... magazine, black leaders in East St. Louis said, "it looked suspiciously like a racist nation"" (Kozol 19). Jonathon Kozol believes that the children in America's school are lacking a good education, safety inside school buildings, and comfort from their peers and elders, all due to racial discrimination and unequal government funding. Every child deserves the right to an education. A good education means going ... everywhere in St. Louis, but their gifts are lost to poverty and turmoil and the damage done by knowing they are written off by their society." How can children possibly shine...

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... Kronkosky, and Elizabeth Murfee's "Arts at the Core of Learning" provide evidence that validates the importance of art education in the school systems. In "Critical Evidence", Sandra Ruppert supports that learning experiences in art class contribute to the improvement of academic skills. In "Arts and Education", Kronkosky clarifies that art education helps develop cognitive thinking ... ...

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... human rights and values. Who knew standing up for one's rights or against prejudice would categorize strong women as "bitches". As professor of psychology and women's studies at Cornell University Sandra Bem explains it in her piece of the Lectures of Psychology of Women book, " we need to reframe our discussions of sexual inequality so that it focuses not on male ... ...

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... and 21st century, women have become more involved in politics. Take our former mayor of San Francisco, Diane Feinstein. She now holds a seat in our US Senate. Another example is Sandra Day O"Connor, who is the first woman to be appointed Justice of the Supreme Court. Further advancement in the areas of independence and decision-making are exhibited by women having ... ...

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... , an elderly, big and lame, shoeshine man with many pure qualities. He is smart, polite and friendly. Williams is full of dignity and self-respect, and just does not only shine other people's shoes but is a lustrous person himself. Then he also meets a few men in Atlanta, who reveal to him the heights to which they have climbed in spite of ... ...

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... and grades go up because of this rule. Students may still express themselves but in other ways rather than dress. They may excel in athletics or academics to make them shine out among the other students. Discipline is the concern, not the look of the student. School is a place to learn, not a place to impress with dress....

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... will have followers who do the same, and then everyone could be free. I try to walk every step of my life according to Matthew 5:16, which reads, "Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise." Maybe one day I will be the one that could somehow allow my country to be free, others to be ... ...

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... that there is a new life in Christ waiting for anyone who believes and wants it. Their main focus is to be like biblical people, to let their dress and actions shine through and show their Christianity. And to live their life simply and to not let the world decide how to live their life. They dress simply and in subdued colors ... ...

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... totally away from this mind set. The majority of people in power are men. There are a few women that are strong like Alexandra that rise about all the hardships and shine. As I was reading the book, I noticed myself respecting her for not dwelling on the trivial emotion aspect of life. Of her not being so obsessed with love and happiness. With ... ...

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... police conduct at a traffic stop or is there a serious problem with officers going above the law and using excessive and most times lethal force to uphold the law. I'm here to shine some light on this growing problem. First, I'll discuss the growing problem; second I'll talk about if race is still a factor, and finally discuss how it happens and how we ... ...

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... form of inner beauty is often times overlooked, or not as important as it used to be. What we think we are or who we think we are on the inside also defines what inner beauty is. An example of someone with great inner beauty in today's society is Shakira. Shakira is a singer-songwriter and is famous not only for her ... they wear, their make-up, or their very fair skin. Although a person may seem almost flawless on the outside, they can be a whole other person on the inside. Not necessarily evil on the inside, but not as you may have expected them to be. A good example of someone who is...

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... cookie. Now comes the part were there a few ways to eat it. If you"re selfish and all you care about it getting yours, chances are you"ll eat the inside and throw the cookie away, forgetting that some children across the world are starving and you"re throwing perfectly good cookies away. The next way is to eat the ... inside first, then the cookie. This shows that you like to take things apart and check out the inside first. Appearances aren't always everything. The next way is a little weird and I don't exactly want to take a trip into these people ... 's psyche; people who lick the cr...

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... it into a regular class or an accelerated class. Then there are sub-schools: primary (grades 1-4), secondary (grades 5-9), and senior (grades 10-11.) All sub-schools are inside one building, so it is very hectic inside. School starts on September 1 every year and we have a special assembly prepared in front of school. That is when we see our teacher, chat with our classmates ... , go inside the school, get into our classroom, find an assigned seat and write down our schedule for our first semester in our "diaries." A diary is something that every student must have, ... ...

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... we did not get to see most of the locations that were used in the play, I did get to see a reconstructed version of the Salem Village Meeting House, the building inside of which all the witch trials took place. Another direct connection between the town of today and The Crucible was the Salem Witch Trials Memorial because the memorial had stone ... of the museums I visited during my time at the Smithsonian. I spent the day learning lots about America at War and the Race to the Moon, two of the exhibits I visited inside the museums, both including real pieces of history such as guns from...

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... their self-image is as well as their environment around them. When women judge their bodies they do not judge what is seen as a whole, let alone what they observe inside. Their bodies are picked apart piece by piece, trying to measure up. Women have been brainwashed to analyze themselves in a certain way. The media portrays parts of women as advertisements ... . If the fantasy is false, and losing weight is exactly that, then where is the change in the way life lines up? Women should be worried about what they have inside, it will make the self healthier, more successful, and overall hap...

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... order to keep it looking its finest. Along with the appearance of the house on the outside, it is equally important to have the house working its best on the inside. Such services like air conditioning and heat, or electric and plumbing have a tendency to stop working. It is the homeowner's responsibility to have those things fixed. There are some people ... maintenance issues. These people would be better off living in an apartment. In an apartment a lawn mowing service cuts the grass. There is no yard to maintain, and when something inside the apartment breaks, there is usually a main...

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... always been working mothers, but in today's generation it's much more prevalent than before. This leaves children under the age of five in a daycare. Daycare means behind a locked door, inside a building, inside a locked fence. When I was young and in daycare we had one teacher; our playground was in a huge open field. Now there are at least two teachers and the playgrounds now ... ...

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... . I feel my heart start to pound, my stomach begins to twist and turn and I feel like throwing up all of my breakfast. Something isn't right. I turn my face and look inside the car next to me; by the expression on their faces, I could tell that they feel uncertainty too. I look up again, and it seems like the plane is going to ... me to be scared. She is not fooling anyone because her nose starts to turn red, and she is trying to tilt her head back so the tears would stay inside of her eyes. A state of shock is the only way I can describe it. It feels like ten minutes pass by, and the so...

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... , Batman, Spiderman, Wonder Woman, and many other comic book heroes have become some of America's heroes, but what about the real heroes? They are the ones that embed themselves directly inside the souls and hearts of kids and adults alike. The one group that has done that for me are the New York City firefighters and police officers. When terror struck ... men and women from NYC embedded a sense of faith and courage that enormous events, such as September 11, can bestow upon a person. The feelings and thoughts that I realized that were inside of me propelled my potential to greaten and ...

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... a thing could happen. He then continues to explore this issue by investigating how easy gun access is. Two students who were injured during the Columbine attack, both still having bullets inside their bodies, one being paralyzed from the waist down, were interviewed about what happened. Both were outraged that the gun and ammunitions were bought from the local K-Mart just minutes ... Moore went to one of the best sources, the president of the National Rifle Association, Charlton Hesston. Mr. Hesston allowed Michael Moore's request of an interview, and it took place inside Mr. Hesston's ...

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... rarely offer the kind of discipline a criminal needs to reform. I think that the only real way for our country to see what its prisons are like inside the bars, we would have to actually be placed inside one. I think that the government should secretly place a person into its well known prisons then have that person report back to them about the conditions ... ...

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... look past what our eyes see, and look into each others hearts. In their song,Home is Where the Heart is?, the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd says,I can see it inside, it's my heart that sees, not my eyes, and if you listen close I?ll tell you why, home is where the heart is, and my heart is at home with ... you.? If we can take anything from that, it should be that true beauty is on the inside, while external beauty is fleeting. There is one more aspect of our culture that needs to be changed. I'm talking about or use of drugs both legal and illegal. Drug addiction ... ...

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... anyone. The lady which Frank was writing letters for died, and Frank threw out the record book and now no one would owe her any money. Inside this lady's house, there was a trunk. When Frank looked inside, it had some money. He took some of it and declared he now had enough money to go back to America. Frank bought a ticket and ... ...

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... this country, and many from other countries, felt the same emotions, the same anger, sadness, and fear. This helped us to see that we are all the same on the inside. The people of this country no longer belong to the separate categories of "Asian," "African," or "Indian." Each and every one is American. Keeping this attitude of togetherness will ensure ... for us to shape our future, we must teach the children and youth to remain accepting; to never persecute a culture for the crimes of a few, to understand that, on the inside, all Americans are the same. If this basic idea can be taugh...

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... go to whenever I want to, and the place I feel familiar and comfortable to live in. I was 10 years old, living in China with my parents. We lived in an apartment inside a university, where my father taught arts. Every day I walked home from school; I could smell the sweet scent of cooking, and I knew my parents were there waiting for me to have ... . Soon, my parents were gone to America. Every day I walked home from school, I knew there were empty rooms waiting for me. Each time I unlocked the door, I imagined my parents were inside, waiting for me to have dinner together. When I was at...

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