Q3: Business Report Background We have been hired by Gaby Darbyshire Gawker Medias president and chief operating officer to analyze their new blog site preggers.com and their magazine titled Teen Pregnancy. Gawker wants to see if this site will be a successful business decision. We have already put it up in a focus group and it has already stirred up a lot of anger among a few and others thinking it will be a good idea. We think it is a good business decision in with making this an actual website
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Teen pregnancy and resulting births pose many societal challenges, and as a result require the collective efforts of many to provide solutions. Teen pregnancy has been considered a "social ill" for centuries in the United States and has always challenged moral and ethical sensibilities. The economic costs of teens giving birth are significant, and there are many compelling reasons to reduce the teen pregnancy. Research shows that reducing the number of births to teens and increasing the age at which
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Teenage pregnancy is a serious issue in our society today where people become pregnant because they are not informed. The United States had the greatest amount of pregnancies. Teenage pregnancy affects not only females but males as well; it causes serious health and education problems. “Nearly 4 out of 10 girls become pregnant at least once before the age of 20.” () Most teens get pregnant because they want to know what it feels like to raise a child or because they see others with children and they
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or need any form of welfare. All in all investing in programs like Job Corps is beneficial, because it means less money is being spent on prison costs and welfare. After reading the reducing teen pregnancy section I both agree and disagree with what it said. I don’t agree that putting teenage girls
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Community Health Practice Aline Prosper HAT 1 November 2, 2012 Western Governor University Community Health Practice The community we are introducing today is the people living around McGuire Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Richmond Virginia. A decade ago, African-American and European-American populated Southside Richmond only. Southside Richmond, like the whole state, is experiencing increasing racial diversity with the rapid growth of Hispanic and Asian populations. African-American
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Creating a Social Program Shanequa Young HSM 240 March 30, 2014 Lori Moon Creating a Social Program Department of Education The Shanequa L. Young Foundation is respectfully requesting a grant in the amount of $125,000, for our Youth Empowerment Program. As one of the largest teen outreach programs, we are aware of the changing demographics in our service area. We are committed to ensure our project meets the needs of the addressed purpose. Our intentions are to (1) provide comprehensive
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IMPACTS OF GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES IN TACKLING TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN ENGLAND Name of student Class name Instructor’s name Name of school Date ABSTRACT Teenage pregnancy is one of the major problems affecting the United Kingdom’s not only the health sector but also all other sectors. The problem has slowly been increasing and through its associated negative impacts has affected the economic status of the country due to increased number of school drop-outs. Accessibility
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Canyon University: NRS-427V For my community teaching experience I chose to address a widespread need in my local and surrounding communities. This need is for more education regarding birth control options available for the young adult teenage population. The school districts in my county only require that sexual education be done once in the ninth grade and this class goes over the basics from menarche to sexual reproduction. However they only briefly describe birth control methods alluding
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protect against pregnancy and the male and female condoms protect against sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and HIV. This arouses the question should teenagers be allowed to obtain these devices without parental consent. The answer is yes. Teenagers should be able to obtain birth control devices without their parents’ permission. There are countless reasons why birth control devices should be available to everyone. Among these reasons are the number and effects of teenage pregnancy, the right to
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There is an on-going debate in the Caribbean about whether sex education should be taught in schools. The questions of who, why and is it appropriate are still unanswered. The statistics every year shows the rate of teenage pregnancy and the number of teens having sex is escalating in the Caribbean. The percentage of births that take place during adolescence is about 18% in Latin America and the Caribbean (WHO, 2016). Conservatives normally believe that abstinence should be the only policy taught
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