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. . . .
Others choose this life because of the culmination of family disputes, drugs, egotism to be cool, peer pressure, family history of poverty and unemployment, juvenile delinquency, all contribute. A world totally paradoxical to ours, one which is governed by its own set of rules and regulations. This is to make a difference to all those not as fortunate as us. Today, I am going to shed light on a world, a world which is just next door, but yet most are oblivious to. Life seen thru an adolescences blood shot eyes would terrify a square 2 death, the street shades walk with uncertain and misdirected fire. 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. While others are preparing for college I stay busy workin on my street knowledge. I chose this topic, b/c I want to put a face on all those people who are suffering and dying. A position where fear is universal, where innocence becomes hardened. There is more depth to the story of street kids that only few know, but why do so few know? Is it b/c in general we want to ignore and block out the pain and suffering out there, that we can’t bare to hear, see and cope with it when it comes knocking on our doors, 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 that we have not experienced anything, we shelter our selves from the truth, but the truth is out there. t kids are hoop wearing, drop jeaned and fierce. A thug inside and out, this is the only thing I know, this is what I'm about, accept me as I am. Is that what our society has come to ? The problem of shenanigans has become so great that the majority turn away their heads in disgust and don’t want to deal with the problem.
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