...Lovers Or Friends “Wake up Eric time to go to school its your first day, don't want you to be late on your first day of school” Eric mom yelled. “Coming mom” said Eric, “Wait one second and let me put on my shirt” Eric added. The bus pulled up in front of the white picket fence house and Eric is still not ready so he grabs his comb, brush, and his book bag and rush onto the bus. Everyone on the bus starred at Eric as he walked up the three black and dirty stairs. “C'mon boy sit down so we can leave to head to school” the rude bus driver said. Eric didn't know who to sit by because he was new to the school and obviously he thinks no one is going to talk to the new kid. He walked down the hallway as these two light skin boys both wearing fitted jeans and an Hollister shirt one was wearing green and the other wearing a bright yellow color and both wearing all white jordans looking like a pack of sour skittles. As he passed them 1 they started laughing hysterically, as Eric looked at them with a little smirk on his face, one of the boys says to Eric “what are you wearing,them bad ahh reebok and them bad ahh cargos, school Boy”! Eric sat down by himself in the seat behind the two boys. They reached atthe huge, white school building. He got of the bus quickly as possible until then the two boys pushed him out of his way so they could walk he walked through. He had a mean mug on his face like he wanted to punch them in their faces but it’s the first...
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...Bobbi Kristina Brown's boyfriend, Nick Gordon, is finally speaking out about her death, and he is revealing some heartbreaking details. Bobbi Kristina Brown shocked the world when she was found unconscious and face down in her bathtub in January 2015, the same way her mother, Whitney Houston, died three years prior. Bobbi Kristina died six months later when her family took her off life support. Now, Nick Gordon is telling his side of the story, and giving details on his life with Bobbi. According to Hollywood Life, Nick says that Bobbi Kristina had gotten pregnant a couple of times before her death. However, those pregnancies sadly ended in miscarriages. Gordon claims the ordeal was hard on the fragile Brown. “We had a couple of miscarriages....
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...Holocaust Compare & Contrast Essay 20 went in and only 11 came out. In the extermination camp, almost no one came out. This essay is about Pavel Freedman and Kristina Chigir. They both tried to escape the Holocaust. Kristina by living in a sewer for over a year and Pavel by being taken to an extermination camp and dieing. This all happened during the World War 2, Holocaust. The reason this was happening was because both Pavel Freedman and Kristina Chigir were Jewish. Kristina escaped by going and living in the sewer for 14 months and Pavel escaped by being taken to an extermination camp and being exterminated. In Auschwitz 1.1 million people died and in the sewer 20 people went down nine people didn’t come up. In both stories both Pavel...
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...What will happen if I surround myself with the wrong people? Turns out, if you surround yourself with the wrong people, you could later end up in a lot of trouble. Take it from Kristina, the main character in the book Crank, by Ellen Hopkins. Kristina soon discovers the consequences of her actions. There actions soon become responsibilities she doesn't want to have. All this is because Kristina surrounded herself with the wrong people. Her next book, Glass, will take you through a thrilling ride of her feelings, selfish behavior, and merciless decisions. In Crank, Kristina meets Adam, a boy who lives in the same apartment building as her and her dad. Overtime, Kristina finds herself falling for him. She begins to call herself...
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...popular young adult writer. She released her first book, Crank, in 2004. At the time, Hopkins had just thought she was releasing a diary entry of what happened when her daughter “danced with the monster.” In Crank, Hopkins describes how her daughter, Kristina, took a trip to visit her low life father in Arizona for the first time in awhile. She met a few new people who belonged in the wrong crowd and her father wasn't the best protective system she had, so she met the “monster.” She left as Kristina and came back as Bree and also came back a completely different person. Hopkins goes into full detail on her daughter’s struggle with a tough addiction to cocaine. Kristina was no longer Kristina, she was Bree, whoever that was. By the end of Crank, Kristina ends up pregnant and swears she will sober up for her son. In the beginning of Glass, Hopkins second book of the series, Kristina does everything but turn her life around and she's bringing her baby into the mix. She leaves home and starts doing illegal things to keep up her habits. She moves from home to home, with man to man, and drug to even more serious drugs. Kristina, or Bree, finally gets to point where her child is taken away from her. By the end of the book, Kristina is completely out of control and is now pregnant again. Fallout is the third and final book of the Crank series. I had been greatly anticipating this book since I am a huge fan of Hopkins and her fans have been waiting since 2004 to see Kristina's fate...
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...everything. She does nothing to try and control herself even though she is hooked. She was bad characteristics including selfishness, disrespectful, easily-persuaded, etc. making her life a warning to growing teens on how their lives can drop rapidly right in front of their eyes and they cannot do anything about it. Kristina shows bad judgment throughout the novel dealing with her relationship. First, she begins dating Adam who opens up her eyes to the drug scene in Albuquerque while visiting her dad. When she returns home, she is now a whole new person, “Bree”, and soon finds herself interested in Brendan. From the beginning, Kristina knew that Brendan was no good for her and all he wanted her for was her body. However, she continues to interact with him because then she would get drugs and alcohol until eventually Kristina gets herself in a bad situation and Brendan rapes her. Months later, Kristina discovers that she is pregnant with his baby. The way Kristina deals with her new found addiction should be a warning to young teens. Her addiction shows how people have their whole life ahead of them and they ruin it with one choice. In the beginning, Kristina never expected that she would be as dependent on meth as she thought. She also begins to try other things like heroin and blood shots that would not have escalated if she had not decided to make that one choice of trying it with Adam. This just shows teens how one bad decision can negatively affect the rest of their lives...
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...In the novel Crank by Ellen Hopkins, the author narrates as her daughter Kristina Georgia Snow. Ellen is describing her daughter’s battle through her addiction to crystal meth. She describes how easy it is to get drugs but how hard it is to get away from them. The setting is placed in Reno, Nevada and in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In Reno Kristina lives with her mom and stepdad, she has a good live she is a straight a student and goes to school every day. When Kristina went to Albuquerque she tried crystal meth for the first time with this guy Adam, she was instantly hooked. Because of her addiction she developed a second personality that she called “Bree”. Bree then begins to control Kristina’s choices and actions. In Reno the setting conveys...
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...“We all wish, don’t we? Maybe the answer to that question lies awake in bedsheets just before lights out. If I wish for myself, is it the ultimate good for everyone because I am pleased, or is it selfish? Should I first wish for the ultimate good of others so they are pleased and will have kind words to say?” (229). Just as bad things begin as good things, Kristina Morgan’s life began normally. She grew up in a loving family that supported her and her sisters. But as time passed and things began to unwind, her peaceful life spiraled away from her and blew into a million peices. In her autobiography, titled Mind Without a Home, the reader follows the course of her life as she loses control over her mind and must learn the hard way that even...
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...The moral issue I wanted to discuss was from a current event in national news. The late Whitney Houston’s daughter (Bobbi Brown) is currently on life support. Brown’s cousin (Jerod Brown) stated that “doctors don’t see any hope for her condition to change”. According to Fox News, Bobbi Kristina Brown was found face-down unresponsive in the bathtub on Jan 31 (Fox News, 2015). She has been in the hospital in medically induced coma ever since. As we know, her mother (singer Whitney Houston), was found dead in a bathtub February 11, 2012. As a father of three beautiful daughters, this was very near and dear to me because I can only imagine the pain and concern that Bobbi Kristina’s father (singer Bobby Brown) could be going through. What would I do if I was in his situation? Would I want my own daughter to have a fighting chance to live until there was no chance of life? Or would not want my daughter to have to go through the state of being a “vegetable” and take her off life support. This is a moral issue for many Americans who have loved one on life support. According to Thirty-Mile Zone (TMZ), “Bobby Brown is adamant ... he doesn't want to take his daughter Bobbi Kristina off life support because he believes in God-driven miracles.” (TMZ, 2015). I am a proponent of Brown’s decision to keep his daughter on life support and putting his trust in GOD to work a miracle. Being A Christian myself, we are taught that “There is nothing too hard for God!” In the...
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...The educational system meets the needs of students like Kristina with special education programs and with The Individuals with Disabilities Act(IDEA) and Individualized Education Program(IEP). By integrating children with special needs, they are able to learn easier and have the ability to excel. Also with classroom settings that are catered to students with special needs is beneficial. There are many challenges that face teachers of special needs children. They have many different learning styles to take into account, and many different learning disabilities. The teacher in the video does a great job of setting up the rest of the class and then going back and catering to those that may need more help. She also has to modify lesson plans and sometimes has to come up with different material for specific children. She said that she has to be very structured, yet be able to be flexible. A teacher must learn the different needs of each child and come up with a lesson plan that can be modified for each different need. In the case of Kristina, who could not really speak english and was behind in motor skills and education alone, she had to get really creative. She uses sign language to communicate with Kristina so she can teach the rest of the class and still have her understand. She also has a computer program that creates cards with both english and ukraine words along with the pictures so Kristina can read along with the rest of the class, or even get the satisfaction of reading...
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...While in this role, domestic abuse, drug addiction and sexual identity have been tackled. In the past, you've portrayed characters who were victims of rape and war, and you were the lead in last year's A Girl Like Her, which was about bullying and suicide. Is it a goal of yours to be a "platform actress" and take parts that will educate others and speak to critical topics? 9. What do you have to say to dissenting viewers who are uncomfortable or upset that Kristina may be something other than heterosexual? 10. On another sex-related note, Kristina repeatedly taunted her younger sister Molly for still being a virgin. After the last gibe where Kristina accused her of being gay as a deflection, Molly immediately went to her boyfriend and said she wanted to have sex. How did you feel about things playing out in the script that way? 11. On a non-sex-related note, haha, Dr. Phil McGraw asserts in his book, Self Matters, that who you've grown to be can be connected back to 10 defining moments, 7 seven critical choices and 5 pivotal people. Abridging this a bit, what are 3 defining moments, 3 critical choices and 3 pivotal people thus far in your life? 12. Our tagline at JSaysOnline.com is "The blog about music, life, culture and Beyoncé." What and who are some of your favorite genres and artists...
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...already had lunch. If confronted, she'll deny that she's sick. For that reason, she often ends up getting treatment only after her family takes her to the doctor for a related disorder (such as anemia, missed periods, constipation, or fatigue). 3. Orlando believes that the FBI is hunting him down because they want information from him. He reports that he receives telephone calls from the FBI agents who are threatening to imprison him if he doesn’t give them the information they need. Orlando has stopped showering and shaving. He wears a tin foil hat so that the FBI agents cannot “steal his thoughts.” 4. Kristina has always been a very clean and neat person. She just went to college and now had to live with a roommate. Kristina reports that her roommate is not messy, but is just not as clean as Kristina would like. Kristina states that she vacuums their floor and wipes all of the furniture (including her roommate’s desk) with disinfectant spay once day. The whole process takes her about 2 hours. She also puts a special cover on her bed so that “germs won’t get in it.” 5. Malika is a mystery. She experiences a sudden loss of memory, left her...
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...does not assume the existence of a riskless asset. This version was more robust against empirical testing and was influential in the widespread adoption of the CAPM (Fama & French, 1982). CAPM has become very attractive as a tool that measures risk to possible in relation to expected return, although it is still widely used for estimating the cost of capital for firms and evaluating the performance of managed portfolios. While CAPM is accepted academically, there is empirical evidence suggesting that the model is not as profound as it may have first appeared to be. CAPM’s empirical fallings arise theoretically from many over simplified assumptions made by the model. This has made it difficult to implement valid test for this model (Kristina Zucchi, 2015). For example according to the CAPM model the risk from an asset such as stock should be measured relative to a comprehensive, but this principle can include such as human capital not just financially traded assets. It is also unclear as to whether if we should narrow the scope of this to financially traded assets or expand this to include other financial instrument such as bonds, and...
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...1. Tamika comes to a psychology clinic with complaints of poor concentration. As she was talking with the psychologist, she spoke very rapidly and it was difficult to follow her train of thought. Tamika reported that she felt invincible and had not slept for three days since she had been very busy with various tasks. She also reported that in the past, she had frequently experienced periods of time that she felt “down”. Answer: Bipolar Disorder 2. Roy has not been feeling himself lately fpr the past 3 weeks. He lays in bed all day because he does not have the energy to get up and because he feels worthless and guilty for “being a burden to everyone.” His family reported that he appears to have lost a significant amount of weight. Answer: Major Depression 3. Francesca’s family was concerned because she had talked about how dying would “make the pain go away.” She reported that she no longer enjoyed doing things that had once bought her joy and that she had great difficulty making decisions. Her parents were puzzled because 2 weeks before she seemed to have an unusually high self-esteem, was incredibly active, and was very talkative in comparison to her usual self. Answer: Bipolar Disorder 4. Jill is terrified of flying. She has never been on vacation beacause she is afraid of having a panic attack. She recently turned down a job promotion that she really wanted because the new position would require her to fly across the country several times a year. Answer:...
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...W3A1 Review Kristina Vis has analyzed radio commercials of Burger King – Crispy Bacon Cheeseburger, Verizon Wireless – Droid, and Shopping Center – Christmas Parking. Regarding the first advertisement, I agree with Kristina that the emphasis was made on the key descriptive words, which should provoke certain emotions and catch listeners’ attention, though too much emotion and woman’s laughter throughout the advertisements rather distracts the listeners from the product. In turn, I suppose that the age of the targeting group is narrower than 14-99, as the message of the advertisement is not directed on children and elder. Concerning the second advertisement, with sufficient clarity, Kristina has communicated her perceptions of the monotone voice and too much information provided in the record and I agree with her. Though, the emphasis is made on the energetic and even revolutionary music that appropriately creates the mood to the whole commercial and is directed predominantly on the male target group. In the third advertisement, analyzed by Cristina, the music, voice, and information are well matched and the advertisers got their point in a relatively small period of time. Though it is not based on a lot of facts, it is fun, informative, and amusing. Jeffrey Dela Cruz has analyzed radio advertisements of Coke Summer, Jimmy Johns and Motel 6 Super Bowl. With understanding and clarity, he has determined targeting groups, key words, and purpose in all the commercials. The first...
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