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    students drop out each year. The challenges of dropping out can be detrimental to a teens future. The long term effects can impact the way they live and and succeed. Thankfully, a numerous amount of suggestions have been created to make student’s lives easier. Dropping out is caused by a wide variety of reasons, and many different actions have been taken to improve the overall rates. Although an abundant number of students believe staying in school is prevalent, there are still many who drop out for

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    Statement: " I believe that dropping out of school is the direct result of strain caused by the economic/political institutions that are within the social structure". Introduction: The Social Structure is the housing for the social institutions: Politics, Economics, Mass Media, Groups/Organizations, Family, Education and Religion. What I plan to discuss in this research project is how economic and political institutions contribute to the cause of dropping out of school. What is a Dropout?

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    Congratulations on getting your article “Don’t Drop Out” published. After reading the piece it has for certain committed me to finishing my undergraduate degree. I’m sure it is going to have the same impact on almost all your readers. I say this with full confidence because you are speaking from personal experience as someone who was on the verge of dropping out but decided to stay in the fight till the end. You’ve produced an effective article and I wouldn’t change much to it. As a fellow colleague

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    article “Drop Out Age,” states “too many young people fail to recognize that it is nearly impossible to meet the demands of modern society and to live successfully without at least a high school education” (Precious 1). It is inferred that due to a lack of family encouragement, students fail to realize that education is one of the key factors needed for the workforce. According to the article, “the lawmakers said that in the 1996-97 school year, 27,629 students in New York high schools dropped out” (Precious

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    be left behind (DuFour, DuFour, Eaker, 2016). High school drop outs will fall significantly behind in the American economy. According to Geringer and Jones (2016), jobs that pay $53,000 or higher annually made up almost half of the jobs in the

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    Someday, somehow, Clarke knew that she would witness the beauty of Earth. She would be able to feel the sun warm her skin, and have the wind kiss her cheeks as she walked through a forest. Maybe she would watch a rabbit hop out of a bush, or follow butterflies as she wandered carelessly around the ground—if those creatures were still alive from all the radiation. Her father had always told her stories about Earth, visualizing it as a heaven for the living. It had been nearly ninety-seven years

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    boarding the airplane, I sat down in my seat next to my dad, so ecstatic to finally be on my way to Peru for my first mission trip! With the seat belt fastened snugly across my hips and the cool air from the vents comfortably blowing on my face, I peered out the window as the plane took off, my excitement growing as we rose up past the clouds into the clear blue sky. Although it felt like any other normal flight, somehow I knew this one would be different. Shortly after we took off and reached a higher

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    While homeless children are legally permitted to attend their former school, the long commute is frequently too much of an inconvenience. Homeless children transfer schools so frequently and therefore struggle to keep up. Consequently, many of them drop out of school. This poses a unique challenge because the students who need to do well the most are unable to do so simply as a result of their condition. If these students do not continue their

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    Many people have their opinions and reasons on why they drop out of school. Some may be mandatory and cannot be avoided or others are ignorant choices that were not taught through. In life, everyone has their mindset on what they want to do with their own life. Dropping out of high school should not be a decision for you to make because your salary or promotion may not be desirable, not be eligible for other jobs, living at home with parent(s). Lack of an education certification, such as a

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    drying out and “cracking” so loudly that we can hear it happening right next to our ears. Another example of a vivid verb is “crashes” in the quote “The municiple pipe bursts, silver crashes to the ground...”. The vivid verb helps the visual imagery of water “bursting” out of the pipe in “crashing” onto the ground like the powerful, fierce “voice of a...god”. The sibilance in “the small splash” vibrates in our minds as we hear the “drip of [water]” splish-splashing into the “tin mug”. The drop of water

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