As a child I used to play a game on the computer called Barney Bear and later on a game called the Brain. ... I'm in no way saying that kids should play video games all day every day, but I think that video games are not something that corrupts a child's mind. ... A child learns to win or lose gracefully and competes to get better. ... When adults do these things we call them thieves, deranged, murderers. ...

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"I"d never have taken this ordeal upon myself" (998) she proclaims if it had been a husband or child of hers. ... First of all, a spouse or child is not even close to being replaceable if lost. ... I know first hand of families that have lost a child and had another since. The story is always the same: pictures of the child and usually at least a weekly trip to the cemetery. ... Second of all a brother or sister is just as replaceable (if you can call it replacing) as a husband or child if your parents are dead or alive. ...

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Barrie argues the movement of childhood into adulthood in a fictional story about a young immortal boy who comes in the night to take children to a place called Neverland, where rules do not exist or parents reside. ... This also contributes to growth, as a child, mythical creatures seem so real but at some point in life views change and these creatures no longer exist. ... These stories fuel their thoughts like all child stories, the ability to do something without permission fascinates a persons mind. ... After exploring the world and learning it shifts a child's mind from what can be...

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The fetus grows into a baby, a child, and an old man, aided by time, nutrition, and a suitable environment. ... There is nothing more pitiable that an unwanted fetus becoming an unwanted baby an unwanted baby becoming an unwanted child, then an unwanted child becoming an embittered adult. But few would think it right to kill or have killed an unwanted baby to prevent it from becoming an unwanted child. Then how can they think it right to kill an unwanted fetus, even more defenseless than a newborn baby just because it may grow into an unwanted child? ... Killing in any form is not the sol...

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The fetus grows into a baby, a child, and an old man, aided by time, nutrition, and a suitable environment. ... There is nothing more pitiable that an unwanted fetus becoming an unwanted baby an unwanted baby becoming an unwanted child, then an unwanted child becoming an embittered adult. But few would think it right to kill or have killed an unwanted baby to prevent it from becoming an unwanted child. Then how can they think it right to kill an unwanted fetus, even more defenseless than a newborn baby just because it may grow into an unwanted child? ... Killing in any form is not the sol...

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I've heard of a child that approached an elderly stranger that was crying he had just lost his wife. The child sat on this mans lap and watched him cry and not a word was spoken. ... It's so astounding how a child can approach a stranger without a doubtful thought and know just by his presence would help. ... This unsurpassed tool conceals itself until called upon to battle life's difficult disturbances it knows no defeat and prevails in the end. ...

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Before the plane had reached the runway, my heart was reaching out to Dave Pelzer, who was sharing his unbelievable life story of abuse and survival with his book, A Child Called It. ... What triggers child abuse? ...

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For example, Joyce shows the reader just how preoccupied the mind of the narrator is- "I could not call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to be child's play, ugly monotonous child's play."" ...

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You see I always wanted to be an independent person, even as a small child I wanted to run my life and make my own decisions. ... Yes I was picked up and finger printed, and my parents were called and I was in some deep stuff. ... You see I had what they called ADD, Attention Deficite Disorder, basically, I learned slower than the other kids, and I recall one time my mom telling me that the kindergarten teacher Mrs. ... As a small child, I wanted to be a farmer, because I thought it was a good job. ... My Brother Charlie, basic all American poster child, an athlete, an A student in school, and...

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Short Phrase Analysis The short phrase "is the world insane?" is the thought that underscores the entire song, "Where is the Love?" by a group called The Black Eyed Peas. In the context of the poem, the phrase is asking the rhetorical, but powerful, question of how our world becam...

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It is the so-called "normal" people who believe that there is only one "real world" and it is the one they are living in, right now. ... If one person, one individual cannot trick themselves into ignoring the thousands of contradictions, cannot disregard the gaping flaws in that normal world, or are not capable of pretending that they believe in that so called normalcy, their sanity is questioned. ... It's the "normal" way of thinking to believe that we call a thing by a name and classify it as a certain kind of thing because that is what it is. ... As a result, one person may glori...

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Life styles have changed dramatically between the two generations from single parent homes, children of child care, to the types of role models children have. ... Jennings sights a poll done in a high school that called for a ban on dihydrogen monoxide listing many things it damages. Almost everyone asked, teachers and students, signed without thinking, not knowing they had called for a ban on water. ...

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Felix American Literature The Devastation of the Indies The Article, "The Devastation of the Indies," by Bartolome De las Casas, is a brief account of the cruelty that was done to the Indians by the Spaniard so-called Christians who were considered heaven sent when they were actually the devil incarnated. ... It had to be killed because it is a threat to its precious child. ... What kind of person who calls himself a Christian would burn the feet of another human being, or wrap their bodies in straws and set them afire saying he is doing it for sufferings Jesus and his apostles endure...

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According to this idea, everybody is in a state between living and dyeing; one can almost call it a dream world. ... He calls himself non- judgmental, yet he is one of the most judgmental characters a person can read about. ... Nick needed to go back into his origin since he had a fixation, which was that he was missing a piece of his child hood. ...

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Signs of human characteristics are demonstrated through the so-called "monster" in Frankenstein. ... As an infant, he is plagued by blurry vision and confusion of the senses, he experiences the world precisely as a young child would experience it. ... In essence, he is still a child, with all of a child's innocence and capacity for wonder. ... Thus, like an aborted child, the "monster" was unwanted by his parent and was never permitted to develop fully. ...

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When you become an adult you will acquire this thing called responsibility, which literally means that you are responsible for yourself. ... There is no way to tell when a person becomes a true adult, to me you could be well past your teens and still be a child in the eyes of some people. ...

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And how can they call these words lyric. ... I call them "texts" because they have nothing in common with lyric. ... or "You call that music!?" In my opinion, parents love to blame musicians for their child's problems. ...

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In his novel "1984", George Orwell creates a society where all decency, integrity, individuality, and consciousness has been destroyed and abolished from existence in order to obtain a "so-called" utopia. ... The child is given a uniform, thus making them all alike and illustrating unity within each person in the society. ... If someone is thought to be doing something or thinking of something that is of threat to the Party, appropriate action is taken to deal with this "so-called" betrayal of the society. ... With all these techniques used, humans were made to be "so-called" robots because...

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Identity can be seen in even the youngest of children as soon a child is ready to make their own decision, no matter how trivial the decision might be, the child is starting to create his or her own identity and define their own nature. One child's nature might make a little girl act like a boy, also called a tomboy. ...

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Sam, as his friends called him, didn't think the turtle shell was anything special. ... The middle child, Dean, received his father's quick wit and his mother's grace. The youngest child, Deidre, inherited her mother's beauty and grace and her father's wisdom and strength of heart. ... While he was dieing, he tried to decide whom to leave the shell to, but he couldn't pick just one child because all three were worthy of such a fine treasure. ...

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Life in this world, as Bahaullah presents it, is like the life of a child in the womb of its mother: the moral, intellectual, and spiritual powers which a human being develops here, with the help of God, will be the "limbs" and "organs" needed for the soul's progress in the worlds beyond this earthly one. ... This is called a 'Feast'. ... These are usually called "firesides". ...

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As a young child I thought it was cool to lie and get out of things so easily. ... Like the time she called the school and told them I wouldn't be there today because I had a dentist appointment, when in fact, she wanted me to baby sit my little cousin so she could go get her hair done. What even started to bother me when someone would call for her and she would ask me to tell him or her that she was not there. ...

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As a young child I thought it was cool to lie and get out of things so easily and being around my aunt was the main problem. ... Like the time she called the school and told them I wouldn't be there today because I had a dentist appointment, when in fact, she wanted me to baby sit my little cousin so she could go get her hair done. What started to bother me the most was when someone would call for her and she would ask me to tell him or her that she was not there.  ...

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It is these so called "white trash" human beings that tend to give Waterford a bad name. ... It's the common upbringing of a child in our environment. ... If they were raised in a different environment, they would never see the so called streets of Waterford. ...

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Bob Herbert writes about Brian Dalton's sentencing in his Bakersfield Californian article called "Imaginary Perversion Becoming a Crime" (July 27, 2001). ... Politicians and Police do not want to be seen as advocates for child pornography, so they will not tolerate any instance dealing with the abuse or neglect of children. ...

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