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    Bud Not Buddy Analysis

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    The mountains on the back represented a far journey that you will never know until you see. Don’t you ever look at mountains and become curious to see what’s behind it? That’s like Bud in his life in a foster home, the house represents the mountains and he wants to see what is outside of the house to make him feel he is important to this world. I tried to make strong connections that made the story how it is, without Bud’s curiosity he would never have…

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    intended purposes juvenile drug courts program helps to address the underlying issues that contribute to the juvenile's involvement with the juvenile drug court system. These are the issues due to being subjected to exposure to drug dependency because foster care youth have been previously been maltreated and lack of reunification with their…

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    Adoption Vs Abortion Essay

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    million documented orphans in the world who are lacking the proper nutrition and care that they need. There could be even more than this, but there has not been an updated census in a while. These children need to be shown love, whether that be through foster care or adoption. “Adopting one child won’t change the world; but for that one child, the world will change.” – Unknown. Adoption should be more encouraged in our society because it is a better option than abortion, millions of children…

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    For fathers in Pensacola, child custody and visitation are some of the most contentious issues when it comes to the kids. These issues can become highly emotional and extremely expensive to resolve. And the subsequent fighting ends up affecting the child's relationship with both parents. The Concept of Child Custody in Florida Under Florida law, there is no such thing as "child custody". Instead, the parents have a "time-sharing" agreement on how much time each parent will have with the child…

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    events first hand, easy to follow plot, never-ending action, emotional scenes, and endearing characters. And Then She Was Gone has multiple examples and circumstances that make it a fantastic read. When readers first meet Jack Stratton, a teenage foster whose prostitute mother abandoned him, races out of a local mart in pursuit of a thief who had just stolen an older women’s handbag. Once Jack catches the thief, returns the handbag, and everything returns to normal, everything takes a turn for…

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    WV’s Foster Care System The foster care system in West Virginia is a broken system that should be properly set up and based on the child’s desires. Foster kids should have a choice to stay or go to their biological parents or foster parents. Many kids don’t want to go back to their biological parents because of the emotional scars that they caused them. Often the kids are neglected it the decision of whom to go with, and get separated more than once from who they love. Many of the kids are too…

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    Barbara Gowdy’s collection of short stories from We So Seldom Look on Love revolves around the foils and tropes of the disabled child, or those who are coined as the ‘other’. This essay will focus on Gowdy’s short story “Body and Soul”, which can be read in regards to the Julia Kristeva’s literary theory of abjection. This is because the short story begins with Terry’s abjection as an infant, and ends with Julie being disposed to a psychiatric home. Arguably, Gowdy’s short story can be perceived…

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    No Safe Place Journey

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    Deborah Ellis’s novel No Safe Place explores the journeys of 3 adolescent refugees and an orphaned English boy. Throughout their journey, their ability to work as part of a team becomes more apparent, as the challenges they face become more complex. This following essay will examine the ways in which Abdul, Rosalia, Cheslav and Jonah help each other overcome hardships and work together to accomplish their goals From the outset, it is clear that without the refugees working together, they would…

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    Essay On Aging Out

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    youth foster systems today is that youth tend to "age out" of the foster system without any program to help them transition from childhood to adulthood and beyond. During the stresses of aging out and trying to figure out where they'll live, if they'll go to school, and what they'll do next, having a sibling support system in place can be extremely helpful to youth. What Aging Out Means When children turn 18 and graduate from high school, they are considered to have aged out of the foster…

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    “If you love someone, you stand by him, forever, no matter what ” (Nolan, 67). Loving in times of struggle and panic is a process that Jason experiences frequently. Through Jason’s experience of living and taking care of himself and his crazy father on his own, Jason persists on accepting his father’s illness through love. Whatever the cost is, both mentally and physically, love affects a great majority of Jason’s actions and thoughts. In Crazy, by Han Nolan, Jason’s father becomes mentally ill…

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