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    diseased, filthy, an animal to be despised. He knew she could not worship him, or even love him. He hoped that someday she might feel some affection. That she might feel some-loyalty.” (Card 268). Novinha knew this to be true and her children began to feel empathetic. Her children began to understand. The scene concludes with the most powerful line in the book. “The words left ashes in their hearts.” (Card 270). Not only did Ender’s words affect the family, but they affected the community as well. Ender

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    Due to the declining economy, our community looks pretty hectic. People without homes are living outside the streets and it’s been pretty frustrating to most of us. Instead of using the government and police to send the homeless away, the community should support and help the homeless by providing supplies and facilities. The facilities will give the homeless a place of shelter and security. Necessities will keep the homeless on their feet as they find a way to turn around their lives. Separating

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    Some may ask what is sex trafficking, well according Women Across Cultures: A Global Perspective sex trafficking is a form of human trafficking that pulls women and girls into prostitution against their will. Nashville, TN is the last place you would expect sex trafficking to be taking place at. However, places like Cambodia you expect because of the high poverty rates, and you hear stories about sex trafficking in places like Cambodia. Nashville and Cambodia differ in a sense of numbers. A lot more

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    variety of opportunities, and most of them are poor and challenging in the daily life. So, we find that these people don’t have any income and insurance, which caused that they lose the house, and other basic conditions of life. Also, there are some children are encountering these terrible solutions. In a word, most of the humans who are homeless have underprivileged power due to the limited competence of other perspectives. Pragraph1: Topic

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    estimated the annual homeless population to be roughly 3.5 million people. Of these 1.35 million are children. The fastest growing segment of the homeless population is families with children. Discussion A recent study found that 1 out of 50 American children become homeless each year. On any given night more than 300,000 children are without a home. The study estimates that some 83% of homeless children will have been exposed to at least one serious violent event before they reach 12 years of age.

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    Advertising on its own Is a conflicting topic when it comes to ethics as it borders between autonomy and manipulation, it is expected to get more conflicting opinions when it involves children. In 1999 Meadowvale Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario, had met with some sponsors who wanted to pilot a program called the Youth News Network (YNN), It would involve the sponsors providing the necessary viewing materials for the students in return the student would be required to watch a daily newscast

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    Feral Children Case Study

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    Feral children are the result of years of neglect and isolation. They are children who have been raised away from society in harsh and solitary conditions. These children are for the most part always mentally and socially underdeveloped. To understand feral children, one should examine how they respond to isolation, how they react to integration, and if they are able to acquire the skills they lost while being deprived of social interaction. Before we can examine the behavior of these children, we

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    adopted children Daniel A. Hughes, A Jason Aronson Book copyright 1997, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 www.rowmanlittlefield.com, 2004 ISBN 0-7657-0270-0 Facilitating Developmental Attachment is a book about the theory behind and a treatment for attachment disorder, focusing on children who have been fostered or adopted due to abuse or neglect. Daniel Hughes gives a detailed therapy plan of how to help these particular children begin to

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    Major Frankel

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    It was said by an anonymous author, that war changes the inherently good and unique spirit of the human race into the brute savages that they once had been. In The True Story of Hansel and Gretel characters have never known freedom from this war torn Europe. Bloodshed and violence are all that these characters have lived with and therefore we see no other traits other than those that are a direct result of these unfortunate and gruesome circumstances. Throughout this book, the actions of Major

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    Feral Children: Examples of Extreme Neglect Socialization is “the lifelong process of social interaction through which individuals acquire a self-identity and the physical, mental, and social skills needed for survival in society” (Kendall 87). In other words, this is the time when the individual figures out who they are, what they feel, and what they think in order to participate in society. This is where we learn role taking, how to control our behavior, and how to communicate with others (Kendal

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