... because of Hollywood movies or rappers, but because many of the offenders are emotionally disturbed people. Provoked by some small or even imagined slight - a break-up or a look - the troubled boy gets a gun and shoots as many people as he can. Sometimes he is overwhelmed or caught; sometimes he kills himself first. Although no reliable figures exist at the present time ... on the number of juveniles with mental health needs, it is safe to estimate that at least one out of every five juveniles in the juvenile justice system has a serious mental health problem. Statistics show that 75 pe...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When I was growing up, some of the Hispanic kids would call me "Chino Cochino " thinking I got a cool nickname but later I found out it meant dirty Chinese boy. There will always be discrimination in society whether you're in school or at work. Discrimination affected my way of choosing ... to a school outside of Korea town where the ethnicity of the students was mostly Hispanics. I encountered my first racial comment there, Chino Cochino meaning dirty Chinese boy. As I went through 4th and 5th grade, the discrimination affected me on certain group of friends I chose to be around. I started to...

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• Grade Level: High School

There are many kinds of people, that have many different backgrounds. Everyone is unique and special in their own way but one thing that everyone has in common is friends. There isn't one person who doesn't ... they will have a much stronger friendship. On the other hand if the two barely ever have time for each other and rarely talk the friendship will probably fade out. When a true friendship is formed friends can talk about anything and not be worried what the other person will think. Friends can talk about everything without being embarrassed ... make it outside of school. Friends that a...

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• Grade Level: High School