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Opinion
By therealdebater BRONZE
Elizabethtown, Kentucky

In prisons all over America, juveniles are fighting for justice. Too often, children are thrown into the adult prison system where they have little chance of survival. Juveniles...
therealdebater BRONZE, Elizabethtown, Kentucky
3 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything is possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time… You try to walk in the light.”


Opinion
By Westiera SILVER
Wasilla, Alaska
Westiera SILVER, Wasilla, Alaska
5 articles 3 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe

purpleiris123 BRONZE, Elizabethtown, Kentucky
2 articles 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not."

Opinion
By Anonymous
Opinion
By taslee BRONZE
West Babylon, New York
taslee BRONZE, West Babylon, New York
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments
taslee BRONZE, West Babylon, New York
4 articles 0 photos 0 comments
Opinion
By talhaak GOLD
Lahore, Other
talhaak GOLD, Lahore, Other
13 articles 0 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” - Maya Angelou

Opinion
By ghor14 BRONZE
Papillion, Nebraska
ghor14 BRONZE, Papillion, Nebraska
1 article 0 photos 0 comments
16HaleyGirdler BRONZE, Cincinnati, Ohio
1 article 0 photos 0 comments

Favorite Quote:
"The feathers don't define the bird"

Opinion
By camblessoup SILVER
Mansfield, Texas
camblessoup SILVER, Mansfield, Texas
7 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;and at once I knew I was not magnificent.&quot;<br /> -Bon Iver