REDUCING TEENAGE PREGNANCY Although the rate of teenage pregnancy in the United States is at its lowest level in nearly 40 years‚ it remains the highest among the most developed countries in the world. Approximately 67.8 per 1‚000 women aged 15–19 — nearly 750‚000 American teenagers — become pregnant each year (Kost and Henshaw‚ 2012). The majority of these pregnancies — 82 percent — are unintended (Finer & Zolna‚ 2011). Moreover‚ because the average age of menarche has reached an all-time low
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Foster Care in the United States Sue King Liberty University Abstract The history of foster care in the United States started with orphan trains and the Children’s Aid Society founded by Charles Loring Brace. Recent research describes the child welfare system as an organization that provides service to helpless children in need. This paper will discuss foster care as it is relates to safety‚ permanency‚ and wellbeing of children in need The role of a foster parent and the process of loss
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That is also the reason I want to become a dentist. Although a career in dentistry requires hard working hours‚ this career suits my interests in teeth‚ provides good working condition and satisfies my life’s demands. Dentist is a nice career in healthcare‚ but it still has some disadvantages. One disadvantage of dentistry is hard working hours. Everyday‚ dentists have to work hour to hour in their offices. When the needs for nice smiles increase overtime‚ it is always dentists’ jobs to find out some
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Gun Control The most important role of the United States government is to protect the rights and freedoms of individual citizens. Some might argue that the world ’s greater issue is government(1). All countries have social issues that are mostly blamed on the government. Governments should first focus on the social issues that the citizens are mostly concerned off. The United States has many social issues some of those issues are education‚ tax the wealthy‚ creation of new jobs‚ same sex marriage
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY With the intent to protect public health and prevent human trafficking‚ prostitution is criminalized in all fifty states in the U.S. The criminalization of prostitution is not controlled at a federal level and it is left to the state and local governments to create their laws regarding its legality. The only state in the US that harbors legal sex work is Nevada. The lack of regulation puts marginalized groups like transgender people‚ people of color‚ and people with disabilities
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lose many of their people? Why would the United States enter a war that is overseas again? Why would the United States want to get involved with everything that is happening overseas? What did the United States stand to gain? There are many questions that we can ask why the United States got involved in WWII‚ but the more important question to ask is‚ if the United States did not join the war at all‚ what would the world be today? In the 1930s‚ the United States Government enacted a series of laws designed
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countries have different currency rate for example Brunei money change to US dollar. When we change Brunei money to United State dollar‚ the amount will become smaller. The overseas students also need a lot of money to pay the fee compare to local students. Brunei and United State have different climate that force them to use more money to buy suitable clothes. In United State or United Kingdom have a winter season that Brunei don’t have‚ this which make students to buy winter clothing. Not only that
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History 150 01 April 09‚ 2011 Brown vs. Board From 1877 up to the middle of the 1960s there was organized racial segregation in the United States. This was achieved because it was thought that blacks were believed to be inferior to whites. This organized segregation was done by a series of changes to the law in the south known as the Jim Crow laws. The first time that the United States government made a ruling whether or not these laws were actually legitimate under the US constitution
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the people. Many people often only think of the United States of America when they think of democracy. Others think democracy only refers to voting or politics. Democracy however is more than just an American term or idea. Democracy has changed countries‚ and history effecting countless numbers of people across the world. Democracy in earliest form can be traced all the back to Ancient Greece around 500 B.C. The Greeks built small city-states‚ which were political units made up of a city and
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Legalization of Marijuana in the United States Author: Heidi Heffron-Clark ENGL112ON_AC: Composition Professor: Julie Joki Talk about a hot topic! Marijuana and the discussion surrounding full legalization of the substance in the United States‚ has been creating a stir for many years now. Some people feel that there is no need to legalize another drug and take the risk of allowing it to get into the hands of children or people that may not be exposed to it if were not legal. Others say
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