The Smoking Gun

youth girls are seen and reprimanded to play with Barbie dolls, babying equipment and supplies, nursing tools and adorable plush dogs and teddy bears, on the other hand boys are seen playing big and bad wrestlers and G.I. Joe action figures with toy guns and knives, soccer balls, basket balls, and baseballs things that would be outlandish and unusual for girls to be seen playing with. This also sets a bad example for teenagers and adults and makes them want to do the same because these are the people

Junior High School. This kind of behavior in our school, AAJHS, is obviously a major safety hazard. In an attempt to lessen this violence and protect students, principals should take action and begin conducting random locker searches to check for guns, knives, and any other weapons contributing to the excessive violence in our school. Taking this action would also help deter the selling and use of drugs and alcohol in our school, and it would also make students, parents, and teachers feel safer

Investigative Writing The use of foreshadowing and tone in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery effectively establishes the suspense and a sense of dread in the story. The writer holds back on the revelation of what is happening for so long yet there are subtle uses of foreshadowing to prepare the reader. When the characters assemble in the town square for “the lottery”, it creates suspense as a lottery is usually a positive event. The first example of foreshadowing is when the boys begin to stuff their

Screams filled the air as teachers and students ran down the hallways through twists and turns to escape the horrifying noises behind them. Hearts pounding with adrenalin the teachers franticly looked for a safe place to hide their students and themselves. Adam Lanza had entered Sandy hook Elementary only moments before and was now reeking havoc throughout the school! With an AR-15, a 10mm Glock, and a Sig Sauer according to CNN (Almasy, Steve. 2012, pg1) Adam Lanza was fixated on one thing. Mass

The Constitutionality of Randomly Searching Students The American Revolution was a struggle in which colonists objected to the cruel and harsh treatment of Great Britain. Following the revolution, American patriots dedicated themselves to creating an America that is founded on the principals of equality and justice for all people. Their intention was to create a system that would correct the many wrongs of the British. The United States constitution implemented the 4th amendment that would prevent

Release the Recreational Green! Try to visualize being on a large University campus back in the 70’s with nothing but thick, beautiful, white, pleasurable clouds, filled with the aroma of marijuana. The student that are on their way to class may start their journey to class feeling one way, but before they reach their destiny they are flying high and feel like they could take on the world. Marijuana has the power of taking the stress and sorrow away and replacing it with contentment. Time has changed;

how to react. At the time, I never knew how a person would want to do that to themselves. The day my dad had told me about Jasen is like a picture burned into my mind like it happened yesterday. My dad had seemed a little off that weekend. He was smoking more, he had large bags under his eyes, he just didn’t seem like himself. I asked him what was wrong and he said it was adult problems. I was only nine years old, almost ten, when my dad had to explain it to me. The next day, it was January 5, my

In today’s society, “marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug in the world; various forms of the drug have been used for thousands of years for their medicinal, social, and aesthetic effects” (“Marijuana, 3”). Despite this fact, “international treaties and laws of almost every country forbid growing, selling, and possessing marijuana” (“Marijuana, 3”). Because of how common the use of the drug is, the treaties and laws governing the use and sale of marijuana makes “lawbreakers out of more

Yoel Sassoon Mr. Paradzick English 11 28 September 2014 Satire in Huckleberry Finn Did you know that in late 19th Century satire was one of the most common forms of literature used by authors? In Mark Twain’s Novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, satire is shown through the actions, thoughts, and adventures of Huck. The story is of a boy who runs away from home and experiences many adventures with nigger Jim. Once in to the book, we see that Twain depicts the society surrounding Huck as one

hypocrisy is brought up with the Widow, The Grangerfords, and The Shepherdsons. In the first chapter, the reader gets a glimpse at how two-faced the widow is since she forces Huck to go to church, teaches him the Bible verses, and forbids him from smoking, saying “it [is] a mean practice and it [isn’t] clean,” (15) although she smokes, herself. She does not realize that the things she’s advising Huck to do, she doesn’t abide by them herself in the first place. Miss Watson, taking the same approach