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    Description of the Problem: School and family partnerships are lacking in the community to help decrease teenage pregnancy and their dropout rates. With declining adolescent birth rate, according to (Kail & Cavanuagh, 2016) 1 in six young women will become pregnant. (pg. 311). Majority of teen pregnancies will be unintended due to teens using birth control incorrectly. When teens discover the pregnancy; this typically throws young lives into chaos. Forcing the adolescent to make the most…

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    analytical essay assignment that was meant to be completed within a week. According to my professor’s syllabus, the assignment was predictable. I knew one day this essay would be a challenge for me to face with. I despised reading poems throughout my high school years. Yet, was it a possibility for me to actually adore reading poems? On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, I decided to wake up later than usual. My friendly, vociferous cat usually awakens me early as possible to feed chunks of tuna,…

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    dictated what should and should not be taught in the school system but it time for those ideas to change. This would be done for the betterment of our children. Comprehensive sex education must be taught in junior high school. The students need to be educated on the changes that their bodies are going through and why those changes occur. This knowledge would help them to make the right decisions and learn the consequences of hasty actions. The school can lay the foundation and the parent can…

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    from what I hear from my peers, a pretty decent one as I have been at for going on 13 years now. My journey to where I am now was definitely not without extreme effort and sacrifice. I would have loved it my story went more like the focused high school student who graduates and immediately goes on to an institution of higher learning, gets her BSN degree after just four years,…

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    too”. (Stephen Covey) In today’s society academic integrity has become a problem. More than 70% of students admit to cheating. Some of this is due to pressure from society to get good grades. Studies show that the cheating starts as young as middle school. Google defines academic integrity as “the moral code or ethical policy of academia. This includes values such as avoidance of cheating or plagiarism; maintenance of academic standards; honesty and rigor in research and academic publishing”.…

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    Grade Nine Reflection

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    made the goal of participating more in class thanks to my grade eight teacher who suggested that I should break out of my shell and share my great ideas more since I never actually did in elementary. I tried my best to try to participate in summer school transitioning to grade nine, and it was the hardest place to ever participate in class. Almost everyone in the class was an advanced placement student and rose up their hand way faster than I could ever think! I felt that I would never catch up…

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    Drawing the Line between Classes Class systems have been around for ages. During the olden days people would have the job their parents had. Even if they had other dreams or aspirations they were forced to have the job their parents had. Other countries and cultures had a similar class system in which people could do whatever job they wanted as long as the job stayed in the class there parents came from. Occasionally people would do something honorable or worthy of a great reward, such as…

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    I have always been a believer of doing something and doing it right. Even if I have to do it a certain way, I make sure that it is done the right way and satisfies everyone involved with it. I believe that everyone should be the same not just in one specific thing but in their life as well. If you want be have a career that you like then you really have the do all the process to get that career the right way. In Christopher Caldwell 's essay, “What a College Education Buys”, he talks about the…

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    had three kids, so it was obvious by that time that he made enough money to not have to rely on the family farm. Although they still did a lot of farm work. Kenneth had a pepper farm and he paid his kids fifty cents for a full bucket to buy their school clothes or just spare change for anything they wanted, but they still had to earn…

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    should have learned in middle school and mastered in high school, I continue to struggle with the proper use of…

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