.... grades during the week, but on the weekends they let loose and go on a drinking binge. Some of them make the grades and continue on with their education while at the same time continuing their drinking habit almost religiously. The people that go to college and drink heavily for the first time or mix drugs with large amounts of alcohol are the ones that are effected the most by binge drinking. There have been more and more deaths related to binge drinking every year and the numbers are still climbing. When I said that binge drinking effected the student who had too mu .....

.... get in any trouble, nothing will happen to them. They’re our friends.” This displays the act of being indestructible. They all seriously thought nothing was going to happen to them. Maybe nothing will, but still they believe that there isn’t even the chance even though it happened before. Drawing on my adolescence, I can remember thinking like that also. The second example relates to the latter. I mentioned that all the other kids were going to the party and drinking and the other eight teens were going to hang out at the house, watch movies and have fun. They all made s .....

.... awareness on both sides we can alleviate the social tensions. Introduction There is a school in Vancouver which is offering a four year immersion programme to its students. That in itself is not highly unusual in our bilingual nation, what is unusual is that the language of choice for the immersion programme is not French, it is Mandarin. The programme was voted in by parents who believed the Mandarin language to be more important to their children's futures in Vancouver than French. This situation shows quite effectively the transition which is taking place in Canada's th .....

.... be affected by the changes that occur at puberty. For example, changes in adolescents' bodies bring curiosity about sex and sexual urges. Curiosity combined with ignorance about consequences can lead to careless experimentation and unsafe sexual practices that can result in early unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and inappropriate and aggressive sexual behaviour. Curiosity and the need that many young people feel to test boundaries and limits can also lead to risk-taking behaviours in the form of dangerous driving, experimentation with drugs and alcohol, or .....

.... and do whatever you feel like if you don't conform to society's expectations. You may not be as popular as a conformist, but you will probably earn more respect for standing out. Non-conformists could actually have more time and money on their hands for themselves because they don't need to spend time or money on things that will help them fit in. I agree with Ralph Waldo Emerson's idea, "Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist," because man is free to do whatever he wishes--we're not robots that are programmed to imitate. In other words, we have our own individ .....

.... to the time of the empire, plebeians, who fought in many wars to help Rome gain power, demanded more rights. The government slowly began to change to appeal to plebeians who out-numbered everyone else in population. Around 494 B.C., an Assembly of Centuries and an Assembly of Tribes rly of Centuries and an Assembly of Tribes replaced the popular assembly. The Assembly of Centuries represented the Roman Army and all the classes that were included in it and they elected the consuls. The Assembly of Tribes was made up of ten elected plebeians and spoke for the plebeians inte .....

.... counties are designing their own programs for the poor picking and choosing from approaches they hope will get results. Many of the new approaches require subjective judgments. A human being has to decide when individual recipients are ready for work and should be cut off from assistance. Those responsibilities are falling to welfare caseworkers, who in the past did little more than hand over checks. The old system was often criticized for granting benefits to people who didn’t deserve them and should be working. The new system creates the distinct possibility that people .....

.... the castle of a lord or govenor. This is where the training for knighthood began. As a page, the boy would be tutored in Latin and French, but he devoted most of his time to physical exersice, and duties. A page was educated in wrestling, tilting with spears, and military exercises that were done on horseback. He was also taught dancing and playing of musical instruments in their leisure time. As a page, a boy was taught how to carve and serve food as a waiter, and other services around the castle. It was his duty to help the master of the castle in anyway needed. These t .....