Romeo & Juliet essay

   In Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters love was unbreakable. What they did relates to what many teens would do today to remain with their loved ones. There are many similarities and differences between how romeo and Juliet and teens today are in love.
    Romeo and Juliet love was forbidden because of their family hatred. Today, that doesn't happen as often. Towns and cities are much bigger  and their are too many families to know. Many people move as well so they won't remain neighbors forever. In their time, they all knew everyone and what family they were from. You didn't have to know a person too well to like them. And getting married young was really important.
    Today, many couples are different. First, there are interracial couples. There are also couples of different religions. There weren't many other races during there time or religions but if there were they would still stick to their same religion or races. It is also a form of taboo now to date or be with someone with big age difference or for older men to be with teenagers. It happens very often in today's society put it is slight looked down upon.
    Then, parents found their children grooms are wives. For example, Juliet parents found her husband named Paris. They do not ask for her consent or if shes ok with it. Being married for a young girl meant that they were dignified. many parents today also want to be involved with their children relationships. They want know who their child is dating and what they are like.
      Many differences and similarities take place in the common practice of dating. Many teens will do anything for their loved ones. Even though most teens find it important it isn't as important in romeo and Juliet  To be married was a top priority. But on either end, love is important to both of them.

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  In the book " Miss Peregrines home for peculiar children" Jacob finds out out  a great secret about his granddad  The secrets lead him to a home of children with great "powers" that his granddad was apart of.  Now he realizes that a lot of his life was a lie. Monsters are following him around all his life without him knowing. Now they are trying to kill him; they killed hid granddad. He can protect the peculiars or stay with his family and possibly be killed. The head of the home offers him to stay since, he is a peculiar his self. He has a choice to saty or to go. He wants to leave because he can't leave his family but he doesn't want to leave the peculiars because in a sense they are his family. He thinks he wnats to go more than to stay with them.
   I think he wants to stay maybe but all this is over whelming him. Knowing about the whole granddad and peculiar ophanage home confused him. He wants to stay with them but hes worried about how his life can change and he might never be normal again.

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In the article " The Holocaust: A Story of Survival", A teen named Ferenc Schatz ran away from a concentration camp. He had no identification, which meant he could be arrested or even shot. Then his sisters husband bumped into him and took him into a safehouse. As Fernec did, Bela escaped from a camp. But he had a job that could help people like him. He got people fake i.d's, money and shelter. They both could easily get caught. Fernec did many heroic things such as work with nazis and dewire their bombs. He saved hundred's of lives and every single soul was worth it.

I think that Fernec was a very strong person for doing all thoese things. He risked his life to save others. I think he went out of his way to do this because he would want this to happen to him if he were a worker on the camps still. He wants better lives for jews and the children. He also may want this becaus ehis family is missing and they were probably sent to death camps or the ghetto. After the second world war, he want to the U.S and talked about the sad happenings of the holocaust. 

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      Jacob faces one of his biggest fears in a way by going to the home that his grandfather grew up in. In "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" Jacob's beloved granfather passes away after being killed by wild animals. He has been having phsychlogical problems because he belives he has to find out what the code his grandad left for hims means. So he takes off to a small isalad of Whales to his foster home filled with peculier children. These children have some special gifts such as being invible and levitating uncontrably. Jacobs shrink says that the trip will benifit him because he will feel as if the mystery is solved.
      I think that Jacob wants to go on this trip not only to find out his grandads code, but also to see if his unreal stories are true. His granadad, Abe told Jacobs staries when he was little about his foster home. Jacob gets trapped in time inside the foster house and gets to know the children a little better. Since he has heard these spectacular stories of this home he wants to see it to see if they were true. I believe he also wants to discover more secrets from Abe. In one part of the story, Jacob talks about how his granfather passed. When he discover the children he also chases them to talk to them. This proves that he really wanted to get to know more. Before he runs into the children, he wants the soonest flight back home.
      Right now, Jacob is in the home and talking to the headmistress hoping to get some information about Abe. Jacobs dad also talks about what bad a father Abe was and how he basiclly abonded his family. Jacob feels sorry for his dad since Abe was awfully close to him. I think Jacob is finding out info to reassuure his dad that Abe dind't mean too be a bad father.
       In the end, I believe that Jacob is going on this trip to reassure not only him self about his grandad but others as well.

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Question: How does this book help you think about social issues you care about or causes you are committed to?

                The book push helps me  think about unfairness towards children. In this book precious gets abused and taken advantage of by her parents. This is unfair to her. The money she should get from welfare for her two children go to her mother. Its also unfair she gets beaten just because her mom feel like beating. Another issue that this makes me think of is child care. One of precious child is being taken care of by her grandma and precious doesn't get to see them that often.

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How does this make you think about justice in the world?

          The book I am currently reading is called Pushed.  It is about a teenager girl that gets raped by her father and abused by her mother. The girls name is Precious. Her mom gets welfare for her daughter and her granddaughter but doesn’t do anything. Precious is mistreated in I find this unfair.

          Precious get abused by her mom. Her mom beats her when she isn’t pleased. She forces Precious to do as she says and if she doesn’t she  gets beat up by her mom. Her mom also doesn’t give her money and makes her cook and work for her. She does nothing for herself. I feel this is not only unfair, but injustice.

          Her mom basically takes money that should be hers. She also beats her daughter and calls her a slut for being raped and having kids. I feel like its injustice because she abuses her daughter for no reason really. She doesn’t help her daughter when she needs it the most. She is neglecting her. Her  dad rapes her and gets her pregnant. Twice. He doesn’t even see her he just sexually abuses her. Its not fair that her mom lies to the government as well to get money instead of actually working.   

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           Everyday the sad cruel reality of child soldiers lives on. There are more than 300,000 child soldiers in Africa. But its not just in Africa where this happens. Its on other continents like Asia and South America. These children are forced to fight in their wars. They are mistreated and abused. I believe child soldiers are victims.
             Child soldiers are victims because they are forced to fight in wars for rebel groups. Many children don't choose to join. Some are sold from their parents to get money. Others join to be in a safe area and to be protected. However, most of the children are kidnapped and forced to join the war.These rebel groups demolished new towns and they mutate young babies. "Children are the perfect weapons; they do as told, they don't complain and they don't expect pay.  These children are also often mistreated. Many of the girl soldiers are used as prostitutes and sex slaves
             Soon the war becomes their reality. They start looking at each other like the family they have lost. They see their commander as a father and their fellow soldiers as brothers. " It became our reality; we lost ourselves completely in the war' says former child soldier Ishmael Beah in an interview with Katie Couric. He also says that killing became easier with the numbness that drugs gave them. These children were forced to take drugs and soon they got addicted to them. They say that first time killing is hard but that drugs made it easier. "It became as easy as drinking water" says a child soldier in the passage "Armed and Underaged".
         Despite their horrible past, many child soldiers have overcome their problem. Beah states that he went to rehab and was no longer addicted to drugs. He says it was a difficult process to go through. "Every time i turned on the foist  i saw blood instead of water. I would wake up in the middle of the night because i had a nightmare. I woke up in the morning angry and picking fights" The process may be longer for others. One thing that he said was that something that gave the child soldiers a sense of reality was being treated like a kid no matter what happened in their life.
         Child soldiers are victims; they get kidnapped and are forced to kill.  Many people and programs such as  UNICEF are trying to help child soldiers get out of the war.  These children are taken away from their families. They are forced to kill and if they don't they get their lives taken away. They get so used to this type of life it becomes their reality. Many of the children are taken at a young age and don't know what is wrong or right. I think that child soldiers are against human rights and and one day will never be heard of again.