Growing Up With Dogs

• Growing Up
• Homelessness

Georges is a boy from the Centrepoint Homeless Shelter who has a story to tell. He had always had a fine life with his mother, except for the days she beat him. One day he has enough of it, so he left, spending several nights on the street in the middle of November in only a t-shirt and jeans. Through all the stress of living with his girlfriend and friends, he started going through a bad depression, and blamed himself...

• Growing Up
• Single Parenting

Loneliness, struggles, and challenges make me think of about a million things that have happened throughout my life. In today’s society, it is very common to be raised by just one parent so the biggest challenge I have had to face is growing up in a single-parent household. I felt terrible, sad, and angry because my parents divorced and I did not show any signs, but it affected me in the Inside. Growing up with single parent was very hard...

• Growing Up

From birth to death, there are bound to be some ups and downs and this is how life works its ways into everyone. Experiencing pain and happiness is basically almost an everyday routine just like how a child grows from young to old. All of these happen naturally and are unavoidable and this is a gift of nature to us. All of us have to experience different stages of life at certain times like from a kid to a teenager...

• Growing Up

How to grow up. The large bolded title on the top of the page was all Lily could come up with. She sat at her table, the light from the window draping her laptop in oranges and yellows as the sun began to set. Why had she agreed to this? It had seemed simple at the time, writing about her own experiences, about the lack of help she had had when she was growing up herself. But she absolutely detested...

• Catcher in The Rye
• Growing Up

Not everybody is born with the same opportunities that other people are born with. Some people have more opportunities than other people, some are less fortunate than others. At the end of the day it all matters about the heart and how you see different things. Holden is not born with the best opportunities. Holden failed 4 out of 5 classes excluding English, got kicked out of Pency and likes to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes. He is a lonely...

• Growing Up
• To Kill a Mockingbird

A novel in which every scene and detail has its meaning and a single item has symbolism is no other than To Kill A Mockingbird. To Kill A Mockingbird has many themes although one theme, in particular, develops over the course of the novel. In this novel, it focuses on two characters, that being Scout and Jem and their coming of age story. Opening their eyes and seeing the truth behind what they had previously believed, in the small town...

• Foster Care
• Growing Up

The foster system is in place to aid children whose parents or families cannot take care of them, the system creates a nurturing place for children to grow up in temporary placement until they can be reunified with their families or when a permanent home has been found for them. Many children have entered the foster care system due to caregivers being unfit to care due to addictions, abuse, incarceration or death; at such young ages, children do not understand...

• Growing Up

According to Carol Geddes article, “Growing up Native”, there were and still are many hardships faced by the Natives in Canada. In this intriguing first person account by Geddes, she talks about the racial profiling and racism endured by the Natives through their life in school and throughout their battle in life to find equality. Carol describes her time growing up in the Tlingit family, which provides a better reflection of her childhood experiences. In addition to this, she also...

• Growing Up

Kenneth Slessor’s suite of poetry enhances the complexities of the human experience and he invites us to challenge our predetermined consumptions and asks his audience to question what it means to human. Slessor’s dichotomous poem, ‘William Street’ is a clear representation of the experiences of living in an urban metropolis whilst observing into a different perspective. Slessor’s ‘Out of Time’ delivers a revolutionary understanding of time passing by unnoticed, further assuring the audience is reconsidering the true power of time....