Essays on Socioeconomic

According to the 2012 census, the United States total population is estimated to be over 313 million; this represents a 9.7% increase within a period of 10 years (Thomas, 2014). Moreover, the composition of the population is one of the most diverse in the world; it’s made up of people with different racial and ethnic backgrounds ranging from Caucasians or the Whites, the Blacks or African Americans, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders, and the Hispanics or Latinos. As a result, the diverse U.S. population has serious implications on the United States ...

Body Mass Index

Body Mass Index (BMI) Introduction Historically, the use of the Body Mass Index (BMI) has been the standard method of measuring obesity among the adults. The standards of BMI were created using population samples, which were calculated from the measurement of the weight and height of Caucasians. Recent research has proved that BMI alone cannot be an appropriate way of measuring obesity. The main reason for this is the differences in ethnicity and the genetic make-up of individuals. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has evaluated the trend of the BMI and the result is that the African ...

In my research on the topic of Human Trafficking, I have learned the following: that there are an estimated 600,000 – 800,000 people who are trafficked across international borders each year. I have also determined that human trafficking represents a significant criminal underworld, that takes away personal liberties and undermines community and safety.

These observations lead me to ask the following question:

How can human trafficking be prevented or stopped? This question has several plausible answers. For example, according to Chuang, the issue of human trafficking must be considered from the global perspective. More specially, he suggests that while trafficking is made up of a series of ...

Holder, M. D., & Klassen, A. (2010). Temperament and happiness in children. Journal of Happiness Studies, 11(4), 419-439. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-009-9149-2 The article under discussion focuses on personality traits as predictors for happiness levels in children: the authors seek to clarify the correlation between the EAS model of temperament and happiness in childhood. The primary large-scale purpose of the research is to clarify relations between temperament and happiness following the pattern of similar researches in adulthood, identify personality traits, which are especially important for happiness and, by this, contribute to efficiency of programs improving children’s wellbeing. The findings illustrated in ...

Problem Sheet 6: Sampling Plan

My research question is Are online courses an effective method of learning? My intended sample (participants in my study) consists of (state who and how many): The participants in my study would consist of 170 out of 200 seventh grade students. Key demographics (characteristics of the sample) are as follows (e.g., age range, sex, distribution, ethnic breakdown, socioeconomic status, location [where are these subjects located?], etc.):

Age range: 14 - 15 year-old students

Sex distribution: 85 Female and 85 Male students Ethnic Breakdown: African Americans, Asians, Caucasians, and Hispanics Socioeconomic Status: Students from the Middle, and High Socioeconomic Statuses I intend to use the ...

Psychology

Hypothesis: Intelligence is not genetically inherited. Intelligence has less to do with genetics than with the socio-cultural environment in which a person has grown. The rise of genetics gave people a chance to prove that intelligence is genetically inherited. However, deep studies suggest otherwise. It is the environment and availability of resources that shape the intelligence of an individual. If people who are considered non-intelligent, are provided the same educational opportunities and social environment, then their display of intelligence will be on par with other people who developed in the same environment. Turkheimer and co-researchers (623) in their article ...

Abstract

This brief essay studied the uninsured and the health care disparities they face. Essential Affordable Care Act provisions and their effects were studied. Critical factors affecting the health care of the uninsured were identified; these included race, ethnicity, income, socioeconomic status, culture, language and income. Several research studies concluded that while access to health care has improved, the quality of this care has not improved for the uninsured. Although the number of uninsured has been reduced dramatically since 2010, insurance costs continue to increase significantly. Failure of states to expand Medicaid benefits has limited uninsured patients’ health care options. ...

A total of 57 million deaths were reported worldwide in 2008, and the majority of those deaths were caused by either non-cardiovascular diseases (36 million; 63%) or cardiovascular diseases (17.3 million; 30%) according to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2011). The highest mortality rates are associated with ischemic heart diseases and cerebrovascular diseases, which account for 45% and 29% of the cardiovascular-related deaths in men and 37% and 33% of cardiovascular-related deaths in women, respectively (see Figure 1). Ischemic heart disease is considered the most common cardiovascular cause of death as it accounts for 7.6 million deaths worldwide (Institute ...

Doctor

ABSTRACT Young people in the United States are battling depression in record numbers, reaching an all-time high of 3 million patients in 2015. Researchers are continuing to search for alternative or additional methods than therapy and medications to improve depressive symptoms in teenagers and young adults. Some studies have demonstrated that as possible option in easing depression is physical exercise. In addition to assisting mental health issues, exercise promotes social interaction, physical health, and appearance. However, research has focused primarily on adults and therefore additional studies are needed with focus on the impact of exercise on depression in young ...

According to Barnet (2002), white-collar crime is defined as the crime committed by people that have respectable and high social status in different occupations and societies. However, the definition does not delineate the scope under which the criminal behaviors fall in white-collar criminality. The rise of white-collar criminality resulted from the difference in inattention given to it compared to the street level crimes where offenders were of low status. The definition of white-collar criminality varies depending on the type of offender, type of offense, and the type of organizational culture in which the crime is committed. For instance, the ...

Teen Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention

Teen Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention The proposed public health leadership theory was developed to identify public health interventions that can address risky sexual behavior in teenagers, which is associated with teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevalence in teenagers. The risk factors contributing to risky sexual behaviors in the teenage population and the interventions public health leaders can use to address those factors are presented in Figure 1. Figure 1. Public health leadership theory on interventions for addressing risk factors associated with risky sexual behaviors in teenagers. Teen sex behaviors can be influenced by their socioeconomic ...

The prevalence of teen suicide is a growing concern in the healthcare industry, as it is ranked as the 2nd highest cause of death among the teenagers (Jason Foundation, 2016). Generally, the suicide rates in the United States continue to raise concern, as it is ranked tenth cause of death in the country. While the incidences of suicide had significantly decreased in the ‘90’s, this trend has now reverted, as there is an increase in suicide deaths. AFSP (2016) argues that statistics indicating the prevalence and incidences of suicide in the United States could be an underrepresentation, as ...

Abstract

For decades, Afro-American have been facing higher incarceration, higher poverty rate and lower income in the United States as compared to White American. In every city of U.S, Afro-American face similar problem, although such problems are worse in some part of the state. The Afro-American in the city of Miami also face problems such mental illness, poverty, poor access to health services, crimes, accidents, violence and others which impact their way of life negatively. Mental health is linked to socioeconomic status as the people who are homeless, or have the problem of substance abuse have a higher risk of ...

Introduction

Historically, healthcare professional practiced in communities where they shared the same culture with those who seek various services. As such, this made it easy for the provision of health care at both individual and institutional levels. With the increase in population diversity in the nation as well as other regions in the world, health care provision has been affected by cultural and social factors that arise with the diversity in population composition (Marshall, 2005). In realization of this issue, it is imperative that health care professionals and institutions develop cultural competency. In this light, this paper will discuss issues ...

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Substance abuse is one of the most harmful phenomena of a society. It can also be considered as substance-related disorder, and is related to abuse of drugs, tobacco, and/or alcohol that can lead to harmful outcomes. Estimates show that over 8 million children in the U.S. have one of the parents having substance-related disorder. Substance abuse can result in significant problems in a family as, for example; it can lead to separation of partners, problems in raising the children, employment problems, and severe levels of conflict in the society (Donohue et al., 2014). It has been ...

Introduction

Statistics is a branch of mathematics, aimed at collecting and analyzing data via different methods such as analysis of variance, kurtosis, skewness or regression analysis. Nowadays, statistics helps processing data with a help of creating various charts that in turn help visualizing complex data sets. There are two major types of statistics, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Descriptive and inferential statistics require proper hypothesis formation and thus proper selection of the statistical tests that in turn have to be analyzed and interpreted successfully.

Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive statistics implies application of various coefficients that simplify process of data processing and aggregation (Trochim, ...

Event Legacy -Contemporary Issues in Event Management

Introduction The event industry has undergone a tremendous transformation where it has shifted from its traditional nature to being embraced by both professionals and entrepreneurs. The increase in mega international events, such as the FIFA world cup and the Olympics, has attracted different stakeholders, including event managers and other parties, to make such occasions a success. The growth of the industry has also been accompanied by an increase in the size and range of the audience. As a result, event managers are often faced with serious challenges, such as the need to leave a legacy and positively impact the ...

Application– Chronic Kidney Disease

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Chronic Kidney Disease Chronic kidney disease is related to a decrease in kidney function or damage to the kidney function for a minimum of 3 months. Actually, it is an ongoing process in which nephrons’ functioning decrease, glomeruli are destroyed, and glomerular stress is increased as a result of more work by surviving glomeruli to increase glomerular filtration rate (GFR); thereby, resulting in predictable steady decline of the function of kidneys (Buttaro, 2013). Chronic kidney disease is usually difficult to detect or grasp, and symptoms may not appear with a GFR more than 35%. However, when ...

Q1: How can health care bridge the gap between those who are internet savvy and those who are not? The access gap between the internet savvy patients and those who are not is an information journey that begins with an online search activity, often using a commercial search engine, such as Google. As early as this stage, a gap already exists between the savvy and the non-savvy internet users, such as the digital divide and search strategy problems. The first gap involves the access to computer or the internet itself. It is particularly existent among elderly adults, disabled, or ...

Chapter One: Introduction to Pre-Eclampsia Study

Chapter One: Introduction to Pre-Eclampsia Study As one of the leading global causes of maternal mortality, pre-eclampsia and related conditions have a remarkably wide impact (Sibai, Dekker & Kupferminc, 2005; Ghulmiyyah & Sibai, 2012). Diseases like pre-eclampsia can strike women of any age and with any socioeconomic background. The issues associated with pre-eclampsia are global, but there are certain populations that are more heavily impacted than others—and these populations are the ones that require investigation (Sibai, Dekker & Kupferminc, 2005). Pre-eclampsia is a condition that is associated with high maternal blood pressure and protein in maternal urine, but it is a ...

Broadly speaking there are two kinds of crimes that are committed against a state, county or city. The two categories are blue-collar crimes and white-collar crimes. In the olden days, blue-collar crimes referred to crimes committed by an individual considered to be of low socioeconomic standing. To be precise, these were crimes committed by people of the working class. Today, these kinds of crimes are the kind of crimes attributable to rage or emotion (even though there are exceptions) and which entail the use of violence. In most cases, blue-collar crimes are not as calculated as white-collar crimes. Examples ...

The right to use fundamental well-being facilities has been a key objective of much fitness law-making and strategy formulation processes to adhere to the health care requirement of the people. Up-gradation in the right to use the basic well-being facilities pave the manner for advancement in the value of people’s life. Though attempts to idealize and functionalize procedures of the right to use have varied. In this paper, access is fragmented into five elements as ease of use, acceptability, convenience, having enough money, and sufficiency. An incentive for this idea is the existence of comparatively restricted research studies ...

Literature Review

In education communication is essential. The school, the teachers, and the parents must communicate with one another to educate their students. When there is a lack of communication the students suffer. The modes of communication are evolving every day, because of the advances made in technology. School systems needs to transition into using some of these modern forms of communications to better reach the diverse population of parents present within a school. Connecting with parents using multiple methods could increase parent involvement as well as student achievement. Different styles of communication could be used for different reasons. It must ...

International Human Rights Law and Prisons in Africa

Term Paper 4500 words

Introduction

The International Centre for Prison Studies’ World Prison Brief, in its report suggested that over 10 million individuals are formally incarcerated in prison and correctional facilities around the world. According to the same Brief, even more are held in either military facilities where they are detained or in security or police facilities without any specific legal process underway. There are three categories that the United States’ (U.S). Government has for humanitarian and human rights concerns as they relate to these individuals who are housed in a detention facility that is; 1. unsafe in terms of ...

A leader is an individual with ability and power to influence, inspire, and motivate people in a particular direction. Leaders of organizations set the vision and create a roadmap to achieve the goals of their organizations. For example, Alan Mulally, who is the CEO of Ford Motor Company is known to be a transformational leader because he has contributed to the success of the company by transforming various facets that previous leader failed to achieve. Leaders like Alan know how to set smart goals and mobilize resources in order to achieve those goals. They utilize their talents and innate ...

Introduction

The degree that digital terrorism is a threat to people’s safety is amongst the most challenging of themes in the twenty first century. To a limited extent, this is a result of terminological question . More far reaching originations of digital terrorism as any type of online terrorist action obviously have a tendency to be connected with a higher evaluated likelihood of the risk's emergence than accomplish more prohibitive records (Cassim, 2012). In the meantime, as itemized further underneath, contending risk evaluations stay regardless of the fact that we limit our centre to smaller understandings of this idea (portrayed, ...

Influenza Vaccine on the Elderly

Introduction Based on current evidence, there is an overwhelming response with respect to the clinical efficacy, safety, and feasibility of influenza vaccine in the elderly. The impact of the vaccine is observed in elderly patients with chronic diseases with an influence on reduced mortality and hospital admissions. Based on a recent publication, the influence of the vaccine is also observed among health elderly population around the globe. Researchers and healthcare providers state that the declining age is associated with poor antibody response coupled with various confounding factors. However, these factors have not been clearly stated in literature. On the ...

Introduction

The American Society represents a typical society that is characterized by high levels of social stratifications. Different individuals belong to various social classes depending on their socioeconomic status. Research has shown that the stability and the level of satisfaction in a romantic union have a significant bearing on the socioeconomic status of individuals (Heaton 396). Additionally, the social status affects the strength of the bond among partners. Arguably, the establishment of power in spousal relationships is related to the socioeconomic class that the partners belong. The quality of the relationship and the tendency of youths to engage in marriage ...

Introduction

One topic of great debate today is the amount of student debt being accrued by college students that, whether, they graduate or not, who leave college with debts from several thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars. These debts are, most often, federally owned. Student loan debt cannot be eliminated with a bankruptcy and can only be forgiven if the borrower were to die. At least that is how it has always been. However, there are today may people who feel that student debt should be forgiven by the government under of number of applicable circumstances. There are ...

Introduction

The child welfare organizations are objectified on assessing the prevalence of child abuse among the referred cases in order to prevent the occurrence of future abuse among the children who are identified at a high risk of neglect and abuse. The child welfare authorities are also focused on determining the prevalence of assessing the consequent neglect among the children with the history of being abused (Enosh & Bayer-Topilsky, 2014). The assessment by child welfare organizations are incorporated by the risk assessment tools in which the explicit criteria and undeviating approaches are used to derive the results. These results are derived ...

Introduction

Overweight and Obesity In the past 3 decades, obesity has been considered as one of the major health issues associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Many developed and industrialized nations have observed similar trends; however, the rate of obesity in the United States is considered to be the highest in the world (Choquet, H., & Meyre, D. 2011) Obesity is known to grow in an exponential rate within the United States. Based on a recent survey, 1 out of every 3 individuals in America are either overweight or obese. The data also revealed that the US was the only ...

The health care utilization data is processed and stored in the Health care utilization project. When a patient visits the hospital, a billing record is created by the hospital. The hospital sends patient data to the data organization stores of the respective states. The information from state database is then sent to the Health Care Cost and Utilization project, where the data is stored in a standardized format and utilized in guiding health care decisions and policies. Factors like socioeconomic status, physician supply, health care beliefs of the person, health status and the risk behavior of the population, will ...

The project seeks to educate nurses on the management of cases of prenatal depression. The aim is to help reduce the cases of prenatal depression and therefore ensure that these mothers as they approach the end of the gestational period. The idea is to take the nurses through an education program that will equip them with the technique and skill to adopt evidence-based methods for management of the cases of prenatal depression as well as the prevention of such cases in mothers when in the gestational period. The research or study will seek to the following outcomes; The prevalence ...

HCA 302. Health Care Organization

Introduction Health care systems are essential in providing security to nation-states world-over, which goes beyond health issues; entire economies depend on such vital system for security. One only has to imagine the devastation of a population by an infectious disease such as HIV/AIDS. Despite having some similarities, health systems vary from one country to the other. Notably, nations design as well as develop their health systems in line with their needs as well as the available resources. The United States and Canada share a border, and thus there is a natural inclination to compare the two health care regimes. ...

Executive Summary

Fossil fuels are the predominant source of energy for industrial and transportation consumption. It is however expected that in a few more decades, fossil fuels will have lesser role to play than non-conventional oil and gas sources and renewable energy sources. This paper presents an overview of some of the socioeconomic factors that are driving the global oil industry and their implications for the UK industry. Four key influences are studied to understand the implications for the industry in terms of economic and environmental factors. The steady influence of OPEC is a significant factor in the pricing of crude ...

Identification of the Problem

The PICOT question for this clinical case is stated as follows: P-Individual with diabetes I-Improved Lifestyle C-Normal Lifestyle O-Reduced Incidences of Diabetes Complications T-With six months In individual with diabetes, how can improved lifestyle as compared to normal lifestyle reduce the incidences of diabetes complications within six months? In the clinical setting, diabetes is a condition that affects patients of all ages, genders and socioeconomic standing. As of 2014, the number of people with diabetes stood at 422million. In adults aged 18 years and above it affects over 8% of the population and the prevalence has been rapidly on ...

Response to Posts

Response to Lusa’s Post I agree with Lusa’s post that a transition into parenthood is faced with a lot of issues that must be amicably addressed. The journey to becoming a couple and sustaining the marriage for a significant period is a great challenge that most people opt to avoid. According to the post, marriages in the current generation are subject to several issues including the socioeconomic status, age, and the self-sacrifices that couples have to endure. Therefore, it is true that most marriages experience a fall way before the advancement of marriages, and as such must ...

Research Problem/Purpose

The integration of technology into the healthcare sector both at the care provider level and now the integration and adoption of systems that directly involve the patient or the population remains one of the major revolutions that has been seen yet in the sector. Technology has not only enhanced the adoption of the much needed reforms but it has provided a better platform for the patient-centered care approaches by increasing the level of contact between the care provider and the patient. Previously, the physical distance between the patient and the care provider was and has been an impediment to ...

Many of us, when we think about our histories, do not realize how influenced we are by the institutions are us. Whether it is by religion, class, work, a different institution, or a combination of a few, who we become has much to do with what we witnessed, and what went on around us, how we were raised, and the opportunities that were presented to us in youth. In some cases, these institutions began before we were born. For me, it is a combination of institutions. While many played small roles in my upbringing, as well as who I ...

Mobilizing electoral participation in contemporary

U.S. society Policy has long since become an integral part of еру modern life. Moreover, a lot of representatives of contemporary society, accustomed to the democratic values, as a rule, consider that the interest in politics, political developments and government decisions is their civic duty. And a modern democratic government goes to meet the citizens, not concealing from them its decisions and policy directions (but not all, of course). Elections for the modern person, namely, participation in it is considered to be an important component of social life, because elections are associated with equal rights and, of course, democracy itself. ...

Introduction

In the contemporary world, the rate of divorce has assumed an increasing trend. Marriage dissolution is subject to numerous discussions and studies and demonstrates intricacies in regards to several influences, triggers as well as effects. The increasing trend in divorce rates and permanent separation among married couples has attracted a substantial amount of concern across the country as well as all over the world. As a result, so many studies and research have dedicated their work to examining the causes of the increasing rate of marriage dissolution in the society today. The rate of unsuccessful union between two adults ...

Health financing in healthcare economics has been essential in analyzing how individuals generate and allocate financial resources in health systems. Part of this discipline is the analysis of sociopolitical and economic factors in driving consumer spending. On one hand, socioeconomic factors study how economic behavior interacts with social processes to impact healthcare. Contrarily, sociopolitical factors examine how individuals combine social and political factors to impact health through policy. This assignment compares socioeconomic and sociopolitical factors given their impact on healthcare finance and patient care from a nursing perspective. The sociopolitical factors refer to the extent to which individuals let ...

Introduction

Access to quality, safe, and affordable healthcare is a priority of every person worldwide. Most countries in the world, especially, the United States of America (USA), have continued to put more efforts towards improving the delivery of care to ensure every citizen enjoys quality and safe health outcome. Health disparities act as one of the major issues affecting the delivery of health in the U.S. Health disparities affect different groups of people in the country, but it's more common among racial and ethnic minorities and underserved communities. The increasing documentation of disparities in healthcare calls for an urgent need ...

Abstract

Homecare providers play a significant role in delivering a variety of health care and supportive services to the community. The homecare professional may be for-profit or not-for-profit depending on the agency or the source of funding for the healthcare services offered. The following paper provides an analysis of the Best Healer home based Wound Care Company aimed at offering wound care services to African Americans living in Jackson, Mississippi. The need to overcome health care disparities among minority communities in the country supports the company's establishment. The company is expected to serve more than 700,000 persons. The analysis ...

The French Revolution was a period when France underwent drastic political and socioeconomic changes. The period lasted for a decade from 1789 until 1799. The breakdown of power and many other reasons led to the far-reaching French revolution. The bourgeoisies and landowning classes were the rulers of France during the French revolution. However, the causes of French revolution are perplexed and complex and yet understanding by historians is required to get to the cause of revolution. Cultural, economic, social, financial, and political causes led to the French revolution. For example, peasants were forced to pay heavy taxation and the ...

Theoretical literature strongly points to a role of social and other environmental factors in predicting academic outcomes (Shaffer & Kipp, 2010; Condron, 2009; Panofsky, 2003). According to Shaffer & Kipp (2010), while behaviourist learning theories consider the environment and child-specific circumstances are inconsequential learning, Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory consider linguistic, emotional, cognitive, and social development to be complementary processes that shape children’s growth and literacy. Vygotsky and Piaget’s theories emphasize the interaction between nurture and nature in learning and development. Piaget believed that children were moulded by their interaction with the environment, ...

In the current paper, the healthcare system of the United States and Japan will be enlightened and compared in accordance with their access to the population, medication coverage, referral requirements and financial implications. The U.S healthcare system is incorporated by many organizations, mainly comprising of Medicare, Veteran’s Health Administration, Children’s Health Insurance Program and Medicaid. The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provides easy access of healthcare services to the children at low-cost (Andersen & Newman, 2004). Medicaid provides healthcare services to underprivileged families, which eventually provides healthcare services to children who belong from underprivileged families. This program ...

Part 1

Health Promotion Proposal: Elementary School Age Obesity The goal of this project is to establish the major factors contributing to the increasing numbers of school-aged children been diagnosed with childhood obesity and its co-morbidities and recommend meaningful ways to stave off this alarming health problem in the present and future generations.

Interventions to Address the Goal

The role of the healthcare sector is to ensure the quality of health and wellbeing of every person in the society (Rice et al., 2013). Increasing numbers of obese children in the U.S. raise a health risk that requires quick intervention from health care stakeholders such as the ...

Smoking is a learned habit that has existed in the society for long. This allows us to understand how the habit affects health and wellbeing both. Though the country may make millions of dollars selling tobacco, it spends several times more on treating diseases caused by the smoking habit. Explain why sociology is useful in helping us to challenge the dominance of biomedicine and understand health and health care as shaped by biopsychosocial factors. The society we belong treats scientific knowledge as proven and reliable information to improve once understanding about the world we live. Biomedical understanding of diseases ...

Abstract

The opposite relationship that exists between socioeconomic status (SES) and inappropriate behaviors such as the use of tobacco, physical inactivity and unhealthy nutrition have been well illustrated empirically but entails various underlying mechanisms. These mechanisms have certain theoretical significance because inconsistency in health behaviors unlike imbalance in many other constituents of health, usually involve something more than the capacity to spend income in order to purchase good health. In addition, these behaviors have an attribute that in most times makes them of special desire. They commonly involve more than not having the ability to buy goods and services that ...

Abstract

Shopping is one of the most important parts in our daily life. We, as consumers, shop almost every day, whether it is a quick stop to the seven-eleven down the corner, or a family shopping in a large store like Wal-Mart at the weekend. From our perspective, when we plan to shop, all we want to consider is what we are getting and how much those items cost. On the other hand, as the suppliers in the shopping chain, the owners or investors of the stores have much more to consider when, where or even which kind of store ...

INTRODUCTION

In human society there have always been laws and lawbreakers. Police were designed to protect the public from the dangerous offenders who might steal from them, harm them or kill them. The idea was that police were to be a positive inclusion in American cities, towns and neighborhoods. In some cases and some places they are exactly that. However, over the last few years there have been more and more instances where police have committed acts of unnecessary force, extreme violence and, unfortunately, including the use of deadly force in cases where their actions and motivation are being questioned ...

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Introduction

The state of the natural world is always hanging in a delicate balance. No other creature on the planet has a deeper effect on the balance than humans do. Endangered and threatened species is the effect of human activity. Humans have an innate ability to create chaos in the world around them. The more a civilization is destroying the natural world, the worse the natural world becomes. This is evident by the numbers of endangered species that rises. It is difficult to center on just one single species and ignore the rest. Each species deserves to be recognized ...

UniversityPrenatal Development and Mental Disorders

Environmental factors including socioeconomic status, trauma and parenting practices play a crucial role in early childhood development. Even though they are important, the prenatal environment has become regarded as one of most crucial periods that can be influenced by these environmental factors. This is because during the prenatal period, environmental factors can significantly affect the development of the child, which will later have a significant impact on behavioral development later in life, implying a significant link between prenatal environment and a child’s mental health, which can specifically be impacted by various teratogens, or “any environmental agent that causes ...

Race and ethnicity are defining characteristics in modern society, and although progress has been made to reduce disparities and enforce equity among all groups, inequalities still exist. These inequalities are deeply rooted in American society and often mislabeled as racism, racial bigotry, or sexism. Because society seeks the ultimate equality, the second feminist movement has gone overboard in ensuring the equitable treatment of all groups. Fixing the problem of equality is not something that is possible by forcing all groups to be the same, when differences will always exist and arguably should exist. The feminist movement initiated as a ...

Ever wondered how growth occurs in human beings or how people get to learn and develop? The human body works in a mysterious way that at times you wonder how it gets to function and adapt to various changes with passage of time. Theories of human development have been established by researchers to offer a structure that allows individuals to figure out how human growth, learning and development occurs (Salkind, 2004). With better understanding of how our bodies grow and develop, we are able to understand ourselves better as well as fellow human beings. This paper will therefore, address ...

Analysis of Diseases

Overview Chikungunya (CHIK) refers to a re-emerging arboviral disease transmitted by the mosquitos Aedes aegypty and Aedes albopictus (Pialoux 318). The virus belongs to the genus Alphavirus and family Togaviridae. The word chikungunya derives from Makonde language (spoken in Tanzania and northern Mozambique), where it means “to walk bent over” (Halstead 557). This name refers to the main feature of both chronic and acute phase of the disease a change in posture causes by the arthritis and arthralgia (Charrel, Lamballerie and Raoult 769).

History

The disease gained its name after the outbreak in Tanganyika, the modern Tanzania in 1952. However, ...

Introduction

There are multiple definitions of racism as well as different perspectives. According to the oxford dictionary, racism is an advanced set of attitude that involves resentment based on the superiority of a particular group or an individual towards other supposed inferior groups or persons. Racism is solely premised on either the skin color or racial affiliation. In that sense, racism is relatively high in numerous educational institutional and is a real issue that consistently hits numerous social networks. Racist attitudes are critical issues as they can appear in any ethnic group and negatively implicate the current potential custom of ...

According to the Institute of American Values (2000), the practice of cohabiting and raising children in unmarried homes has “led not to greater equality for women, but to the feminization of both parenting and poverty” (p. 3). Therefore, the general marriage movement is concerned with improving marriage rates and decreasing divorce rates in order to address issues like poverty, and one of the methods used to achieve that goal is marriage education or marriage-promotion programs. However, Avishai, Heath, and Randles (2015, p. 311) claim that empirical research failed to support the effectiveness of marriage-promotion programs when it comes to ...

“In the comparatively early state of human advancement in which we now live, a person cannot, indeed, feel that entireness of sympathy with all others which would make any real discordance in the general direction of their conduct in life impossible, but already a person in whom the social feeling is at all developed cannot bring himself to think of the rest of his fellow creatures as struggling rivals with him for the means of happiness, whom he must desire to see defeated in their object in order that he may succeed in his” (Mill, 121). This passage focuses ...