...of knowing my family is still in Haiti is the worst pain I have ever felt. It’s worse than the sores on my hands from the splinters of my rake, even worse than the beatings and burns I got from the Haiti officials. This (ms mac said identify) is by far the worst pain I have ever felt in my life. While I was in Haiti, I befriended the American missionaries; I had no idea of the price I would pay because of our friendship. After attackers dragged me out of my house and beat me almost to death, they proceeded in burning my face to give me the mark of a traitor. The next day the U. S. Coastguard found me almost dead. They took me out of Haiti and brought me to America. This would be wonderful if only I had my wife and three children here with me. It has been six long, lonely years since I have seen them. The first month in this new country I used a borrowed lawnmower to cut a neighbor’s grass. The people around town started asking me to do the same for them. When I made enough money, I bought a new lawnmower and gave it to the man who had let me borrow his; it was my way of saying thank you. Even though I send most of the money I make back to my family, I did manage to save up enough for a used truck. With the truck came new opportunities, which widened the range of lawns I could mow. When winter came, my small mowing operation became obsolete. I found myself looking in the newspaper for new jobs. I asked myself, “Who will hire an illegal Haitian immigrant...
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...Have you ever been suspicious about something and then just dismissed it because you were probably overlooking it? Have you ever felt guilty because you were so oblivious to something that shouldn’t have been ignored? Domestic violence is one of the most serious crimes in the world because it is so hard to get away from it, if your younger then 18 you can’t leave home without your parent’s consent and if it is your parent abusing you then its close to impossible to get away. Many people who go through domestic violence are embarrassed because the people that should be there for them and protect them are the ones that are making their life a living hell. The fact that it is so serious and common should be a warning signal but people don’t realise that it could be happening to their friends or family, they don’t realise it is all around them because it isn’t happening to them. I wish I was more observant, I so desperately want everything to go back to the way they were before, but take backs and do overs aren’t real and no matter how much I try she is never coming back. You are probably wondering what I am...
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...Through many generations, there’s always a group that is shunned upon and misunderstood, the children. I’m sure you’ve heard your parents say things about this generation being worse than the past and your grandparents saying your generation is even WORSE than your parent’s. This is a never-ending cycle due to technologic and commodity increase over the years. You’ve obviously heard your dad tell you in his days he had to read books or newspapers to get information, and brag about you having it so easy and how it makes you lazy. Sadly, this current generation will most certainly fall on the same path as the previous ones, yes you will tell your children that back in your days things were different, yes you will get mad at their behavior, and yes things will remain the same forever. Now, there are always people collectively saying these previous things are legitimate and that child behavior has been progressively worse(which would mean we should be demons by now), this same exaggeration is the one that makes it FEEL like children have gotten progressively worse. We as human beings notice things, and we are bound to pay more attention to the bad than to the good, reason being that we were made to solve problems. This also comes at a cost though, since we are very observant to problems this means there will undoubtedly be problems we just can’t or are hard to fix. If we can’t fix something we feel disgusted, we feel mad; these feelings are what makes us have to take those problems...
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...carries her dark, scary secrets and starts her life over as a fresh new beginning. She soon starts to forget these secrets as she begins to fall in love with the perfect man, Alex. The novels developing theme relates to this relationship with Alex. Life may be full of obstacles and hardships but love, experience, and courage, helps overcome these challenges to move on. Love and experience are two major factors that bring the developing theme in the novel to place. Katie's life turns from one being horibly, miserable to paradise because...
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...build an artificial, straight channel that was much larger than the normal flow of the river. The channel was extra-large to allow it to take the biggest flows that would occur during very severe rainfalls. The channel was made as straight as possible so that the water could move away from the area as fast as possible. This did not work and flooding was made worse. Unfortunately, it was found that moving more water faster only made the flooding far worse downstream. This often resulted in ever bigger channels having to be built, at ever increasing costs. 2.What do these channels look like? (Paste in some pictures!) The channel has been straightened using methods such as putting fences up and using concrete to keep the channel flowing in a straight line. This has resulted in the death of the river; this is where dangerous and ugly materials are used. The width varies from about 1m to several metres. 3.What are the problems with this approach? Unfortunately, it was found that moving more water faster only made the flooding far worse downstream. This often resulted in ever bigger channels having to be built, at ever increasing costs. Ironically, channelizing is now often blamed for some of the worst flooding caused by rivers. This approach is an eyesore to the public and is very dangerous towards small children who could fall into the river and potentially hurt themselves. This also affects the wildlife, e.g. fish, because plants will no longer grow on the bed of the...
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...tJacobi Benoit Alex Linden English 101 8/26/14 Crime In New Orleans Growing up in New Orleans, I have seen a lot. On January 10,2008 my view on crime in New Orleans changed. I remember being at one of my classmates birthday party. We were all having a good time at this teem club. We were all dancing, drinking, and having fun. After about two hours there was a fight. It was one of my friends and some other boys. Everybody got scared and started running. The club owner began to push us. Any person who was around the fight and in it got pushed out of the club. That included me. All you heard was big boom. That was the door slamming. When he shut the door there were about fifteen of us left outside. So many people were running downing the street screaming as the fight continued. I ran and hid behind a pay phone. The pay phone was only a few feet away from the fight. Breathing hard, afraid to go any other way. Within five minutes the fight was over. Then were gun shots. Pow , pow, pow ,pow, pow, and pow. My eyes were closed. When I opened them I could see my friend face down. He was shot down multiple times. All I heard was a car that sped off. After the gun shots, stopped the club owner open the door. So many people ran out. We were all crying and screaming. “Call the police”. “Somebody help him”. I was terrified. My hands, legs, and feet were trembling. After about twenty minutes the police and ambulance arrived. So many people were at the crime scene. Just hurt by everything...
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...‘Diana’, and he is seemingly surprised to see her. Diana passes him the baby and mentions, that a mysterious he is chasing her. When she has made the young man promise that he won’t ever tell her son anything and that he will take care of him, Diana runs away without further explanation. She leaves her baby to be raised by the young man, Jerry. We spring forward in time, and now Diana’s baby is a fully grown teenager, presented as the protagonist of the comic. His name is Max, and he is several times referred to as a ‘troublemaker’. He lives with his ‘so-called’ uncle. Whether he is a real uncle or not, is unknown, but considering the short prequel about the mother handing away little baby-Max to Jerry, Jerry might just as well be a friend of the mother, calling himself Max’s uncle as a kind of an alibi. But under all circumstances, Jerry was the one who raised Max, and now they live together like a small family. Max and Jerry move around a lot. They never stay for a long time at one place, and Max is really fed up with that – he would probably rather just stay at one place, go to one school, make some friends and live like any other ordinary teenager. The story itself starts with Max and his uncle arriving to their new home. While Max helps Jerry with carrying the moving boxes, a tree in their new garden catches his attention– he might have a hunch that there is something wrong with it. Though his premonition he moves on ignoring the tree. When he gets...
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...influence. The media is affecting children, the youth and society in general. According to the studies by the Kaiser Family Foundation there was a 400% increase from 1976 to 1996 in sexual references. Not to mention all of the television shows that influence crime, drugs and drinking alcohol. If children learn by observing, imitating and making behaviors their own, then why are all of these negative influences on the mass media? People are trying to understand why the crime rate is so high in the youth population, maybe they should take a look at what they are watching on a day to day basis. Now day’s children have an extremely easy access to the media. Sometimes parents will even hand their children the remote, or buy them a new video game to act is if it were a babysitter. What people need to know is; children learn by observing, imitating and making behaviors their own, so all of the things they are watching on T.V. or see in a movie have a very high influence on the way they will think or act. The media can affect children’s body image and self esteem through unrealistic expectations of beauty, body weight and physical appearance, especially in girls. This may result in eating disorders by some adolescents. When children fall short of their own expectations, based on media images, self esteem can...
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...and less predictable and he stretches himself, very effectively, to look at the events of the last 35 years in Afghanistan from a woman's point of view. Hosseini does an excellent job of referencing the global and regional political issues in the story without making them a main plot point. The large events are a backdrop, a scene setting device that serves as a canvass for the personal tribulations the main characters endure. In doing this, he avoids being overtly preachy and opinionated. The result is a narrative that keeps its focus on the subjects of the story, while exposing the reader to the cultural and moral pitfalls of Afghanistan during this time frame and, more generally, of any authoritarian society. The story itself gives me new respect for the struggle of the Afghan people, particularly the women, and what they have endured over the past four decades. One point the story makes is that nobody in Afghanistan has escaped loss -- loss of family members, loss of friends,...
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...In the classic childrens book Winnie the Pooh, the author writes, “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.” This quote portrays how important living life with your loved ones is, even if that means you must die before them just so you wont have to ever imagine life without them. In the play Antigone, it is often debated who has a worse fate, Creon or Antigone. Both of their stories end tragically, with Antigone dying and with every member of Creons family dying. Even though both Antignoe and Creon’s stories had tragic ending, Creons ending was more tragic due to the fact that he forever must live with the guilt of his actions. When Creon doesn’t listen to his all-knowing prophet Tiresias, it is already know that his own fate is not going to be good. Creon had always taken the advice of this prophet however, when the prophet tells Creon that he should not kill Antigone, he doesn’t listen. Creon states, “Since these hairs of mine grew white from the black they once were, he has never spoken a word of a lie to our city. I know, I know. My mind is all bewildered. To yield is terrible. But by my opposition to destroy my very being with a self-destructive curse must also be reckoned in what is terrible” (Sophocles 1390-1393). Even though Creon is aware that Tiresias has been right about everything before, he still choses to kill Antigone. Because he makes this clear mistake in not taking the advice of Tiresias, it...
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...A common perception is that change is only for the better or for the worse, and while Ender Wiggin thinks he has changed for the worse other people think he has changed for the better. In Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, the Earth is under attack. Ender, a brilliant young boy, qualifies for battle school, where, over a course of many years, he strives to be the best student at his age. Throughout Ender’s journey through battle school, he becomes an outcast from being the the smartest kid in his class who gives up on the game of battle school all because of his (kid) role-models opening Enders eyes to the real issues. Being the smartest kid among a group of smart kids in battle school is like a call for isolation. Ender being an outcast was caused by the constant envy of other lanches (other kids in his class). Only one kid ever had the nerve to even say, “I noticed you eating all alone” (42) to Ender and try to be a friend. Teachers never made it any easier for him. Colonel Graff spoke highly of Ender, which only made other kids resent him more. To stop the mistreatment Ender used the reason why they didn’t like him, his brain, by hacking into Bernard's, the meanest kid’s, message system and...
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...Introduction How did economist get everything so wrong? This question is a great question to ask and if you ask the author of the article that was published on the New York Times in September 2, 2009, Mr. Paul Krugman. His response would be that is the economist own fault and problem to why in 2008 the economy fail and we went on a recession. The reason to why he says that it is the economist own fault to why we went on recession was that the economist thought that they had figured out the perfect economy policy due to their research and mathematical formulas that made them think that they had solved the mystery of a perfect non recession economy. So what I mean is that in a way they thought there research and thoughts were bullet proof of recessions and even worse another great depression. Furthermore, in this article Paul goes into deep detail to why economists are the way they are and also if they would ever change their beliefs in the future. However Paul does mention in this article that there are very few economist that did predict that a recession would happen in the future, but due to the fact of hoe cocky economist were with their formula an research that they actually laughed at the these few economist, but at it is said whoever laughs last laughs better. Article Background In this article Paul gives a total description of how we reached our recession in 2008 and he starts giving out details from the history of economy and how the first great depression...
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...Joseph Lurf 4/1/15 Mrs. Shields First Draft for Sugar vs Artificial Sweetener Sugar is one of the best things that has ever happened in human existence because we have what’s called a “sweet tooth,” so obviously sugar is the only thing that would cure a “sweet tooth” whether it is in the form of a pastry, cake, cookie, chocolate, and every other thing that is sweet. “1822: Americans consume 45 grams of sugar every five days, or the amount of sugar in a can of coke.” (“Why sugar”).But Artificial Sweeteners has taken a major hit in the past forty years. Many people say the artificial sweeteners are better for someone than sugar, but it is not if anything it is worse. Sugar is naturally found in any type of plant anyone could ever think...
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...Ever since we were all kids we have all been taught about the possibility of being sent to jail or prison for any crimes we commit. While not all crimes end with incarceration, it is common knowledge that there will be some form of punishment for any crimes that we may commit. When it comes to punishment for crimes, the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world when compared to the rates of other countries. The current incarceration rate in the United States is more than four times than the world average with some Individual states imprisoning up to six times more people than individual counties with a comparable population (National Council on Crime and Delinquency, 2012). The Incarceration rate for countries with populations comparable to that of the United States is around 100 prisoners for every 100,00 people, however, The United States has a rate that is about 500 per every 100,000 people (Population Reference Bureau, 2012). The jail population within the United States is made up of mostly Males making up more than 90 percent of the population while females make up 10 percent of the population but that number is also steadily rising. The number of women that have been incarcerated has seen a dramatic increase rising from a little over 15,000 in 1980 to close to 118,000 in 2010 (The Sentencing Project, 2012). Many view prison as a place to impose punishments for those to have committed crimes but the original philosophy of prison was to rehabilitate those...
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...lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. In her book, The New Jim Crow: Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Alexander discusses the legal systems that seem to be doing their jobs perfectly well but have in fact just replaced one racial caste system with a new one. In this book, Michelle focuses on racial problems in the past as well as the present and argues that the problems are basically the same, if not worse. Alexander’s research was very thorough and motivating to read. She paints a dreadful picture of the modern Jim Crow and how it functions in the world we live in. She uses images that make you cringe but at the same time persuades you that it certainly all true. In her book, Alexander explains that since the Jim Crow laws that legalized segregation have ended, new forms of a racial caste system have come into play. Mass incarceration aggressively targets black men in particular. There are now more African American adults under penal control today (prison, probation, parole) than were enslaved in 1850. This has happened during a time when crime rates have dropped, and not in spite of affirmative action or colorblindness but because of them. What drives the mass incarceration of blacks is the War on Drugs launched by Ronald Reagan in 1982 and supported by almost every politician since. No one wants to give the slightest appearance of being "soft on crime." Alexander identifies many causes of our new caste system. There's collective denial in our age of...
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