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My article was about a twelve year old boy who robbed a convenient store with a toy gun. He went into the store and pointed a long wooden barreled gun at the clerk and demanded money. After the clerk handed over an amount of money, the boy said thank you and left. After he left, police saw him walking down the street and pulled him over. The boy tried to run before he was caught.

I think that this article is kind of an oddity because the fact that a twelve year old boy robbed a store with a fake gun is kind of weird. I think that this will affect a lot of convenient store owners because they could lose a lot of money by being robbed. I think it will also affect parents because they might buy less fake guns knowing that their kid could get in a lot of trouble with them. I think this is an important article because it gets awareness out, and it kind of makes people laugh when they find out that a store was robbed by a twelve year old boy with a fake gun.

I think that people need to be aware more often. I think that a lot of kids have fake funs that can look really realistic and if you're being robbed you wont take the time to notice if it's fake or real. I think that parents should be more aware of what their children are doing so that things like this can happen less often.

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The article I read was about the YES Prep North Carolina School. This is a college prep school for middle schoolers and high schoolers who mostly come from underprivelaged families. Since 2001, they have had a 100% college acceptance rate. Ninety percent of the students that enroll in the school are the first people in their family to enroll in college. The college works a lot on preparing the students for the SATs, working on college applications and service work. Each summer and spring break, they go on vacations to college visits or to do service work.

This article covers magnitude because a lot of people are thinking about applying to colleges. Also a lot of high schooler's parents have never been to college so this story can give them hope that they can do it. The author talks a lot about how this school is changing so many lives in a positive way and I think the author is trying to reach high schoolers to motivate them. It will affect high schoolers and middle schoolers or anyone thinking of attending college. It also will affect parents that didn't go to college because now they know that their kids can go to college. It will affect me because I am starting to look at colleges and fill out applications. This is an important article because a lot of people whose parent's or grandparent's didn't go to college don't think that they can, but this school gives them hope that they can have the career that they want.

I think that what this school is very good. It sets people on a good road so that they can have a very succesful life. I also like that they combine service work into the curriculum because that is a very important part of life. If they learn to do service work now, before college, then after college, they will give back to their community even more. I think that in the next couple years, more schools like this will pop up all over the country.