family, his parents were killed in an auto wreck. Many kids today have lost their parents in a tragic accident leaving them parentless. Many kids have siblings or family members like Ponyboy to look after them. However some kids are sent to orphanages, where they are adopted or staying there until legal age. The Outsiders’ main conflict is the social hierarchy, the Socs and the Greasers. This conflict still exists today. However it isn’t as deep as when in the book. There are people who are rich like
The Bereavement Journey Breavement is handeled differently in different generations. Weather it is a kid that has a terminal illness or an elderly person who is diagnosed with a terminal illness, each breave differently. Breavement deals with not just someone clsoe dying but, someone themselvs who is diagnosed with a life threatening illness. Kids are more afair of death than adults are. Kids do not underdstand death like adults. In one of our class discussions , Dr. Bradshaw told our class a
A Bucket List. Three Things I Want to do Before I Die. A bucket list. I’m sure everyone knows what this list is composed of, but if not, it’s a list that is composed of the things one wants to do before they die. There’s all sorts of crazy things on this list, and there are also a bunch of simple things on this list. For example, someone may have on their list, sky diving and also have, owning a house. The extreme things on these list seem to have a fear factor, everyone wants to do something that
UNICEF reported that, globally, 453,000 children die from rotavirus, 476,000 die from pneumococcus, 199,000 die from Hib, 195,000 die from pertussis, 118,000 die from measels, and 60,000 die from tetanus each year, all vaccine-preventable diseases. Vaccinations are essential to making sure that children are the healthiest they can be. The decision to vaccinate your child
identify who were Jews or not. The yellow star and the blue star were represented as the Star of David. Children 's lives were more impacted by the Holocaust more than the adults. In the concentration
doctors and scientists have proven thm to not cause cancer and actually make a person healthier. Vaccines save millions of lives per day and without them the world could not be as safe. Disease can also cause lack of mental and physical activity for kids in school and workers at their jobs. Vaccinations should be mandatory to help save peoples lives and make the world a healthier and safer place. Requiring vaccines
in time and in money rather than the disease that a child could obtain due to their parents decision to not vaccinate. If a child were to get sick due to the flu, a disease that could be prevented through the use of vaccines, they would be contagious for about 8 days. That’s 8 days where a child could potentially miss school, or other activities. According to a 2012 CDC study, a child getting the flu costs parents an average of 11 to 73 hours of wages (about $222 to $1,456) and $300 to $4,000 in medical
most people wouldn't expectboredom. Kids don't have anything to do, and they start smoking simply to occupy their time. It may sound strange, but it's true ("No Smoking" 76). No one expects underage smoking to come a screeching halt or anything of that nature, but most people want to see it decrease. Unfortunately, not everyone is really actively trying to stop smoking. Some of them don't really want it to stop, as it wouldn't be in their own best interest. Who are these people?... ... middle of
treated with gene therapy and so far it has worked. SCID is Severe Combined Immunodefficiency. It is a terrible disease that kids are born with and in order to get rid of it you need undergo gene therapy. It is a long process which is costly but well worth. The enzyme that these kids are not producing is ADA or adenosine deaminase. SCID is a birth defect where your parents have the recessive or broken down gene together. It costs a significant amount of money to get this treatment. It is about sixty
driving is a serious problem. Many kids die every year from being drunk, getting behind the wheel of a vehicle and being too impaired to properly handle the vehicle, therefore injuring others, or even themselves. I’m not condoning drinking if you are underage but my thought on this is, if you are going to drink then at least do it in a safe place and somewhere you can spend the night and not have to drive. Each year, approximately 5,000 young people under the age of 21 die as a result of underage drinking