Priscilla Juarez 1/08/2015 Ms.Jenson Touching Spirit Bear In the beginning of the book Cole Matthews a fifteen year old from Minneapolis, Minnesota arrives in Southeast Alaska in handcuffs. Cole agrees to stay on a neglected island in Alaska all alone for a year to avoid jail time in Minneapolis. Accompanied by Two Native Americans from the Tlingit tribe; one named Garvey, a parole officer, and the other named Edwin, a quiet elder who helped arranged Cole’s banishment. Edwin was the one who built a shelter where Cole would stay during his time of banishment. Cole Matthews was not a Native American, He was a White baby-faced fifteen year old juvenile delinquent who had been in trouble with the law half his life.Cole had never heard of Circle Justice, or not at least until his arrest after bragging at school that he robbed a hardware store, Cole was determined to find the kid who ratted him out and when he did find out he’d bet the kid up. Peter Driscal was a ninth grader, Cole picked on Peter many of times ‘Just for fun’, but Cole was mad and when he caught up with Peter after school he punched peter as hard as he could and didn’t stop he kept shoving him, Peter tried to get up but Cole attacked him again and starting smashing his head against the sidewalk. Peter ends up suffering from head trauma and speech problems, and that might leave Cole getting tried as an adult and being sent to prison, Garvey the parole officer offers a path to the Circle Justice to avoid prison.…
CLAIM STATEMENT - Adam should be given a sentence of two weeks in jail, as well as drug testing, counseling, community service hours, and restricted use of the Internet. ARGUMENT - Adam’s crimes consist of threatening by stating “that a better way to get rid of kids you don’t like is to put sleeping gas in the school vents and then go through school and “kill the people you don’t like” (Jacobs), and getting in a “fight with another teen at a party” (Jacobs). He had, in the past, claimed that…
Kind Killer On April 19th, 1775 in Lexington, Massachusetts there was the shot heard round the world. The book April Morning by Howard Fast factually is about the American Revolution and fictionally about a boy coming to manhood. Adam is a boy from Lexington, and he loses his father, goes to war for his country, and has to grow up all in one day. The character Solomon Chandler helps Adam all throughout the book, but Adam does not like Solomon in the second half, due to Solomon gets satisfaction…
Introduction It was just a normal day, right? Think again. Kidnapped. Hit. Decapitated. These things happened to a 6-year-old boy with the name of Adam Walsh. Adam was just a sweet little kid that was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. After Adam Walsh's abduction, John Walsh, Adam's dad, created a successful TV show called America's Most Wanted to help find criminals of all crimes; with people being able to know who committed the crime, they will be able to get over and move past it.…
This is not your typical boyband, the ones that all dance the same and dress the same. No, these five boys have dominated the entire world with their angelic voices, handsome faces, and each having an amazing personality, this band is called One Direction. One Direction is the best boyband that has walked the planet. They were making history before they even released there first album. Having lots of involvement in charities and breaking records every time they release an album or single. An…
The success of JLS and the Wanted, X-Factor contestants One Direction was the next music group to help revive the boy bands. The group was formed by Niall Horan from Mullingar, Ireland; Zayn Malik from Bradford; Harry Styles from Cheshire; Louis Tomlinson from Doncaster, amd Liam Payne from Wolverhampton ( he had reached the judge's house stages of The X-Factor at 14 years old back in 2008). Each originally entered 2010's series of The X Factor as individuals. But a guest judge Nicole…
Many people have an athlete that they look up to and that is their role model. Many of these people are children and teens so because of this people think that it is the sports teams responsibility to hold players to a higher standard for their personal conduct. It is the sports teams responsibility because of the power athletes can have in a society and the image of the team and the game they can create. Players should be held to a higher standard because since they are celebrities they have…
end you will be able to understand how “The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006” began, and by whom and the reasons supporting. You will also be able to identify the most controversial aspect of the Adam Walsh Act and changes that the Walsh Act brought forth, the constitutional challenges that the Walsh Act faces. You will also be able to identify the rationale behind the Walsh Act. This topic was of most interest to me, being a victim of a sex crime I wanted to research and form…
end to Chaney for good and tries to pull Mattie out then the other Marshall that had been hit in the head hard got up. The Marshall then walked over to them and pulled them out of the snake pit. He died doing that last action. Cogburn then takes her to see a good Indian doctor. John Wayne’s characters were what made every one of his characters seem like a truly good guy like the signature John Wayne good guy act. John was a good…
Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence could have been just influenced by John Locke’s Second Treatises of Government, had he given John Locke some credit. Really, all he did was paraphrase what John Locke said and elaborate on it. Along with this, there were instances where a couple quotation marks could have been used because of the very similar wording the Declaration of Independence had to John Locke's Second Treatises of Government. The fact that Thomas Jefferson took the idea and…