...just turned fifteen years. The story is written as if it was in the past, as we can see in the text, which is seen in the first sentence“. The summer she turned fifteen”. Sam and her father lives together in Montana and every summer they take a four-day float trip down the river, which is in the text “[…]It was a four day float trip, or five if you dawdled, or three if her father had to get back to work” . Sam’s mother is dead, but the text does not say how or when. Sam goes to a boarding school and in the fall she is a sophomore, but she is seriously doubt about this, and she doesn’t know if she would go there. It was her father’s idea, and she hasn’t accepted yet, which indicates that she feels compassion for her father and she will not leave him alone. Sam is a shy girl, because when Layton compliments her teeth she gets suspicious from the praise, which is in the text “You have perfect teeth,” he said “Did you have braces?” Sam is not very confident about herself, and she does not believe it when Layton compliment her. Layton gives her attention, and she has never experienced something like this before. Sam gets more and more self-confidence throughout the process, this seen in the text, when Sam shoot with the gun and finds out that she is very good at it. Sam respect her father, which is several times in the text for example when she is not sure if her father would like her to shoot with the gun. Sam’s father had guns, but he hadn’t been hunting since her mother died...
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...counselor. Therefore I must address these experiences and deal with them emotionally. As I relive these moments I will correlate my development with the research of the following theorist: Piaget, Erikson, and Seltzer. By showing correlation of my development with their theories I will prove many of experiences as an adolescence were typical of an American teenager. Looking into the mirror I was frustrated. Why isn’t my hair pretty? Other girls wear their hair straight. Why did mine always have to be braided? Why couldn’t I have a relaxer to smooth out my curls? I shook my head in frustration and began to look for the hot comb. On my first day of middle school I was going to look pretty like everyone else. I was going to have my hair straight and laid to the side. My mother usually kept the hot comb under the kitchen sink along with the straightening grease and heat tester cloth. All these tools would help me achieve my sleek look. I carefully turned on an eye of the stove, placed the hot comb on the eye and waited. When I saw smoke arise from the comb, I took the comb off and placed it on the white cloth. If the cloth turned brown it was to hot. If it made no mark it was ready for my tresses. On this...
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...My Past, Present, and Future Hard life does not equal reason for failure, but reason for determination. Even though it may seem with so much bad you are bound to fail, with all of my bad I'm bound to succeed. I have been through a lot in life, just as every single mother but I still have what it takes for my future success. Do you have what it takes for a brighter future? The first reason I believe hard times give you determination, is because I had a hard childhood growing up. Beginning with my father abusing my mother and he was never around, a mother who was struggling to figure out who she was and what she wanted in life, and how to take care of a teenager with so many bad experiences. My father was murdered in front of me and passed in my arms when I was seven years old. My only father figures I had left were my brothers who for their own reasons couldn’t be around much. I turned to alcohol at a young age thinking it would make my life better. I felt as if I was alone. I didn’t know I had people that would be there for me. All I knew was my immediate family and my friends, which were not good influences. My mother had turned to alcohol as well and I was always home alone or with my uncle John. I never wanted to go to school; however, my uncle encouraged me to do so. I continued to attend school and did the best I thought I could. I got into skating thanks to my uncle and that is how I got rid of my stress if I had it. Uncle John always took me and my friends to the skating...
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...A Marginalized young people Summary of “ The forces that turned Baba around” The history is about the 16-years-old Baba, as his friends call him. He went at St Aloysius College in Highgate. He hasn’t had an easy childhood and that has effected his education. When Baba was 12 he had been suspended from school about five times. Every single time he got suspended from school, he saw it as a holiday. Baba describes himself as a bad boy: vandalizing school property, truanting and getting into fights. He didn’t care about it. Once he shaved another boy hair with an electric clipper while he was holding him down. He was “ Just joking around” he told his friends. Baba has not had a role model to look up to because his father left his family when he was very young, so his mother has brought op four children by her own. He’s on his second year of college now and he plans to become a successful actor. Give an outline of the various attitudes to young people in the four texts In the first text “ The forces that turned Baba around” We hear about Baba the “bad boy”. He acts badly, probably because he somehow wants attention. The program Skill Force made contains activities which are fun but also challenging. Here he learns to “fight to the end”. Children with problems can’t be pushed. The need to get some self-confidence, a child brought up with no father has certain problems and sort of emotional issues. We see a lot of problems in schools...
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...ALTHOUGH TEEN PROSTITUTES live in the same cities and towns as ordinary teenagers across the United States, their world is very different. They are here in our communities, and yet they are hidden from most people. They are kids, and yet the life they live separates them from most other kids and from normal teenage activities and concerns. They are criminals, but they are the victims of repeated crimes. They are family members, but most have not known a family’s love and support. They have independence, but they do not have freedom. They are earning money, but they live in poverty. They are sexually active, but without intimacy. They have escaped one set of rules but are forced to obey other, harsher ones. The world of prostitution is so separate from the ordinary world that most people rarely catch more than a glimpse of it. If they pause to wonder about a teen prostitute’s life—to ask what it’s really like, what would make a young person want to live like that, or what prostitution does to a teenager—they will not find many clues in the ordinary world. Even when the news tells of the death or the arrest of a young prostitute, it rarely explains anything about the world that young person lived in. Looking behind the surface of that separate world is one way to see how teen prostitutes really live. Even from an early age, these kids often have a different and painful experience of the world. The steps they take to avoid being hurt in the ordinary world often lead them, unknowingly...
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...According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), a nonprofit agency that focuses on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis, and public education, teenage pregnancy has adverse consequences for the parents, the child, and society. Pregnant teens are less likely to complete high school and attend college than teenagers who avoid pregnancy. Many teenage parents live below the poverty level and rely on welfare. The children of teenage parents receive inadequate medical care, have more problems in school, and spend more time in prison than children of adult parents. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (NCPTP) claims that teenage childbearing costs society about $6.9 billion annually; this estimate includes welfare and food stamp benefits, medical care expenses, lost tax revenue (teenage childbearing affects the parents’ work patterns), incarceration expenses, and foster care. In an effort to reduce teenage pregnancy and the problems associated with it, policymakers have recently focused on what causes the widespread poverty and welfare dependence that teen moms experience and have attempted to devise solutions to these problems. Some social critics argue that because pregnancy limits a teenager’s opportunities for education and well-paying jobs, many are forced to accept welfare to support themselves and their children. Only 64 percent of teen moms graduate from high school or earn a general education diploma within two years after they would have...
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...es. Oates is trying to teach us about stranger danger. Connie the main character is stuck between reality and fantasy. In the 1960’s Connie and her friends are going to a local diner to hang out with the older teenagers. This where Connie met a boy named Arnold Friend. In the story, the author is using symbolism to mainly talk about the purpose of meeting Stanger in public. In the beginning, Connie view the car as important symbol of independence, power and freedom. When she first recognized the car “she draw her shoulder up and sucked in her breath with the pure pleasure of being alive” (Oates 201).When Connie noticed the car “convertible jalopy painted gold” she knew it was Arnold Friend. When she first saw Arnold “Connie slit her eyes...
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...an abortion if she wants to. A woman should never feel like they are a killer because of the choice of going with abortion. Way too many teenagers are getting pregnant; not allowing them to get an abortion is saying that they have to raise their child as a single mother or in poverty (Jacob, Weisberg). Children or woman that are raped or woman who can’t cope mentally or physically with a baby should not be forced to go through the whole pregnancy. It is not their life we are talking about there are children being brought into the world and having to live in poverty and suffer. Abortion as an option would help the children being born to teenage mothers, the women that are raped not have to live with the rape their whole lives and woman that can’t mentally handle having a child another option. Part 1: Argument Abortion should be an option for any woman if they are pregnant and feel they do not want to have the baby. They may choose abortion so they don’t have to go through all of the emotions of carrying the baby to full term and then giving it up for adoption. Teenage girls that get pregnant and are not allowed to have an abortion are being set up for failure in the future. How can a child take care of another child? Teenagers that have babies drastically diminish their chances of living the “American dream” (Jacob Weisberg). Most teenagers hardly ever get any support from the dad and tend to live their lives in poverty. The chances of them going to college and getting a good...
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...I’m sharing with you some of the struggles I endured as a teenager and explain how I learned from the lot of mistakes I made. Looking back and reflecting on my life I can now see that I have made many mistakes. Most of my mistakes I have made were due to my lack of patience and never listening to the older family members. If I had listened to their words of wisdom, I would have saved myself a lot of trouble and headaches. Instead of taking their advice, I took my own path and did things my way. Just like any teenagers, I want to spend my time doing crazy and stupid things. I hate being nagged by my parents. They always want me to clean the house, wash dishes, study and all the crazy stuffs I hate. They always said that “This is for your own good” and I got so irritated every time I hear those words. As a teenager, I want to do things on my own. I want to enjoy life. Play arcade games, hang-out with friends, go somewhere. It seemed as if the more I did not listen, the deeper the hole I dug myself. I remember my mother told me “What goes around comes around.” I started dating a lot of girls around when I turned thirteen. I did not take into consideration the feelings of the girls that I talked to at all. I met a girl and fell in love with her but she didn’t feel the same way about me as I felt as I felt about her. My heart was broken and all I could think about was the lecture I received from my mother about karma. And now, I’m so in love with a girl whom I think...
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...amazing book. The reason being is because everything Emmy goes threw is like a detour for her from start to ending. Emmy went threw a lot from being a regular teenager to being a mother at teenager years. Emmy had to change her goals and her dreams because of on little mistake that happened. But that didn’t stop Emmy from being the best she could be. She continued her life but down another path because she had another life to take care of besides her own. Being a single parent for Emmy was hard because she didn’t have Art there to help her or be there for Rosie. This was another big detour for Emmy because she thought that Art would’ve been a little bit more of a father and help to Rosie and her but he wasn’t. Everything to Emmy was a big disappointment to her in her life but she would just take another turn to make things better for her. Life for Emmy was full decisions to make either she took one path or she took another. Usually one was the difficult path because she either had to give something up she didn’t have the help. She would always have to take the path she knew would be easier for her and would help her with Rosie. “Detour for Emmy” was a very good title for this book as I explained the things Emmy had to go threw and the detours she had to make because of a little mistake that happened that turned her whole life...
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...courage, compassionate, and an inspirational young man. Dave tells his story when he was at the age of eighteen in this series. Dave not only wrote this novel but many more. I believe Dave and I share some of the same characteristics according to his book. Dave and I are both people who have a lot of compassion and have reasons to inspire people to go on with their lives. Dave has compassion towards his writings, not only does he has compassion but you can also read his writings and tell he loves what he does. In my opinion Dave has the power to inspire many teenagers or even adults to keep moving forward and not give up. As for myself, I find myself somewhat similar to Dave, although I didn’t experience the same obstacles as him, I have compassion towards writing and helping teens, like myself, through situations that they believe have no escape. * Part 2 A scene from the novel, “The Privilege of Youth: A Teenagers Story,” that really affected me was when he retells his heartbreaking childhood. The author describes his childhood as bleak and pessimistic. The author inputs simple but yet complex sentences to describe his life as a child. For Example, in chapter 2 page 15 middle of the second paragraph Dave states, “I was no longer an animal existing in a darkened basement/ garage, but a real person.” I believe this is the perfect sentence to show you that Dave not only does his have simple sentences but also involves the use of imagery and figurative language. Dave adopts...
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...Vernissage essay Have you ever peeped on your parents? Well Alex has. And he isn’t just peeping. He describes every little thing. Maybe that’s just how it is, to be a child, or maybe that is the stage where a child wants to show, that he turns into a teenager. Describing his banana sandwich as baby food normally means child food aren’t good enough for Alex. He wants to be a grown up and eat grown up food. Making projects about earthworms in Nature class is also one of the childish struggles, you have to go through, if your name is Alex. He even needs to have a babysitter for one single night, while his parents are out for something called a vernissage. All this means Alex hasn’t turned into a teenager yet, but he really wants to. It seems normally for the parents to contact a babysitter, like it happens pretty often. It means that his parents, often are out for something. But that’s not the real problem. The real problem is between Alex’s parents. Alex’s mum Frances sighs several times. She is unhappy with something. Her husband John is always working, and when he gets home, all he thinks about is the next thing he’s going to do. Frances feels used. And she doesn’t earn her husbands respect. She shows up in her new dress in front of John, and his response is “It’s very nice”. You can easily feel the ironic and sadness in the answer. When the parents are out for something, for instance the night in the text, John is not even out with Frances. He’s only at the vernissage...
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...The first year of high school is a remarkable challenge and obscure journey. Any individual embarking on their freshman odyssey will face multiple hardships. The average ninth grader will endure a series of meltdowns, panic attacks, and conundrums just trying to cope with adjusting to a new environment. When one places a slightly disabled teenager under these circumstances, the results most likely point to chaos. The stress is already unbearable as a normal teenager, but adding a crippling impairment to the equation creates a much bigger dilemma. Doodle, a character from "The Scarlet Ibis", has a lot of setbacks in his life that restrict him from many everyday activities. Doodle will not be successful at Hoban because he does not possess the required academic abilities or general physical skills to function at a normal rate....
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...Approximately 11:00AM on the 7t of August, 12 year old Thomas Cogdell, was woken by his mother in which they both made a terrible discovery, his sister Kaylee was dead. Two plastic grocery bags were wrapped around her head and she was bound both with the families dog’s leash and a cloth measuring tape. He ran to his mother’s phone and dialed 911 as she was too hysterical to speak. He gave then direction to his home outside of little rock and was waiting outside his home when the police and ambulance drove up. During recorded questioning afterwards, he denied doing it 36 times. When asking for food, the recorder was turned off. (During this time he was told they found his fingerprints on the bag although during the time of trial they were...
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...community health nurse must be able to understand that he or she must keep an update of the care plan as the family is a dynamic unit of the community. Community health nurses provide health education, case management and primary care to individuals and families who are members of a vulnerable population and high risk groups. Community health nurses act as advocates, teachers, and counselors that play an important role in preventing the spread of illness and disease. Identifying data My participating family consists of an African American family and in their culture the man is the head of the household all decisions are discussed but the primary decision lies on the father, 39 year old (AJ), a 44 year old mother (DJ), a 23 year old pregnant adult daughter (JJ), two teenagers 17 year old son (RJ) and 14 years old daughter (OJ), a 3 year old toddler stepdaughter (CJ), and a 5 year old preschool granddaughter (TJ). This is the Jones...
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