...December 2, 2011 Mr. Barack Obama White house 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. Obama I have some serious concern about the direction of the health of our nation. Well as 2010 as gone by the Healthy People 2010 has to be redone. It setting the new goals for 2020 I would like if we could get you support one of the goals. I know there are many objectives and sub-goals of Healthy People 2020, so I want to tell you about an area that deservers your attention and support. Let me tell you a story about an Ohio woman. Can you imagine having your child taken away from your custody? Well this Lady had her child taken from her; her son was in the third grade. This may seem shocking but it's true. So why am I tell you that some lady had her child taken from her? It is because this third grader weighed more than 200 pounds and that was after he lost some weight. This is not the only case of Childs be taken away from their parents weight do to obesity. My question to you is how have we left the youth of our nation get so big? How does a third grader weigh as much as a fully grown man? It is obvious that Healthy People 2010 has failed at helping the youth of the nation overcome obesity. That is why I am writing to you the President to get your support on this issue of childhood obesity. This is an issue that effects thousands of our youth. Now study shows that it does seem like it is going to get better in the near future. Over the past 30 years childhood...
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...The residential schools of Canada can be dated back to the 1870s. Before 1996, when the last of 170 schools were closed, an estimated 150,000 indigenous youth were forced to attend. In an attempt to blend indigenous youth into Canadian society, both the Canadian government and Christian churches believed educating and converting the youth would achieve their goal of integrating them into Canadian society (Miller, 2014). The infliction of economic self sufficiency and religious conversion caused the loss of languages which further resulted in the loss of culture among traditional indigenous peoples. The death of a language is more complex than simply a loss of communication, it is a loss of knowledge. "The wisdom of humanity is summarized in...
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...Can the youth make a difference? Can the youth make a difference? That is still a big question. Some say that the youth of today is the driving force of tomorrow, Rizal even quoted that “The Youth is the hope of our future, but most of the adults nowadays call them the “lost generation”. Are today’s youth really a lost generation? Let’s face it, they may give them that label because it is true that young people are struggling in record numbers to find work, leave home, and start a family, according to a 2010 census figures recently released by the US Department of commerce United States Census Bureau. Today, I’d like to discuss the nature of the youth nowadays, the role of government in honing the youth of today, and if the youth can really make a difference. Today’s youth is a different generation to any of the youth generations that have gone before. Yes, there has always been a youth market, but the 21st century differs in both a neurological and emotional manner from previous youngsters. The radical shift has occurred most rapidly over the past decade, as technology continues to advance at an exceptional pace. These children live and exist in a digital dominion which they find as natural as the air they breathe. Well, it is true that young people are a crucial segment of our society; they are the basis for future development. Young people are social actors of change and can serve as a pressure group to lobby governments in defining their priorities. It has been clearly...
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...The Ripple Effect of Technology Troy Lindberg DeVry University The Ripple Effect of Technology OMG Where’s My Phone!! Figure 1 We have become so dependent on mobile phones that their loss certainly causes emotional and mental distress. (MIREVIEW, 2015) Figure 1 We have become so dependent on mobile phones that their loss certainly causes emotional and mental distress. (MIREVIEW, 2015) Some people believe that technology is the best thing since sliced bread. It is so ingrained in people’s lives that most individuals’ believe that they couldn’t function without it. A testament of this would be the frantic reaction one gets when they believe that they have misplaced their phone. It resembles the reaction of a mother when her child has gone missing. We laugh at this analogy but the thought should be sobering enough to open your eyes. It has been found that the average teenager spends approximately 133 hours a month absorbed in some form of technology or social media (OAH, 2013). That is almost four and a half hours a day. What is the allure that keeps them returning as if it were an addiction? It’s this dependence that drives me to proclaim that technology is a detriment to the social development of youth. How did we get here? Positive Development Computers have been in existence since 1936 but it wasn’t until 1991, when Tim Berners Less came up with the World Wide Web, starting the computer revolution and computers as we know it. There is a plethora of information on...
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...Rebel with a Cause an autobiography about his life as a well known evangelist’s son and how difficult it was growing up in his shadow. In the early stages of his life Franklin was considered “The Rebel” of the family, not wanting much more in life than guns, alcohol and Rock ‘n’ Roll. After many sinful years Franklin turned his life over to The Lord and pursed to follow in his father’s footsteps. Billy Graham is a world renowned spiritual leader dedicated to American Christian Evangelism. He is father of five children (Virginia, Anne, Ruth, Franklin, and Ned Graham) and also dedicated husband to Ruth Graham (Back bone of the Graham family). Billy Graham has raised his family in the mountains of North Carolina, a small town fifteen minutes from Asheville called Montreat, a small town fifteen minutes from Asheville (Graham 2). Most importantly, he is a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. Billy Graham has given his life for the purpose of teaching the Word of God too many lost countries around the world. Since graduating from Wheaton College, his first major success was as a traveling evangelist for Youth for Christ (YFC), which was founded in 1941 (Eskridge 85). Graham was the star of the foundation from early 1945 through 1947, speaking at hundreds of rallies that taught teenage audiences the gospel of Jesus Christ (Eskridge 86). During his YFC days Graham found a way to reach the youth that reluctantly helped him in his years ahead: “We used every modern means to catch...
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...Prompt #1 As a child I was always frantic; I would worry and scare easily. I was afraid of change and of what the future held in store. I want to be successful, but I would think to myself “how could I”; I have always been reserved. I’m afraid of making mistakes but it’s my drive to keep trying until I get it right. I do not give up because I want to succeed. My family has always encouraged me to just try and do it; my family has a saying to never leave a doubt. My parents raised my siblings and I with high morals. We were raised to be respectful and humble. For example, we have to greet everyone in any social gathering. We were told to lead by example and maintain a good attitude in any situation. My parents taught us to be selfless....
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...2013 The Part I Play in the Kingdom Paper The Part I Play in the Kingdom Paper PART ONE: My Fit in Ministry (Before): I fully understand what my position in my ministry now. Serving on the youth ministry, the women ministry, evangelism ministry, and the loss prevention ministry. I feel that my ministries are the ministries destined for me, because I served effectively on all of them and I love during so. Being able to give back and to helping other to come to Christ is what a good servant of God should be able to do: not just quoting scriptures but actually being out there getting down and dirty with the lost ones .Helping them to find what they have been seeking for in their lives and how they can reach out to God. Going to the nursing homes, the women shelter and youth group homes spreading the word to the women and men in there that feel that their love ones have walked off and forgotten them. In the women shelter who never knew Jesus as their personal Lord an Savoir, but knew drugs, sex and other things that was keeping them from getting closer to God. In the women shelter who never knew Jesus as their personal Lord an Savoir, but knew drugs, sex and other things that was keeping them from getting closer to God. Youth, who that have be abused and abandon: not train or taught who God was. After taking this class I am sure that these are my calling .Being in your class has given me a love for what I am doing for the...
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...What I expected to gain from this work placement, in addition to learning new practical skills, was to further understand the role of a social worker and to help me to narrow down my career decision in the future. The most valuable thing I have gained working in a youth employment environment is learning what career path I will take. This has come from all the knowledge and practical skills I have picked up. This opportunity has also helped highlight that I am not the only one feeling lost when it comes to marking career decisions. As a result, I now have a better understanding of the working world. During the placement period, the biggest amount of support was from the classmates. We shared the experiences and gave support to each other. Last week, I saw a Facebook status from my classmate and it was about her placement work. She said she felt sad and distressed about her case. As a result, I came up with a question in mind “is it good or not for a social worker to be affected by clients’ situation?”. I am not sure actually. My friends described me as a stone because I didn’t show any interest in anything. This is sad but true, it seemed I did not wish for many things in life. I was never addicted to any toys, games, TV dramas and so on from childhood to now. Sometimes, when my friends are jumping and screeching for some interesting things, I never showed much interest. People will say that a personality with mine is good because I will not be easily influenced...
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...01/13/2011 Juvenile Gangs My bias opinion on youth gangs is the same as I view planting a seed. If you plant a seed in bad soil most likely you’ll grow a defected or bad plant. I say that to say this “if a child is raised in an unstructured household most of the time that child will take his home training outside the home. Then we also have our young kids joining gangs that come from good homes, but can’t escape their negative environments once they walk outside their front door. Also some of the youths get involved in gangs looking for something to call a family; these are mostly our kids coming from foster homes, adoption agencies and so forth. Personally I feel the majority of the kids involved in gangs are lost and out trying to find themselves. Then we have younger kids who are labeled gang members, but are far from it. These kids usually grow up together and have strong bonds with one another; they occasionally dress alike, hang together, and claim to belong to a certain neighborhood only by personal childhood reasons. But the local authorities see things different, they feel as if you wear certain colors, hang in certain areas with 3 or more kids claiming to belong to anything other than a sports team are considered gang related. To the rise of drug use amongst teens is also a major contribution to the growing number of youth kids joining gangs. Being that drugs from marijuana, to heroin has become so easy to get a hold of the kids are experimenting more freely now...
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...Why Me? Throughout my life, I have learned many lessons. I have learned how truly fortunate I am, even in the worst of times, how to define myself, what winning feels like, and what loosing everything feels. But the most important lesson that I have learned is that it is not my failures that define me, but how I recover from them. Not only have these lessons prepared me and made me a perfect candidate for this summer program, but also prepared me for the environment of Duke University in the future. When I was eleven years old, my role model, my hero, my daddy, lost his six year long battle with colon cancer and passed away. It was a long and agonizing journey that my entire family suffered through. I did not realize it at the time, but this painful experience had taught me many lessons that most people probably will not learn in their lifetime. One of the lessons this tragedy taught me was that if I could live through something as traumatic as a parent suffering and eventually dying, then I knew that I could get through anything that life threw at me, no matter how...
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...Both originated from the region, Mesopotamia where it was common for people to have negative views on everything and believe that the evil in the world outweighs the good. Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh and Job in The Book of Job shows these views in both works. Utnapishtim says to Gilgamesh, “There is no permanence” (Fiero 37). This shows how Utnapishtim believes that good things won’t last forever. God blesses the main characters in both works. Gilgamesh is blessed with a perfect body, beauty, and courage. “Two thirds they made him God and one third man” (Fiero 19). Job was blessed with flocks of animals, a large family, and protected land. Job is said to be “blameless and upright” (Fiero 34). Although blessed both men were pushed to their mental and physical limits to see what they were made of. “Job and Gilgamesh are tested by superhuman forces, and both come to realize that misfortune and suffering are typical of the human condition” (Fiero 37). Gilgamesh is tested when Ishtar, the Goddess of love, takes the life of his companion Enkidu for rejecting her affections for him. “Because I am afraid of death I will go as best I can to find Utnapishtim whom they call the Faraway for he has entered the assembly of the Gods” (Fiero 21). In result of his fear of death his worthiness for personal immortality is what’s tested. Gilgamesh embarks on his journey to conquer the test and obtain his goal of personal immortality. Job, on the other hand, is tested because his questionable...
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...Maureen Belcher January 2015 ELA-3 Opinion Editorial John Wooden once said, “Never mistake activity for achievement.” Many people believe that youth sports are too dangerous for children to play but most kids that play sports benefit in a healthy way. Youth sports help kids make good life decisions and can also help with social skills, helping them later in later future events. Britt Hallingberg, a scientist at Cardiff University, claimed, “Many youth people benefit from participating in fun, structured activities out of school.” This claim shows that sports can be healthy for you and your social life in and out of school. John Wooden, UCLA Basketball Coach also said, “Playing youth sports creates higher grades, high self-esteem, stronger...
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...shrink back. I want to share my two stories. In one story I didn’t act on my value and felt awful and in the other story I gave my voice to my value and felt proud. Several years ago, I got an internship opportunity to work in an advertising company, which is the biggest advertising agency in one of provinces in China. As soon as I started to work, our company obtained a project from film producer, a project that we can put 5 different companies’ advertisements in the film to raise as much money as possible for the movie from the advertisements. As a return, our company can get a commission as a percent of the advertisement income. Meanwhile our company needed to coordinate with the director for the advertisement forms in the film. A new team was set up direct at the project, and I was responsible for the paperwork and other trivial matters. Everything worked great, until a tobacco company joined. The tobacco company offered a lucrative deal that our company cannot refuse, because only with that deal, we can meet the project’s financial requirement and got a high return. However, a problem had arisen since Chinese government laws forbid any tobacco advertisement on mass media, not to mention that the movie was aimed at teen – agers. Everyone in our project team stuck in that problem, and I thought we could just give up the deal because it was not only illegal but also unethical. I didn’t take these words out of my month in that I held the opinion that as an intern, I just needed...
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...Erich Maria Remarque the negative effects of war on an individual are shown. The main character, Paul Bäumer, is a soldier during World War I. The reader can see what the war has done to him and his comrades. In the beginning of the story, Paul explains how war has changed the lives of him and his comrades forever. He says, “We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces...we believe in such things no longer. We believe in war” (pg. 87-88). Paul has explained that his generation...
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...Influences I’ve seen the light in which my parents possess; I’ve watched over the years it dwindles. I’ve learned that love can kill who you were. My dad has intelligence in many areas, but lacks common sense in others. Neglecting his intelligence on a daily hoping to cope with a bottle. Until his vision is impaired his heart is in fragments. My mother is a broken soul, but not the typical type. She lost herself a long time ago and I watched her go. She’s so loving even though when she’s hurt she still tries, and being open minded is a characteristic I adopted from her at youth. I don’t know her whole story, but in her poems, I see my words and how I relate to the world just as she does. She was a born hustler…doing everything in her power...
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