...homeless children think about almost every day. There are thousands of children in Orange County who are hungry, homeless and have no future in their education. In this society, the Orange County is one of the richest cities known to America, however no one knows there are unfortunate citizens currently living in the city as well. It is important that the city needs to know what is going on with these poor unfortunate children, and how it is affecting our society and to our future generations. There are homelessness families all over in America, but there are around 28,000 homeless children in Orange County according to the Orange County Department of Education in 2010 to 2011. Roughly there are mothers who are around in their late twenties with two children to support. According to familyhomelessness.org, there are 84% of families experiencing homelessness who are female-headed. Majority of these homeless women did not receive a high school diploma. Also there are 42% of children in homeless families who are under the age of six. Knowing these facts, it should show the society that this is a social issue and it is something that the society should not take lightly. Children living on their own is horrifying experience for them. For every kid out on the street, they cannot find the happiness and hope if they don’t have a chance to live a second chance in life. These homeless kids should not be left out on the streets, but they should have a safe place to live. Homeless children...
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...Some of the possible reasons caseworkers were not aware of the conditions in the Jackson home is maybe since the kids were home schooled nobody really paid attention to the four kids. It fell upon a neighbor’s call when she saw the oldest son digging through the garbage for something to eat, because he was hungry from being undernourished from the Jackson family. From the information provided I think justice was served by firing the nine members of the Division of Youth and Family Services staff. If they had been doing their job it shouldn’t have taken a call from neighbor, the kids should have been long gone from the Jackson home. What touches me the most is the total weight of all four children was 136 pounds with the oldest Bruce weighing in at a eye-popping 45 pounds. Justice was served in this case, they were lucky to be informed by the neighbor in time or the children might not have made through their tuff situation. I think the whole situation should have been avoided when the first caseworker came out to the house to check on the children, because we all know that these kids have not been eating for quite some time. It said in the study that the Jackson family said that the adapted kids had an eating disorder maybe the caseworker should have found out for themselves by taking the kids out for a little while and seeing first hand if they wanted something to eat or not. If they didn’t want anything to eat then they should have been treated for an eating...
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... Teaching and learning Issues It is clearly documented that when it comes to learning the brain plays the most important role. Yes there are other important factors to consider also but they all lead back to the brain. “The brain has been compared to a telephone switchboard” (Jensen, 2008, pg 2), this just goes to show that every action performed is linked to the brain. If every action has something to do with the brain then it is safe to say that every malfunction also is connected to the brain. This malfunction may be anything from a chemical imbalance to the environment that we live in. Considering that there are so many factors that play a role in how our brain works numerous studies have been done to try to provide a balance to enable learning to take place. From these studies strategies can be put in place to aid or assist those with issues that would prevent or not enable them to be successful learners. Two groups that I will try to cover are those that come from a background of poverty, homelessness, hunger and those with autism/ADHD. The grade level that I will focus on is K-5. Reason is to me this is the best time to stat helping by using strategies and teaching coping skills. Poverty, Homelessness and Hunger Sad as it may seem with all the help out there poverty, homelessness and hunger is still a major cause for concern in our society. These three things play a major role when it comes to learning and cognitive development. Poverty is being poor to...
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...changing lifestyles and culture has produced kids who are generally not as healthy as people were just a few decades ago. Widespread obesity has been the extreme result of these changes. I chose this topic because it is one that is close to my heart. I struggled with obesity through most of my childhood, and I constantly look for ways to prevent my children from suffering the same fate. Childhood obesity can cause a wide range of health problem in children. These can be immediate effects such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure, or long-term effects such as heart disease, stroke, or type 2 diabetes (CDC, n.d.). School systems have been said that they are able to combat childhood obesity. However, many children only eat one meal at school. Although many people have opinions on what can be done about this issue, one thing is constant. The combat against childhood obesity must start at home, which is the foundation of the formation of all children. This can be done by teaching children how to increase physical activity and healthy eating. Obesity in America rose 11 percent between 1991 and 2003, especially among African-Americans and young Mexican-Americans (James). Another study was conducted comparing the time period of 1988-1994 and 1999-2000. Between these two periods, the percentage of overweight children had gone up an average of 4.1 percentage points for groups of kids between the ages of two and 19. The most extreme cases were found among Mexican-Americans and...
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...DECEMBER 2014 INTERNATIONAL MARKETING STRATEGY – PRE-ISSUED CASE STUDY & GUIDELINES Important notes for candidates regarding the pre-prepared case study The case study is designed to assess knowledge and understanding of the International Marketing Strategy syllabus in the context of the relevant case study. The examiners will be marking candidates’ scripts on the basis of the questions set. Candidates are advised to pay particular attention to the mark allocation on the examination paper and to plan their time accordingly. Candidates should acquaint themselves thoroughly with the case study and be prepared to follow closely the instructions given to them on the examination day. Candidates are advised not to waste valuable time collecting unnecessary data. The cases are based upon real-life situations and all the information about the chosen organisation is contained within the case study. As the case represents a real-life situation, anomalies may be found in the information you have before you. Therefore, please state any assumptions you make that are reasonable when answering the questions. Remember, you are going to be tested on your overall understanding of the case issues and your ability to answer the questions that are set in the examination. In order to prepare for the examination, candidates will need to carry out a detailed analysis of the case material ahead of the examination. Candidates will have sufficient time during the examination to answer all the questions...
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...millions of kids. Technology has become a part of everyday life for many people. For marketers this was their chance. TVs, tablets, phones were being taken over with digital ads, marketers are becoming more devious by the second, even offering rewards for children to click on their advertisements. Many children press ads for digital rewards, such as money in their video games. “This is not acceptable.” states Christina Cunningham from the article titled. “Marketing to kids gets more savvy with new technologies.” Webkinz is a great example of harmful advertising to children and teens. Webkinz offers furniture and digital rewards for kids and teens when they click on...
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...Adler Case Study 7 Martin felt embarrassed by his ethnic background and his parent’s lack of education. His father had trouble finding work because of discriminatory practices and they did not want to hire him because they distrusted members of his ethnic group. Moreover, because of this their children went to bed hungry. They lack of material things and their physical needs were not even met. In short, Martin was not born rich. At some point, Martin felt that he is alone that neither of his parents really loved him. He was being dislike by his mother after his birth because she realized that she preferred the more privileged life she had lived when she was single. Martin became determined to rise above his early station in life and achieve a more successful and sophisticated life. According to the book of burger, this is to be expected from a weak and helpless child, dependent on larger and stronger adults for survival. The moment children become aware of their relative weakness marks the beginning of a lifelong struggle to overcome their sense of inferiority. Martin’s eagerness to learn and finish his studies with honors increase and the urge of wanting to overcome poor quality of life they were living pushes him to strive more for superiority and to have power. Martin work so hard to obtain good grades to become a lawyer. He earned scholarship because of his intelligence and he excels in academics. He was born poor that made him to strive more to lift up the status of...
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...(2008). This number is already causing dramatic changes in our world, but they are getting worse. There are many factors thrown around as to what causes childhood obesity. The issues at hand may all play a factor in childhood obesity; one of importance would be what the children are taught by their parents. A better understanding of why the youth is so overweight needs to be addressed. This can start at infancy and be enabled through adolescence. “Numerous parental influences shape the eating habits of youth including; the choice of an infant feeding method, the foods they make available and accessible, the amount of time children are left unsupervised and their eating interactions with others in the social context. Several studies suggest that breastfeeding offer small but consistent protective effect against obesity in children” (Rucker, S, A and Kries, R, V 2004). Children are being taught how to eat, when to eat, and what to eat by their guardians. This has been seen time and time again. When your child becomes old enough to eat solid foods, it is by the choice of their parents whether there are vegetables on their plate or fried chicken and French fries. The same goes with schools. They chose to go with a cheaper route of pizza, tacos, macaroni and cheese etc. This is where the decisions on what they choose to eat in the future begin. It is known that an apple does not fall far from the tree. You can look at obese parents and know that their children have a high...
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...O'Bannon, now a car salesman near Las Vegas, found out years after his graduation that an avatar of him was being used in a video game without his consent--or payment. His suit, filed in 2009, was joined by 19 other former college athletes. The judge's August ruling in that case says that starting in 2016, athletes in top football and men's basketball programs may receive a limited share of licensing revenues a minimum of $5,000 per athlete per year, with a cap to be set by the NCAA. The money would be placed in trust funds, which players could access following their college sports careers. For now, the ruling affects no other men's sports and no women's sports. The NCAA says the O'Bannon decision is a huge mistake. Taking away athlete's' amateur status would be the "end of college sports as we know it," says NCAA president Mark Emmert, because it opens the door for paying star salaries The NCAA argues that the big-money sports essentially subsidize sports that don't bring in any profits, like lacrosse and soccer...
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...One of the biggest problems in America is our denial. Denying the fact that one out of seven people can’t afford to fill up one cup of food, even in the home of the all you can eat buffet. We face the tremendous problem, yet so simple to solve, World Hunger. World Hunger is a astronomic problem with our ever-lasting increasing population rate. There is approximately 925 million hungry in the world out of 7 billion currently, but it is soon to be 9 billion people. Not only is it adults suffering from hunger, it is mostly children too. Every 10 seconds, we lose a vulnerable, helpless child to hunger. Due to a study conducted in 2008, we discovered that if a child is not provided with it’s proper nutrients within its first 1,000 days of life,...
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...it is often too hard. But what if I told you it was actually our fault, Society as a whole could be doing more to help the poor. It is society’s responsibility to help those in poverty escape its clutches. In their paper Framing the Poor, Max and Frank discuss the prominence of the pessimistic view towards the poor in recent years. They discuss Ronald Reagan and a strategy of his campaign, where he would talk about Linda Taylor, “The Welfare Queen”. She was a highly skilled con artist, who had 80 fake names and made $150,000 in illicit welfare (Max and Frank). Linda Taylor doesn't make a good name for the poor, many people despised her for cheating the system for her income while others had to actually work. However Taylor is an extreme case, and it is only probable that she had this big of a con. Taylor still became a media sensation, with many people believing that she represented the poor. This lead to a harsh attitude to the poor and the belief that they were lazy and living off welfare...
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...Does this really cure breast cancer? No. This only makes people feel better about themselves. It is an easy way out to not feel guilty. Wearing pink does not help the situation, just like putting a baby in a carseat is not helpful. Yes, some pink shirts are sold and the money goes towards finding a cure, but that is only a tiny percentage. Yes, carseats may decrease the chance of injury or death by a tiny percentage, but the outrage definitely outweighs the hazard in this case. Vehicles are dangerous; plain and simple. If a parent makes the decision to travel in a car with their baby, they are taking a risk. Marketers caught on quickly to this fear just like they did with the fear of breast cancer. Consumers are hungry for an easy problem solver. Companies advertise “the safest” carseats and parents are convinced. When, in reality, carseats do not prevent car accidents. All they do is take some of the fear away. All they do is wear...
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...fast-food industry is a consumer service; two organisations that operate in the fast-food industry are McDonald's and Hungry Jack's. McDonald's was chosen because it is the primary operator in this market and holds the greatest market share. Hungry Jack's was chosen because the product they offer is the most similar to McDonald's. I thought it would be interesting to compare marketing strategies of two organisations that offer a fairly similar product. McDonald's is the market leader both in Australia and throughout the world. Hungry Jack's is positioned more as a market follower. Companies use target marketing to tailor for specific markets. There are three components involved in target marketing: market segmentation, market targeting and market positioning. McDonald's primary target markets are seniors, adults and teenagers however the most heavily targeted segment is children. Hungry Jack's also essentially segment their market using demographic variables. The final step in target marketing is developing a marketing mix. These tools are also known as the four P's and in the case of services, the seven P's. They are product, price, promotion, place, people, process and physical evidence. With the marketing mix of McDonald's compared to Hungry Jack's, the major difference is that McDonald's promote their product using the marketing mix more evenly. Hungry Jack's use many elements of the marketing mix similar to McDonald's, however they are not as heavily promoted and...
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...A wise man by the name of Thomas Jefferson once said, “If we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education”. In this particular case, we are speaking about the use of Marijuana. To some people marijuana is not at all a bad drug to participate in and for the most part they feel that is it cool especially since people think it is used as a medicine but truth be told, marijuana is everything but the right thing to do. Although marijuana is considered an illegal drug that is very harmful to your health, it is the most widely used drug in the United States and the law has become quite weak when it comes to the possession of such drug. Marijuana is a mixture of dried and shredded leaves, stems, and flowers of the cannabis sativa plant. There are also different names for marijuana some of them are pot, herb, weed, Mary Jane, chronic, reefer, ganja, grass, and many more. Marijuana contains a chemical in it called THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinal). There are a lot of other chemicals found in marijuana as well, 400 of them, many of these chemicals can really affect your health rather is long or short term. But THC is the main mind altering substance. Depending on how much THC is in the marijuana determines the strength or potency it contains. The potency of marijuana has been increasing since 1970. In 2007 the estimate of THC in marijuana was 10% stronger...
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...to communicate by speech or bodily gestures when they are born or in their first years of life, therefore it is very important for people to be able to associate the baby’s facial expression to their emotion. When a baby is sad they will make a certain facial expression letting the parents know something is wrong. Same goes if the baby was in pain, hungry, or tired. Because kids and adults are able to speak and communicate both through speech and body language, it might make it seem as if facial expressions were no longer needed to know how someone is feeling, but in research it is still very important. For example, a doctor would be able to tell if his patient is in pain or afraid even if they do not want to let the doctor know something is wrong just by the patient’s facial expression. Social workers understand that facial expression is very important when dealing with kids who have gone to live with new parents. For example, if the child was put in a home where he is being mistreated or maybe the kids’ parents are hurting their child, that child might be afraid to let the social worker know what really is going on. In most cases, that child is afraid to become more hurt or get their...
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