SOS Children's Villages

Allegiance should not include the phrase "under God," considering that America is not a religion based country. Based on the constitution, religion is only mentioned twice as respect but not to honor it. In this day in age equality is a big deal. We have had so many incidences where our equality has been challenged. Other than race, religion is also another way people are discriminated and ridiculed. The fact that our Pledge of Allegiance has the phrase "under God" included, makes those…

Her father died around the First World War, so she was a foster child during her childhood. In 1919, she returned to Vienna and in 1920 she joined the Swiss Relief Committee children's train to Switzerland. She stayed with her foster family in Kilchberg. She attended school and she was trained as a nurse. With twenty years she was naturalized in Switzerland. After…

race were not allowed to go to school. Instead, they snuck downstairs to the basement of a church to learn to read and write from a man named Reverend John Berry Meachum, who everyone had nothing but the utmost respect for. The basement had no windows, so it was naturally very dark. However, as Meachum says, “We make our own light in here”, (Hopkinson 8 ). The children were passionate about learning and were willing to do whatever was necessary to better themselves. However, they hit a speed…

use. Large amounts of cocaine may intensify the high, however it can lead to bizarre, erratic, and violent behavior (Drug Abuse). The chase for the addictive high robbed Ishmael of his already fading childhood, and “instead of playing soccer in the village square, [he] took turns at the guarding posts, smoking marijuana and sniffing brown brown, cocaine mixed with gunpowder,” which was always readily available (121). Along with undesirable effects on the brain, cocaine comes with harmful effects…

Massachusetts this really happed during this time. The main parts that started atnd fueled the trials were politics, religion, family, feuds, economics, and the imaginations and fears of people (Sutter). The seeds of the hysteria are afflicted Salem village, Massachusetts was sown on January 1692 when groups of young lady’s began to display wild behavior. The physicians called to examine the girls could find no cause of the disturbing behavior. If the source of the affliction wasn’t…

was a time known as the dark ages in European history. Just like today, the people living in this time period loved to be able to party, have fun, and go a little crazy, and that’s just what they had done. At these fun festivities that most of the village attended, there was drinking, games, and many professional performances. With the amazing variety of clothing and the weird ways to present food, the people living in the Middle Ages attempted to have the time of their lives on any available…

by Malala Yousafzai. Mlala is very different from the girl of her same age. Her thinking is brilliant, because she sacrifices her life to earn the happiness of others who are under gender discrimination, child marriage, child labor, child abuse and so on. She has intension of making peace for every corner of the world and her act is very brave that people around the world can see that she is not just saying but she takes it in action, and it is very practical contribution. It starts from10…

The ongoing struggle throughout our society today is poverty, and more specifically those living in developing countries struggling, trying their best not only to break through the poverty line, but to simply just survive. Citizens in developed countries blindly take for granted everything that people in developing countries consider a luxury. Ethos, Logos, and Pathos aren’t necessarily used purposely throughout this documentary, but their implemented through accidental or natural occurrences.…

clothing to stay away from freezing to death. Even the children's coats were sewed to protect their hands from getting frostbite. Hunting was also very hard because trying to find food in the cold weather was not easy.…

humorous tone. Chimamanda Adiches begins her speech by talking about her childhood and growing up in Nigeria. This is important because the audience gets to experience the types of books that Adiches reads. “…and what I read were British and American children’s books” (Adiche). She explains that she reads these types of books because she does not realize that there were…