Youth empowerment is an attitudinal‚ structural‚ and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability‚ authority‚ and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people‚ including youth and adults.[1] Youth empowerment is often addressed as a gateway to intergenerational equity‚ civic engagement and democracy building. Many local‚ state‚ provincial‚ regional‚ national‚ and international government agencies and nonprofit community-based organizations
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Brief overview of Student unrest in India India is also a country with a long tradition of student activism. The political demonstrations organized during the fight for independence saw the beginning of student unrest in India. Students participated in the independence struggle and thousands of students were arrested and put in jail because of their nationalist activities. There existed strong political student organizations on most Indian campuses representing not only the nationalists who were
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Tackling Youth Violence in Schools Eric Mack American Intercontinental University Abstract This paper highlights the causes of school violence and aggressive behavior among youth in our society. It addresses family issues in the home‚ school related factors‚ and the influence of mass media on violence in our schools. Evidence suggests that schools have trouble tackling the complicated social‚ economic‚ and personal causes that generate the violent behavior of numerous young people
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QUOTES Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent. Eric Hoffer The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing. “In youth we learn; in age we understand.” Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach quotes (Austrian novelist‚ 1830-1916) “People grow old only by deserting their ideals‚ Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin‚ but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith‚ as old as your doubt;
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right to education‚ information and services that could protect them from harm. Young people are disproportionately affected in the HIV pandemic. They face the economic and social impact of HIV/AIDS on families‚ communities‚ and nations‚ and they must be at the centre of prevention actions. Where young people are well informed of HIV risks and prevention strategies‚ they are changing their behaviour in ways that reduces their vulnerability. For example‚ in several countries‚ targeted education has led
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concerned about fostering moral character in children and forming responsible citizens. Controversy often accompanies these interests because adults do not always agree about what moral character is or how to cultivate it. Does a person with moral character support societal traditions; much like a tribal leader does‚ or challenges them‚ as did Jesus and Martin Luther King Jr.? What exactly do children need to learn in order to be engaged citizens? Further‚ do children develop moral character through exhortation
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society. Of these‚ some are literate‚ the total youth population. This population of literate youth has grown between 2001 and 2009. Television has not made a dent on newspapers as a source of information; being seen as a source for entertainment and for news and current affairs; the youth read newspapers to gather news and information on currents events; only some are read for entertainment. The Internet-accessed by only youth – is more of Entertainment Central than an information
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IJAPS‚ Vol. 6‚ No. 2 (July 2010) SINGAPOREAN YOUTHS MUST HAVE WINGS AND YET KNOW WHERE THEIR NEST IS Nicole Tarulevicz* School of Asian Languages and Studies‚ University of Tasmania e-mail: nicole.tarulevicz@utas.edu.au ABSTRACT Young people generally form the future of any nation state and Singapore is no exception‚ it is‚ however‚ especially concerned about the future of itself as a nation. For Singapore the theme of youth is doubled‚ as the newness of the nation is a mirrored reflection
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Today’s Youth I deeply desire that this article would impact your thinking towards the Youth of Today‚ their potential and capabilities and what they mean to India. I believe that the youth of today are the symbol of strength and power of our nation. Someone has rightly remarked and I quote‚ “Youth is the joy‚ the little bird that has broken out of the eggs and is eagerly waiting to spread out its wings in the open sky of freedom and hope. Youth is the spring of Life. It is the age of discovery
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Youth Ministry “Train children in the right way and when old‚ they will not stray.” These are words which we often here from our parents‚ grandparents and ministers‚ and most likely have memorized‚ since we were young. As youth and teenagers these words probably seemed easy enough for our parents and later for ourselves to fulfill; but the more mature we became‚ the more we realized what a gigantic task‚ “to train children in the right way” is. The Lord has entrusted to us; whether we are
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