'Please, please tell us you're OK': Anguished parents of teacher, 30, who ran away with Megan, 15, plead with them to make contact Jeremy Forrest, 30, a maths teacher and pupil Megan Stammers 15 ran off together on a love journey to France, There have been no sightings of the pair since they left Britain and Megan’s parents have issued an urgent appeal for their daughter to contact them and let them know she is safe and well. Reading the article about the fifteen year old schoolgirl who's run off with her thirty year old teacher, my view on this story is overall negative, I think that what these two have done is wrong, firstly its paedophilia which is not taken lightly in this society as it is seen as a taboo, also the media are portraying him as a sex offender, which may give bad publicity to England as both fled to an EU Country. Overall I find this sickening as the teacher has breached a code of conduct between a student, therefore jeopardising his position as a teacher, both have not done themselves any favours as both will be frowned upon by society.
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from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related
to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing
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“Google’s mission
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Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin met
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Google facts
·Founded
1998
·Founders
Larry PageandSergey Brin
·Incorporation
September 4, 1998
·Initial
public offering (NASDAQ)
August 19, 2004
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Mountain View
CA 94043
Wikipedia:
History -> Google began in January 1996, as a research project by
Larry Page and Sergey Brin -> Both went to Stanford University,
Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub", eventually,
they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol", The domain
name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997.
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