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US Urban Areas and Homelessness

City, 2003). In the past year, "requests for emergency shelter increased ... by an average of 6 percent ... Requests for shelter ...

US Juvenile Justice System

(Emerge, 1998; p. 48). Just nine months prior, on January 1, 1997, the state of Michigan had implemented its aggressive "get toug...

U.S. Dieting Problems

of her life, and was taken by her mother to her first weight-loss center at age 10, when she already weighed 125 pounds (West and ...

Latin America and Obesity

of food, and while in some instances that is true, it is not characteristic of obesity. While many people know when they are obes...

Customers, Weight Gain, and Restaurant Accountability

a personal decision and the effect is not singular but one of accumulative effect. For many it is deemed that the weight gain is s...

Trouble in American Society

is a spiritual reality, possessing an eternal life but a delicate constitution: it cannot be scrapped and recast as if it were a m...

US Children and Obesity

need to be more in tune to their childrens activities and their food choices. Obesity observes no geographic or socioeconom...

Controversy Over US Social Security

the states - which paid half the costs. By 1939, all states had enacted OAA and, as a result, it came to be the primary method of ...

American Health Care

over the decades--people can opt to purchase lower priced vehicles or do without. They may own homes and cars already. Life is aff...

Racial Violence and Racism

In five pages issues connected to racial violence and racism are examined in terms of a description of various types, ethnic and c...

Downsizing of Corporations

In seven pages America's corporate downsizing problems are examined in terms of worker displacement effects with a concise descrip...

Latin America's Free Market Capitalism

In five pages Latin America's economic development is examined in an overview of relevant issues including free market capitalism ...

Latin America and the Foreign Policy of the United States

is evidence that the U.S. actually supported the revolution. Supposedly, President Kennedy uttered words which would be aligned wi...

Kenneth P. Wilkinson and the Idea of Community

is to try and come up with a working definition of community in rural America, which is not as easy as it sounds. He points out th...

Government's Sights on Healthcare Insurance

good first step would be with torte reform so that physicians are not required to order expensive and often unnecessary tests for ...

America's Best Drug Policy Option

of the crime problem, they carried with them the frustration of knowing that despite all good intentions, alcohol (like drugs) wil...

Illegal Immigration as Seen Through the Eyes of Ted Author Conover

of the total U.S. population (Larsen, 2003). While many of these immigrants unquestionably play a positive role in U.S. society a...

Decline of Organized Religion and American Social Problems

idea that crime is caused by a change in social norms. V. Conclusion All of these things have in common is that they are thi...

Women as Victims of Violent Acts

against women in curricular content; and working toward changing attitudes towards women that condone, or may encourage, acts of v...

Integrating Information about Violence in Prisons

2009). During this incident, 32 inmates and 11 guards were killed. In 1980 there was a riot in a prison in New Mexico that took ...

Women's Participation in Domestic Violence

This essay, first of all, considers the impact of recent media exposure in regards to domestic violence incidents and celebrities....

Children and the Psychosocial Effects of Television Violence

to real-world violence, and thereby less empathetic to the pain and suffering of others (Chidley 37). Observations of teenagers re...

The Domestic Violence Arrest Decision Reviewed

claim the authors, can go a long way toward assisting response to those in need (Robinson and Chandek, 2000). The authors ...

Violence in Kaplan's 'Doe Season' and Jackson's 'The Lottery'

In five pages the violence associated with ritual is examined in this comparative analysis of these stories by Kaplan and Jackson....

Language and the Impact of Violence in Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved

In five pages this paper references Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved in a consideration of how language is affected by viole...

Theories and School Violence

book the authors seek an understanding of violence in schools and they illustrate their particular model in their study and resear...

Family Violence

and physical injury with love is incomprehensible to most people, but the facts are undeniable: thousands of women suffer untold a...

Taiwan and the US/Comparing Domestic Violence

domestic violence, offering comparison to the legal standard on this issue in the US. In 1993, a horrific incident, the stabbing ...

School Violence and Population Statistical Charts

In eight pages this paper examines 4 APA charts regarding school violence which emphasizes the importance of statistical analysis....

Analysis of a Journal Article on School Violence

for those families who depend upon its services. It is important for the student to consider the fact that if there is no role mo...