his talent in life. But when his father decides he should take piano lessons things end up having drastic consequences. In what follows I shall look closer at the title, main character, role of the piano, ending, theme and end with a conclusion. The title “Every Good Boy” indicates two things. Firstly, the relationship between our main character and his parents. The main character is expected by his parents to be this good, talented kid who he fails to be. Secondly, the incident at the end of the text which shows a bit of irony. Our main character is an innocent child who would not hurt a fly; however, the intense ending shows us otherwise. It is as if the title is telling us, “Come on, this would happen to every good child”. The narrator, our main character, is a nine-year-old boy. He sees himself as a conventional and pathologically obedient kid. He lives with his parents and has two siblings. Unlike his...
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