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    In the novel few casualties happen. Towards the middle of the book is when innocence is lost completely, One of the main characters Simon, who usually lay low in the book has a horrible experience with the total loss of innocence. Jack, is leading his groups of Hunters as they are having thier typical bonfire after a catch. The fire is going and SamnEric, Piggy and Ralph warner over to be apart of thier feast because they ate all hungry. Jack is hesitant to let them eat with them because of the

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    Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine website, “Nearly one-third of children in the United States eat fast food every day. And more than one-third of children in the United State are overweight or obese” (“Childhood Lost”). This statistic is not coincidental. Fast food is directly linked to and contributes to childhood obesity. The fast food industry is at fault because they advantageously market to children, provide value menus that are attractive to the poor, and produce kid’s meals

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    Generations’ allowed governmental bodies to remove Indigenous children from their families under Australian policy for purposes such as, but not limited

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    A Window Of Your Dreams

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    A Window To Your Dreams In J.M. Barrie’s classic children’s story Peter Pan, a young boy named Peter takes three children on the adventure of their dreams in a faraway place called Neverland. The story, revolving around how “all children, except one, grow up” (1) takes the reader back to mindsets of children and their elaborate fantasies that might actually be true if they could only remember. With sword fights between pirates, fairy dust, flying away from home right out the window and death being

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    they will make it home to their families everyday. Ishmael Beah understood what it was like to have hope in terrible situations. When Ishmael wrote his book “A Long Way Gone” he was able to show how he had hope when he lost his family, when he went to New York and when he tragically lost hope when he was in the war. Ishmael went through losing not only his siblings, but also his parents. At the very beginning of the book Mattru Jong was attacked by the rebels separating Ishmael from his parents. “We

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    one of my children, my farm, my house and into my bag. I'm trying my entire livelihood through this mess because I know my wife and my children depend on me. I just want to be able to feed and provide for my family and not have to fight. When we lost our house and everything else, we have lost all our extra clothes, so they only have the clothes that are in the back now. I hope, where my family and I moved, it can be a better life for us there. Because of the dust bowl that I have lost almost everything

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    The Little Boy Lost Poem

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    William Blake, a poet, whom was associated vastly within the romanticism period. His poems included mostly that which was associated with children. He placed emphasis on poems that dealt largely with that that involved what was happening around him at the time. The two poems that we will be placing focal point is “The Little Boy Lost” (1789) and “The Little Black Boy” (1789) ,one can see how within both poem titles it places emphasis on the boy being ‘little’. Through these poems we will be have

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    you like it if your children where taken from you to become a child soldier, well in Somalia children have been taken to become child soldiers. They are getting prosecuted for it as well, child soldiers should not be prosecuted for this. Theses child soldiers are being forced to fight against their will. Ishmael Beth was a child soldier in a news report on CBS News and he said that they were drugged. Also a gun was held up to there held every second this went on. The children were also drug or sold

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    for battle everyday, and being under the influence that killing is a show of victory and pride. That is what children as young as five have to deal with. As these children get older what difference do they know? We cannot blame these child soldiers for their actions. As i read the article, “Armed And Underage” it states, “human rights experts estimate that more than 200,000 children worldwide are still being used as combatants, usually against their will.” This just shows how forced their actions

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    day for America, as twenty children and six adults lost their lives in a school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Two days later, President Barack Obama addressed the nation with an interfaith prayer vigil at Newtown High School to help remember those who had lost their lives, and also to convince the nation that changes need to be made. Obama asked America to make an effort to prevent future tragedies such as this one by caring for our children and using our power to help

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