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DO WE NEED MORE GUN CONTROL?

Discusses pros and cons of gun control in the U.S. while pointing out that the current solutions aren't particularly effective...

Do Children Living With Their Mom Only do Worse

The incidence of children living in single-parent homes continues to increase and it is usually the mother raising the children. M...

Is It Morally Acceptable For An Employer To Make Rules Against Dating In The Workplace?

greater good, however, it fails to take into account the consideration of the lesser numbers, who continue to represent yet anothe...

Young Children And Play: Developing Magical Outdoor Spaces And Healing Gardens

of creating magical outdoor spaces and healing gardens - not the least of which includes Burpee Seed Company and the University of...

Family Systems Theory

equilibrium" (Christian, 2006). Each of these features lies within their own continuum. For instance, while all families establish...

What Does the Bible Say About the Poor.

The rate of poverty in the world and even in this country is growing instead of decreasing. Urban churches are right in the midst ...

bell hooks “Bone Black”

What hooks has described with all the innocence of childhood is the ugly reality of busing, a controversial and still roundly disl...

The Problem of Poverty: A Look at Santa Rosa, Florida

11.9%(2004) ("Santa Rosa County," 2008). * There is less poverty in Santa Rosa County than in Florida overall. * Yet, clos...

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

U.S. Immigration

poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...

Relief from Debt for 3rd World Nations

"From misery to poverty" is the aim that international financial institutions (IFIs) have had in taking on their "consulting" role...

The Old Guitarist Painting by Pablo Picasso

the blue period would further find inspiration. "Having outgrown his possibilities in Madrid (Spain) by the age of 19, he went to ...

'Up the Coulee' by Hamlin Garland

is a story about change - the change in a man, people he recognizes and knew his entire life did not recognize this man who Garl...

Africa, Health, Poverty, and AIDS

viewpoint on the topic is important for research, if effective means of reducing and eradicating the disease are to be found. ...

Problems Facing Native American Nations

This difference resulted in friction between the peoples of this new nation (and in particular its government) and the Native Amer...

Poverty and Canada’s First Nations

This escalation can be attributed to a number of factors, one of the most prominent of which is the decline of the indigenous nucl...

Arguing about the Minimum Wage

prejudice. At any rate, MacKenzie argues that raising the minimum wage will hurt the very people its supposed to help, because emp...

Family/Childcare Issues & Single Parent

as the "irregular household structures-of the working poor" (Nelson, 2006). For example, one young working mother relies on her mo...

Two Social Work Issues

When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...

Developing Nations and Management Issues

of any country appears to go through different stages when becoming industrialised. The issue of industrial relations is one aspec...

Gender, Class, and Race from a Social Perspective

Much of what Rubin (1994) says is true, of course, but there are also other perspectives available. The author seems to want...

United States, Latino Immigration, and Poverty

according to Nieman Reports researcher Joe Rodriguez (1999, p. 45). Basically, the welfare laws allow states to choose between con...

Poverty, Masculinity, and George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier

instead, have served to almost break mens spirits. He seems to have been illustrating the immense danger a political system could ...

Globalization and Poverty

a day" (The World Bank Group, 2001). In terms of infant mortality we can see that "Eight out of every 100 infants do not live to s...

Poverty and Education Relationship

human needs. If they do not know where their next meal is coming from, or where they will sleep that night, they are not likely to...

Ohio and the Middle East

rainfall that is well distributed throughout the year (MSN Learning & Research). It varies from 28 inches per year on Catawba Isla...

Poverty in Central America

begun in 1850 that affected El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama well into the twentieth century" (Habegger, Pearlman, 200...

Women and Poverty in America

women were in a sort of Catch-22 situation. Charities did not want to contribute to able bodied women, but at the time women could...

Poverty and Globalization

of globalization at the supranational level, it has a great impact on subnational dynamics (Yusuf, 2000). There has been a trend, ...

Poverty, Women, and Social Work

community solidarity which...provided a sufficient rational for local responsibility" (Trattner, 1999, p. 16). Furthermore, the po...