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Genreal bullying Reading this made me remember some old memories from when I was bullied in shcool just like this girl was bullied in this article by her classmates. I have been bullied ever since I was in elememntary school by other people. I am still being bullied by people to this day iand now I am in high shcool. I hate getting bullied so I can understand and relate to where this young girl is comming from because the same thing happened to me in school. I remembergr being bullied the whole time in elementary school with kids calling me bad names, swearing at me, pushing, shoving, hitting me. My worst memory iwas when someone threatened to kill me for the first time. Although my parents had numerous meetings with school officials, the bullying just continued. They seemed powerless to stop it. I remember being bullied on the last day of school in elementary school and I was so upset and beside myself that I made the decision not to attend the the graduation dance. I felt that nobody wanted me there nor would they even miss me if I was not there. I was so happy to leave that school andthat part of my life behind. To this day, I have never really talked to any of the teachers since leaving elementary school. I certainly do not have any fond memories of that school.. Middle school was only slightly better. The bullying continued.I remember getting in trouble for things I did not even do but I would always get blamed even when it was not my fault. High shcool has also been difficult for me because it been so clickish. In grade 10, I was punched in the face for no reason and the guy never got in trouble because he was popular and a hockey player. Some people in the school even said it was my fault when in reality it was not. Even though my parents intervened, the hockey palayed never had any consequences for his actions. The school has even gone so far as to say that they were in the wrong for not dealing with this situation.tkneved, I can hardly wait until I graduate in the year 2008, so I do not have to endure being bullied in the educational system. When it comes to bullying I certainbly can relate to others about this.

homophobic bulling I don’t think bullying someone because they are gay is right. It is a violation of the human rights acts of man and it is against the law. Whether one agrees with homosexuality or not, everyone should have the right to choose a partner of their choice. In my school there was a male student who came out of the closet and admitted that he was gay. Unfortunately, the fact that he admitted that he was gay caused some problems as he was beaten up by two other male students. In my opinion, this is not right. I happen to be a friend of this gay student and because I defended his right to be whoever he is; I was accused of being gay and I was made fun of. Some students praised these two guys for beating up my friend; others were upset by the beating. This was a serious incident and as a result the police were called in to intervene and an investigation occurred. I do not understand why people seem to be afraid of gay people. Sometimes I think that people thinks that a person who is gay that this must be something contagious that they will catch it or that people are afraid that children are gloing to be molested because a person is gay, I also get made fun of cause I do not view girls as sexual objects. I view them as good friends and human beings with feelings. I get called gay which there is no need of. I definitely do not think people should be judged fbecause they are gay. This article reminds me of my friend and how he was bullied for being gay just like the young boy in the article.

religious bullyimg People are bullied because they are from different religions or nationallities. I do not feel that this is right because they are human too just like me. People should have the right to practice whatever religious beliefs they want to without any fear of repercussions. This is a fundamental right in the Charter of Rights. Based upon these rights you should be treated equally. Unfortunately this does not occur and this kind of bullying has been occurring for many years. Personally, I have not encounterd religious bullying myself but I have heard of this happening. It is unacceptable to treat others differently because they have a different skin color or practice a different religious belief, Everyone should be treated as equal. A number of of people bully black people by saying the n word which to me is one of the biggest insults to call a person. Since 911 occurred in the United States, people have started blaming all muslims for this attack which is unfair because a person is painting everyone by the same brush. Therefore, anyone who is a muslim is accused of being a member of Al Quaida or of being a terrorist. In reality many muslims are just like you and me. They have committed no sin but because of their nationality, they are considered to be someone that you should not associate with.and that you should be afraid of.

cyber bullying

Cyber bullying is now very commomn .I feel that this usually occurs because people do not have the guts to talk to somone to their face so they hide behind a screen.It probably makes them feel cool when in reality iit is not .People who cyber bully are people who usually do not have a lfe or have issues. These people might have been bullied themselves or havieanger problems so they take it out on people they have never met or who they know and they get mad at little things.I personally try not to get cyber bullied but it has happened to me a few times. Llike people in my school people will talk to me and talk about how much they hate me and call me inappropriate names just bcause they think that makes them cool. Then when you see them at school, they want to be friendly. It does not make sense to me. I know al number of people who have been cyber bullied even my own sister has been cyber bullied She was threatened by somone on line about five years ago. My parents were upset and contacted the police to register a compllaint. This article is quite relevant for the era that we live in. I feel that it is important to have laws about cyber bullying because bullying whether it is done in person or on line is just not acvceptable.

bullying from a perpetrators point of view I found this article to be insightful because it certainly represents an alternative perspective from the bully. I really never gave much thought as to the reason that a person became a bully because I am not one. I am the one who gets bullied on a regular daily basis. I understand what the article is saying and I understand the need to want to belong and to want to be accepted by others. However, it is at the expense of another person's feelings and emotions. It certainly is lonely if one does not have someone to associate with. This article is also sad because Clare knows what it is like to be bullied and what it is like to be the one who is bullying someone. In this article, I can relate to some of the feelings that Clare has experienced such as being terrified and scared It is interesting to note that as an adult, Clare has shown remorse about her bullying others when she was a child. It certainly gives you food for thought because numerous articles are written about the victim and not the perpatrator. It is nice to know that at some point in some of the bullies life that they care that they have created problems for someone else. At this point in my life, I have been bullied from a very young age and am still being bullied at the persent time and it is difficult for me to work up any synpathy for the bully. Perhaps, when I am older, I can make sense of what I have gone through and what the bully has gone through but not not at this point.

Hi. My name is Peter and I’m in grade 11 at Woodstock high school. I am 17 I have one sister who was born the same year as me but she is not my twin. My best friend is Louis Fraser because he is always there for me. I am good with computers and a very friendly sociable person with lots of friends. My favorite thing is wrestling I know everything about wrestling. I am very smart in a lot of subjects and I am a solid B student and work very hard in my marks. I am a very poignant guy who would do anything for the people I like and am a very caring compassionate person my favorite music is the eighties and I like my I pod a lot. I like brownies and chocolate chip cookies. My favorite T.V. show is Neon rider because he kicks everybody’s buttocks. It’s really cool. I am studying history and confronting injustice in school. I hate math, and am very good in World Issues. I respect Mickey Mouse but I have absolutely no respect for Donald Duck. I am against all forms of bullying and negative teasing. I am prepared to stand up for my beliefs and opinions in this class and am looking forward to doing this class. My favorite season is fall because its cool out and usually nice. like to travel one of my favorite places I ever went was new York city because it was such a big place and there was a lot of good places to eat for lunch and supper and there was a lot of nice people in new York and there was a a lot of things to do in new York since it was a big place and I also liked Ottawa cause it was a lot of fun there’s like pizza cause its awesome I like different kinds of foods such as Mexican and Italian my favorite pop is 7 up and lemonade. I don’t really like Pepsi or coke

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My impression of Friday's presentation was that it was really awsome, interesting and informative. I like the concept of the talking circle because everyone has the opportunity to speak if they so choose without any interruptions. The toybox charity is a really important charity that people should know about as this charity helps poor kids who are living on the streets. In order to stop this homelessness, we should have more shelters, more counselors and have homes/shelters for kids who are in abusive homes. Major issues that can occur when one has to live on the streets are street gangs and using drugs which can result in death.

Article # 1: Why there are street children

Unfortunately, the issue of street children has been ongoing for centuries. There is no simple or easy solution to this serious problem and we as Canadians do not have all the answers. Otherwise, we would not have teenage drug addicts and prostitutes in our own country. There are many reasons for street children including poverty and unstable and corrupt governments. While as North Americans, we cannot impose our values on other cultures, we can stop exploiting these countries economically. Some North Americans get rich on the backs of our South American neighbours. A start in helping these countries is to recognize them as legitimate cultures with their own values, customs, and traditions. We need to stop being so paternalistic and condescending towards these people and learn about who they are. We also have to stop chasing the "American Dream" and start thinking about others, whether it is our neighbour, the student sitting beside us or the poor girl or boy in Venezuela. We need to share what we have and share what we know. In other words; "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day, teach him to fish, feed him for a lifetime".

Dear **Rigoberta Menchú;**

I wish to congradulate you on your winning the nobel peace prize as this is a big achivement and a great honor. I think that you are a very inspiring person for you have endured many personal tragedies and hardships but you continued on with your cause when many would have probably just given up. When I read your story, it made me realize how lucky I am to live in a country where freedom is taken for granted. Even with having certain privileges; it is sometimes easy to get discouraged. It would mean a lot to me if you could drop me a line and give me and my friends some advice on how to keep going when life gets you down, and how to stand up for what we believe in. Again, congragulations.

Yours truly:

Peter

jouranl 2

Similarities between Latvia and Canada are that both are member of tNato; both are economcialy well off and industralized; both countries have prime ministers.Both are northern countriesthat have high standards of living.

Differences between Lativa and Canada are that the national language of each country is different. Lativa is much older in terms of Euopean settlement. A great deal of unrest and upheaval in Lativa. Lativa has been mostly under foreign domination.

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Inequality is defined as a lack of equality, denial of the basic human rights. A situation in which a person or a group of persons is mistreated for reasons for which they might not have control. Three events from the reading Riga During The Holocaust are:

1.) The German mobile killing units together with Latvian auxillaries shot several thousand Jews shortly after the German forces enetered the city.

.2.) In mid August, the Germans ordered the establishment of a ghetto in the southeastern area of the city, this ghetto was sealed in October 1941, imprisoinng some 30,000 Jews.

3.) Several hundred Jews in the Riga ghetto organized resistance acrtivities against the Germans. Small roups sought to escape from the ghetto and join partisans in the surrounding forests. In October 1942, german police discovered a small band of members of the Jewssh underground outside the ghetto. In reprisal for parisan activities, the Germans seized and killed more than 100 people from the ghetto and executed almost all Jewish policemen on suspicion of participating in resistance activities.

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I think that Australia is a a cool place.because of the strange animals that live there such as the kangaroos and the kaola bears. The first people to live in Ausralia were the aboriginals. During the first cebtury of white settlement, there were declines in the Aboriginal population resulting from the introduction of foreign disease; social and cultural disruptions, brutua mistreatment; and reprosalss for acts of organizeed resistance.By the 1920's, the Aboriginal population had declined and until the 1960's the Aboriginal population was mainly rural. Over the next few decades the indigenous people began moving in greater numbers to the urban areas, wher they were sopurned, discriminated aganist and mistreated. When the indigenous people finally organized and found a united voice, they began to demand greater political rights.A passage of a 1967 referendum granted the giovernment power to legislate for indigenous people and to include then in a census count. After years of discrimination against the aboriginals, there has been some improvement shown. Every region of the country is representeed by its own Aboriginal land council, and most regions run cultural centres and festivals.. Aboriginality is now widely expressed in art, popular music, law, literature and sport. In terms of socail and economic disadvantage, unemployment, family ioncome levels, welfare dependanceinfabt mortality rates and average life expectancy.It never snows in this country. Dt one time Australia was considered to be a penal colony.

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Woodstock is a town of five thousand people located along the St. John River, which runs from northwestern New Brunswick town to Southeastern New Brunswick and empties into the Bay of Fundy. In terms of European Settlement, it was settled around 1783 by British subjects who had fled the American Revolution and remained loyal to Great Britain. The original people of the area were aboriginal people who are known as Maliseet. They still live in small communities along the river. Woodstock is on the main highway between Upper Canada and the Maritime Provinces; Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. It is only about ten miles from the Canada / United States border. The main industry is potato farming and there is a big factory about twenty four miles west of here at Florenceville. The factory is owned by McCains, which is the biggest french fry producer in the world. We have a small community college here which teaches subjects such as carpentry, broadcasting, office procedures and landscaping. We have a high school, radio station, mall and a lot of stores and restaurants. We are only sixty miles from the provinicial capital of Fredericton, and a ten hour drive from the national capital of Ottawa. We have four distinct seasons. You can garden in the summer and snowhoe in the winter. In the spring, many people go out in canoes, or walk along the banks of the river, and harvest fiddleheads, which are a fern which is tender and good to eat when it first comes from the ground. There is bass fishing along the Meduxnekeag River, which flows into the Saint John River at Woodstock, and trout fishing along the small streams. We have a week long festival in the middle of the summer called Old Home Week. During that week, there is a parade and an exhibition and fireworks. We have easy access to various radio and television stations and the internet and we have a library where we can access different books. All in all, it is not a bad place to live.

Response Before doing anything, we would need more information. THe article is rather poorly worded. I can only presume that whoever wrote it has difficulty with written, and perhaps, spoken English. I don't mean this as a criticism but as a fact. From what I could get from the article, several Somali youths were attacked by racist skinheads in Russia, or Giga, in Eastern Europe. I am aware that there are has been a lot of backlash against new immigrants in many European countries. My opening comments point to a potential problem in dealing with such situations, namely communication difficulties. If there are Somali immigrants living in Russia then they need, as spokespersons, people who are fluent in Somali and Russian and can go through the red tape and beuracracy and can speak for them. There is probably little that can be done in the short term to address this incident as the assailants are probably unknown to the unfortunate victims and in all liklihood live in a densely populated urban area where they can disappear easily into the gang infested underground. What is important, and attainable, is to prepare for the future. It is important to begin dialogue between the local Somali community and the established community. Quite often people are mistrustful, resentful and suspicious of each other simply because they don't understand each other. In the unknown community referred to here, I have no idea how receptive or open the local community is to newcomers. It may be a case of a very racist community or a narrow racist fringe with a police force who simply don't have anyone on staff who can act as a go between with the immigrant community. Integrating various religions, cultures and races requires a lot of work and a lot of commitment by people on all sides. A start would be to have people on both sides of the issue come together and begin meaningful dialogue. Secondly would be for the Somali community to identify immediate threats in the community such as racist gangs. If the larger community is unwilling to intercede for them, then they need to work together to avoid such dangers. Someone from the Somali community, perhaps an elder or a lawyer, someone with a good grasp of Russian, should meet with the local police to act as a liason. Hopefully, there are people from the local Russian community who are willing to do the same; however, I don't know enough about the local Russian community to speculate what, if anything, they would be prepared to do. The bottom line is, something needs to be done because these situations rarely get better before they get a whole lot worse.

zero tolerance policy

i think it was a little much he was supened since he was a little kid and all it was a squirt gun and coild be violent as it was just a jike he should have got it confistcated till the end of the year but not should have been suspened.the boy know what he did was wring and should have gotten like a 3 day detention but should nto have been suspened maybe a warning but in today society i could see how htere was over reaction in this water gun incident