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    502 Serious Case Review Andy Ellis A Serious Case Review was set out by ‘Working Together’ 2006 stating: ‘When a child dies‚ and abuse or neglect is known or suspected to be a factor in the death…. Organisations should consider whether there are any lessons to be learnt about the ways in which they work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of children’ (DfES 2006: 8.2 p169) In such circumstances or: * ‘Where a child sustains a potentially life threatening injury or serious and

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    Obesity- Texas’s Number One Epidemic Health Problem Joe Thomas Obesity- Texas’s Number One Epidemic Health Problem Introduction The obesity in children and adults is a serious issue for Texas in the current time. The occurrence of obesity among Texas people is greater than the national average‚ and remains increase (DSHS‚ 2010). This epidemic health problem increases a possibility of cardiac disease‚ stroke‚ high blood pressure‚ diabetes‚ certain neoplasms‚ and other severe

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    Present day American culture promotes unhealthy eating habits in children. “Childhood obesity is a major public health concern‚ and has more than doubled since the 1970’s” (Ludmila 1). This can be a big dilemma because kids are developing an unhealthily lifestyle so young. America’s public schooling system needs to be held responsible for the causes of child obesity and make changes to accommodate the effects. Changes should be made in schools lunch menus and the types of foods found in vending machines

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    Salem AlGuthmi Grammar/ Writing 104 October 23‚ 2013 Obesity America is spending $ 150‚000‚000‚000 on obesity related diseases per year. Obesity is an increasing problem in the United States for many causes such as people not knowing how to eat‚ not knowing what’s in food and misleading marketing. One of the biggest problem of obesity is that people don’t know how to eat food. Most people are uneducated about the food they eat. For example‚ people don’t know about calories

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    The scientific knowledge and focus on overweight people and obesityis now huge. The term “Obesity epidemic” is a common phrase usedin society‚ particularly by health professionals and doctors‚ whoemphasise their concern for our society and future generations’health. Undoubtedly‚ there are New Zealanders‚ both adults andchildren who are obese‚ but can we consider this an epidemic?The word epidemic is rather emotive as it has medical connotationsgiving the implication that mass amounts of people are

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    ABUSE AS A SOCIAL PROBLEM AMONG YOUTH Drug abuse is now surprisingly a major social problem that has sprouted out and is greatly harming our economy. Drug abuse in my own opinion is when drugs are not taken at the right time or in correct proportions. However‚ one can only limit drug abuse to taking hard drugs such as cocaine‚ nicotine‚ marijuana‚ etc. This is the kind of drug abuse that has a huge influence on the youth of today.

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    2012-11-19 SERIOUS GAMING LEARNING: SUPPLY CHAIN MULTI-AGENT WEB-BASED SIMULATION GAME Ayman Tobail Dublin Institute of Technology John Crowe Dublin Institute of Technology‚ john.crowe@dit.ie Amr Arisha Dublin Institute of Technology Follow this and additional works at: http://arrow.dit.ie/buschmancon Part of the Business Administration‚ Management‚ and Operations Commons‚ and the Curriculum and Instruction Commons Recommended Citation Tobail‚ A‚ Crowe‚ J and Arisha‚ A. (2012). Serious Gaming

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    development of computer programs such as adobe Photoshop‚ photo-editors for newspapers and magazines have used the deceiving effect known as “photo shopping” on pictures that we see day to day in our magazines‚ on our TV’s and computers. Due to this modern capability the youth and population of most of our society‚ now see’s their personal image‚ particularly physical image in a different light‚ evidently a dark one. Airbrushing is the ability to crease out any flaws in a photo of a model‚ trim

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    result‚ the problem of obesity amount the children especially primary students in Hong Kong become seriously. Following the research which took by the Chinese University of Hong Kong‚ there are 4.7% of the Hong Kong children aged 5-17 were obese‚ using the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) . In 2004‚ there are 18.7% of primary students‚ much higher that the world’s children at the same aged (CUHK ¶1-4). This paper will investigate the causes and effects for the problem of obesity among primary

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    or fast food (Allison). Obesity is the “abnormal accumulation of body fat‚ usually twenty percent or more over an individual ’s ideal body weight” (Greenblatt). Obesity is becoming an overwhelming epidemic in America. It is more prevalent in African Americans‚ American-Indians‚ and children (Richards). In fact‚ nearly two out of three Americans are overweight or obese and the number of overweight children has tripled over the last twenty years (Greenblatt). Due to obesity‚ there are many deaths or

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