Essays on Orphans

Introduction

Business leaders across the globe have value statements that guide them throughout their lives. Core values are characterized as things of worth and serve as guideposts for associations on initiative and basic leadership (Browning, 2009). Core values speak to the center needs of a person’s or an organization’s way of life. At its most fundamental, a value statement depicts the general motivation behind the individual or group. It reveals insight into a person’s values and sympathy toward other people and activities for survival. The value statement is a convincing portrayal of the state and capacity of ...

The was a time in the 18th century when the widows and orphans left behind by the ones who had passed on was a responsibility overtaken by the neighbors, the relatives and certain groups that took charge of the ones who were in grief. Matters took a turn for the worse when the human life and its demise was turned into a business and where the protection of the widowed and the children started being discussed in terms of finances. Professional services became available for the purpose of the drafting of wills and last wishes. The immoral practice in ...

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Leonardo Pisa

Prior to the introduction of modern concepts for calculation, various mathematical operations would have required proficiency in the use of the abacus. However, in 1202, Leonardo da Pisa, an Italian math expert, released a book entitled “Liber Abaci,” or “Book for Calculation.” The book revolutionized the methods of calculating figures by establishing useful approaches in using the Arabic numbers 0 to 9 to the Western world. Though the book did not find immediate acceptance in the West, in the end it revolutionized the areas of commerce, finance, research, science and technology. Furthermore, da Pisa’s work laid the ...

Human Rights for Orphans and Abandoned Children without Adequate Care

The Convention on the Rights of the Child with its Protocols regulates issue of human rights of children. The protection of children and prohibition of child labor to name a few, are concerns said to be integral and important for any entity working to protect the dignity of children. One such issue is the the human rights of orphans and abandoned children who often are not given adequate care due to the fact that they are not well protected and in some cases not protected at all either by relatives or their parents. As a result these children need ...

Human Rights for Orphans and Abandoned Children without Adequate Care

The issue of human rights of children is regulated by the Convention on the Rights of the Child with its Protocols. They refer to the protection of a child, prohibition of child labor and other issues that are fundamentally important and protect children’s dignity. However, some categories of children require special attention and care with this respect. The human rights of orphans and abandoned children constitute a specific issue, as they have fewer chances to be protected by parents and relatives. Therefore, as a violation of their rights may seem easier, these children need more legal protection. The ...

Vital stakeholders in advocating & protection of children's rights

The current global society faces several challenges one of them being the increase in the number of orphaned and abandoned children. In war-affected regions such as the ongoing war in Syria, several children have been left to fend for themselves after the death of their parents/guardians. In other cases, early marriages have been the cause for the increase in the number of abandoned children. According to recent statistics from UNICEF, the number of orphaned children in 2016 is 132 million (Grovogui, 2016). The same organization reports that there are over 30 million children forced to live away from their ...

Leonardo Pisa of Italy

Leonardo Pisano (Fibonacci) (1170 – 1250) was a popular Italian mathematician of the Medieval Period that made significant contributions to the history of finance. He was the first person to develop the value analysis concept (retracement) that compares the economic value and the contractual cash flow. Influenced by the economic evolution in the Mediterranean, he made lifetime discoveries that had a profound impact on public finance and capital enterprise in Europe. In his arithmetic book, ‘Liber Abaci’, Fibonacci expressed his discoveries of the mathematical concepts in commercial trade. He developed mathematical concepts of interest rates, calculation of profits, conversion of ...

The issue of human rights of children is regulated by the Convention on the Rights of the Child with its Protocols. They refer to the protection of a child, prohibition of child labor and other issues that are fundamentally important and protect children’s dignity. However, some categories of children require special attention and care with this respect. The human rights of orphans and abandoned children constitute a specific issue, as they have fewer chances to be protected by parents and relatives. Therefore, as a violation of their rights may seem easier, these children need more legal protection. The ...

(Author Name) (Course Name/Number) Poverty is a problem that has existed since the beginning of time. Although we primarily view poverty as the lack of finances in today’s currency driven economy, in reality, poverty can be measured absolutely or relatively, depending on a number of different factors that contribute to the target population being assessed. A closer look at the definition of poverty reveals that; Poverty can be defined in a range of different ways: as lack of resources or income available to purchase necessities or to achieve an acceptable standard of living; through actual levels of expenditure; ...

A variety of our cultural perspectives on ethnicity, race, and identity offers a wide range of perspectives that affect our individual and collective characters and perception of ourselves and some of the important roles played by these factors in clarifying how we interact with the world around us. This enables us to understand racial and ethnic identity growth and articulates the unique experiences in the past and present of various ethnic groups. Ethnicity affects almost everyone in life. It has a positive influence in that it may provide us with a sense of identity and belonging enabling us to ...

Every time I reflect on the words of E. E. Cummings, I realize that I have been on the same career development in my whole life. Cummings indicates that “To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting”. These words reflect the story of my life in curriculum and career development.

Looking back, in precedent years, my family adopted five orphans, all with different backgrounds, from Russia. These children needed to ...

Executive Summary

Even though discussions about HIV/AIDS have pre-occupied academic and policy debates for decades, scientific research has reached remarkable scale, and, prevention methods are getting more advanced, the prospects for a cure are still not bright. Advances in prevention mechanisms have reduced the prevalence of the disease but it still has devastating effects on individuals and families in developing nations. One of HIV/AIDS’s major effects is the breakup of families and the creation of orphans. The death of parents often leaves children to care for their siblings. Young people yet to experience their childhood are forced into parenthood at a ...

Kenya is a country that is found in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa. It is a country with an approximate population of 40 million people. With a square kilometer area of approximately 582000, Kenya is among the third world countries that are under developed. A former colony of Britain, Kenya mainly depends on agriculture as its main economic backbone although the type of agriculture practiced in the country is not mechanized. Most of its land lies in arid and semiarid climatic areas. Alongside agriculture, the successive governments of Kenya have stepped up campaigns to promote tourism. Tourism has contributed to ...

History

HIV AIDS is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in the world today. In most developing countries, the disease has brought untold suffering to key populations especially in resource strained countries in sub Saharan Africa. It is against this back ground that “friends of the less fortunate” group was formed. This is a charitable group that started way back in 2005 at Yale university school of medicine to create HIV awareness in rural communities in Africa. It was formed by three African American doctors who were on scholarship at the University. The group also supports over 500 ...

The Tuskegee Health Experiment: A Question of Bureaucratic Morality? Were there precise moral and ethical issues that the case presents? Are they dependent upon race, color economic status, and/or geographical location? Why or why not? The government bears the responsibility for ensuring that all human rights are well protected. In relation to the Tuskegee experiment, both the government and health organizations are supposed to conduct researches that meet moral and ethical standards. There were cases of the people used in the experiment being exploited by the researchers. This is why the health organizations and the government wanted to ...

The American Dream is the ‘soul of еру American politics.’ The notion stems from the Declaration of Independence, the text of which says that all people are equal and have an unalienable rights granted to everyone. The right to life, the right to liberty and the right to pursuit of happiness are among them. The striving for happiness is the American dream (Kamp, 2009). The spirit of the American Dream is the belief that every person, if he/she works hard, this person would be able to achieve the well-being, which he/she deserves, because he/she has all the possibilities. By ...

The short-term and long-term effects of child abandonment and neglect are not things to be taken lightly (Trocme & Wolfe, 2001). Statistics indicate that child abandonment and neglect contribute to nearly half of all annual fatalities associated with child maltreatment (Erickson & Egeland, 2002). This paper opines that annual deaths associated with child neglect can be reduced by half if decent measures are established to minimize child abandonment and neglect. In addition, statistics indicate that child neglect or abandonment tops the list of child abandonment charts. This form of child maltreatment is not only the hardest to evaluate, but also ...

Thesis Proposal

The purpose of this research is to analyze and suggest the potential legal and social solutions that are imperative for the purpose of securing rights of those who are orphaned in Islamic countries on account of ongoing civil and political unrest. The research will be structured in the form of five chapters that shall effectively cover the objective of this research.

CHAPTER 1

In this chapter, I am going to analyze in detail the political turmoil and civil unrest in Syria and the consequent burgeoning orphan issues. I will highlight how the ongoing crises have impacted the turmoil in the social ...

After the Arab Spring revolution a lot of children suffered and were left as orphans. Some people from Arab Muslim countries, especially the Gulf States wanted to take care of the orphans. Under the Islamic law however it was a big issue. The children would not have the citizenship identity under the private law in civil law; furthermore their rights would be aggrieved. Initially, no one thought about how these government procedures would affect the children. If this issue was not addressed, the children would suffer and face many problems. The problem regarding the name change would be in conflict ...

Introduction

Since the revolution in many Arab countries, the number of orphan children has consequently increased, for instance in Syria (United Nations Children Education Fund 2). These children are very vulnerable because their basic needs are not being met and their future is not secured (Sherlock 1). Adoption would be a viable solution alongside other social measures. Adoption is viable since many people in the Arab countries would want to adopt children for one reason or another. The impediment is that adoption of children under Islamic law is faced with many bottlenecks. Even if it is possible to navigate the many ...

Gay marriage remains one of the controversial issues in American politics. One of the critical topics associated with gay couples entails adoption of children for foster care. The issue of gay couples to adopt children is one of the political issues in the United States. These are based on the fact that the voters’ decision focus on the issue as one of the agendas towards elections. The political history and election decisions are based on whether the candidates support the gay adoption or not. Adoption of children by gay couples for foster care has been legalized in various states. ...

Hotel Rwanda is a film that reveals an overview of the events in Rwanda during its ten-year war between the Hutu and Tutsi (Two tribes in Rwanda). The plot of the film revolves around Hotel des Mille Collines’ manager, Paul Rusesabagina, (a Hutu), his wife Tatiana (a Tutsi), and their children. From the movie, their marriage seems to experience problems because of a tussle between the two communities. Paul tries to bribe militiamen with alcohol and money just to keep his family safe. When the war begins to escalate, a military official takes orphaned children to the hotel and forces Paul to take care ...

Marriage is one of the important institutions in society. In fact, marriage in society is central and ubiquitous. It is worth noting that marriage is a platform of various socialization agents in the community. People in society get married regardless of their class, religion, ethnicity, or education. There are various types of marriage in the world today. Gay marriage is a type of marriage that has undergone various changes. Gay marriage refers to the union between two individual who is of the same biological sex or the same gender. Gay marriages are the controversial issues in the world today. Gay marriage ...

The system of adoption is practiced by western nations and was introduced by them. Western laws, such as those of the USA are rigorous when it comes to adoption matters. The child has to come before all the other interests. Gulf nations have adopted the same school of thinking when it comes to the adoption of orphans. They have put in place measures that seek to grant orphans citizenship in under the article on private law that has been passed under foreign law policies. The Arabic states, however, do not have such reforms but have an increased number of ...

Charity organizations have an array of responsibilities that they should execute in order to ensure there is sustainability in the society. Generally, the charitable organizations are expected to be non-profit making, and they should shun from the quest to attain market benefits. In the light of this, firms that wish to sponsor these charitable organizations should evaluate them in order to understand their viability. Therefore, in this paper I will analyze the Makkah Charity Assembly to identify its feasibility; hence, make recommendations to my organization that wishes to sponsor the assembly. Makkah Charity Association is a humanitarian organization that ...

The largest Ebola epidemic of all times plagued the world in 2014. The outbreak started in Guinea in 2014 and then extended to other West African countries in 2014. The worst hit countries are Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Other countries including Nigeria, Senegal, United States of America and Spain have reported isolated Ebola cases. However, the three worst hit countries in West Africa bear the largest weight of the epidemic. Since the beginning of the outbreak, there has been 8,399 reported cases and 4,033 deaths related to Ebola. The world health organization and the center for ...

1.Social Security Expenditures: A historic viewpoint. Throughout the 1980s, the social security expenditure in Greece dates back to the historic times. The welfare system in Greece has integrated vital legislative laws and acts. After the democracy reestablishment in the year 1974, objectives related social security issues have a new definition, and new policies are present with the aim of expanding social security insurance coverage. This coverage has tried to balance resource reallocations and region inequalities in relation to low income and lower classes. The main objective of the balance is clear in the Greece legislative acts. From the year ...

Social Security and Social Insurance Research of Chile

This study is dedicated to overview of the social security and social insurance system of Chile. This country performed transition to personal accounts system and social security privatization over 30 years ago. Many researches consider this reform as a big success, because it made the country economy stronger, financial system healthier and provided more protection to the taxpayers. But there’re also some serious issues in the social security system. - Social Security Expenditures: A historical perspective and a graph for it. Chile was one of the pioneer countries in the Western hemisphere that introduced state social security coverage. ...

A Community Service Experience

The organization that I believe that will be in need of my help is the organization called the Orphan Society of America (OSA). This organization OSA was established to give social and educational support to persons who have become orphans through violence. Based on their records, there are numerous children and adolescents who have been victims of violence that have left them orphaned. These orphans come from various states in America. Most of them lost their parents through several causes such as sudden deaths, homicide, suicide, disaster, and war. I believe that I will be able to help ...

The freedom of African- Americans came as a result of the abolition of slavery after the Civil War. Nearly all black persons were enslaved and endeavored to liberate themselves from the white masters. This essay examines the economic, political and social challenges that the freed African- Americans encountered and how they responded to overcome them. The most severe difficulty after freedom was in the economic sphere. Though the freed men were emancipated and could enjoy constitutional freedoms just like the white Americans, their economic power was badly distorted by slavery. They found themselves extremely poor. As slaves, the blacks ...

Introduction and thesis

Gay adoption occurs as one of the most equivocal topics that have generated an immense debate across various settings all around the globe. In fact, gay adoption occurs as one of the most equivocal topics across various contexts. Speaking of gay adoption this connotes to act of allowing gay couples to adopt children (Greenberg et al. 14). While much has been hypothesized regarding gay adoption is essential to note that there are various ways in which gay adoption is good. Those opposed to gay adoption often articulate gay couples are a bad example to children and allowing them to adopt ...

- According to sura 89:15-20, it is very important for a Bedouin to be generous to orphans, to feed the poor, to distribute the inheritance honestly and not to be obsessed with wealth. The sura 90 confirms the necessity of feeding orphans and poor people. Besides Quran states that to live a good life a person should believe in Allah, be kind and have a neck free from burden of debt of slavery. The sura 92 teaches a person to affirm goodness, believe in Allah and not to deny truth. The verse 24 from the sura 89 says that a person after his or her ...

HIV/AIDS prevalence in Southern Africa has remained high in the last decade and it is a very important indicator of the state of the epidemic in the region. There are several demographic factors that play a critical role in the sustaining of this condition in Southern Africa and this paper will explore the correlations between these factors and the epidemics, causes and impacts of demographics on the spread and tackling of the most serious epidemic in the world. It is estimated that 24.5 million of the 34.3 million infections around the world are in Africa and in 2000 8.57% of ...

Abstract

Childhood development may be evaluated on the basis of the environments within which they grow. In this case, the mainly considered places for bring up children are orphanages, foster care centers, as well as family homes. Each of these places of growth may have unique influence to the development of a child. The differences that may be defined in this case are differences on the principles of bringing up children in the different sets of children homes. Although, orphanages are the most common homes for abandoned and orphan children, they are the most challenging environments of bringing up children. ...

10 Skills That a Human Services Professional Must Have Every profession especially in the human service sector needs certain skills to ensure that the service been offered is highly effective and efficiently satisfies the needs of the client. This paper will focus on ten skills that a social worker should have so as to work effectively and fit efficiently in any place of work.

Communication

One is communication. This being the avenue that people use to convey messages or information, it is very vital to social work. The social worker must be a very good communicator; one who can easily read and ...

A Dissertation Proposal

Overview The interest of international law includes the improvement of the condition and welfare of orphans around the world. Moreover, religion also emphasized the importance of looking after the less fortunate children apart from the concerns expressed in the international treaties. In fact, the Quran mentioned about the orphans several times more than any other religious texts. The rationale behind it is that the older society encompasses a kind of injustice and oppression towards the vulnerable members of the society such as children, women and elderly. This is because of the mindset of the people in older society, which ...

A couple of days ago Сnn has posted a series of articles to represent their latest investigations on international adoption issues. They have spoken to the adopted kids, their families as well as experts, discussing all the peculiarities of the process. Taking into consideration the seriousness of child trading problem, governments should focus on adopters and orphans within their own countries, what might eventually lead to the decline of such a terrible business. One of the aforementioned articles depicts a story of a Korean woman, Trenka, who was adopted by American family back in 1972. Having lived in the US for 40 ...

Why I Came to the United States

I have experienced a great many things that I believe make me well prepared for the challenges and trials of attending David & Elkins College. I grew up in Saudi Arabia; there were not many people where I grew up, and as such I got to know the few people around me very well. In my country, there are quite a few people who struggle every day to get the primary health care that they need; even more struggle to become educated on health-related matters. Watching all of these people around me work so hard for what should be easily provided to ...

Introduction

The novel is about a man called Christopher Banks whom both of his parents disappeared his father was opium. Christopher was then forced to live in their aunt’s place where he desired and vowed to become a detective in that he was motivated by the fact that he did not know and understood the disappearance of his parents in a span of two weeks. Later he covers thi9sd through a large extend as he accomplished his work in china as he followed most of his cases. As a little boy for example he has trouble as his parents disappeared who are feared to ...

The cries of children are heard in the thick of the night as mothers try their best to breast feed the infants. Young brothers and sisters push each other and struggle for the last bit of food left in the plate. The elderly sit down in total weakness as they watch their strength drain away one day after another. People that are known to be strong and well ambled sit down in despair as they watch their loved ones perish in hunger and diseases. This is not just a thrilling story for entertainment, but is a reality in a number of the developing ...

My mission, assuming I am an alien (from another planet), is to find out whether Earth is a religious planet or not. Whatever observation and findings I may have, I will report the matter back to my superiors. My criteria to identify and verify earthling’s religiosity are, as follows: (1) Worship Activities; (2) Harmonious Living; and, (3) Charitable Deeds. For religious services, people worship a Spirit (Invisible) God who created from the beginning everything seen from the unseen. In terms of harmonious living, they value tolerance, peace, understanding, and human rights (e.g., respect). Concerning charitable works, they visit the fatherless ( ...

Introduction

For the purpose of this assignment, I will name the nonprofit organization Good Hope Centre. Good hope centre is a community based nonprofit educational facility that provides tutoring for underprivileged children from the community that this organization is located and to some extent to children who might be from outside communities, but have been assed and considered vulnerable. The organization majorly admits orphans with high levels of vulnerabilities. The organization is only two years in the community and has done a tremendous job despite the several challenges.

Discussion

The stakeholders that I would wish to influence to buy-in and commit to this ...

Children without parents or any reliable familial support are among the most vulnerable members of our society. Their protection within society poses a major challenge to child care policy makers. The international aid community has placed primacy on the protection of orphans across the world. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is guiding these efforts through a rights based approach to children and child welfare. The UNCRC has set standards for the protection of children without parental care, orphans and other vulnerable children. This paper will analyze the historical treatment of orphans based on the prevailing ...

Adoption refers to the process whereby an individual takes parenting responsibilities of another person. In this case, all parenting responsibilities transferred to the adopting parent(s) are lasting and therefore the process should be recognized by the society. Various countries have their different laws that guide the adoption process. In Russia, adoption is legally recognized by the law provided that the adopting parents meet all the requirements by the law. However, the emerging issues surrounding the security and welfare of the Russian children adopted by Americans has led to the implementation of a new adoption ban. This paper argues that ...

According to Conover, Skloot, in her book, addresses the gigantic issues of medical experiments as to “who owns our bodies, the use and misuse of medical authority, the unhealed wounds of slavery” (qtd in Skloot 2). Skloot addresses story in the history of the United State’s medical field whose past is clouded by a dark history of human medical experimentations. The dark history in western medicine shows a record of horrifying events of medical experiment carried out on patients. Unfortunately, many of such experiments have been performed on children, impoverished people, and other marginalized vulnerable groups. As if that is ...

Humanitarian aid is a common culture across the globe. Logistical or material assistance is offered in response to crises of humanitarian which include man-made and natural disasters. There are a substantial number of organizations that are created in different nations in order to offer this aid to the affected groups of people. Muslim as a religion has been providing humanitarian aid. This has resulted to significant influence on this aspect of humanitarian aid across the globe. This has promoted the value of charity both to Muslims and non-Muslims (Lewis 56). The humanitarian acts are taken are essential elements of practice in ...

This paper reviews the literature that connects asset savings and poverty to educational outcomes. Studies that have examined the roles of these factors in influencing educational outcomes have recorded positive results. Education is considered as the most fundamental asset savings element in combating poverty. Through education, learners are exposed to broad-based profitable opportunities that free individuals from the ravages of social marginalization. Owing to lack of access to social infrastructure and limited opportunities, the process of acquiring quality education proves to be challenging in poverty-stricken livelihoods (Paxson 11). US National database records from an analysis by UNESCO (40) indicate ...

1) I have experienced a great many things that I believe make me well prepared for the challenges and trials of attending medical school. I grew up in a rural area; there were not many people in my small town, and as such I got to know the few people around me very well. In this area, there are quite a few people who struggle every day to get the primary health care that they need; even more struggle to become educated on health-related matters. Watching all of these people around me work so hard for what should be easily provided ...

Orphan Train and Modern Adoption Laws

At this time, when one hears or reads a story of an Orphan Train child, it would spur different emotions – from compassion to the children “placed-out” children to anger for the government. In these modern times, the US Government have already established certain laws for the safety of children that are put into adoption. We have the Social Welfare agency as well as different institutions that protect the orphans. At this time, when a couple plan to adopt a child, they would undergo different adoption procedures, such as interviews and psychological tests in able to determine if they are fit to take ...

Introduction

The main objective of this research paper is to evaluate if Adolf Hitler had a Jewish heritage. Referencing from the early available evidences and primary sources, this article incorporates the secondary sources to unfold the truth behind this mystery. Looking at the culture of Nazi philosophy and the dictator instilled during this reign, Jewish heritage has been spelled from a new dimension. According to Bank and Julie, Hitler is defined as “The world War two that joined the Nazi Party in 1919 and became the leader by 1921”1. While exploring Ann Frank in her diary excerpts; the Jewish legacy is ...