...the modern drinking age, but the age was not the same in all of the states. The states government had the freedom of being able to assign what they felt were a good age for people to start the consumption of alcohol. Most of the states chose the age of twenty-one, but several states allowed the purchase of beer to be at eighteen. "The political failure of general Prohibition meant that American adults would increasingly focus justifications for alcohol policy less on the perils of drunkenness and more on the tenuous concept that adults can drink properly but youths cannot or should not" (Males 190). This lead to much discussion over the drinking age and the debate will go on for years to come. Throughout this debate, it lead to the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, which lowered the United States drinking age to eighteen. After this act was passed there was much controversy and soon after the drinking age would go back to twenty one. The states had to follow this statement "All States to raise their minimum drinking age to 21 within 2 years or lose a portion of their Federal-aid highway funds; and encourage States, through incentive grants programs, to pass mandatory sentencing laws to combat drunk driving." (Senate Record...
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...DEFINITION OF TERMS SECTION 1. Short Title and Scope. – This Act shall be known as the “Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006.” It shall cover the different stages involving children at risk and children in conflict with the law from prevention to rehabilitation and reintegration. SEC. 2. Declaration of State Policy. – The following State policies shall be observed at all times: a. The State recognizes the vital role of children and youth in nation building and shall promote and protect their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual and social well-being. It shall inculcate in the youth patriotism and nationalism, and encourage their involvement in public and civic affairs. b. The State shall protect the best interests of the child through measures that will ensure the observance of international standards of child protection, especially those to which the Philippines is a party. Proceedings before any authority shall be conducted in the best interest of the child and in a manner which allows the child to participate and to express himself/herself freely. The Participation of children in the program and policy formulation and implementation related to juvenile justice and welfare shall be ensured by the concerned government agency. c. The State likewise recognizes the right of children to assistance, including proper care and nutrition, and special protection from all forms of neglect, abuse, cruelty and exploitation, and...
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...atypical autism. Most people that are diagnosed with PDD-NOS usually have fewer and much milder symptoms then the others. People that are diagnosed with PDD-NOS may only have challenges in social and communication areas. Although there are different types of autism, they all require the same attention to the signs and symptoms of them. Autism is usually detected in early childhood. It will appear in the first three years of life. Often the child will seem to be normal and then regress. Some parents have described it as their child use to talk and then all of a sudden they just stopped talking. There are also some parents that suspected something was not right for a long time and it didn’t become more obvious until around the fifteen to eighteen month stages. Not one child with autism is the same. It affects children and adults in...
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...large effect on children, in both the classroom and there daily life. Few studies have been developed to focus on how multitasking affects children as they get older. The sources also relate specifically about how multitasking affects children in school and there daily lives. By multitasking while studying your brain functions different then if you were only focusing on one thing. There is a strong lack of knowledge learned when doing this. Also studies have show that many children find less time to interact with their parents because of the large amounts of time multitasking have found. Because of today’s popular culture kids are trying to multitask to much and its affecting them in school and in there family life. Doing very simple tasks such as ironing some clothes and listening to a radio is as simple as multitasking can get. But when children use there electronics to become multitaskers it’s a completely different story. They become so fixated on what they were supposed to do, that they have to double the amount of time just to finish what they started. Doing homework while instant messaging, listening to music, and watching television becomes more of a concern for parents everyday. Family life is becoming a concern for children and how they act around there family member. A specific study by Anthropologist Elinor Orch, director of UCLA’s center on everyday lives of families. Because of the large scale of multitasking with children in there homes,...
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...treatment facility for children founded in 1986. The owner Patrick Lawler, combined two residential campuses at that time to create one Youth Villages. The company's main goal then and now is to build strong families. Over the past 30 years the company has grown tremendously and is nationally known for its great work. While it is known for its residential treatment, Youth Villages encompasses many areas. Youth Villages is made up of five residential campuses in Memphis, TN and one residential campus in Linden, TN. There are two residential campuses in Georgia and one residential campus in Massachusetts. Youth Villages also has two wonderful intense in home treatment programs using multi systemic therapy. The company has an adoption and foster care program that began in 1999. The company also has implemented a Specialized Crisis Services in 2003 with trained counselors that are available 24 hours a day. They implemented a mentoring program and MYPAC (Mississippi Youth Programs Around the Clock). Finally, there is YVLifeSet, a transition to adulthood program. Patrick Lawler and Youth Villages has served more than 23,000 families across thirteen states. U.S. News & World Report recognized Lawler as one of "America's Best Leaders" by U.S. News & World Report in conjunction with the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Youth Villages only objective is to help our nation's most vulnerable and troubled children. A2. Leadership...
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...Youth At-Risk: Preventing Student Dropouts and Facilitating Reintegration A State of Israel Experience Full Paper Melfi M. Caranto. Technological Institute of the Philippines, Manila Overview of Israel’s Educational System The wellbeing of the youth is being taken as a serious national issue in Israel and they have done concrete actions about it. First of all, Israel has a very good educational structure and system. Education is free and compulsory from 1st to 12th grade. There is no private school in Israel because almost all of the school is supported by the state. It is very interesting to note that there is no student who repeats a term because of difficulty coping with lessons. They have a good team who are composed of a school counsellor, a home room teacher and a subject teacher who ensures that a student is getting the attention and the help that he/she needs to finish the term or the school grade where they belong. The Baggrut or the Matriculation examination is a very systematic way of assessing a student’s readiness to land on a decent job or go to college after serving the army. It is a must for all students to enter the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). After finishing the 12th grade (senior high school) boys have to serve in the army for three years while the girls should serve for two years. Educational System In Israel |Age Bracket |Educational Level | |3-5 |Pre-Primary Education...
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...need to be adjusted. My name is Carrie Nichole Kelley. I was born on February 24, 1986, in Quincy, Illinois, to Shirley Kelley-Miller and David Kelley. I was the only child until the age of four when my brother, Cory, came along in January 1990. Shortly after Cory was born my parents separated and eventually divorced. We ended up moving in with my grandparents so my mother could have help caring for us. I can’t say I remember a lot of my childhood, but from watching home videos that my grandparents kept, I was a happy little girl. I was really into baby dolls and Barbie’s and following Grandpa around everywhere he went. Grandpa was my role-model. I looked up to everything he said and did. I don’t recall my father, David, really being a part of my life. Grandpa was more of my father-figure; attending all school functions, extra-curricular activities, and taking me anywhere and everywhere I wanted to go. There was never a time Grandpa was not there for me. About a year after moving in with my grandparents, my mother bought a mobile home and moved our little family of three. It was a perfect neighborhood, with other kids my age and from the same school. I had instant friends at my new home. I was about seven years old when my mother married Dana Miller. At the time, Dana had no children and completely accepted my brother and me as a package deal. About a year after their marriage my half-sister, Danielle, was born in June 1993. And then in September 1994, my...
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...The story behind every piece from the war is treasured until its time being. Survivors of the war come to share their story to the public; they are also what makes Pearl Harbor a remarkable event. Richard Fiske, a Pearl Harbor survivor of the USS West Virginia, tells his experience about how he saw the Japanese launched five torpedoes that hit USS Oklahoma and USS Arizona blow up. After the attack, he became an assistant platoon leader and years later, he would visit the memorial every month to say his sorrows to his friends who died (National Park Service, 20). Thomas E. Unger, a Honolulu civilian, was eighteen years old when the war started. He helped nine dead airmen to Tripler Army Hospital. Weeks after the event happened, Thomas joined the army at Fort Shafter and learned that one of the Austrian Prisoners the designed USS Arizona Memorial (National Park Service, 23). More survivors of the war intake their experience as a way to show empathy and let the audience know what occurred during that time. One of the reasons why the number of visitors increased annually...
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...having done so much for her boy children whom she loves dearly, my mother still questions where she went wrong in the upbringing of two of them, which could have led to the unacceptable paths which they have chosen. She was sitting as she usually did, whenever the chance permitted on Saturday mornings; hunched over the large galvanised wash pan filled with white linen, most of which was our school shirts, blouses and socks. She loved to wash whites, and to this day that trait has remained with her. She cries out from time to time from the excruciating pain which would rush through her hands, and into her fingers. A pain probably resulting from the length of time she spends not only rubbing white clothing after lathering them with blue soap, but the long hours washing for her large family. Perhaps it could have been from years before when she would use the cutlass to chop cane, then have to pile and load them to be sent off to the factory. Maybe the farming and reaping of potatoes and yams, where she would have to pull the weed or doubled grass from between their sprouts.Was it the washing, ironing and cleaning of many homes in order to gain a living in order to pay my exorbitant school fees? I hated these days for being the older of only two daughters, I always had to be part of this predicament. Some Saturdays before sunrise, and until late evening after the sun had set, we would be labouring over laundry. Although poor, she ensured that her children were always sent to school spick...
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...GROUP ASSIGNMENT -1 Total Marks: 10 Read the following case study thoroughly and answer the questions given at the end. (Consult course syllabus for writing guidelines. Total length should not exceed five pages) C A S E 22 Submission Deadline: 16-02-2015 Wal-Mart: But We Do Give Them a 10 Percent Employee Discount "l I Tal-Mart began as a simple dream by its founder, Sam Walton: to provide low l' l' prices for customers every day. That philosophy has taken Wal-Mart in fortyfour years from one five-and-ten store in Bentonville, Arkansas, to the largest retailer in the world with estimated annual sales of close to $300 billion. In 2005 it was the largest company in the world based on revenue and slipped to number two in 2006 when Exxon/Mobil took over the number one position. Wal-Mart has more than 1.5 million employees worldwide, including 1.3 million in the United States, and generates more than 2 percent of the gross national product in the United States. On December 19, 2005, the results of a Pew Research survey showed that 81 percent of the 1,502 people who responded to the survey considered Wal-Mart a good place to shop. In addition, 69 percent of the respondents stated that they had a favorable opinion of Wal-Mart. However, 31 percent of the respondents stated that they had an unfavorable image of Wal-Mart. Furthermore, 68 percent of the respondents believed that having a Wal-Mart store in their area was good for the community, and 64 percent...
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...Calumet Country Club Dana Chianelli, Steven Carrabotta Semester Project Hospitality Management 310-01 Dr. Joyce Hunter May 1, 2015 Table of Contents Dana Chianelli – Introduction/General Information/History, Target Market, Mission Statement, CEO, Loyalty Programs, Key Departments, Social Responsibilities, Latest Promotional Ad, Advertising, Future Recommendations: Pages 3 through 7. Steven Carrabotta – Additional Information on Country Clubs and their history, Local Competitors, Conclusion: Pages 8 through 12 The Calumet Country Club has been around for quite some time. The Country Club was established in 1901. Calumet Country Club’s 18-hole golf course was designed by Donald Ross. Donald James Ross was born November 23, 1948 and he was an influential golf course designer. He was born in Scotland, but became a citizen of and spent most of his adult life in the United States. He was involved in designing or renovating around 400 different courses all within a 48 year span of time. He laid the foundation for America’s golf industry. Ross often created holes with invited run-up shots but had severe trouble at the back of the green, typically in the form of fall away slopes. He was admitted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1977, a high honor rarely awarded for anything other than playing success. There is also a society named after him, The Donald Ross Society. The golf courses designed by Ross are works of art and are preservations. Calumet Country Club, which was...
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...INCLUSIVE EDUCATION: CHALENGES AND PROSPECT IN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE ABSTRACT Inclusive education is process of strengthening the capacity of the education system to reach out to all learners, irrespective of their abilities, disabilities, ethnicity, gender and age, and receives quality education. The purpose of the study is to ensure that all children gain access to quality education that will prepare them to contribute to country’s progress. Recommendations to send children with disabilities to mainstream schools were first made in the Sargent Report in 1944 and thereafter the Government of India has created numerous policies around inclusive education since the country’s independence. Despite the promotion of inclusive education, Govt. has focus on inclusive education as being about inclusion in the education system, but not specifically in the mainstream. We have adopted qualitative approach and secondary information on the status of inclusive education obtained from government documents, reports and available literature for the study. The review concludes although India’s remarkable progress to provide inclusive education, there is need to bridge the gaps in education system to build a strong system of inclusive education and must continue to improve the lives of its citizens. The study will help us have holistic perspective with respect to dealing with inclusive education. Keywords: inclusive education, legislation, India Introduction: Inclusion is an educational approach...
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...This project was designed to address the housing needs for homeless/abused women and children and to find what funding is best suited for such a non profit endeavor. This research looks at the different aspects of public funding and private funding of non profits. This research draws upon mostly primarily sources such as interviews, books, articles, case studies. Most research was done on the reason that places women and children in the predicaments to put them in transitional housing and a look at “Ruth’s Place.” The goal for starting Ruth’s Place, a transitional home for women and children’s non-profit organization is to improving the future of women and children in the City of Philadelphia and Tri-State areas. After meeting with Directors of similar programs established in the City of Philadelphia, the goal of this research is to determine the need for another transitional home and the proper funding to create a program that will be effective in the lives of those we service. What is Transitional Housing? Transitional housing, sometimes called second stage housing, is a residency program that includes support services. Usually provided after crisis or homeless shelter, transitional housing is designed as a bridge to self-sufficiency and permanent housing. Residents usually remain from six months to two years, and are typically required to establish goals to work towards economic stability. Viewed along a continuum of services, transitional housing is placed...
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...less than 30 minutes can really make a difference. The patients that are in Hospice sometimes don’t even show symptoms and act completely normal. Most patients accept that they are going to pass, so they usually do whatever they can before that happens. As soon as the physician let’s the patients know that hospice care is appropriate, they call Odyssey Hospice nurses. Within three hours, 24 hours a day, seven days out of the week, the patient is admitted into the program. At the end of life, what often matters most to a person who is dying is simply taking the time to hold a hand, give support and just be there. We as Odyssey Hospice volunteers would like to improve the quality of life of all individuals who see Hospice as something different then what it actually is. Mission Statement To provide compassionate care to those we serve during the end of life’s journey through our commitment to clinical excellence and uncompromising service. History Odyssey Health Care Inc. first Medicare-certified hospice program was launched in 1996 in Indianapolis, IN. In May 1998, as a vehicle to manage donations from grateful families and friends of our patients, The Odyssey HealthCare Foundation was formed. Odyssey HealthCare, Inc. was then acquired by Gentiva Health Services of Atlanta in...
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...u recently asked me to undertake and enormous task of creating a new court system for the 53rd state of Puerto Rico. I took the outline from three state court systems of New York, Alaska, and Colorado. I divided the State into 4 equal parts to distribute the courts equally. Puerto Rico court system will consist of Town or village courts, Municipal (County) courts which also have sub courts, Appellate Court and the Highest Court in the State the Supreme Court. Robert Owens once said “Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society” “The current Judicial System is directed by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is formed by 7 judges (a chief justice and six associate justices) named by the Governor. The structure of the Judicial System includes a Court of Appeals, Superior Court, a District Court (civil & criminal), and Municipal Court. There are 12 judicial districts. The State of Puerto Rico also has a district court comparable to those of the states of US. Each district court has at least one district judge and can have more than a score of district judges, as well as a clerk, a United States Attorney, a United States Marshall, one or more United States Magistrates, bankruptcy judges, probation officers, court reporters, and their staffs. Each state has a court system that is independent of the Federal Court system. State courts have trial courts at the bottom level (village, town) and appellate courts at the top. Some...
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