...Child homelessness is on the rise in America. ¬This must be corrected before more children become homeless. In 2013 Alabama ranked #50 for having the most homeless children in the United States, Arizona is number 45 (Sco). Children who are homeless are more likely to be victims of poverty, domestic violence, and affordable housing. Right now in America, NBC reported that in 2014 one in 30 American children are homeless (Martha C. White). Why are so many children homeless this day and age? How would it feel it have a homeless son or daughter? Homeless children are often victims of poverty, domestic violence, or affordable housing. This is why so many of them are homeless. Homeless people have something in common whether you are young or old, its substance abuse (Zeisemer). Youth and teens ages 12-21 often find themselves lost with nowhere to go. Some of these teens often resort to the use of drugs and alcohol (Ringwalt.) Drugs and alcohol for these kids help cope with what they are experiencing. With the use of drugs and alcohol this leads to the children killing themselves because they overdose or become addicted. Drugs and alcohol are a factor to homelessness, because of this child homelessness is on the rise....
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...Homelessness Homeless people are seen on the streets very often, especially in big cities. It is seen so often that people do not really take a minute to think about it. Is homelessness really a big issue in America? It does not affect the lives of fortunate people, so it does not matter to them, but the issue is bigger than what it seems. Imagine not having food, shelter, or new clothes to change into every day. What about sitting on the streets all day begging for money or even a bite of food, but instead people walk by not even paying attention? Does not sound found, does it? Well imagine that, but instead it was a child. A child who no longer has a home, family who can afford to take care of them, or any way of getting help. People do...
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...Although when people think of child mortality they usually think of Africa or other 3rd world countries but America as a whole has its flaws too. In South America some countries are not completely turned to cities & suburban region, even the relatively better off part of the nation is lacking in the medical field. If my mom had stayed in Argentina I would probably be dead from a doctor’s false diagnoses, but North America also has its flaws, American doctors make mistakes as well & young parents often don’t know how to take care of their newborns. (B., 2000) Child Mortality is one of the many fields of study for anthropologists as well as the UNICEF which funds projects to help educate the people of Africa about ways of dealing with the diseases...
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...BUSINESS LAW I APPLIED RESEARCH Child Labor Laws Shane T. Martin Doctor Aaron Bazzoli Park University Internet Campus A course paper presented to the School of Arts and Sciences and Distance Learning In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Baccalaureate Business Law I Park University December 2012 Outline - Introduction - Early America o Placed children were employed o Agricultural jobs o Lack of safety standards o Lost educational opportunities - Opposition o 1900 Census report opened America’s eyes o National Consumers League started campaigning for children’s rights o National Child Labor Committee formed in 1904 - Laws Regarding o Problem too pervasive to “law down” o Federal regulation needed to prevent employers from taking business across state lines o Beveridge and Parsons introduce legislation in 1906 ▪ Debated but not put into law o Many tries by Congress but no laws that stuck o Roosevelt elected ▪ National Industrial Recovery Act passed in 1933. • Banned industrial homework and eliminated child labor • Ruled unconstitutional in 1935 ▪ Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 • Ruled unconstituational ▪ Walsh-Healey Act required government restrict their purchases to companies...
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...Child Hunger in America Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation A) Write a rationale for the presentation in which you do the following: Hunger is a discomfort that emerges as a result of lack of food accompanied by the desire to eat. In the United States, hunger does not take the extreme form as it is experienced in some third world countries. Instances of severe food deprivation are rare in the United States. Clinical symptoms of food deprivation are sometimes used to determine if children in a country are faced by hunger. Such symptoms include low weight in relation to body height, low height for age and wasting. Such symptoms characterize children who are starved although in the USA they are rare and when they occur they are limited. The impact of hunger as seen in the United States is usually difficult to be measured. The impacts include; tiredness, irritability, frequent headaches, frequent colds and infections. The clinical objective of measuring hunger is very difficult hence alternative methods have been deployed in both the private and public sector. The alternative measures of measuring hunger are using a person’s self-report of his/her psychological or subjective experience of hunger. Researchers may not agree on any particular definition of hunger. But for the purpose of policy making and measurement hunger is defined as taking in inadequate amount of food resulting from lack of money and resources. It can also be defined as the mental or physical condition...
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...Childhood hunger is an issue that more than 16.2 million children face sometime in their life in the US. This issue affects children in many ways like, weaker immune systems causing kids to become sick, weaker brains causing kids to poorly perform in school, and lower self-esteem. Malnutrition is one of the most common ways kids get sick and/or get life threatening diseases. Just imagine going through a twenty four hour period and only being able to eat one meal. How would you feel after just one day? There are kids in the US that experience this problem everyday of their lives. With malnutrition, these kids tend to develop a weaker immune system, which cause them to be more prone to sicknesses and/or diseases in the future. By just having enough food to eat, we as a nation, can help many kids cure their sicknesses or diseases. Malnutrition also causes kids to have a weaker brain. Many kids who experience malnutrition tend to often perform poorly in school. This is caused by the lack of nutrition these kids have. Without the vital nutrition required, these kids will not be able to focus one hundred percent and continue to struggle in class. Childhood hunger often causes kids to have a lower self-esteem. The kids often feel like they are not like the rest of their friends who can eat at places like restaurants, so they often want to isolate themselves or not want anyone to know how they live and survive. Childhood hunger is an issue many kids across the US face today. Nearly...
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...Child Labor International human rights laws are supposed to protect individuals from the acts of governments that violate their civil, political, or human rights. The International Labor Organization objectives are to bring together government, industry, and labor groups, with a focus on developing countries, to help promote the rights of workers, create decent and beneficial employment opportunities, eliminate child labor, and help foster ideas and the means for the economic and social protection of the poor, the elderly, the unemployable, women, and children. More than 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are growing. The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. Child labor is not an easy issue to resolve; while it seems like it would be an easy thing to just withdraw from the firms and factories that employ child labor, but it may do more harm than good. Many of these children are from very poor families and they work to help their families with food and their own educations. The desperate need for income some children seek and find very low paying jobs and in some cases even prostitution. Child labor affects over 250 million children, 30 percent or in Latin America. Poverty is the most...
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...Child sex trafficking is a huge trade in the world, and it is not an exception in United States of America. Survivors of child sex trafficking are few; however, they need treatment that help to get out of this new form of slavery. This review touches problems of survivors and treatment that they need. The method of searching was EBSCO host and selected 11 articles. There, it was found the interdisciplinary treatment for survivors of child sex trafficking. Also, social workers are important agents to help survivors to connect with all services disposables. Human trafficking is considerate as “a basic violation of freedom of person and dignity.” (Bennet-Murphy, 2012, p. 133). For many people, human trafficking is well known as a modern form...
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...Julia Child Julia Child, a revolutionizing chef, changes Americans outlook on food. Also with her honesty and charm acquired many fans throughout her life. Julia has one six Grammys and taught America and others who have seen her shows and read her books so much. She changed Americans to thinking of their food as food, rather than basic fuel to run a body. Julia Child is an important person in America fine cuisine due to her rocky come up, honesty, and determination. First, Julia came from a wealthy background, her father was a wealthy entrepreneur and she inherited much of this money. Although she came from money, her come up in the cooking world was a little rocky. She began with the TV station WGBH, they had no studio and hardly had a budget. Another unfortunate aspect for Child, it was only a temporary, herself, husband, the star, and bundle of devoted friends had to carry up to the demo kitchen various cooking utensils she would need. Then carrying them back down and up again for the next taping. Julia also had to deal with all the other inconveniences that came with working in that area. Such as certain specific amounts of time to...
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...Culture and Identity Immigrants have help shaped both American culture and identity, but many people disagree, what do you think? Many people are mixed in America, they can have a black mom and a white dad, which are two totally different cultures and ultimately combined into one, when they have their child. Also, immigrants have helped shape identity by having many different identities from different countries coming to America. In Richard Rodriguez’s essay “Blaxicans and Other Reinvented Americans” he shows how immigrants shaped American culture by having mixed races, making America having mixed nationalities. For example in the essay Rodriguez states, “One doesn’t walk down the street decide to be 40 percent Mexican and 60 percent white”...
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...History of Minority Population in the Child Welfare System Victoria Chatman BSHS 301 July 2, 2012 Pamela Hardy History of Minority Population in the Child Welfare System The United States has more children living in poverty than any other industrialized nation. It comes as no surprise that out of the 20% of poverty stricken children in America, African American, and Latino children exceed 40%. In fact, children of color are overrepresented in the foster care system and are the least likely to be reunited with their families. This overrepresentation is driven by, racial discrimination, social oppression, negative social conditions, and economic injustice. But this is not to exclude racism within the child welfare system in itself. The child welfare specialists are encouraged to respond with familiarity and compassion to individuals from a wide diversity of cultural backgrounds. “… Social welfare systems do not arise in a vacuum; they stem from the customs, statutes, and practices of the past. Therefore, one cannot understand current efforts to help the needy without first comprehending the foundations on which they were built.” --Walter I. Trattner History of African Americans Social welfare developed from both communal and secluded services in the United States and North America. Most social welfare policy experts take the place before 1932 and the formation of governmentally supported programs. Even the most exclusive services were provided under segregated policies...
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...Assignment 1 “What it’s like to be a Black Girl” VS “Child of the Americas” Joyce Dolford Eng125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: Karen Lawler 10/06/2012 Assignment 2 10/06/2012 “What it’s like to be a Black Girl” VS “Child of the Americas” The literary works that I decided to compare are “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levin Morales (A Latino) and “What it’s like to be a Black Girl” by Patricia Smith. (an African American). They were both born in America, which is an important fact because Blacks and other minorities in the U.S. experienced extreme racism and prejudice compared to their peers into the countries. The poems tell how two young girls, from different beliefs. These poems are important because they deal with racism and discrimination issues which occurred prior to the Civil Rights Era and still exist in today world. Although, each of them experienced discrimination their perceptions its effect and how they coped were very different. These two young girls from different American minority sub-cultures, views themselves in a totally different perspectives. One of the young girls wishes to identify herself with the culture and image of her African American ancestor’s slave owners; however the other wishes to embrace and celebrate her African Latino heritage. Assignment 2 10/06/2012 “What It’s like to Be a Black Girl” VS “Child of the Americas” In the poem “What it’s like to be a Black Girl” I believe in the mind of a young black...
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...08/11/14 In today’s society racism is still a problem just like it was in the past. It is not publicized as before but it is still alive and well in society. With America being a melting pot of race and ethnicity one would think this issue should not exist. I chose the two poems What it’s like to be a black girl by Patricia Smith and Child of the Americas by Aurora Levins Morales. These two poems are written from a women’s perspective about how racial discrimination is perceived in America. Racism is no longer just a black and white my paper will show how these two pieces showed how cultures are subjected to discrimination. The title of these two poems catch my attention one being I am a black girl and two I am a child of America. I too have faced some challenges that are discussed in these poems. In a country that was founded and built on immigrants society makes a big deal about a person’s race and culture. Why does race matter? Does it make you a better person? Does it make you prettier? Sadly our society has placed into the heads of young women that pretty means lighter skin. That being pretty gives you an easier life. The authors of these two poems are African American and Puerto Rican and they have both faced forms of racial discrimination. In America girls were raised that Caucasian was the accepted race. “It’s dropping food coloring in your eyes to make them blue and suffering their burn in silence (Smith)”. A line for What it’s like to...
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...Name Instructor Houston English 205 September 2, 2013 Gay in America In today’s society Gay men and women have to fight for everything, including the right to marry and have a baby. Gays face many challenges which include a job, a loved one, a family; the right to life, liberty and justice, all these rights are given to all but Gay people. I ask you; is this fair; are Gays not people to? Sometimes even before a gay person comes out they get teased, ridiculed, punished, assaulted and you wonder why some people try to hide it. For a Gay person it can be a constant struggle, just to live and be happy. Everything in a gay person life is a challenge, they must fight for everything. A person that is born has no choice on who they are or what sex they find attractive. Being gay is no different then being attracted to the opposite sex. ABC News reports, “Northwestern University psychology professor Michael Bailey has spent years studying human sexuality. He says sexual orientation is something people are born with, and this orientation makes some gay men more feminine” (1). Yet we blame and punish the families of these gay people. We even try to limit Gay people’s rights. Society believes that being gay is wrong and disgusting. Dr. Berggren claims that “It has long been asserted, primarily by various religious and politically conservative groups, that homosexuality is detrimental to the well-being of any society in which it occurs” (1). Being gay cannot...
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...The Industrial Revolution provided America with all that it has today. Before this momentous event, the country was as poor and slow as any other country. Though, that all changed when Britain’s technology was leaked to the rest of the world. America was one of the few countries that could use this information to grow stronger and wealthier than any other country. So the moment America took hold of the new information, the Industrial Revolution began. While some might argue that Industrialization had primarily negative consequences for society because the children had little to no education, it was actually a positive thing for society. Industrialization’s positive effects were faster and cheaper production, the child labor laws, and...
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