Valerie Young

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    Keep Teens Out Of Trouble Research Paper

    Keeping Teens Out Of Trouble According to a study done across the United States 93% of the cities that have a youth curfew in place believe that it is a useful tool for police officers to prevent juveniles from becoming victims. The city council should adopt a weekday curfew of ten at night and a weekend curfew of midnight for teenagers. The curfews will keep teenagers off of the streets and help them become better people. The curfews at ten at night and midnight will help keep teenagers off of the

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    Maya Angelo

    Maya Angelo’s book “I know why the caged bird sings” made me fall in love instantly with the book and the author’s detailed writing style. She tells the story of her life from when she was a little girl up till when she was 16 and giving birth to a child of her own. Her book is full of tragic and great experiences while living as a child in the 1940’s. Using the point of view of from when she was a child, but occasionally uses her point of view looking back on the situation as an adult, providing

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    How Did Kaxos Build The Vale

    Way back when the gods were creating the vale there was a problem in the way magic was disturbing the life on earth. Unwanted magical creatures were summoned. These creatures created much destruction. Killing the work of nature.. destroying the world itself. What they didn’t know is that its was Kaxos’s doing that created these creatures. The others gods weren't as happy with these creatures showing Kaxos how destructive they were. Kaxos disagreed and wanted to keep them for his own. After defeating

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    Victor's Selfishness In Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein to have her readers on their toes and want to sleep with one eye open. Frankenstein is about a man named Victor Frankenstein that is fascinated by the mysteries of the natural world and decides that he wants to do the impossible. Victor’s mission was to construct an animate creature by collecting spare body parts. However, a series of tragic events occur after the creation comes to life. The Merriam-Webster dictionary states that a monster is, “something

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    How Did The Pioneers Come West

    wanted a chance to come west had that opportunity. Brigham Young played a huge role in helping all the pioneers come west. He is one of the most important western colonizers (History). He helped begin about 350 settlements (History). He was also helpful in developing states, such as Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, California, and Nevada (History). The members wanted to have communication between all of the settlements. Brigham

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    Case Study

    reputation of Lehman Brothers, but also caused potential audit clients to second guess the reputation of well-known audit firm, Ernst and Young. Ernst and Young helped Lehman Brothers cover up its financial condition for more than seven years from 2001 to 2008, while collecting more than $185 million in fees from the firm. Reports made stated that Ernst and Young “directly facilitated an accounting sleight of hand that burnished [or polished] the securities firms balance sheet.” In the audit firm’s

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    Lehman Brother's Scandal

    Lehman History Lehman Brothers had humble origins, tracing its roots back to a small general store that was founded by German immigrant Henry Lehman in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1844. In 1850, Henry Lehman and his brothers, Emanuel and Mayer, founded Lehman Brothers. While the firm prospered over the following decades as the U.S. economy grew into an international powerhouse, Lehman had to contend with plenty of challenges over the years. Lehman survived them all – the railroad bankruptcies of the

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    The Advantages and Disadvantages of Being a Teenager

    situations where maturity is called for, teenagers can be a stumbling block. When handling over power and responsibility, people in positions of power tend to view those who are more matured as being more trustworthy. This is especially so when the young ones are still in the process of discovering themselves, and therefore are deemed as more unstable in their handling of matters. This is evident in the real estate circles, where sellers of mega properties are more likely to trust a more matured person

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    Colonizing the West

    colonize Jamestown. This brings up the most important factor when looking at colonization: money. Another one of the historians, Dean May, writes from a Mormon angle about a similar experience of colonization by the Mormons. He describes how Brigham Young, the Mormon leader, was faced with a hard decision when he was asked by President Polk, the United States President, to enlist a multitude of Mormon men to help fight the war

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    The Effect of Teen Drunk Driving

    is often in many cases. Teen driving while intoxicated is one of the worst causes of deaths, in the young of the community. The causes are many, a parental figure that was not there when the child was younger, in the more formative stages of their life. A bad parental figure, which has shown the young drivers, that while there are rules, they teach that the rules do not apply to everyone. And young adults, who have just entered the college setting. Instead of concentrating on learning, to advance

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