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    Looking For Alaska

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    I’ve never been to boarding school, but John Green’s Looking For Alaska has made me feel that I have. Throughout this novel, I have learned many important life lessons that I can apply to my everyday life. As I read this story, I felt as if I was a character involved in all the events that take place at this Alabama boarding school. Looking For Alaska is my all time favorite book, and I encourage others to read it. John Green was born on August 24, 1977 in Indianapolis. As a young boy, he…

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    The Agony of So-Called Civilization “Kill the Indian and save the man (Boxer).” According to a popular Indian boarding school principal in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the objective for civilization in Indian boarding schools and, in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” was to basically train students to become someone they were not. When students entered into these schools, instructors practically tried to obliterate all knowledge from the students’ preceding culture. This was possible…

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    relating to boarding schools during the 1900 to 1940 time period, the experiences in these schools served to clarify the fact that Native Americans are not just intended for domestic, low paying, heavy labor work experiences. The rebellion and consistent desertion of these schools by students en masse is a clear indication that the pigeon holed perspective toward those who attended these schools was a narrow one indeed. Brenda J. Child’s preferred source for the writing of “Boarding School…

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    Traci’s background information about birth, her family and previous living situation was not available to review through the duration of the assessment. However, Traci’s care providers were available to give information about her transition and current living state. Traci is diagnosed as having Intellectual Disability. She was placed in Irene’s Care Home late 2014 as her previous care home abruptly shut down. Both care providers, Irene and Richard, described the transition for the first few…

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    The Big Move After what felt like a lifetime of planning, our family was finally making the big move from New York to Texas. The house we lived in was my childhood home and my husband and I shared it for fifteen years together. This was not going to be an easy task. Our first hurdle was preparing for this huge adventure. Secondly, we needed to drive both cars down. That meant that we would not have the other person to take over driving when our eyelids became as heavy as weights over our…

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    always go to relax and get the stress of my mind, and that would be my humble abode, my home. Because I walked to school on a regular basis, I always knew where to go, even during the renovations. I mean, I could never miss the area, a light blue house right across the street from a Kraft factory. The front yard had a very large pine tree in the front yard, the bottom half full of life and the top bared to nothing but twigs and death. The front porch was white…

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    This selection was written to describe the conditions of tenement houses, overcrowded slums that filled New York City during the late 1900’s. The first sentence of this selection states, “The first tenement New York knew bore the mark of Cain from its birth, though a generation passed before the writing was deciphered.” The author means that tenement houses were “cursed,” or were terrible creations from the very beginning, but this was ignored and not tended to…

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    So I work for my dad in a family business we deal with pinball machines, slot machines, and restored arcade games such as Pac man. So on a day over the summer, I was hanging out with my friend Tyler fixing our cars and such. We went inside covered in grease when my dad came and talked to us about how he just received a call from a lady in Dayton. And that she had a broken Pac man machine that she wanted to get rid of. She said it had been damaged, but was still intact. This was a good deal for…

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    Immigrants In America

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    feed their families. This forced immigrants of all ethnic backgrounds to live in tenement houses. These houses contained multiple families in one narrow room. Each room had little ventilation, no heat, and no toilets (located outside with one toilet for every twenty residents). The tenements had health risks for every resident and were disease ridden for tuberculosis, among other ailments. The tenement house rent cost approximately four dollars a month, or one week’s pay. This was the harsh…

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    Apartments and houses are very different from one another. I lived in an apartment complex for about six years, and there are plenty of advantages and disadvantages from my experience about that style of living. Living in an apartment is sometimes unsafe. When I was 11 years old, and my brother was 16. My brother tripped onto the street while riding his bike. There was a woman driving over the speed limit and ran my brother over leaving him with a fractured arm. My brother was rushed to the…

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