No one is perfect and we will all make mistakes; however, we are smarter if we can just learn from others mistakes without having to encounter or go through them ourselves. ... In this case if my girlfriend and I had just taken note of the statistics that the sexual education classes had told us and applied them to our lives, we would of seen that the consequences and after effect would never had been worth the decision. But as human beings we like to experience life for ourselves so we tend not to listen to others with experience in life, or we think that noting bad can come of us; that is,...

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It is interesting to note, therefore, that the meaning of the name, "Ralph- symbolizes: good, positive leadership, responsibility, dedication, survival, and means counsel'. ... Like Simon, Piggy is smarter than the other boys and because he too is often on the receiving end of cruelty and criticism, has a chance to think about things by himself. ...

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