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The failure of the abstinence-only education courses is not providing students throughout the United States with sufficient sexual education to prevent this nation’s youth from being unprotected in their own sexual lives. Abstinence-only classes teach students that they should keep away from sexual encounters until they are married but it is clear that teenagers are having sexual intercourse anyway and abstinence-only education is not teaching them the content to protect themselves. Out of all…

Bill O’Reilly is a very famous talk-show host and journalist. His full name is William James O’Reilly Jr. He was born on September 10, 1949 in New York City. His parents are William James O’Reilly Sr. and Angela O’Reilly. When Bill O’Reilly was in his childhood his family moved to Long Island. As a young boy Bill attended Catholic school, and then went on to graduate from high school. After high school he went to Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. He was studying history at this college.…

Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California February 24, 1955. The unnamed baby was given up for adoption and taken in by Clara and Paul Jobs. Clara was an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and mechanist. The baby was named Steve Paul Jobs. The family lived in what would later be known as Silicon Valley. When Steve was younger, him and his father worked on electronics in their garage. While Jobs was an intelligent thinker, there was always problems with him in school. He was a…

Children and Cell Phones (Rough Draft) Should children have cellular phones, and if so, what is an appropriate age to provide one to our kids? The National Consumers League (2012), conducted a survey in June of 2012, uncovering that 21% of children eight years and younger use smart phones, according to Consumer Reports News (Mangis, 2012, para. 1). While numerous parents prefer their children have a mobile phone, kids should not own a cellular phone because it has a negative impact on young…

The Unfair Trade Of Clothing: A Brief Clothing Study Joy, M, Ringold University Of The People Define Fair trade: "A movement whose goal is to help producers in developing countries to get a fair price for their products as to help reduce poverty, provide for the ethical treatment of workers and farmers and promote environmentally sustainable practices" (Merriam-Webster, 2015). This essay below will briefly cover some of the Fair Trade issues with clothing. Or The Unfair Trade Of Clothing.…

When some people in minimum wage try looking for apartments that are much better than they get turned down when they find out that places that might be suitable are overpriced and way out of their range. Barbara explains. “there are no apartment in Portland. Actually, there are plenty of condos and “executive apartments” for $1,000 a month or more, but the only low-rent options seem to be clustered in an area about thirty-minute drive south, in the soothingly named town of Old Orchard Beach.…

Why Huckleberry Finn should be read in Schools The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a fictitious novel written by Mark Twain. The novel is about a young boy named Huckleberry Finn who runs away from his adoptive home with a slave named Jim and travels with him down the Mississippi River. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place during the mid 1800’s and describes the amazing journey Huck and Jim have while searching for freedom from the society around them. This novel should be read in…

Sedimentology and Formation of Punchbowl Falls The following essay will focus on Punchbowl Falls, one of the thirteen waterfalls located on the Eagle Creek hiking trail in the Columbia River Gorge approximately 24 miles from downtown Portland, Oregon. The hike to Punchbowl Falls is a modest 4.2 miles with a slight elevation gain of 400 ft. While hiking the trail to Punchbowl one can find a variety of interesting rock faces and vast vistas overlooking Mt. Hood national forest. Punchbowl’s unique…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a man of flowing words, was born on February 27, 1807, Portland, Maine. The first Longfellow came to America in 1676 from England. His mother was Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow. Her father, Peleg Wadsworth, had been a general in the Revolutionary War. His father, Stephen Longfellow, was a lawyer. He started school when he was three and became one of the school’s best students. Longfellow was naturally drawn to words. His mother read his brothers, sisters, and him the…

In America the unemployment rate is about 5.0% as of June 2016 but, in 2008 it was very high at 5.8% (The State of…); which may not seem like a lot. In 2008 there was an economic downfall called the Great Recession which started in 2008 and still has effects as of today in not just America but the world. The Great Recession had an all time low in job loss and debt of all-time since the Great Depression which is the worst economic disaster ever in the whole world. In a novel called “Of Mice and…