Teen Ink Magazine,
September 2001 :
Opinion Articles
"Shooting" at our Heart Last spring, the halls of my high school became a littlequieter and a little emptier - all because a student threatened to shoot up ourschool. Continue...
Books and Hollywood If the modern movie "Great Expectations" werelike the book, it would be rated G, at most PG. Not R. Jane Eyre was one of thebest books I ever read but one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Continue...
Genetic Engineering Agriculture has come a long way, and now, with the newmillennium, corporate seed companies claim that the only way to feed the world iswith genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Continue...
Part-time Jobs = Unhealthy Teens With the amount of money spent by teens, most parentsexpect them to earn their own cash. Although part-time jobs do develop moneymanagement skills and responsibility in teenagers, they can be dangerous to ateen's health and safety. Continue...
Slavery Today The fact that slavery exists today saddens me, not onlybecause it is the possession of another person, but because it shows humankindhas not changed or matured. Continue...
The Hypocrisies of Juvenile Punishment We see it all too often in the newspapers and on thenews: "Eleven-year-old to be tried as an adult,""Fourteen-year-old sentenced to life in prison without parole,""Seventeen-year-old sentenced to death. Continue...
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