...School Environment Analysis Vanessa Kawa Grand Canyon University * * * * * * Phillis Wheatley Elementary school is located in Miami, Florida and is a part of the Miami-Dade County Public School system. The school is located in the center of Overtown, one of the most poverty stricken communities in Miami Dade County. The majority of people that live in the community live in government subsidized housing. According to Urban Mapping (2011), Overtown is made up of 75% African Americans, 20% Hispanic, and 3% Caucasian. The average income per family is approximately $13,355 and the crime rate is 27% higher than the actual city of Miami (Urban Mapping, 2011). The buildings are dilapidated, graffiti and trash is ramped, and many vagrants live along the streets. Phillis Wheatley Elementary school is one of one hundred and eight schools that are a part of the Education Transformation Office (ETO). ETO is a support team that is committed in growth and improvement of schools that are deficient in the state assessment test. They use data to drive instruction, send curriculum support specialists on a weekly basis to provide guidance, and provide academic resources for our school, such as technological resources, books, equipment, and so on. The students at Phillis Wheatley Elementary school have many social/emotional issues related to their life outside of school. The students come to school angry, hungry, unkempt, poor hygiene, and academically...
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...Human Dignity without a Price Tag Campaign The Need There is no uniform definition of human trafficking and no consent regarding aspects that this problem entails. The United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children defines human trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. The U.S. Department of State estimates that about 600,000 to 800,000 people, mostly women and children, are trafficked across national borders annually. If trafficking within a country’s borders is included, this figure drastically increases to approximately 2 to 4 million people, according to official U.S. estimates. Furthermore, it is estimated that 17,500 to 20,000 victims are trafficked into the U.S. annually, with Florida receiving a high percentage of those victims. Trafficked victims generally tend to flow from less developed countries to more industrialized nations to neighboring countries with higher standards of living. The impact of modern-day slavery goes beyond the individual victims; it undermines the health, safety and security of all nations it touches. It is currently...
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...Course & term | ADM 568 Changing Environment of Administration | Title: | Social Responsibility Report - University of Miami | Submitted by: | | Date of Submission: | July 23, 2015 | CERTIFICATION OF AUTHORSHIP: By including this cover sheet I certify that I am the author of this submittal and that any assistance I received in its preparation is fully acknowledged and disclosed. I have also cited any sources from which I used data, ideas, or words, either quoted directly or paraphrased. I also certify that this paper was prepared by me specifically for this course. I have read the ACE Academic Dishonesty Policy regarding cheating and plagiarism and understand its consequences and penalties. Abstract This social responsibility report will look at several areas of importance for the University of Miami. We will examine the stakeholders along with the social, environmental and ethical performances of its operations. We will discuss how each of these areas is linked to each other and how the performance in each area impacts the University, its stakeholders and the surrounding community. Lastly, we will review the economic impact on the University of Miami. Introduction The University of Miami is an internationally recognized and renowned private research institution that is much more than a sum of its various parts. With over 15,000 students, nearly 13,100 faculty...
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... Cubans dominant religious beliefs follow Catholicism; you will also find protestant, Muslim, Jewish and Santeria (a mixture of Catholic religion with the traditional African religion). The median household income for Cubans is higher than that of other Hispanic Americans, the average Cuban American income is around $38,000, native born Cuban Americans have a higher median income than that of non-Hispanic whites ($50,000 vs. $48,000). Cubans living outside of Florida have a higher median income then those living in Florida. The family values have changed for many Cuban households those that came into the country first focused more on educating their children then teaching them family beliefs, many elderly Cubans prefer to living in Miami prefer to live alone. The family lives have changed over the last 30 years, part of this is from acculturation between generations. Mexican Americans Mexican-Americans have been both a conquered people and immigrants, in the sense of both terms. After the United States prevailed in the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), the American Southwest was created which was populated with about 80,000 Mexicans. The Spanish influence is quite strong in Mexican American people. Mexican-Americans have always held strong religious beliefs predominately following Catholicism, there...
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...Voters in Florida will elect one member to the U.S. Senate in the election on November 8, 2016. Additionally, the congressional race for Florida’s is one various competitive races for which either will fall under the Republican or Democrat rule for the general election. After a failed bid to become the Republican Presidential nominee, Marco Rubio at first decided he would not be seeking to be reelected to the U.S. Senate. After some pressure from his fellow Republican collogues to seek reelection for office due the possibility that the Republican would possibly lose the seat to Patrick Murphy. Marco Rubio, running for reelection for the U.S. Senate born to a family of Cuban exiles, Rubio was raised in Miami, Florida. He earned a Bachelor...
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...of immigrants” (John F. Kennedy). In the search for greater freedom and economic opportunities. Their energy and optimism has fuel the country’s growth. The question is, why are they important? Many have created new businesses and provided labor for existing ones. Expand the minds of millions of people. Improved the country’s success. They change the way this world rotates on its axis. Created many jobs for people to work and improve the nation’s wealth. That’s reason why they are important. Because they are usually the ones to begin working hard to start a business, project etc. To impact millions of people in the whole world. Education is usually the main important reason why people come here. To begin, some have taken on important roles in the country’s government. Even though she is U.S Citizen, born in Bronx New York. She is a great example for many people here in America. Sonia Sotomayor, coming from humble beginnings. She became the first Hispanic women in history to be part of the supreme justice court. “She was choose by President Barack Obama, in 2009” (Bio.). In many cases, they have also helped to bring together traditions from all over the world. When you go to a restaurant, food store or a business, you learn their culture. From Mexican tacos to Orange chicken from China. Languages, religions, and celebrations have all blended over time and created the unique American culture that we know today. Steve Ells, He known to be the owner of one of best Mexican/American...
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...one boy. She has not been back to her homeland due to some political unrest and problems with corruption in Haiti. R.M states that kidnapping of American tourist for ransom is a common problem in Haiti and has deterred her from visiting her relatives. R.M practice Christianity and attends church every Sunday. She chooses to practice Christianity alone, abandoning the Islam religion and the voodoo practice because she converted to Christianity when she married her husband. Marring a Ghana man is not a problem because her family has assimilated to the American culture. Her father is Haitian and similarly married outside of culture to an African American woman. R.M’s paternal grandparents and has many relatives in Haiti as well as in Miami, Florida. She recalls growing up with a Haitian heritage and eating mainly Haitian meals. Present United States Census of the Haitians-Americans According to Giger & Davidhizar (2013), the majority of Haitian immigration during the1980s was part of the change in immigration policies in the United States. In addition to the policy changes, Haitian immigrants used man-made boats or rafts to illegally come to the United States. A large number of immigrants settled in Florida, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). More than half of Haitians in the United States are foreign-born (Giger & Davidhizar, 2013). There is currently about 840,000 individuals of Haitian decent in the United States (Giger &...
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...ratio is a bit higher. Medium security prisons are smaller and newer, and have double fences instead of walls. These prisons also have dorm or pod housing rather than cells; however, the inmate to guard ratio is a bit higher. Minimum security prisons are also newer and smaller as well as minimal perimeter security and fewer internal controls. Again there is an even higher inmate to guard ratio and the inmates live in rooms or dorms and have more privacy and amenities than those in other prisons. Open security prisons are better known as nonsecure facilities; work release centers, prerelease centers, and halfway houses. These facilities have no armed guards and no fences (Foster, 2006). John Gotti John Gotti grew up in poverty but quickly rose in prominence, and was one of the crime family's biggest earners. Soon he became the boss of the most powerful crime family in America, which made most of their money from criminal activities. Gotti was indicted for 13 murders, conspiracy, kidnapping, tax evasion, racketeering, extortion, and various other charges. Gotti was sentenced to life in prison without the chance for parole; however, he died 10 years later of throat cancer in 2002. The...
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...restaurants, and shopping malls. There is just one difference, we all live differently according to social class. The social stratification is a system of structured social inequality. It can be described as one lady going to Macys with her credit card wasting $1,000.00 dollars in merchandise and the other woman going to a store of discounts in clothing with a strict budget of $20.00 paying in cash. Another way I see how there are inequalities in our society is a simple question, can you afford to go buy a Michael Kors bag? If you can’t, then the Payless store it is to buy a look-a-like that can hopefully give strangers the impression that you’re not in the poverty sector. Those that are part of the super-rich see the poor as lazy; they deserve to be with meager needs because they haven’t shown merit to escape the poverty class, and the underprivileged that they have to pay out of their tax dollars to support them. Sociologists say we need the poor it’s good for our economy out of many various reasons that most of society doesn’t realize. At least journalist B. Ehrenreich saw what it was to not make it in America as an experiment to educate us all in the jobs of the working class from the article “Nickel and Dimed.” I know I became well aware of these differences through reading the article called “Bohemian Grove” by Dr. William Domhoff, through the Rawls exercise, and the class structure activity that was completed in class. As in the United States, social stratification is...
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...Mass media have played and will continue to play a crucial role in the way white Americans perceive African-Americans. As a result of the overwhelming media focus on crime, drug use, gang violence, and other forms of anti-social behavior among African-Americans, the media have fostered a distorted and pernicious public perception of African-Americans. 1 The history of African-Americans is a centuries old struggle against oppression and discrimination. The media have played a key role in perpetuating the effects of this historical oppression and in contributing to African-Americans' continuing status as second-class citizens. As a result, white America has suffered from a deep uncertainty as to who African-Americans really are. Despite this racial divide, something indisputably American about African-Americans has raised doubts about the white man's value system. Indeed, it has also aroused the troubling suspicion that whatever else the true American is, he is also somehow black. 2 Racism Before attempting to understand racism and mass media, one must understand the history of racism. Race has become an institutional part of American society. From the Founding on, race has played an integral part in shaping the American consciousness. David Goldberg's Racist Culture argues that racial discourse may be interpreted as aversive, academic, scientific, legalistic, bureaucratic, economic, cultural, linguistic, religion, mythical, or ideological. 3 He also stresses that racialized...
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...in America. According to an article on the website diversityinc “"Latino" and "Hispanic" are terms used in the United States to identify individuals whose ancestry comes from a variety of countries where Spanish is their main language” (Arroyo, 2010). Mexican Americans In the United States Mexican- Americans comprise the largest portion of the Hispanic community. Mexican Americans are mainly concentrated in the Southern areas of the United States, mainly Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada and, Texas(Pearson Education, Inc. 2009). One main reason people immigrate to the United States is to escape poor living conditions in search for better jobs and education. According to the website diversityinc “In the modern era, persistent poverty has been one of the abiding problems of the Mexican economy. The economy has few safety nets; there is no unemployment compensation and the poor do not receive welfare payments” (Arroyo, 2010). The primary language of Mexican Americans is Spanish. Most Mexican Americans are literate and able to communicate in English also. As a customer service manager I often deal with Mexican Americans, they are very respectful to everyone. However, I often witness Caucasian Americans being disrespectful to Mexican Americans because they perceive them as a threat, mainly because of the flood of non-English speaking illegal immigrants. Mexican Americans seem to place a high prominence on valuing the considerations of family over...
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...(2014). Cross-linguistic comparison of speech errors produced by English-and French-speaking preschool-age children with developmental phonological disorders. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology: 16(2), 98-108. Burtoff Civan, Michele, Vilsaint, Fequiere, Morisset-Metellus, Gepsie. The Haitians: their history and culture. The Refugee Service Center, Center for Applied Linguistics: Washington, DC. Buxton, Cory A., Lee, Okhee, Mahotiere, Margarette. (2008). The role of language in academic and social transition of Haitian children and their parents to urban U.S. schools. Bilingual Research Journal: 31, 47-74 Cronin, Kristine. (2013). Volunteer in Haiti. The ASHA Leader: 18(4). Etienne, Corinne. (2005). The lexical particularities of French in the Haitian press: readers’ perceptions and appropriation. French Language Studies: 15, 257-277. Gage, Anastasia & Guirlene Calixte, Marie. (2006). Effects of the physical accessibility of maternal health services on their use in rural Haiti. Populations Studies: 60(3), 271-288. Melius, Heidi Marie, Wilen, Diane K., Savian, Irvika. Potential impact of Haitian-Creole syntax and phonology on English language learners. Multicultural & ESOL Program Services...
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...“No pain, no joy.” -Carlos Eire “A bend of the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn.” Where these words originate from, I can’t say, but I can say the I have never understood them more because of the inspiring story of Carlos Eire. The memoir of Carlos Eire, Learning To Die in Miami, is a first hand account of a young Cuban refugee boy’s escape from Fidel Castro’s, Castrolandia in 1962. From start to finish Eire recounts as many memories as his conscience and subconscious will allow. In his memoir he focuses heavily on his “nine months and two weeks,” at the “Palace Ricardo.” It is evident to me that Carlos was molded and changed from the experience. In this essay I will focus on this time in Carlos Eire’s life and expose those defining moments from his, “Palace Ricardo” Phase, and argue that not only did it alter his life, it also prepared him and awakened him to his life and years to follow by learning to “bend with the road”. I will also draw from other sources to further illuminate his path to success through this difficult time. To set the tone; when Carlos Eire began his experience at “The Palace Ricardo”, he had already been air lifted from his parents and home in Cuba and shuffled from refugee holding grounds surrounded by strangers where he ate strange food in a strange land. Then he was given to a Jewish foster family. From this place of comfort he grew to love, he was quickly thrown into a house that his parents never hoped for...
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...These universities and the NCAA make millions of dollars on the backs of these student-athletes and they are unable to financially profit on any of this money. In 2010 the Big 10 conference made over 905 million dollars off of a combination of merchandise, licensing fees, ticket sales, concession sales, and television contracts (Branch). That is an insane level of money the universities in that conference made. Each year they only make even more money with college football bringing in more viewers and fans every year. In 2011 a report came out called “The Price of Poverty in Big Time College Sports” revealed that eighty-five percent of student-athletes on scholarship live below the poverty line (Mitchell and Edelman). So while the universities make this extraordinary level of profit of these athletes they are left to live broke and in poverty, sometimes unable to eat at nights. While this goes on the NCAA pays their associate president Mark Emmert 1.7 million dollars a year (Mitchell and Edelman). At the start of the 2010 football season former Georgia Bulldogs wide receiver AJ Green said he sold his jersey from the Independence Bowl a year...
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...After a long and exhausting day at work, I decide to relax and watch some television. I curl up on the couch, turn on the tv and begin to watch one of my favourite tv shows, "The Golden Girls."The show revolves around the lives of four elderly women living in Miami during the 1980s. As I am watching, I for the first time notice the four "elderly" women depicted in the show all defy the general concepts of ageing as well as ageing stereotypes. The female characters all are very healthy, fashionable, energetic, social, employed and have active love lives. This portrayal is a great contrast from the depiction of the grumpy, unhealthy, introverted and frail perceptions modern media and society associates with the elderly. This makes me wonder,...
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