Boys & Girls Clubs of America

There is a girl sitting in a dark room, naked, cold, and hungry, waiting for the next john to enter the room and rape them. This is sadly the reality for many individuals who are victims of sex trafficking/human trafficking. Sex trafficking is defined as, “the illegal trade of human beings mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labour” (Allais). An estimated twenty-seven million people are in bondage across the globe (“A21”). Human trafficking is a century old issue…

probably be something like this, “Ben Franklin is one of the greatest men in American history. He is famous for his experiments with electricity, and wrote Poor Richards Almanac. Ben Franklin had such a positive effect on American history and on America itself. He surely was an honest man because how else would he be able to accomplish all that he did in life?” Yes, parts of this are true but an honest man? Maybe to an extent he was an honest man, but you’ll soon find out when you start reading…

Beyond School Books: Podcast #83, Girls Who Code In anticipation of the International Day of the Girl Child, UNICEF podcast moderator Alex Goldmark interviews Rashma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. The Girls Who Code organization seeks challenge many of the culturally reinforced perception and constructs believed as contributing to the low and declining representation of women within the computer sciences industries of North America. The organization provides confidence enriching…

heading on a train for Nebraska to live with his grandparents. He is ten years old and both of his parents have recently died. On the train he spots a Russian immigrant family and he is intrigued by them; the family includes a pretty twelve year old girl named Antonia. In an act of serendipity, they turn out to be his grandparent’s neighbors. The novel follows Jim and Antonia’s ensuing friendship, and the lives of all the other people in town. Both of the main…

experiences the world has been through the lens of first a black girl then a black woman. In this paper I will examine how my experience as a black girl/women has been shaped my racial identity development through out my life course and discuss external factors in my environment that may have influenced that development. The Racial Identity development model that I chose to identify with is the “ Black identity development model” in the “ Boys no more…

designers would gladly alter a dress to fit the girl. But when the models are…

Introduction The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines food insecurity as “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.”1 Nearly 12% of people living in Virginia are considered food insecure, and these rates are even higher in the southeastern portion of the state. The cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth have food insecurity rates close to 19%.2 Many of these…

In some schools across America, the mass murder of Native Americans in California during the nineteenth century is taught as an inevitable, necessary evil (Discussion). However, this notion is false. The mass murder of the Native Americans was systematic and calculated, carried out by white settlers through attacks on the lives, livelihoods, homes, and cultures of the natives. According to both Raphael Lemkin and the United Nations, these actions were genocidal. In the work, Murder State, by…

of gender or rank. Girls were mainly taught at home. They learned the way to raise children and make craft but were not taught to read or write. At 15 years, boys could attend one of the two types of schools. Children of nobility went to calmecac, which had a focus on advanced learning, administrative skills and religion. Children also went to telpochcalli, a military school for commoners. For Aztec children, discipline was harsh, both at school and at home. Punishments for boys included being…

bones are abnormally shaped (291). Clubfoot is one of the most common birth defects. About 5,000 babies born in the United States are affected with it each year, and fifty percent of cases both of the feet are affected. Also, boys are affected more severely twice as often as girls (290). Treatments of clubfoot…