The Kansas Food Bank in its mission statement promises to provide a comprehensive and compassionate Hunger Care whenever and wherever it is needed to families in Kansas. As a result of their mission statement, their operations have improved over the years and have grown tremendously to now serving over 85 counties within the state of Kansas, which includes over 530 hunger relief partners. Over 11 millions pounds of food was distributed just this past year. Deliveries are made to the different schools and agencies based on needs and the delivery schedule is clearly planned out by KFB administration. There’s no sign of stopping as they currently have a five-year plan that includes five more counties. This plan will be rolled out on a yearly basis for the next five years. This will add to the current distribution of 11 million pounds of food on a yearly basis. One would imagine that an operation of this magnitude and being done on a weekly basis would require more labor hours and truck space to carry out this massive scale of operations. To our surprise, they only have one truck and one driver that delivers all this amount of food. So there lies the bottleneck of this operation: they have enough food to deliver to the clients and enough clients to receive the food, but not enough manpower hours and truck space to do all the deliveries within a decent amount of time. Some of the delivery routes can take up to three days to complete. What if the truck breaks down and repair takes more time to fix than what was anticipated? What if the driver falls sick and is off for days? What would happen to the delivery operation? It was clear to us that they were putting all their eggs in one basket, in this case, one truck and one man. We were told that the driver is on the verge of a burnout since he’s been doing the deliveries all by himself for such a long time. Having to do all the deliveries by himself in a short amount of time, one can imagine the stress…
Meal on Wheels delivered meals to Seniors in their homes. It first started in the United Kingdom in during the Blitz for those who lost their homes and the ability to cook their own food along with them. It went national in the United States in 1974 and goes by name Meal on Wheels America which is the largest and oldest national organization there is. The first states to undertake the program were Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Oregon and California. One of the places in Massachusetts that is now a Meal on Wheels program is Lifepath at 330 Montague City. Rd. Ste 1 Turner Falls, Ma 01376 and Poet Seat Healthcare center in Greenfield. MA refers people to local Meal on Wheels on program. Gina a social worker at Poet Seat's said they been…
The Functionalist Perspective is a sociological perspective that emphasizes each part of society contributing to the survival of that society. In Sociology in Modules, they define the functionalists perspective as, “A sociological approach that emphasizes the way in which the parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability (Schaefer 15).” The functionalist perspective can be compared to the human body model. Each part of the body performs specific tasks. For example, our legs allow us to walk or run and our lungs allow us to breathe. Without each and every body part, one simply cannot perform to the maximum potential. Now when a functionalist is looking at a society, they may see different social groups that contribute to a larger population.…
Functionalists view the role of education as a means of socialising individuals and to integrate society, to keep society running smoothly and remain stable. Emile Durkheim, creator of the Organic Analogy, was a functionalist during the 1870 's. Durkheim believes that society can only survive if its members are committed to common social values and that education provides these to children and young people as well as raising awareness of their commitment to society. Durkheim also believed that schools teach young people that they must co-operate with their peers and be prepare to listen to and learn from their teachers. Individual pupils eventually learn to suspend their own self interests for those of society as a whole, work together and that success in education, just like in society, involves commitment to a value consensus. Similarly, Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore, functionalists during the 1970 's, believed that education is strongly linked to social stratification by members of society and that education sifts, sorts and allocates ' people to their correct place in the economy and society. By rewarding the most talented and most dedicated by allowing them into the highest paid and highest status jobs, education performs the function which is always necessary to Functionalists differentiating all members of society so that the system runs smoothly.…
Kids Food Basket survives off of volunteers. Each day, nearly 250 volunteers help this nonprofit organization. There is always a task that needs to be done by a volunteer. In order to serve 7,500 children every school day, they need volunteers to make sandwiches, prepare fruits and veggies, bag trail mix, and pack sack suppers. From packing and delivering the sack suppers, to leading juice box, snack drives, and fund drives, there is countless opportunities for volunteer…
Functionalists take a positive view on education. They see is as a process that instils the shared values of society as a whole. Functionalists believe education performs three main functions: social solidarity, specialist skills and role allocation.…
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Imagine you’re walking down the sidewalks of Wilmington. You see cars and buses driving by along with adults and children. You notice that there is a little girl, looking rather malnourished, holding a plastic bag full of canned vegetables, peaches, and juice. As she walks by, a paper flutters out of the bag. You pick it up and realize that it’s a flyer for the Food Bank of Delaware. The paper says that they are in need of volunteers to help package food for people in Delaware. You ask yourself, “If I volunteered, could I make a change?” The answer is yes. The Food Bank of Delaware needs volunteers to help package food for people who cannot obtain it. Some may go without food, but with the help of volunteers at the Food Bank of Delaware, more people will have the chance to get the food they need.…
One of the main goals of the not for profit organization School n Wheels is to provide homeless children with the necessary tools to attend school. Evidently, in order to carry their notebooks, textbooks, and other studying utensils necessary for success, these homeless children need backpacks. That is why; one of the main challenges this organization has, is helping these less fortunate children obtain new backpacks. In tackling this challenge, the definition of success for the School on Wheels organization would be to obtain a donation of 100 new backpacks, with different characteristics--or the equivalent in monetary donation in order for them to be able to buy the backpacks themselves.…
The question about Christianity and its full acceptance into Indigenous communities continues to linger on a fine line of whether Indigenous communities came to a consensus of compromising with the new religion or simply eradicating it by refusing to leave behind their traditional ways of believing and creating “spiritual” consciousness. Some scholars such as, Kevin Terraciano, in his chapter, “The People of Two Hearts and the One God from Castile,” argue that Christianity was not only rejected by acts of continuing Indigenous religious practices, but also mocked because it was thought to be a lie and inferior to the Indigenous people in Yanhuitlan and Coatlan; this new religion did not coincide with theirs . On the other hand, in her book, Biography of A Mexican Crucifx, Jennifer Hughes comes to conclude that Indigenous communities accepted Christianity through their own modes of seeing parallel paradigms of their life with the life of religious images such as the Cristo Aparecido from Totolapan. They came to see this image as a representation of their suffering , their colonial journey and their need for finding religious meaning in a newly evangelized land.…
Functionalism is a structuralized theory which says the individual is less important compared to society. They say we’re a part of a complex system where various parts work together to benefit the whole. E.g. The human body; there are some organs more important than others but they all work together to help the human body function properly. Functionalists say there are three main roles of education; social solidarity, role allocation and specialist skills. Social solidarity is promoted by socialising children from one generation to the next the core norms and values of society; the two most important said by Durkheim was equal opportunity and value of achievement. This means we all have the same chances to succeed or not and we should all value doing well in education to achieve a higher position in society. Durkheim also says that these norms and values will allow social order and cohesion which will help society work smoothly. Functionalists describe the education system as a microcosm which is like a mini society; this prepares us for the ‘real world’ and work after we leave. It teaches us how to live in a hierarchy and to obey the rules given to those of higher authority. Primary and secondary socialisation is used to help prepare us for family and work life. As Parsons says, education acts as a bridge between family and society. One example of social solidarity in schools is the teaching of the academic subject history as it teaches students about previous battles and wars of a united group and for us to be less selfish. We should work together as a unit and view society as more important than individuals which history encourages. Another function that education promotes is role allocation. This says that school is a meritocratic system which means those who put the most effort in, have motivation and have the most talent…
Suffrage is the right to vote in political affairs. Only recently did women receive the right to vote in the United States. From the earliest civilizations, the women have been confined to working at home and and have been thought of “inferior” to men. Therefore, before modern-day, women were unable to enjoy the same rights as men. Not even one-hundred years has gone by since the nineteenth amendment was passed, giving the vote to women. The event that spurred such an amendment to being pushed was the women’s rights movement starting in 1848. Some of the more influential women’s rights activists during the movement include Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Madam C.J. Walker, and Dorothy Height.…
Functionalists take a very positive view of education. They see it as a bridge between the family and wider society. The family operates on different standards compared to education and wider society. The family operates on particularistic standards whereas education and wider society operate by universalistic standards which makes education very useful because this means that children will learn to cope when they get put out of the home environment and into another setting. This is a perspective shared by Durkheim and Parsons.…
Functionalism is a predominant perspective.The functionalists see education as a miniature society, where the individual develops a sense of commitment to the social group; it is a place to learn rules where the individual learns to conform to societies cultural norms and values.…
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