Youth Essay

I am really interested in participating in the Peer Ministry course at Ursuline Academy because I would enjoy the opportunity to lead retreats for the younger girls at UA, and help to guide them into leading righteous lives. My older brother has lead many retreats for his school in past years which have helped to not only guide the younger students into leading faithful lives, but it has also helped to shape him as a person. I really want to grow strong, like him, in my faith, and help to guide…

Prisons have been around for many decades. The American people have normally thought that prisons are a good place to send criminals away. However, many people have proven that this might not be the case. In Wilbert Rideau’s “Why Prisons Don’t Work” he talks about how prisons aren’t as good as they might seem. They don’t help out the criminal to become a better person. I agree Rideau in this case. Prisons need to be a place where criminals can be helped to become a better individual.…

Sugarland, written by Rachael Coopes with Wayne Blair, performed by the Australian Theatre for Young People, was open for viewing at the Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, on the 27th and 28th of May 2016, starting from 7:30pm until 9:00pm. It was directed by Fraser Cornfield and David Page, the costume design was by Ruby Langton-Batty, the set design was by Jacob Nash, the lighting design was by Juz McGuire, the sound design was by Guy Webster, and the overall…

Morrie is an old man, who could not move on his final days. At this stage, all he had was his voice which can express his wisdom. He was depending on others, which might make some people that he should be ashamed. Instead of being ashamed, he had chosen to live until his last breath. Besides, life in Morrie’s mind means being happy. Morrie’ story was a unique lesson, which inspire me to change the way I think and live with. This movie led me to understand the real meaning of life. Simply, it…

Immersion Experience I interviewed my aunt that was sixty nine years old and is very open minded about things. I knew this conversation between us would be interesting because I never really asked my elderly family about their lives. I started off our conversation by asking her what was her life experience like growing up? She chuckled at first and explained that it was nice. People communicated then face to face and knew how to talk to each other. She was very family oriented as everyone else…

“One of the few rights that America does not proclaim is the right to fail. Achievement is the national god.” The article “College Pressures” by William Zinsser makes several points about the stress placed on the shoulders of modern-day college students. William Zinsser is a master at Branford College, a residential college at Yale University. This article suggests several ideas on how college students should approach their future careers.The author of this article uses rhetorical situations,…

We would need to adapt the way we communicate with children and young people as they may not completely understand what we are saying. For example, the younger the person is the more simpler and clearer we should communicate. If the child is very young, we would need to talk in a way they would understand. This can include talking in a generally more simple way. We may need to talk with a different tone of voice than we usually would to keep the child engaged, as the may get distracted easily…

In the essay “Are Too Many People Going To College, Murray challenges the belief that it is necessary for all students to go to college. He argues that the fundamental and necessary things we should be learning we should already be taught before college. According to Murray every young person is not meant to go to college. He argues that four year colleges don’t make sense as a place to make a living and the three rationales that once existed for going to college have long ago began to fade.…

His theory however doesn’t look at the resilience of children and young people, as he believes that all children are the same so will be unable to fully to cope with the situations; children are able to cope with different circumstances on various levels and it will all depend on how resilient they are. While younger children may not be able to cope with the loss or even fully understand it older children may be able to cope with situations. Harris (1998) believes that parents do not shape…

Primarily in this assignment for me to be able to meet the grading criteria I will be concentrating on discussing how policies & procedures help children and young people and their families’ whist being looked after. I will be discussing how Every Child Matters 2003, Children Act 1989/2004 and Data Protection Act 1998 and how these legislations help children as well as their families. Policies & Procedures are a set of Acts, Rules and Laws which have been put into place by the government and are…