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Intro: How does death affect children?
Thesis: In comparison, my dad's and my own loss of innocences are similar for many different reasons.
Body Paragraph Topic Sentence- My dad's loss of innocence was when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Body Paragraph Information- John F. Kennedy was a Massachusetts Democrat before he became President. He was 43 years old and his wife's name was Jacqueline. His wife was with him when he was killed. He was in Dallas, Texas before the 1964 presidential race.
Body Paragraph Reasoning- These paraphrases are important facts that have to do with John F. Kennedy and they are about him because my dad's loss of innocence was when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
2nd Body Paragraph Topic Sentence- My loss of innocence was when my great-grandfather died.
2nd Body Paragraph Information- The first person was James Foley who worked for the military in Germany back when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He went back to Dallas, where John F. Kennedy was killed, and he started crying. Two kids who were in school when it happened didn't realize the kind of impact that it had, but they do remember seeing their teachers crying when the news that the President came in over the loud speaker.
2nd Body Paragraph Reasoning- These quotes, although they are about when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, have to do with death and the feelings that they were feeling. This fits the paragraph because my loss of innocence was when my great-grandfather died.
3rd Body Paragraph Topic Sentence- Both my dad's loss of innocence and my own had to do with losing an important person in our lives.
3rd Body Paragraph Information- Frances Green from Alabama, who was a high school student said, "A girl came through the halls at school screaming about it when it happened. When my teacher found out about it, she laid her head down and cried."
3rd Body Paragraph Reasoning- These quotes both have to do with my dad's loss of innocence and mine and this paragraph is about how my dad's loss of innocence and mine are similar.
Conclusion Topic Sentence- Losing a trusted role model can change a person's life.
Two other sentences in the Conclusion- My dad's loss of innocence and mine may not have had the same impact on the world but they affected us both in similar ways. The three ways that my dad's loss of innocence and my own were similar in that they involved grief, trust, and death.

Research Paper

My loss of innocence was when my great-grandfather died because it was the first time that anyone in my family died that I can remember. His death didn't come as a shock to me because he was really old but it still made me appreciate life more. I haven't had too many loss of innocence moments so far in my life but I know that as I get older they will increase. My great-grandfather dying showed to me that every life is important and that I'll never be able to talk to him again. That's why this was when I lost my innocence.

Scout's loss of innocence in the novel is when she hears people call Atticus a "nigger lover" and when she sees that people are willing to kill Atticus to make sure that Tom Robinson gets a guilty verdict. At first Scout doesn't know what the phrase "nigger lover" meant but Atticus tells her that it doesn't mean anything. Eventually she learns that "nigger lover" is a bad word for someone who people thinks favors African Americans over whites. When Scout sees that a group of people came to try and kill Atticus at Tom Robinson's jail cell, she sees that people really care if Atticus defends Tom because Tom is African American. This is when Scout loses her innocence because it shows Scout that people discriminate against certain type of people without knowing them, and this will stick with Scout forever.
My loss of innocence was when my great-grandfather died because it was the first time that anyone in my family died that I can remember. His death didn't come as a shock to me because he was really old but it still made me appreciate life more. I haven't had too many loss of innocence moments so far in my life but I know that as I get older they will increase. My great-grandfather dying showed to me that every life is important and that I'll never be able to talk to him again. That's why this was when I lost my innocence.
are similar.

My loss of innocence was when my great-grandfather died. It was the first time that anyone in my family died that I can remember. His death didn't come as a shock to me, because he was really old, but it still made me appreciate life more. My outlook on the world has changed because now I know that anyone's life can be taken away at any given time. You have to treasure the time that you have with people.
The moment that I realized that evil was in the world was when I first heard about the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers in New York City. This was the first time that I thought that evil was in the world because I didn't understand why someone would fly a plane straight into a building and kill people. I realized that not everyone is a good person and that some people are evil and do evil things. Most of the time you should give people second chances, but I couldn't forgive the people that caused the 9/11 attack.
I started to understand causes for actions and appearances when I was probably nine or ten years old because that's when you start to think about things and analyze them harder. When I was younger I wasn't able to see problems and think about reasons behind them. For example, if two people were arguing about who could play baseball better, I assumed that was why they were arguing. But as I got older I realized that they were also arguing about who was better because of their egos and their pride. These two things are beneath the surface things that cause arguments and people's actions. I figured out that if a person looked tired, maybe it wasn't because they didn't get good rest. Maybe it was because they were out all night partying or doing something else that is not beneficial to them.
I began to feel compassion for others when I saw a homeless person when my family and I were walking towards Camden Yards to a Baltimore Orioles game and I saw a homeless man. I felt sorry for him because he didn't have anybody around him and he didn't have nice clothes and didn't look good. This is when I realized that everyone doesn't have a nice family or live a nice life. That's why that's when I started to feel compassion towards others.

LossMy loss of Innocenceinnocence was when my great-grandfather died. It was the first time that anyone in my family died that I can remember. His death didn't come as a shock to me, because he was really old, but it still made me appreciate life more. My outlook on the world has changed because now I know that anyone's life can be taken away at any given time. You have to treasure the time that you have with people.
The moment that I realized that evil was in the world was when I first heard about the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers in New York City. This was the first time that I thought that evil was in the world because I didn't understand why someone would fly a plane straight into a building and kill people. I realized that not everyone is a good person and that some people are evil and do evil things. Most of the time you should give people second chances, but I couldn't forgive the people that caused the 9/11 attack.
I started to understand causes for actions and appearances when I was probably nine or ten years old because that's when you start to think about things and analyze them harder. When I was younger I wasn't able to see problems and think about reasons behind them. For example, if two people were arguing about who could play baseball better, I assumed that was why they were arguing. But as I got older I realized that they were also arguing about who was better because of their egos and their pride. These two things are beneath the surface things that cause arguments and people's actions. I figured out that if a person looked tired, maybe it wasn't because they didn't get good rest. Maybe it was because they were out all night partying or doing something else that is not beneficial to them.
I began to feel compassion for others when I saw a homeless person when my family and I were walking towards Camden Yards to a Baltimore Orioles game and I saw a homeless man. I felt sorry for him because he didn't have anybody around him and he didn't have nice clothes and didn't look good. This is when I realized that everyone doesn't have a nice family or live a nice life. That's why that's when I started to feel compassion towards others.

Loss of Innocence

Jeremy Garling
Mrs. Anderson
Honors English I, Period 3
November 23, 2011
The event that was the loss of innocence for my dad was when the President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Title:"Death of a president: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas 40 years ago this month. For many people, it marked the end of an era."
Authors: Price, Sean, and Ian Zach
This article is contains different facts about John F. Kennedy and the events leading up to his assassination. John F. Kennedy was a Massachusetts Democrat before he became President. He was 43 years old and his wife's name was Jacqueline. His wife was with him when he was killed. He was in Dallas, Texas before the 1964 presidential race. Texas was an important electoral state in the presidential race. These are the important facts that I found from the article.
Citation:
Price, Sean, and Ian Zack. "Death of a president: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas 40 years ago this month. For many people, it marked the end of an era." New York Times Upfront 17 Nov. 2003: 10+. Infotrac Newsstand. Web. 22 Nov. 2011.
Title:"1963: HISTORY AS TRAGEDY."
Author: Meyer, Karl E.
The article had some important facts and a important response about John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was killed in an open limousine and thousands of people came to see him even though he wasn't well known there. Businesses all across the U.S shut down to mourn his death that day. Three major television networks aired coverage for three days in a row about his assassination. Frances Green from Alabama, who was a high school student said, "A girl came through the halls at school screaming about it when it happened. When my teacher found out about it, she laid her head down and cried." This is an example of how stunned and outraged the nation was about it.
Citation: Meyer, Karl E. "1963: HISTORY AS TRAGEDY." New Statesman [1996] 6 Dec. 1999: 39. Infotrac Newsstand. Web. 22 Nov. 2011.
Source website:
http://www.smudailycampus.com/news/dallas-remembers-jfk-assassination-1.2709178#.Ts0R7vJu9FQ
Source website:
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-11-22/us/jfk.anniversary.agents_1_agents-protective-detail-assassination?_s=PM:US
Source website:
http://www.pbs.org/ladybird/epicenter/epicenter_report_assassination.htmlTitle:Dallas remembers JFK assassination
Author: Meghan Sikkel
This article was about different people's experiences on the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The first person was James Foley who worked for the military in Germany back when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He went back to Dallas, where John F. Kennedy was killed, and he started crying. Two kids who were in school when it happened didn't realize the kind of impact that it had, but they do remember seeing their teachers crying when the news that the President came in over the loud speaker. The whole article has to do with people's reactions to the President getting assassinated.
Citation:
Sikkel, Meghan. "Dallas Remembers JFK Assassination - News." Daily Campus - Southern Methodist University. SMU, 20 Nov. 2011. Web. 25 Nov. 2011.
Title: JFK's Secret Service agents reflect on loss of a president
Authors: Dugald McConnell and Brian Todd
This article was about two previous U.S secret service agents that talk about how they felt when the assassination happened. The two service agents were Jerry Blaine and Clint Hill. Clint Hill said that he felt guilty that he didn't make it in time to take the bullet for the president. Jerry Blaine said, "We couldn't help but feel like we failed and it was a terrible feeling." Blaine also said that the president asked the secret service agents not to ride with him in his limousine days before the assassination.
Citation:
McConnell, Dugald, and Brian Todd. "JFK's Secret Service Agents Reflect on Loss of a President - CNN." Featured Articles from CNN. CNN, 22 Nov. 2010. Web. 25 Nov. 2011.
Title: Lady Bird Johnson; John F. Kennedy Assassination
This article was about Mrs. Johnson who was the Vice President's wife and it talked about the events that she was in during the day of the assassination. Mrs. Johnson and her husband were two cars behind the President. Mrs. Johnson had to meet with the First Lady after the President was assassinated in the hospital where he died. She wrote a lot of the events that happened that day in her diary that she had. Mrs. Johnson also wrote about the emotions that she saw others having one example was in her diary she wrote, " Robert Kennedy's face looked grave, white, and sorrowful."
Citation:
"Lady Bird Johnson: The Assassination of President Kennedy." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. PBS. Web. 25 Nov. 2011.

Title:"Death of a president: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas 40 years ago this month. For many people, it marked the end of an era."
Authors: Price, Sean, and Ian Zach
Citation:
Price, Sean, and Ian Zack. "Death of a president: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas 40 years ago this month. For many people, it marked the end of an era." New York Times Upfront 17 Nov. 2003: 10+. Infotrac Newsstand. Web. 22 Nov. 2011.
Title:"1963: HISTORY AS TRAGEDY."
Author: Meyer, Karl E.
Citation: Meyer, Karl E. "1963: HISTORY AS TRAGEDY." New Statesman [1996] 6 Dec. 1999: 39. Infotrac Newsstand. Web. 22 Nov. 2011.
Source website:

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Title:Death of a president: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas 40 years ago this month. For many people, it marked the end of an eraAuthor(s):Sean Price and Ian ZackSource:New York Times Upfront. 136.5 (Nov. 17, 2003): p10. From Infotrac Newsstand.Document Type:Cover story {http://callisto.ggsrv.com/imgsrv/FastFetch/UBER1/0BUE-logo} The New York Times Upfront
Citation:
Price, Sean, and Ian Zack. "Death of a president: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas 40 years ago this month. For many people, it marked the end of an era." New York Times Upfront 17 Nov. 2003: 10+. Infotrac Newsstand. Web. 22 Nov. 2011.
Title:1963: HISTORY AS TRAGEDYKnown As:Kennedy, Jack; JFK; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald; Kennedy, John F.American President (Government) ( 1917 - 1963 )Author(s):Karl E MeyerSource:New Statesman (1996). 128.4465 (Dec. 6, 1999): p39. From Infotrac Newsstand.Document Type:Biography, Brief articleCitation:Citation: Meyer, Karl
Source website:
http://www.smudailycampus.com/news/dallas-remembers-jfk-assassination-1.2709178#.Ts0R7vJu9FQ