...Jordan Landers Florida State University Abstract Obesity is at an all time high in the Unites States, affecting 35% of adults and 17% of children. Childhood obesity can be very detrimental causing emotional, physical, and social strain on the lives of adolescents. Those that are affected the most are citizens that live in low socioeconomic status communities due to lack of education and lack of resources. There are shortages of grocery stores and markets that offer fresh fruits and vegetables thus communities rely on fast food restaurants and convenient stores for food. Furthermore lack of fresh food coupled with physical inactivity is the main reason for the rise of childhood obesity and obesity in general in the past 30 years. Creating safe places for children to play as well as providing food and resources is the only way to eliminate the ongoing obesity epidemic. Growing up there has always been a certain degree of importance placed on the diet and living a healthy lifestyle to live a long and successful life. As of late there has been a boom in fitness sales, gym memberships, and importance on diet and quality food consumption, yet in the past 30 years the United States has seen a drastic increase in the amount of obese individuals. With social media and so many other health initiatives taking place across the country, why is there still a rise in obesity levels amongst adolescents and adults? This shift in weight can be attributed to numerous sources such as fast...
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...Amanda Germain Mrs. Leeker ENG111 2/25/14 Poverty and Homelessness: An Annotated Bibliography. “Black Parents Demand ‘World-Class’ Education, Too.” Washington Informer. 20. Mar 2013. ProQuest. Web. 15 Feb. 2014. In the article ‘World-Class Education’, it said that education need to be affordable for the community of African American. Some African American children are dropout which had damaged the community. Without education, the middle class people would not be able to sustain their family which can lead to society loss. Parents need to back their children education and to avoid them from dropping out of school. The source wants the middle-class to educate themselves so that they could have greater life for themselves and their family. It pressure parents and children to get educated. I would use this article for my research paper because it explain how lack of education lead to poverty and homelessness. It also discussed the importance of education in the African American community and how it can prevent poverty and homelessness. This source is credible because it demanded quality education for the middle class and African American. The author had written many articles about education in the middle-class communities. Many of these articles could be find in the education database at the Nova library. Doak J. Melissa. Ed. “Money, Income, and Poverty Status.’ Minorities: Race and Ethnicity in America. 2012. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Information...
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...Addressing Healthy Foods and Nutritional Education with Cleveland's Youth Brenda McLelland Capella University MSN 6012 Unit 8: Designing Health Promotion Programs September, 2015 Abstract Concerns about addressing the nutritional health of Cleveland’s impoverished children continue to plague the Cleveland community. According to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2013, Cleveland has the third largest child poverty rate among the top cities in the United States ("Hunger Facts," 2013). Insufficient resources to provide adequate food and lack of proper nutritional education for these children has a dramatic effect on the health and well-being for this vulnerable group. Not only does poverty have a direct relationship to negative child outcomes, but nutritional intake and education, as well. This article will focus on a theory-based health care promotion plan that will address the poor, school-age children living in Cleveland. Strategies will be identified in promoting nutritional education to improve healthy eating for these children in an attempt to improve the health and wellness for this vulnerable group. Guidelines for quality monitoring, evaluating, and adaptations of this health promotion plan will also be discussed so that it can be used across various health care settings. Implementing a health promotion plan that incorporates appropriate theory, research-based interventions, evaluative measures, and quality improvement metrics is pivotal if the health care professional...
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...Northcentral University Compare and Contrast Two Great Educators In todays society we try to instill in others the importance of a good education and how it builds self-esteem. I am a firm believer that one’s development is often dictated by a sound education, combined with an environment that encourages and support educational growth. In this paper I will briefly compare two of the great educators, Paulo Freire and William Brickman. Discuss their contribution, similarities and differences and factors impacting their success. Paulo Freire Contribution Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Freire’s view of education came about when his family had to move from their current status of living to a status of poverty due to the market crash of 1929. Freire learned through education all things are possible; how you live, where you live and your societal status. By having the opportunity to grow up in poverty Freire got to see how those who were educated suppressed those who were not. He saw how education was used as a mechanism to control the weak minded, where as the oppressed lives with one understanding and one reality. In order for change to take place in the oppressed they must discover alternatives. It is only then they can begin to transform their own world and experiences (Flanagan, 2005). William Brickman Contribution William Brickman found his calling in education as he traveled the United States and overseas. His world travels afforded him the opportunity to engage with and...
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...Generational Poverty Diana Rojas BSHS 345 August 12, 2014 Therese, DaSilva, LSSW Overcoming Generational Poverty Generational poverty is poverty passed down from generation to generation. Parents pass it down to their kids, and they received it from their parents. A vicious cycle can only be broken by raising above the current situation. In order to rise one must work and gain a greater income, if any, than what is currently being dealt with. It is a common truth that you can work yourself out of poverty. As easy as that sounds, many times this is almost impossible to achieve. Personal barriers that may harm success are stress, low self-esteem, isolation, and inadequate parenting competence. One can go into urban cities, rural areas, and ghettos and see the impoverished or underprivileged situations that many people live in today. The question often asked is; why do people live and think the way they do? Can they not move or get a better job? The sad truth is that for many people moving on does not come with ease. The factors for which many stay in the situation they are in is endless and often quite complex. Many times people face poverty because they lack the means to move up in life. This barrier often times comes from lack of education. In many areas instances, children never even make it out of high school because their presence is needed to work and help the family survive. Seniors are often faced with many challenges which lead them to fall into poverty. Companies...
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...community and economy. In human development, part of becoming an adult is gaining the ability to be self-sufficient and having the confidence to continue to be so. Once again if we apply this idea to the development of nations, part of developing is becoming a nation that is sustainably self-sufficient. Obviously the development of third world countries is vastly different from human development, but if you look at the factors that contribute to successful human develop you can generalize them to fit with the development of nations. Whether talking about the development of a human being or a nation, almost everyone would agree that there are fundamental elements that ensure success. Those elements are proper nutrition, good health, education, positive reinforcement and confidence, ability to take care of one’s self, and stability. Michael P Todaro and Stephen C. Smith define the traditional view of development as “the capacity of a national economy, whose initial economic condition has been more or less static for a long time, to generate and sustain and annual increase in its gross national income (GNI) at rate of 5% to 7% ore more.” (14) As Todaro and Smith point out, this definition of development excludes several factors of great significance. This definition rest solely on the basis that an increase in a developing...
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...Furthermore, the Child Poverty Act 2010 (HM, 2011) emphasises child poverty is not just a cause of concern because of the lack of financial security one has, but also including the of lack of opportunities, stability and aspirations which could result from child poverty. It is therefore important to target those issues through local orgnisation with the support of the ‘Troubled Family Agenda 2011’. The introduction of the ‘Troubled Family Agenda 2011’ has supported local councils to help 110,000 trouble families in England, with an estimated 53,000 having been ‘turned around’ with the support of the program. It has been suggested that often structure and agency can benefit such programs or schemes like the ‘Troubled Families Program’ in order to help troubled families (cited in Communities and Local Government, 2012)....
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...The lives of abject poverty and continual struggle created a distinct way of life for the working poor, a characteristic of which was the importance of extending help and aid to their fellow working poor. The value of giving aid and assistance to fellow working poor resounds across the lives of both the mill workers and Charlie Bundrum. For Charlie, it took the form of taking in and taking care of strays. The first case was Hootie, who Charlie semi-adopted after Hootie was attacked in his home on the river. For many years, “Hootie was still with them, still under Ava’ disapproving gaze and Charlie’s protection,” a fact that highlights the importance of and willingness to care for others of the working poor class. The same value of caring for...
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...Walker Kyle # 7. Social Security is a government program supported by a dedicated tax, like highway maintenance. You can say that assigning a particular tax to a particular program is a waist of time, but in fact such assignments have both legal and political force. The purpose of that tax increase was to maintain the dedicated tax system into the future, by having Social Security’s assigned tax take in more money than the system paid out while the baby boomers were still working, then use the trust fund built up by those surpluses to pay future bills. That strategy was highly successful. The date at which the trust fund will run out, according to Social Security Administration projections, has receded steadily into the future: 10 years ago it was 2029, now it’s 2042. As people high up, and others have pointed out, the SSA estimates are very conservative, and moderate projections of economic growth push the end date into the indefinite future. It is primarily funded through a dedicated payroll tax. During 2011, total benefits of $736 billion were paid out versus income (taxes and interest) of $805 billion, a $69 billion annual surplus. An estimated 158 million people paid into the program and 55 million received benefits, roughly 2.87 workers per beneficiary. Reform proposals continue to circulate, due to a long-term funding challenge faced by the program. Starting in 2011 and continuing after, program expenses are expected to exceed cash revenues. This is due to the aging...
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...Literacy is a human right that being able the read and write; however more American stu-dents aren’t ready to face higher educational curriculum, and others cannot afford continue edu-cation. Nowadays, most children become literacy affected for illiterate parents who don’t be aware about the importance to be educated. These parents don’t realize that not only their educa-tion give their children the satisfaction to persuade success in school but also the perception to continue their education in college or university. Only education will achieve children to get at-tractive salary and professional recognition at mature age. Literacy is beneficial for education; however, the mere ability to read and write may not be sufficient to lift...
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...Charter recognizes that democracy and social and economic development are interdependent and mutually reinforcing, and that promotion and observance of economic, social, and cultural rights are inherently linked to integral development, equitable economic growth, and the consolidation of democracy and the rule of law in the states of the Hemisphere; RECOGNIZING that social justice and equity are essential for democracy; CONSIDERING that the Charter of the OAS establishes among its essential purposes to eradicate extreme poverty; CONSIDERING AS WELL that extreme poverty constitutes an obstacle to development and, in particular, to the full democratic development of the peoples of the Hemisphere; and that its elimination is essential and constitutes a common and shared responsibility of the American states; REAFFIRMING the determination and commitment of member states to urgently combat the serious problems of poverty, social exclusion, and inequity that affect, in varying degrees, the countries of the Hemisphere; to confront their causes and consequences; and to create more favorable conditions for economic and social development with equity to promote more...
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...city. This documentary presents major tactics used throughout this political campaign, all of which deal with the major problems in the community: power, race, and poverty. In this documentary, the problem with power is simply that Sharpe James has too much of it. Pablo Fonseca, the former head of code enforcement for the city of Newark, clearly sums up how powerful Sharp James is: “If you’re...
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...of inter-related, social, psychological and economic factors. While certain child abuse and neglected issues are common in almost all countries at the global level such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional and psychological abuse, problems of street children, there are also many issues which are prevalent only in certain regions of the world.For instance, in Asia where population density is high, the issues of child labor and child sexual exploitation are also high. The largest population of children in the world live in South Asia and majority of these children lack access to proper health care, nutrition and education. This reflects the socio-economic reality of the developing countries of the Asian region. The main factors that contribute to the magnitude of the problem of child abuse are poverty,illiteracy, caste system and landlessness, lack of economic opportunities,rural-urban migration, population growth, political instability and weak implementation of legal provisions. If we go through the stats regarding the rate of child harassment it throws an egregious remark on the face of Asian...
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...Poverty in the Coalfields West Virginia and other surrounding Appalachian areas are pretty well known for being associated with the coal industry. Coal is one of the West Virginia’s primary economic resources. Coal is found in fifty-three of the states fifty-five counties, except for Jefferson and Hardy counties. It was once reported that forty-three counties in West Virginia have coal deposits of great economic importance with many of them being mined or have been mined. All of this has brought prosperity to this region at one time. However for a while now the southern part of West Virginia and northern part of Kentucky has been suffering from deep economic distress. One-third of the 100 poorest counties in the United States, as measured by median household income, are concentrated in the coalfields. This “pocket of poverty,” as economists sometimes refer to it, has, for decades, recorded extremely high levels of deprivation, unemployment and all the social problems that accompany them. This has been worsened by the lack of government spending on the region and scarcity of basic infrastructure such as: freeways, commuter rail, airports, Internet connectivity, and public universities. Yet in an immediate and direct way, the region is globally integrated. It continues to be one of the largest producers of coal in the country as well as a major lumber exporter. So why does this region continue to live poverty filled lives? This is a barefaced portrait of...
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...POVERTY A MAJOR ISSUE Poverty is lack of basic human needs like health, education, clean water, nutrition etc. It is a condition in which one income is not sufficient enough to fulfill his basic needs. It is curse and something like nobody would want to own. In Pakistan it is not a yesterday born issue, it is eating up Pakistan and now it has spread out its circle to a larger radius now. Historically it began just with independence because of lack of proper resources at that time. In 1980 there was a slight decline in its level but the level again risen up after 1990 and till now it is rising with fluctuation of time. Currently about 35% of Pakistan population lives below the line of poverty. Mostly people of rural areas live below the line of poverty and two third of our population live in rural areas. Scenario is also not different in urban areas where 40% population of urban area live below the line of poverty. Currently poverty is the cause behind many critical problems in Pakistan on one hand but it is also outcome of many other problems. There are a lot of reasons behind poverty. Mostly people blame politics and politicians as one of the reason for prevailing poverty. Some call it lack of good leadership, some call it bad government policies and some call it bad politics but they all are same in one. Politicians are some time not sincere for eradication of poverty and some do not have proper plan for its solution. The policies adopted by different government only cause...
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