At Seventeen

the “Sydney Siege” and extracted three articles about this event from news.com. So to begin with this event took place took place in central Sydney at Lindt Chocolate cafè when unaccompanied gunman Haron Monis held seventeen people hostage on the 16th of December 2014. This seventeen hour stand-off with the police ended when shots were fired inside the cafè consequently killing Tori Johnson the manager of the cafè, Katrina Dawson a mother of three and Islamic preacher Haron Monis. The first…

Maybe you were only familiar with her name when Donald Trump went on TV for ‘The Apprentice.’ Or maybe this is the first time you have heard of her since her father is a presidential candidate for the United States of America. But for most people, Ivanka Trump is famous for her own portfolio. Born in 1981, Ivanka Trump has always been under the spotlight because of her father and mother. Her mother being a former model and her father a businessman and self-made millionaire. But she did try her…

The Scarlet Letter a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in the nineteen centuries the age of reason, while written about the seventeen centuries. Nathaniel Hawthorne used his perception of the age of reasoning to give his audience a new view of the seventeen centuries. Nonetheless during that time the settlers wanted to be pure under the eye of God they also wanted to have all sorts of benefits. That is not only in the novel like that but it is also implemented in the actual time period.…

Lippitt Elementary School is a public school in the Warwick school district specifically located on 30 Almy Street, Warwick RI. This elementary school houses students between the grades of kindergarten all the way to sixth grade. These students have implanted into their brains an abbreviation “RRR”, these three R’s stand for Respect, Responsibility and Readiness, helping the teachers as well as the students to excel in every aspect of their learning, having positivity surround them and helping…

I have been employed at Edgewell Personal Care, a division of Playtex Products, Inc. for over seventeen years. Our manufacturing facility is located in Dover, Delaware. My employment here has always been working in the Quality department where I manage the Device History Records department. A department that reviews, approves and manages all documents from the manufacturing floor. The manager that has given me guidance and advice during my career is Norman Hahn. Norma has many processes that he…

The idea of witchcraft increased when friends of Betty Parris, which included eleven year-old Ann Putnam, seventeen year-old Mercy Lewis, and seventeen year-old Mary Walcott began to show similar illness and behavior as Betty. The previously held belief that witchcraft targeted children made the doctor’s diagnoses seem incredibly accurate. Tituba suggested a form of counter magic to heal the girls. She needed to bake a rye cake with the urine of the infected victim and feed the cake to a dog.…

the vaccine was discovered to have a ninety-eight percent effective rate in preventing all cervical lesions, which have been shown to lead to cervical cancers in women (Lonky, 2007). Likewise, when examining these benefits for young women ages seventeen to nineteen, studies have concluded that the vaccine seemed to be the most effective in younger girls and those who were not sexually active; meaning that, even if a person thinks they are not as risk for getting HPV, it can still be valuable for…

In today’s world, the presence of a gun makes a conflict more violent. More gun control laws can reduce these ongoing crimes. Surely, guns are posing a huge threat to our country. However, guns aren’t the only problem we are dealing with. Crimminals can use other deadly weapons to commit crimes. In my opinion, the government should make stricter laws to own any sort of harmful weapon.Significiantly, there should be a law to stricter gun ownership. Notably, gun control laws will prevent a lot of…

Another danger for a teen, though you’ve heard it many times before yet still is a problem, is alcohol. It is often that adults drink and drive, but teenagers impaired driving is especially common during the summer: the party season. Teenagers make up seventeen percent of alcohol related collisions, two thousand underaged drinkers die every year in a car. So don’t hop in your car after you’ve cracked open a cold one, please. An experienced driver in the passenger seat can help a licensed…

As New Yorkers, we embody the American principle of diversity-- we have a little bit of everything from around the world. In my neighborhood alone, there are three different mosques and then a church. There are three South Asian restaurants around the block, a Mexican restaurant just across the street, and a Chinese restaurant two buildings down from there. In a two mile radius from my house there are three different types of doctors—my pediatrician, my mother’s PCP and my grandmother’s kidney…