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Essays 1951 - 1980

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

Maya Angelou Gives an Eloquent Voice to This Generation

this definition of black heroism and to the outline of a typical success story" (Walker, 1995, p. 91). Angelou is as simple...

Hispanic Community, Health Care, and Government

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

Effects of Negro League Baseball

Frank Thompson in Long Island, who organized a group of Argyle Hotel waiters in the 1880s and ultimately merged with a Philadelphi...

Federal Policy and its Impact upon Economic Development and Communities

$100 billion of (mainly corporate) tax cuts" (Anonymous A clash of wills; The economy, 2001; p. NA). Some of the top United States...

A Case Study in Hospital Critical Thinking

however, without first obtaining better control of interorganizational practices. Indeed, the situation at present is not only ch...

Community Health Nursing Considerations

making a critical separation between their medical and social responsibilities within the short time allowed in an office visit. ...

Society's Mission and the Concept of Prevention

of health care approaches, including prevention and rehabilitation" (Smith & Moyers 311). Smith and Moyers point out why the Unit...

Service and Volunteerism in the US, Chile, and France

recently wrote that "a few years back, my wife and I hosted a high school senior from Yugoslavia (Serbia) who wondered what I was ...

Rev. Hooper's Last Words in 'The Minister's Black Veil' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

EDTA Chelation Therapy as an Alternative Treatment Approach

have taken years to develop. The most vocal proponent of the treatment, Elmer M. Cranton, M.D., maintains that the only effective...

Motherhood Critique by Black Feminists

child (Eckhaus, 2002). Just look at modern mothers for verification of this. Mothers today are torn between working, shuttling k...

Robert Rodriguez's Films and Cultural Identities

direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...

911 and its Effects Upon San Diego's Islamic Community

communities after two of the hijackers of the jetliner which crashed into the Pentagon were linked to their community. Since the a...

Australia's Approach to Crime Prevention

NCPPs objectives are to identify and promote innovative ways of reducing and preventing crime and the fear of crime. The program i...

U.S. Mentoring Programs and Impact

discussed. By reviewing actual examples of mentoring programs, the impact of such programs becomes more clear and evident. What...

A Community Health Plan for Obesity

goals and interventions which are compatible with those identified in "Healthy People 2010". Eight assessment parameters will be ...

Contemporary Society and African Americans' Roles

are unable to advance and thus are thrown into a never ending cycle of self depreciation. Yes, true, the United States Just...

Common Denominator in Works by Walzer, Bellah et al, and Etzioni

exuded by individuals each and every day -- even though not necessarily outwardly obvious - is, according to the points upon which...

Agribusiness and Farming Differences

the ground to yield food that did not place them in danger as hunting sometimes did. As such, then, the discovery of farming was a...

Lawmaking and the ECJ

House of Lords, where there is the ability for input before the law is passed. This is seen as reducing the ambiguity, and also co...

African American Community, Important Theories of Psychology, and the Causes and Effects of Neglect and Oppression

1998). What these factors are telling many within the mental health community it that the majority of African Americans are living...

Chaucer, Beowulf, and Lifestyles

rural lifestyle. Lacey and Danziger comment that the popular image of the medieval hall, with its rush-covered floor and central f...

Rural Community Development Issues

by their larger neighbor, in fact if not in name. Those rural communities further away from metropolitan areas or positioned in a...

Behavioral Intervention Regarding Conduct Disorder in the Community

to measure conduct disorder (Kazdin, 1995, 45) " Kazdins "Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence"...

Communities and the Negative Effects of the Adult Entertainment Industry

"these amendments affirm the Citys determination to protect neighborhoods from the adverse impacts of adult entertainment business...

Community in Medicine River by Thomas King

place that Will checks out in regards to a loan is the Department of Indian Affairs. Whitney Oldcrow shakes his head and explains ...

Questions and Answers on Sociology

"good guys," as they facilitate peoples efforts to improve their lives. When a social worker first comes into an ethnically divers...

Cinematic Examples of the Model of Due Process and the Roles Played by Community and the Law

however, such as "The Verdict" try to show the benefits of due process within the legal system. [The concept of the "role of law"...

Loss of Community Involvement

nor needs to scavenge for food, he still needs the collective safety of the pack or herd. This banding together for common good me...