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Dylan Klebold Eric Harris
570 wordsIt happened April of 1999. It was the single worst tragedy ever to occur within a high school. Two high school students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, marched right into their school armed head to toe with weapons, and opened fire on their peers. Who is to blame for this senseless act of slaughter? Should the parents have discovered their childrens plot before it happened, should we consider their peers part of the problem, or should we find the media at fault with placing violent thoughts into...
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Kick My Hundred Goals Kick My Hundred One
595 wordsDear Diary, Today was the most embarrassing day of my life. I hope this will never happen to me again. Heres how my day went. I woke up this morning around 7: 30 am. It was the Grand Final day for my Under 17 s football side. We were undefeated. I was the full forward and so far I have kicked ninety seven goals. I need at least three more goals this game to get my first one hundred goal season. I was going through my normal Sunday morning football routine. Get up, eat breakfast (nine wheat bix a...
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The Presence Of Husband In Guilt
756 wordsRayda Jacobs The Guilt is a story of confrontation between an old woman and a young black guy in her house. The name of the old woman is Lillian Thurgwood who is a widow and through out the story she gives us the picture of struggle of an old and lonely woman against the world around her through different incidents of her life. Rayda Jacobs, in the story, has sketched the influence of her late husband on her life in such a way that it reveals the strength of her nature and overcoming the challen...
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Mentally Retarded Baseball Bat
2,027 wordsBernard Lefkowitz? s Our Guys raises a lot of issues, all of which have been discussed throughout this semester. Just a few pages into the book, words had already begun to jump out at me, capturing my attention. ? The kids in Newark, black and brown, speaking Spanglish, hoods over their heads, wheeling their stolen cars over to the local chop shop they were aliens in America. Strange, forever separate and separated from the American ideal. But these Glen Ridge kids, they were pure gold, every mo...
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High School Students Speech Patterns
829 wordsHigh School Styles School is one of those activities that takes a good portion of one? s life until your mid-twenties; but what we are going to focus on is high school students. Do you remember your first day of high school? The place was full of all types of prospective students. Each type has its own style of dress, grooming, speech patterns, and attitudes. Even though they are all students they differ to include bangers, kickers, preps, jocks, and nerds. Bangers or head bangers dress in darke...
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Mentally Handicapped Young Men
1,403 wordsThe novel Our Guys, written by Bernard Lefkowitz, is a very dynamic story about the heinous actions of a dozen middle-class athletes, from a small New York suburb, against a defenseless mentally handicapped girl. Lefkowitz describes a brutal gang rape involving a baseball bat and broom handle, which took place in this unsuspecting town, by these upstanding young group of boys, as the town would describe them. Lefkowitz looks at the incident which took place and then examines the jock clique sub-...
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Sliding Scale Junior College
907 wordsProp. 16 There is a new regulation if you plan to play college sports. It is called Prop. 16; it is based on a sliding scale. You must first graduate from High School; you have to get at least a 2. 000 GPA in 13 core classes, a 86 on your ACT, and a 1010 on your SAT; you must also register and be certified by the NCAA Initial Eligibility Clearinghouse. But as I said it is based on a sliding scale lets say you got a 2. 300 GPA, you would only need a 75 on the ACT, and a 900 on the SAT to play, as...
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Separate Peace Social Norms
489 wordsThesis: The five main characters in John Knowles A Separate Peace represent social stereotypes, according to some people. In his book A Separate Peace, John Knowles represents jocks with Phineas, a character who believes that sports are the key to life. Phineas is more of a sportsman than a jock. Real jocks only care about winning, Phineas makes sure its not possible for anyone to win or lose. Chet Douglas is an exaggerated prep, just like Phineas is an exaggerated jock. He is obsessed with lear...
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