...The Plight of the Elderly in the United States 1 The Plight of the Elderly in the United States Heather M Winnett CTU October 2015 The Plight of the Elderly in the United States 2 Between now and 2050, the United States older population aged 65 and older is projected to be 83.7 million which is almost double what it is now. I’m going to show a few of the plights of the elderly in the United States. I will also propose a few ways we can improve those problems. The more seniors we have the more in need of nursing care professionals. There has been some unnecessary testing run on the elderly in doctor’s offices and emergency rooms. Most elderly have a hard time getting and affording health insurance. The more seniors we have the more in need of nursing care professionals. With a shift from acute to chronic illnesses often come disabilities. To better understand those disabilities we need professionals who knows what to do and how to do it. Often we have so many patients and not enough help to take care of those patients. So some are left helpless for a sometime until the help can get to them. I know about this first hand because I worked in a nursing home for 8 years and now work for a home health agency. When I worked in the nursing home on a normal night I would have 20 or more patients...
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...From the 1880s to the 1930s, the lives of African Americans had developed drastically. The Civil War, Reconstruction, and Great Migration happened during this time period. The development of civil rights did not come along easily. New laws were created for the improvement of civil rights such as the 13th and 14th Amendment. Unfortunately Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws were also apparent during this time period. This restricted many African Americans from gaining more equality and they had many struggles in their lives because White Americans generally did not accept them as equal and on the same level. These changes were seen through the perspectives of characters in the play, “The Piano Lesson”, written by August Wilson. Although there was...
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...Scour sources on the matter and you’ll discover legions of accounts detailing the sad, struggle-laden plight that is the fatherless child’s existence. Studies also reflect the economic ramifications of a smaller family: single-parent households make up the majority of U.S. families that currently live in poverty, and the stats just keep rolling in. More substance abuse among the kids of single mothers, increased levels of stress, elevated risk of insert every problem under the sun here. As we tend to paint this particular familial dynamic with more heroism, i.e. “He’s a single dad taking care of his kid, what a good father. Look at the sacrifices he’s making,” and so on, this situation is not as often discussed, which is an indication that...
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..."Dorothea Dix was an indefatigable New England reformer who brought the plight of the mentally ill to the people and governing bodies of several states and foreign countries” (Norbury,1999 p.14). During the seventeenth century most Americans viewed people who were mentally ill differently than other. They were called the lost souls and viewed as incurable and helpless. They were thrown into prison, mistreated, beaten, and taken advantage. It couldn’t be perceived or cured and was simple to be endured. Dorothea Dix wanted to change how these people were treated. She took her time to advocate for the mentally ill. She played an instrumental role, and developed 30 hospitals for the treatment of mental ill. Dorothea Lynde Dix was born on 4 April...
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...John Steinbeck Research Paper: Final Draft John Steinbeck is regarded as the “quintessential American writer.” He created many works of literature that “evoke life in the 20th century with compassion and lyrical precision” (Li). John Steinbeck’s most popular works such as Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Grapes of Wrath (1939) explore the darker side of life in America for farm laborers. Though these works were considered highly controversial, they gained him major recognition. Of Mice and Men was adapted as a play in 1938 and was declared the best play by New York Drama Critics’ Circle. He went on to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature (Schultz & Li). As a child and youth, Steinbeck spent a lot of time working on farms and interacting with other migrant workers. His experiences with migrant farm workers created the foundation for Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. John Ernst Steinbeck was born on February 27th 1902 in Salinas California to John Ernst Steinbeck Sr. and Olivia Hamilton Steinbeck. Steinbeck Sr. managed a flour mill, and his mother Olivia was a teacher in a school, thus securing the family a middle class income (Bender). His mother Olivia looked to “mold him into a man of broad intellectual capacity” (Kiernan). She read him several books as a child and, by the age of five, he could read. In school he was teased for “his large ears…so he withdrew into books.” His...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Charles Spurgeon and the Obstinacy of the Will Submitted to Dr. David Kitchens, Professor in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of SEMI 500 LUO (fall 2014) Introduction to Seminary Studies by Kris N. Rheingans November 16, 2014 Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………1 Influential Experiences…………………………………………………………………..2 Biblical and Theological Foundations…………………………………………………..3 Personal Application of Theology....................................................................................4 Conclusion..........................................................................................................................5 Bibliography.......................................................................................................................6 Introduction Charles Haddon Spurgeon is one of the great minds and powerful proclaimers of the Gospel in the Church Age. However, the years leading to Spurgeon’s conversion were wrought with a profound intimacy with the doctrinal idea of total depravity of mankind. This and other influential experiences, Spurgeon’s biblical and theological foundations, and his personal applications of theology are the focus of this study. The author will, with the support of Spurgeon’s words, prove that without being drawn by Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit, man does not have the personal will to come to Christ...
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...world would be if that same event had never occurred. As the mother of bi-racial twin girls and as relates to the Civil Rights Movement, I thought this a very easy assignment, I was wrong. After writing several pages of text – the brutal honesty of my life - it occurred to me that I need to separate the project due to my own personal biases. Please let it be known that I am grateful for the Civil Rights movement and equal opportunity for all – race, creed, color and sex. I have a very good understanding of the Civil Rights Movement and will attempt to depict that in part two of my paper, however I have my own story as well and is that that I am going to include in part 1. Understand this is not a story I frequently share and it is a part of my life that I try to forget. It is a long story and I will attempt to give a very simple version, though I will also admit my first thoughts were to alter it – to make this project easier. My thoughts are that perhaps some of you can learn something from tale, perhaps I will make a change in the need to continue with our drastic need to forget and forgive – the need to make a future and stop living in the past. Part One – One Woman’s Story Though the tumultuous era of the 1960s was full of highly significant events that shaped our nation into the form it is today, the Civil Rights Movement stands above the rest as a pivotal moment in US history. It is the only incident that directly influenced every...
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...Catholicism in the California Bay Area: Origin, Beliefs, and My Culture Catholicism is one of the more prominent religions in the world, and the Bay Area region of California. From a historic standpoint, Catholicism in America often is tied to ethnic backgrounds; and therefore is a religion that embodies diversity. While most of the religions of the world have followers of different races, it seems that the diversity of Catholicism is more wide spread. The American city I was born in, San Francisco, CA, has a very rich and vast Catholic community. Initially, the early Catholic communities were comprised of early Irish Americans that settled on the western part of the United States. In the mid to late 1800s several other American immigrant nationalities relocated to western cities like San Francisco, sharing the same Roman Catholic Church beliefs, and practices. From Seattle, WA down to Los Angeles, CA there were several Catholic churches founded by German, Portuguese, Italian, French, and Mexican American communities. The Mexican American community consisted of primarily Mexicans that lived in then Mexican states prior to the Mexican American war in the 1840s. This westward immigration of Catholic communities was also closely followed by the immigration of Asian Americans, and the growth of African-American Catholic communities. Chinese Americans made up most of the Asian Catholic community, as they worked on the westward expansion of the railroads. When Chinese American...
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...Misconceptions and Clarifications on Issues Related to Humanae Vitae and the Reproductive "Health" Bill in Philippine Congress. Rev. Fr. Gregory D. Gaston, STD (This primer was written for Avenues, the Journal of San Carlos Seminary Graduate School of Theology. Copyright © 2008 by the author, a priest of the Archdiocese of Manila and Professor of the Graduate School of Theology of San Carlos Seminary in Makati City, Philippines. For related topics, please visit www.safe.ph.) |MISCONCEP-TIONS |CLARIFICATIONS | | |(underlined texts come from the Reproductive Bill currently [August 2008] filed in Congress; emphasis in bold | | |letters added) | |The world is overpopulated. |"Yet this is not the full story. To the contrary, in fact. Across the globe, people are having fewer and fewer | |Global population will soar |children. Fertility rates have dropped by half since 1972, from six children per woman to 2.9. And demographers | |to 11.9 billion by 2050. |say they're still falling, faster than ever. The world's population will continue to grow—from today's 6.4 billion| | |to around 9 billion in 2050. But after that, it will go sharply into decline. Indeed, a phenomenon...
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...them want to leave their homeland with such dogged persistence? Numbers Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) can be found from Norway to Nigeria. Each Sunday, they are found milling around Victoria Park in Hong Kong and the cobbled streets of Rome. As of 2009, there are about 8.6 million overseas Filipinos, plus about 2 million more who are undocumented. These include people of Filipino ancestry who are citizens of other countries and Filipino citizens working abroad on a temporary basis. Considering that we are a nation of about 100 million people, these figures represent a substantial percentage which cannot simply be ignored. The burning question Why do my countrymen choose to leave the country temporarily, or for keeps? Our grandparents fondly recall the Philippines’ ‘Golden Years’ – the post-war ‘50s – when our engineers, doctors, architects, and other white-collar professionals would be invited by our neighbors such as Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia to share their professional expertise. Funds and other assistance poured in...
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...here as it is. The come here to steal our jobs, marry our women, clog the trains, explode housing prices, beat up taxi drivers, and drive Ferraris too fast. They dance outside Wisma Atria and jam the staircases at Lucky Plaza. Oh, and they smell. And talk too loudly. In strange accents. In short, they are audacious and unpleasant. Oh, and they smell. Did I mention that? They do. And they talk too loudly. Twenty-nine PRC workers deported means trains that are twenty-nine odoriferous bodies less crowded. Except that they mostly built the train stations in the last twenty years. And the condos. And the roads. And dug the drains. And sweep the streets and collect the garbage. And keep one million households clean, children fed, grandparents minded, dogs walked, and...
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...CONSTITUTIONAL VALIDITY OF VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE HINDU SUCCESSION ACT,1956 INDEX: INTRODUCTION__________________________________________________________________ ARE PERSONAL LAWS REALLY LAWS? _______________________________________________ ARE PERSONAL LAWS SUBJECT TO PART III OF THE CONSTITUTION? _______________________ TYPES OF SUCCESSION___________________________________________________________ WHO IS A HINDU?_______________________________________________________________ BEFORE HINDU SUCCESSION ACT__________________________________________________ INTRODCUTION TO HINDU SUCCESSION ACT, 1956____________________________________ CONSTITUTIONAL VALIDITY OF: 2005 AMENDMENT…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. SECTION 6, HSA………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. SECTION 7, HSA………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… SECTION 14, HSA…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. SECTION 15 &16, HSA…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. OPINION_________________________________________________________________________ CONCLUSION______________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION: Through this paper, I want to analyse the constitutional validity of various provisions of the Hindu Succession act, 1956 , which is a personal law applicable to Hindu citizens of India. I have attempted to briefly explain how the flaws in the said act pose a constitutional challenge and have also tried arriving...
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...Professional Development Plan by DBA Student A Project Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for DDBA 8005 Foundations for Doctoral Business Administration Studies Instructor September 2009 Professional Development Plan Part IA: Description of Personal and Professional Goals From a very early age, I was encouraged to attend college by my parents, my grandparents, and a beloved uncle. They all taught me that obtaining an education, particularly a college education, was a privilege that had not always been afforded to people of color and that it should not be taken for granted. They also taught me that education was the best way to attain great success, no matter how I chose to define success. It did, however, take some time before I fully understood what they so passionately attempted to instill in me. It was not until I began working at Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU), in an environment of academia, that I understood the value and importance of education, and the incredible impact that being part of a learning environment has on a young mind. I have been fortunate to be able to utilize the management skills I learned from my undergraduate studies and through various employment opportunities after obtaining a master’s degree in business administration. I have enjoyed my experiences working in the business field, as diverse as they have been, and would love to teach business administration at the university level. I would like to pursue a Doctor...
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...majority of Kenyans rarely follow the succession act, and instead transmission of land rights upon death is undertaken within customary and religious systems which discriminate against children and women. Such systems also rarely leads to legal and documented land tenure security, hence further complicating the chances of the future generations to access secure land. Many Kenyans perceive the legal land succession process as tedious, complex, inaccessible and expensive. This has made the majority of Kenyans to live on land for which they don’t have a title. The government and other stakeholders in land have for some time now been pre-occupied with finding ways of making the land succession process easier, cheaper and more accessible to the majority of Kenyan especially those living in rural areas. In the National Land Policy the government undertook to: 1. Sensitize and educate Kenyans on the provisions of the law of succession Act; 2. To expedite the application of the law of succession Act; and 3. To require that all Kenya Gazette notices pertaining to succession cases be posted at the lowest local administrative level and at market centres. 1.2: Purpose and Objectives of the study Land succession which is referred to as transmission in the Kenyan land act of 2012, is one of the most common methods of accessing land in Kenya. Succession is based on the traditional right to inherit property between...
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...Prayer in Public Schools Derrick DuHart Race, Religion, Culture Arkansas Baptist College Dr. Johnson, Instructor November 4, 2014 Tables of Contents I. Introduction Background/Statement of Problems pg. 3-4 Purpose of the Study pg. 5-12 Research Questions pg. 13 Significance of the Study pg. 14-19 II. Literature Review Methodology and Sampling Design Strategy pg. 20 Data Collection Procedures pg. 20 Data Analyzed pg. 21 Ethical Issues pg. 21 III. Results Conclusion pg. 21-22 References pg. 23 Appendix: I. Annotated Bibliography pg. 24-26 II. Survey Questions pg. 27 III. Results (Charted/Tables) pg. 28-31 Notes: I. Introduction Background/Statement of Problem Prayer in Public Schools The courts have ruled against prayer in school. Many agree with the decision; yet many disagree. Prayer should be allowed in public schools because it is already practiced. It prevents...
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