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…believed that teenagers had to deal with sex, drugs, violence, law and other hardships like an unstable family life and poverty. I feel that many teens deal with this but not to the same extent. I know that these problems exist but I have not experienced them…

…the main reason why juvenile's commit crimes. Some risk factors associated with juvenile crime are poverty, repeated exposure to violence, drugs, easy access to firearms, unstable family life and family violence, delinquent peer groups, and media violence…

…in poor neighborhoods is a reflection of the community itself. The social ills- poverty, single parent homes, drugs, prostitution, teenage pregnancy and street violence has crept into the school community. Furthermore, in poverty stricken areas, the schools…

…they have is apparent. This shows favor towards the wealthy, whereas in Jesus’ teachings to his followers, poverty is seen as divine, (5.G.o.M., pg 229). The Koran also offers its wealthy followers paid loopholes in certain circumstances. In the case…

…was probably brought by a fishing boat from Asia. It would be hard to think of a country worse prepared, because diarrhea and vomiting can kill cholera victims within a few hours unless they receive rehydration. This is a country living in poverty. Help…

…to drop out. Poverty has afflicted minorities for years and even today it is difficult to break. Affirmative Action is one way of ending this cycle. We must allow minorities or any one for that matter the opportunity to succeed. And in doing so allow them…

…to deal with the deaths in his family, his way of living, his family's poverty and his father's alcoholism. Thorughout this novel there are many things which bring the feeling of sadness to the reader's mind. There were many changes in his life…

…I am a sixteen-year-old boy from southern Mexico City. My family lived in poverty and when my father was killed in an accident the flow of money abruptly stopped. My brother, fifteen-year-old Jose, and I am planned to cross the border and head…

…the book. After completing the novel “The Outsiders” my thoughts that best described this book would be baffled and depressing. This story was very depressing for the main character Ponyboy. Ponyboy was 14, and grew up in poverty without his parents. He lived…

…and live in poverty for ten years to pay off the necklace. By now, Matilde looks old. "She had become the woman of impoverished households - strong and hard and rough" (981). Matilde is walking along the Champs Elysées when she encounters Mme. Forestier. She…