Street Kids Speech/Essay
Good morning miss and fellow students. This is just a taste of what it is like on the streets. Today we are going to explore a world where you can't even begin to comprehend the disturbing possibilities of reality. Yes, you guessed it, my talk today is on street kids. Ladies and gentlemen, how many of you, imagine a street kid as being homeless? Interestingly enough a street kid does not necessarily have to be homeless. So what is a street kid?, how does one acquire the term? A street kid is one who roams the streets, is involved in gang activity, is deprived of an education, and is a victim of substance abuse. A street kid is also one who is trapped in a vicious cycle of pain and misery. How many young adults have to deal with these kind of conditions? NSW alone has approximately 30,000 people or more regarded as street kids.
In the streets, drive-by's are going on each and every day, one doesn't know if you're going to have two kids and a wife. The world of streetz.......where you go to bed at night to the sound of gun fire, the reverberations become as common as firecrackers, the next day you discover a mate has died, what can they do? Shed a tear, spill some beer and thank god it wasn't you...this story is also common among street kidz: Not yet a high school grad, but already high school dad, because of some fun I had. While others are preparing for college Today, I am going to shed light on a world, a world which is just next door, but yet most are oblivious to. A world totally paradoxical to ours, one which is governed by its own set of rules and regulations. This is for all the homies out there, to get the sympathy and attention they are so desperately crying out for and so rightly deserve. let alone bare to survive in this world which many do as young as nine years of age... we do not like to hear that there is worse suffering out there than our day to day dilemmas, we think that we live tough lives, but the reality of the matter is t
Some common words found in the essay are:
, street kid, street kids, choose life,
Approximate Word count = 763
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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