Many teens in the United States are encountering multiple pregnancies. Teens should take precautions and learn how to prevent pregnancies or even future pregnancies; if not, teenagers will face consequences of having a child at a young age. Having a baby can cause teenagers to develop health issues. There are many complications that can occur when dealing with a child in a teenager’s life. Most teens that get pregnant end up not finishing school and decide to drop out, resulting in the…
On the 12 of February 1809 a boy named Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. Lincoln came from humble beginnings, living in a log cabin in backwoods Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois and working to help support his family by giving everything he earned to his father. As Lincoln developed into adulthood, countless people and events shaped and refined his views. People who significantly impacted these views included his father, mother, and wife as…
Standing Here Ironing in My New Dress As a single parent children have different meaning for standing when it comes to being discipline by their parents. To us standing is shrieking up to be heard for the children they shriek down to heard. What I’m trying to say is if we do not take control in our children’s life style how are we to know when they or shrieking up or down. Sometimes one have to take the time out and explain to your children why these situation occurs even if it is bad on our…
My primary family in household consists of my mom, dad, my older sister, her 5 year old son, myself and my 2 year old son. My mom, Lora and dad, Louis are 53 years old. They have been married for 29 years. They were high school sweethearts. We have lived in the same two story house since I was born. We live in a nice neighborhood in Neptune that is close to Tinton Falls and Ocean. I grew up in a stable environment, raised by both of my parents. When I was younger, I use to be a daddy’s girl, but…
It feels like mum has betrayed me. She has had ongoing depression since before dad left, but now it is out of control. Mum cries every morning and can’t even lift her head. Just the other day, I arrived home from school and she was shivering under a coat, watching cartoons and sobbing. I am only a child, yet I constantly have to take care of mum. She should be looking after me! I told her…
Siddhartha Guatama, or as he is better known, Buddha was born in Nepal in the sixth century B.C. and lived into the fourth century B.C. He was born into a large clan by the name of the Shakyas. His given name, Siddhartha means “he who achieves his aim”. His father is said to have been king of the tribe and his mother to have died only a few days after giving birth to him. It was foretold by a holy man that Siddhartha would go on to do great things in his life, whether it be military, political,…
communities Samuel Pepys was directly involved with. This outbreak was hitting close to home, and Pepys was concerned. “This day I am told that Dr. Burnett, my physician, is this morning dead of the plague” (Pepys August 25 1665). Pepys would write about entire streets being closed off, and how people he knew would fall to the sickness. Overall 68+ thousand lives were lost during the “Great Plague” as it was called, and Samuel Pepys shares what it was like to live through it. He shared what…
this kind of life. He is treating her more equal than other men, but he also is not the pear tree love she is looking for. When Jody appears, “She might run off sure enough” (30). She expresses her uneasiness to Logan who disregards it. The next morning she left and “A feeling…
Sacrifice by fire; this remains the meaning of the Greek word holocaust. The Holocaust, also known as the persecution and murder of six million Jewish people by the Nazi regime and its collaborators, remained a game of superior and inferior. To the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews lived as an inferior race and an alien threat to the German race and community. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews got consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final solution”–another meaning of the…
There was a stage in my life, maybe between grades 11 and 12, where I drank Med-lemon every single morning for a good year. Not because I was sick or feeling a sickness coming on, but because I did not want to get sick. My mentality was that prevention is better than cure; and my parents who love me so much and just want me to be happy would go out of their way after work and buy me a box of Med-Lemon from Clicks which would cost roughly around R70. I didn’t really even begin to consider the…