Boys & Girls Clubs of America

For decades to come people will ask of each other, where were you? I am sitting with Arnold Burns, the chairman of the boys and girls club of America, talking about the needs of youth. I have known this former deputy attorney general of the United States for twenty-five years, and because I am on the board of advisers. We happened to run into each other the way New Yorkers often meet, in an unlikely place. Jimmy Boyle is, without a doubt, the most beloved man within the New York fire…

decides whether to waive a juvenile court to the adult Court. The decision is based around the child 's age and his or her prior offense history and the seriousness of the offense. Before even being waived some jurisdictions require the children to be over a certain age typically around the age of 14. Some jurisdictions mandate that the child must be charged with a felony before being tried as an adult where others permit waiver of jurisdiction to the criminal court. In 31 States once a juvenile…

She started her career in a all girls teenage singing group called “Destiny Child” After years of success their group became one of the popular R& B acts and a couple of number one hits. Although the group was a success, Beyonce began working the in movie industry and also recording…

(Benner). Flappers were known to speak their mind. They were very bold compared to the modern woman (“The 1920s- Women”). Due to these changing behaviors in women, the divorce rate increased twofold in America the 1920s (“Women in the 1920s”). Jazz music was popular during this era. Jazz Clubs played a significant part in the new behavior of women and flappers (“Changes in the American Culture and Society”). Jazz music inspired dances like the Charleston, the Black Bottom, the Shimmy, the…

lifestyle and the uproar of a modernizing 1920s America stood the stories of Mr. Jay Gatsby and Dexter Green, similar in many aspects but like anything else, they had their contrasts and varied in a few aspects. The two stories were similar because they both told of a man that…

Mark Zuckerberg proved his talent in innovation even when he was before college. He started “using computers and writing software in middle school”, and his father also “hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately, but the tutor admitted that it quickly became difficult to stay ahead of his pupil, referring to him as a ‘prodigy’” (“Mark Elliot”, 2016). From the movie, “The Social Network”, it shows that Mark created an MP3 program in high school. This program is called Synapse.…

to slowly destroy Rap from inside, while any artist that may be able to bring life back into Rap are put on back burners. Chuck D of (one of the Pioneering groups in Rap) Public Enemy stated “HIP-HOP NEWS spreads like any other mainstream NEWS in America. The garbage that’s unfit to print has now floated on websites and blogs like sh*t. For example a rapper working in the community gets obscured while if that same rapper robbed a gas station he’d get top coverage and be label a ‘rapper’ while…

Mr. Salazar, I would like to let you know that I admire your work. The article you wrote entitled, LGBTQ Students Need a Safe Alternative to Thrive and Stay in School, is a phenomenal article. We all know that the LGBTQ is a major topic in modern America today. It is a topic that will be here to say simple because Americans is uncomfortable with the thought of LGBT people in the country. Let me just say the thought of new schools for LGBT students is a great thought but it should never be…

However, beyond the age of seven, the girls had to learn from their mother or a tutor if they were a family of wealth, and impoverished girls had little if any educational opportunities after “dame” or “petty” school (Alcin). Males of all financial classes had an opportunity to receive education between the ages seven and fourteen, however…

Rap/Hip hop music is a music genre formed in the United States in the 1970s that consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic, and rhyming speech that is chanted. Rap/Hip-Hop music as we know it today, actually began thousands of years ago in Africa with the “griots”. Griots were village story tellers who played a simple handmade instrument while they told stories of family, village, and hunting events. The griot still is a major form of communication in…