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Teenage Pregnancy

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Getting pregnant as o teen happen when a girl under 20 have a baby. It's s a giant leap into a grownup land. and its not always happy stories. It's about missed school work or even miss project maybe quitting school and facing stuff most teen aren't ready for. Sometimes because of the pressure of having a baby at a very young age a lot of girls deciding to quit school and just be at their home to avoid judgment from society. A lot of teenagers don't know enough about sex and babies and things happen without realizing the big responsibility that comes with it. Sometimes life is tough with troubles at home or or no one to lean on and a relationship might seem like the answer even if it's not quite right. Being teen parent is like juggling a million balls at once. They have to be a grown up raising a tiny human while still trying to figure out their own lives. School works gets harder jobs can be tough to find relationship can get complicated but this isn't dead e...

Riverside Poverty

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Poverty persists around the world. Many families in urban areas live in inadequate housing due to poverty, high prices, and the inability to afford rent or ownership. As depicted in Amparo Asuncion's poem "Sad Little Houses," some people are forced to build makeshift shelters in crowded, polluted areas like riverbanks, even though it's dangerous and unhealthy. These individuals, often disregarded by authorities as "squatters," often have no jobs and resort to informal means for survival. The poem describes the homes' poor condition, with holes in roofs and cracks in walls, reflecting the difficulty of building proper shelters with limited resources. People use recycled materials to construct these dwellings, which are often located in polluted environments like the "dark muddy river" mentioned in the poem. Living in such cramped and unsanitary conditions poses significant health risks. The poem's final lines, "smothered with dust and t...