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Peekskill New York's Adolescents

population of children and adolescents in the region, with 18.9 percent of the population between the ages of 5-17 (Census, 2000)....

Disaster Preparedness and Environmental Psychology

certain cultural movements have made it such that the nature of risk management and disaster prevention in societies is now given ...

Does Hip Hop Harm Black Americans?

and its signature musical expression, rap music, which evolved from the "African American, Afro-Caribbean and Latino communities o...

Policing: Solving Problems

about the problem. Once the problem is discretely defined through analysis, the team would generate possible solutions through bra...

Organizations, Communities, Poverty

can and do influence the characteristics of the organizations within the society" (p. 76). It is also true that the industry withi...

Policing Models Compared

model go to long standing issues such as gang violence or traffic problems. In other words, the focus is not just on resolving a s...

Are Judges an Anachronism to the Criminal Justice System?

For all of its faults and shortcomings, the American legal system is the best in the world. That system revolves around two prima...

Obesity in Brooklyn

formed in 2003 to push forward clinical research (NIH, 2010). National measures have been undertaken, but they need to be suppor...

Emerging Christianity in the Book of Acts

have had too much wine" (Acts 2:13). Peter addresses the crowd, pointing out that the men are sober and relating this mira...

Health Issues in Managed Care

This research paper offers brief discussion of 3 issues pertaining to managed care, which are the advantages and disadvantages of ...

Knowing the Signs of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity

regards to the obesity epidemic in America. It seems that over the last few decades, the numbers has risen more dramatically than ...

Physical Fitness Regulations Ensure Fitness of Police/Corrections Officers and Communities

bound by duty to protect. The Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research conducted a decade-long study from 1983 to 1993 that took ra...

David Carter's Stonewall: Why is it Important?

slice of heaven for the LGBT community in New York City. It was a place to be able to cozy up to a significant (or not-so-signific...

A Qualitative Assessment of Patton-Fuller Community Hospital's Online Web Portal

and health care demands, in part, that hospitals provide a functional presence on the web as a way of providing a higher quality o...

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital - Network Security Concerns

The paper explores the benefits of the Electronic Medical Record system, or EMR, that several hospitals have begun to adopt. There...

Being Independent or Being Part of the Community

are part of the community, even if not actively so. It comes down to the old adage of "it takes all kinds" for communities are mad...

Article Analysis/When to Start Social Security Benefits

the governments benefits calculator, which is available online, but argue that its breakeven calculation is erroneous because it a...

Community Social Workers

Tasks also include problem solving, decision making, planning change, organizing, building collaborative relationships, community ...

In Favor of the Ground Zero Mosque

This research paper offers an over-all summary of the debate over whether or not New York City should allow construction of an Isl...

Leadership Skills and Community College President Performance - A Research Proposal

That said, a few quality studies have been carried out to attempt to isolate which particular leadership skills have the most impa...

Choosing a Healthcare Intervention

have a side effect. For example, if this is occurring in an area where there is fluoride being added, and the process will strip t...

Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.)

Drug Abuse Resistance Education, the program most commonly referred to as D.A.R.E. targets kids in the classroom with information ...

Farming, An Occupational Health Assessment

population" (Nyman, Butterfield and Shreffler-Grant, 2009, p. 282). Description of farming: Farming is "more than a business; i...

The Importance of Economics: Common Property

foundational to the very concept of economics. Without the exchange of commodities in exchange for the ownership of other commodit...

Community Mental Health Movement, An Overview

to address such social welfare needs as housing and job training (Ritter and Lampkin 11). Social bias against the people sufferi...

Action Plan for Research Design and Method

sustainable practices and offering degree courses in career paths directly related to sustainability such as civic planning and en...

Correctional Institutions Stakeholders

Institutional facility is a good example. California found that violence was reduced if they separated Hispanic and Black prisons ...

Article Analysis, an Amish Community Newspaper

Mennonite beliefs eschew all forms of technology. Therefore, their community members are forbidden by their belief system to use t...

Community Colleges and Sustainability - A Dissertation Proposal

living in the US... by developing policies and plans to initiate actions through students and faculty" (Spilde 2009, p. 6). This d...

"Phenomenal Women," Article Analysis

these clubs provide "alternative sista [sister] spaces," which become significant locations for "literacy learning and literacy ac...