...An At-Risk Youth As a fish that cannot go without swimming, Samantha cannot go without food. At age four, Samantha Stevens weighs fifty-four pounds and is among the obese range for her age and weight (Donvan and Patria). According to the Center of Disease Control and Prevention, about 17% of children from the ages of 2-19 are obese. This has become a hot topic throughout America during the last decade, therefore, the government has been forced to take action and provide hop to society. Two main programs have been seen to be effective, both having a different approach to reducing the obesity rates in America, those are the WIC (Women, Children and Infants) and the We Can! program. By demonstrating the structure of both programs, the benefits provided, and the impact and results on children’s health, this essay will demonstrate that by providing families food as well as empowering them, the obesity rate is most likely to decrease. Women, Infants, and Children (known as WIC) is a Federal Grant program that targets low-income and naturally at-risk families (WIC). WIC provides vouchers for supplemental, nutritious foods, along with counseling and health-related screenings for prevention. “1-4 Low income is a risk factor for poor dietary quality and for low consumption of fruits and vegetables (Herman).“ Low-income people have a lower intake of fruits and vegetables, creating a bigger possibility for them to get sick more often or obtain at-death-risk diseases. In order to receive...
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...Interest Nidhal Abubakar 100896803 2015 2015 There are many issues surrounding the content of Bill C-10. This essay will examine issues that affect the criminal code and provide evidence that the Bill is not progressive for Canada to deal with crime and the judicial process. By looking at the issues such as mandatory minimum sentences and the proposition of the bill we will look at the challenges that will be faced and met. The bill also introduces eliminating conditional sentences and eliminates double credit for time already served as well as introduces changes to the Youth Criminal Justice Act to impose harsher sentences for young offenders. This essay will delve into information that will bring the various issues to light. Firstly an explanation of Bill C-10 will be provided to understand what changes will be made to the Criminal code and who it affects. The dissection of the Bill will open the dialogue for this essay for appropriating topical issues with the concept of progress in a manner that reflects the trouble that this Bill brings to Canadian society. Bill C-10 was introduced by the Minister of Justice on the 20th of September 2011. The Act includes the enactment of the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act and amendments to the State Immunity Act, the Criminal Code, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and other relevant legal documents (parl.gc...
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...Considering the seeds of discouragement when assessing young people. Introduction In order to consider and analyse the seeds of discouragement when assessing young people, this essay will examine and discuss a number of factors that relate to the discouragement felt by young people which can leave them with unmet needs. The first objective of this essay is to describe what can lead to “climates of futility” by examining negative expectations and professional pessimism. The essay will then go on to explain how the response from professionals to problem behaviour can become a contributing factor to a child’s sense of futility, through discussing positive and negative theories of behaviour. The second objective of this essay is to examine the concept of “learned irresponsibility” and to understand how youth cultures are able to contribute to such learned helplessness and rebellion through things like social exclusion and street gangs. Next, nearing the end of this essay I will offer my opinion as to how the child and youth care worker should approach the young person differently during the assessment as to avoid the young person becoming discouraged during the transaction. Before the conclusion I shall offer my self reflection as well as sharing the impact that this topic of “the seeds of discouragement” has had on me. Climates of Futility The climates of futility refers to those environments which may cause young people to experience feelings of deficiencies and that...
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...In Digital Native, Digital Immigrants, Marc Prensky asks, “What should we call these ‘new’ students of today? . . . the most useful designation I have found for them is Digital Natives.” Today’s young people have never lived in a time without Internet access. Prensky created the term digital natives to describe these young people. This term is meant to describe a young generation that is quite familiar with and proficient at using digital media. However, this is not always true. Mary Ann Harlan discusses this problem with calling the younger generation digital natives in her essay Deconstructing Digital Natives. This metaphor conveys a full competency with technology, when many young people lack what Harlan calls digital literacy. She maintains...
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...Simon 1992), prison works in certain circumstances, as it efficiently minimises risks to society by confining individuals of dangerous population for the purpose of social control. However, this risk-focused view of prison’s functionality is limited, as it lacks understanding of the imprisonment of vulnerable groups, since Actuarialism overlooks the cultural factors outside risk-calculations....
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...Communities of Knowledge (Digital essay) Children of today are growing up surrounded by social networking through blogging, instant messaging, and short message services such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter enabling children in which they produce, share, and sometimes exchange ideas over the internet and in virtual communities, it has become a virtual aspect of their lives. These sites have a significant impact on the lives of children. Social networking is transforming the manner in which young people interact with their parents, peers, as well as how they make use of technology. Clearly there are positives with the use of social networking involving a great way to communicate and learn, however unfortunately negative effects on the youth also, a major risk associated with social networking is cyberbullying. Without children having a correct understanding of the inherent dangers that are associated with social networking sites children are at more risk every day. The effects of social networking are twofold.It is inevitable to ignore the fact that nowadays social networking plays an essential role in children’s lives with social networking and other related online communication activities comprised 64 per cent of young people’s total internet time (an average of 49 minutes per day on these activities, (AMCA, 2007). One may ask how spending all that time on the social media sites may have a positive impact on them. Well, social media helps the youth keep up to date with what...
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...AMERICAN ADVERTISING & AMERICAN YOUTH Paige Williams Bachelor of Science in Psychology: Addiction and Recovery: APA Liberty University Abstract American advertising and the influence it has on today’s American youth is oppressing. In this essay I will be pointing out my views and opinion on this matter. In particular I will focus on alcohol ads and the pull it has on our youth. I will also point out how the alcohol ads portray itself to the young community and other audiences as well. The attitudes and behavior of today’s youth seem to be affected by what the world of advertisement is telling them is ok. The American youth is not yet very experienced; I feel the advertising world recognizes this and has a lot to gain from it. I will then go into the attitudes and behaviors of American youth and how advertisement affects them. I will discuss some research and facts from, “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,” on the long term effects of alcohol use, as well as other research facts. (CDC, 2015) Buzzle.com. (2015). [Advertisement].Retrieved from http://www.Buzzle.com AMERICAN ADVERTISING & AMERICAN YOUTH American advertising has a tremendous pull on our youth today. It seems as though every time we turn around we are being exposed to some kind of advertisement. In this essay I will be focusing on alcohol ads and how they are portrayed to our youth today. It is in my opinion that alcohol ads make drinking look fun and harmless. In all reality, the alcohol...
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...Cynthia Arellano in her thesis essay is presenting a diverging view of Latino immigrant youth and the normal “at-risk” perception and she is challenging it through her research. She gained her information from interviews which goes into the specific individuals that deal with her issue of the “at-risk” immigrant Latino community. Her approach is on a personal basis, getting information from individual stories and dealing with their role and expanding them with interviews that dealt with their experience. Cynthia introduces her research of the immigration identify, expanding the roles and issues of perception, and delving into the personal basis. I enjoyed how she divided her work from different areas, like family culture, or extracurricular activities. Her division of topics presented different attributes that deal with immigration and Latinos “at-risk”....
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...[pic] English 112 Final Exam Study Questions “The Hypercriminalization of Black and Latino Male Youth” by Victor M. Rios Summarize the essay. Explain what Rios means by “mass incarceration” (41). Rios declares that his article “is to account for the social effects of mass incarceration and the criminalization of young males of color” (41). Based on the evidence he provides, what are those “social effects”? What does Victor Rios mean when he writes “These young adult deviants do not become on their 18th birthday, rather they are systematically constructed as criminals and face the wrath of the penal state and criminalization as early as 8 years of age” (41). In what ways do you think this statement is true or false? Fully explain your answer. Rios discloses that Black and Latino youth have been labeled “deviant” (41). From his explanations, why are they labeled this way, and how does this label affect them? How do the problems they face in the job sector (Rios 42) account for how young Black and Latino males may view their future outcomes? Identify the reason/reasons that the 28 non-violent offenders were treated in similar ways to Tyrone and Jose: the two violent offenders (Rios 43). Explain what Jonathan Simon means by "crisis of ‘governance’" (43). Explain what Rios means by his statement that “the government had become an abusive step-parent figure” (43). According to him, what are the effects of this “abusive” relationship? What does Rios...
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...SEE HOW WE CAN HELP Outline labelling theory and consider its usefulness in understanding youth crime and anti-social behaviour in Britain today. Outline labelling theory and consider its usefulness in understanding youth crime and anti-social behaviour in Britain today. Labelling theory claims that deviance and conformity results not so much from what people do but from how others respond to those actions, it highlights social responses to crime and deviance Macionis and Plummer, (2005).Deviant behaviour is therefore socially constructed. This essay will describe in full the labelling theory and comment on the importance of the theory to the deviant behaviour of the youth and the anti-social behaviour of the youth in Britain today. The labelling theory becomes dominant in the early 1960s and the late 1970s when it was used as a sociological theory of crime influential in challenging orthodox positivity criminology. The key people to this theory were Becker and Lement.The foundations of this view of deviance are said to have been first established by Lement, (1951) and were subsequently developed by Becker, (1963).As a matter of fact the labelling theory has subsequently become a dominant paradigm in the explanation of devience.The symbolic interaction perspective was extremely active in the early foundations of the labelling theory. The labelling theory is constituted by the assumption that deviant behaviour is to be seen not simply as the violation of a norm but...
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...Editorial Essay June 25, 2013 Plastic Surgery and Young Adults According to a 2010 Plastic Surgery Statistics report, almost 219,000 cosmetic plastic surgery procedures were performed on people age 13-19. There are many reasons why some of today’s youth choose cosmetic surgery but most are greatly affected by peer pressure and self-esteem issues. They think just because someone makes a negative comment about their physical features, it is time for a drastic change. I think it is unwise and immature, mentally unhealthy and sometimes even dangerous for people under the age of 25 to make a decision that can not only alter their looks but their lives. Many young people decide whether they are attractive or unattractive based on what their peers think. If the comments are negative, they are hearing that a unique physical feature is now an extreme abnormality; they believe they are odd and do not fit in. The bigger problem is that a nip today becomes a tuck tomorrow and a bad cycle soon develops that can last a lifetime. If someone can make you go under the knife, what other decisions will you give away? Those people that let others decide who they are and what they should look like are never going to really understand that they need to step up, grow up and make their own decisions in life. Still, those decisions should be appropriate for your age. It is believed that the brain’s decision-making functions have not fully matured before age 25. It can be stressful for some youth to...
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...Introduction: This essay is consisted of Part A and Part B, includes three tasks in total. In Part A it will discuss the feature of a fiduciary relationship and disclosure some duties owned by company directors, such as the duty to act in good faith in the best interests of the company, the duty to avoid conflicts of the interest, the consequences of breaching a duty by directors and some defences for the company’s director. After that, in Part B the article will talk about some issues arise from the duties owned by partners in a partnership. In the following parts this essay will discuss and analyse all the issues above in details. Part A: task 1: According to the fact situation, Simone is a managing director of the Youth Unlimited Pty. Ltd which is a profitable company carry on selling anti-aging products for business. The company is a proprietary company limited by shares and the managing director is also known as a chief executive officer (CEO) of the company. Also, it can be seen in this way, Youth Unlimited gives Simone a particular opportunity to in charge of the day-to-day management of the company, to exercise the power or discretion to the damage of that person, who is accordingly vulnerable to abuse by Simone of her position — the fiduciary relationship. However, CEO of the company will also be in a fiduciary relationship. As a result, Simone can be regarded as fiduciary. The critical feature of a fiduciary relationship is that the fiduciary on behalf of another...
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...English 1023 17 May 2013 Argumentative Research Essay: Teen Drinking Have you ever really considered the consequences of binge drinking regularly while in college or even high school? It may seem harmless and most people only think it is a one night affair. I believe that most people honestly do not know that these decisions can affect them for the rest of their lives. I have seen several of my friends of all different ages make bad decisions in their lives and a lot of can be traced back to decisions involved with the use of alcohol. Going out and binge drinking often can lead to a numerous of bad decisions. Alcohol use and teens can lead to developing bad habits, poor health, risky behaviors, criminal acts, unwanted injuries, and unwanted sexual contact. One of the main reason that younger people believe that is acceptable to drink under age is they believe that it will only affect them for one night. In all reality that is not true. As you will see laid out in this essay I will show my readers several viewpoints of why it is a bad long term decision. People drink early on to feel like they are a part of a group of being popular. Drinking does not make anyone popular. Young people just need to ask themselves what is the right thing to do. Popularity will come on its own. Starting to drink heavily can really have a bad effect on your health. When my father was around my age, he and his friends used to drink heavily a lot, all the time. I have met several of my father’s...
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...Outline labelling theory and consider its usefulness in understanding youth crime and anti-social behaviour in Britain today. Labelling theory claims that deviance and conformity results not so much from what people do but from how others respond to those actions, it highlights social responses to crime and deviance Macionis and Plummer, (2005).Deviant behaviour is therefore socially constructed. This essay will describe in full the labelling theory and comment on the importance of the theory to the deviant behaviour of the youth and the anti-social behaviour of the youth in Britain today. The labelling theory becomes dominant in the early 1960s and the late 1970s when it was used as a sociological theory of crime influential in challenging orthodox positivity criminology. The key people to this theory were Becker and Lement.The foundations of this view of deviance are said to have been first established by Lement, (1951) and were subsequently developed by Becker, (1963).As a matter of fact the labelling theory has subsequently become a dominant paradigm in the explanation of devience.The symbolic interaction perspective was extremely active in the early foundations of the labelling theory. The labelling theory is constituted by the assumption that deviant behaviour is to be seen not simply as the violation of a norm but as any behaviour which is successfully defined or labelled as deviant. Deviance is not the act itself but the response others give to that act which means deviance...
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...Should marketers be responsible for the way their products are used by consumers? This is the main question of this essay, essentially focused on alcohol advertising targeting the young. It is very important to analyze such a subject to identify the responsibilities of each party and identify some possible solutions to preserve the health of consumers and keep good image of the corporate. The following development analyzes the responsibility of the marketers, consumers and government. That is to say that the responsibilities should be shared between these three parties. It’s clear that marketers (firms) have a greater part of responsibility than others, since they have to care about the welfare of all the stakeholders, including consumers. Marketers should work ethically and follow the corporate social responsibility. But foremost, it is important to define Corporate Social Responsibility, which is a most important concept actually in the business world. After the definition, the essay will show how marketing can drive consumers’ buying decision, demonstrate consumers’ irresponsible behavior and the government’s carelessness. Thus, what is CSR? Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is “a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis” (European Commission, 2006). For some researchers, this view of the corporation stands in stark contrast with the neo-classical...
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