Youth in Extreme Poverty: dimensions and policy implications with particular focus on South East Asia Richard Curtain Professional Associate National Institute for Governance Curtain Consulting‚ Melbourne www.curtain-consulting.net.au 2 November 2004 1. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to present estimates of young people in poverty in the world‚ with particular reference to South East Asia. The paper also describes the efforts by countries in the latter region to overcome poverty
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Final Term Paper In Michael Krahl’s “The Weight on Our Shoulders Is Too Much‚ and We Are Falling”: Suicide among Inuit Male Youth in Nunavut‚ Canada he discusses the major impact of mental illness on the youth of the Inuit society. In “Incorporating the prosthetic: Traumatic‚ limb-loss‚ rehabilitation and refigured military bodies” Seth Messinger discusses the importance of mental stability when dealing with the limb loss of veterans. In both of these articles‚ the common claim I will be making
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Youth Tried As Adults: Justice or Misguided Justification? When juveniles are exposed to state penitentiaries and sentences up to life in prison without parole‚ do these adolescents learn anything or even achieve the ability to fully understand the crimes they have committed? The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s research indicates that the prefrontal cortex‚ the part of the brain that contributes to a person’s judgment and reasoning‚ is not fully developed until a person reaches his or her
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Youth Drug Abuse Profile Drug addiction is a complex but treatable disease. It is characterized by compulsive drug craving‚ seeking‚ and use that persist even in the face of severe adverse consequences. For many people‚ drug abuse becomes chronic‚ with relapses possible even after long periods of abstinence. In fact‚ relapse to drug abuse occurs at rates similar to those for other well-characterized‚ chronic medical illnesses such as diabetes‚ hypertension‚ and asthma. As a chronic‚ recurring
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In modern day Canadian society the LGBTQ youth face many inequalities that we as the heterosexual community do not experience (Kennedy). Due to the supremacist (supremacy of a particular group) belief that heterosexuality is the only acceptable sexual orientation‚ the LGBTQ youth are marginalized by the heterosexual community (the center) (Nussbaum). For centuries heteronormativity‚ the belief that heterosexuality is the only sexuality and it is the normal sexuality‚ has oppressed those who do
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Homelessness is a social problem in Australia. Youth homelessness in Australia has been on the increase due to several factors‚ and it is assumed that these factors may assist in the intervention and prevention of youth homelessness. The only way to decrease youth homelessness is to address the structural factors that cause it. This paper will begin by defining homelessness according to the Supported Accommodation Assistance Act 1994 and by other prominent authors of youth homelessness. Structural factors will
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IS MEDIA DETERIORATING OUR MORAL VALUES? I believe that moral values‚ being the difference between rights and wrongs are always traced back in ones religion and they always exist within ones self not in media. The conduct of human beings living in societies which include inward activities like motive and desire as well as outward activities like speech and movements of the doer’s limbs is judged to be right or wrong‚ to be good or bad by Personal ethics-the set of ones ethical commitments usually
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Filipino core values‚ along with the Filipino character or Filipino identity of a person or an individual known as the Filipino‚ the Filipino value system are found to possess inherent key elements of. value system which includes their own unique assemblage of consistent ideologies‚ moral codes‚ ethical practices‚ etiquette‚ and cultural and personal values that are promoted by their society. As with any society though‚ the values that an individual holds sacred can differ on the basis of religion
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SOCIAL PROBLEMS AMONG TEENAGERS Social problem among teenagers increasingly widespread. Many of us have heard of social ills among teenagers is a prospective heir country. At the youth level‚ a person will experience a very significant change once‚ either in terms of physical‚ emotional and social. During these youth are exposed to natural area outside the house and learn many things that do not all come from parents. According Bettelheim‚ 1950 in periods like this begin to change teen behavior‚
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Each person in society has a set of values that they believe deserves to be followed to ensure a positive working group as a whole. From today‚ to way back in Biblical times‚ there have been written and followed values from different groups or regions of people. The Ten Commandments is one of the earliest set of “values” held for religious people to follow to ensure a God filled‚ and healthy society of people. Some of these values have been followed since then‚ but others have arrived as well too
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