OF ISSUES For the recent years‚ The Salvation Army has been facing several significant problems. As the non-profit organization upholds its mission to “preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination”‚ problems and issues arose which threatens the sustainability of the non-profit organization. Striving to retain its identity as a religious organization and not merely as a charitable institution‚ they have been confronted with the following issues: 1
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ILLITERACY IN AMERICA Your ability to read and comprehend the words printed on this paper already sets you apart from 14% of adults living in America. This means that more than 32 million Americans today are considered illiterate and live with a tremendous disadvantage. That is a big chunk of the US population‚ but the worst part is that illiteracy is not getting any better from how it was a decade ago. According to the most recent National Assessment of Adult Literacy in 2003‚ 14% of adult Americans
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Morgan Glass Mrs. Edwards 11 Honors‚ Block 4 2 March 2015 Controversial Issue Essay Bullying is a reoccurring issue for children and young people that go through it every day at school‚ or out of school. Bullying encompasses a wide range of malicious aggressive behaviors‚ including physical violence‚ verbal mockery‚ threats‚ ostracism‚ and rumors spread either orally or by other means of communication‚ such as the internet (“Bullying”). It may rise as a response to low self-esteem‚ loss of confidence
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America‚ the most technologically advanced and affluent of all nations on the earth‚ seems to have an increasingly larger illiteracy rate every year. This has become and continues to be a critical problem throughout our society as we know it. According to the National Adult Literacy survey‚ 42 million adult Americans can’t read; 50 million are limited to a 4th or 5th grade reading level; one in every four teenagers drops out of high school‚ and of the students who graduate‚ one in every four has
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Sexual Issues Life is good‚ Morden life is messy. Many social problems have surfaced in all new forms‚ and they affect the life of all people some way or somehow. But still the world turns and fights on so that these issues don’t eat at us. But sex though‚ one of the greatest gifts of life: that makes life‚ helps us live life and is life; now seems to be a problem to life. Transforming into an issue to mankind‚ and more problematic to the present college student. People may wonder why this
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Weekly test 5 Perspective on an issue: "Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive‚ because it is primarily in cities that a nation’s cultural traditions are preserved and generated." The speaker asserts that major cities of any country should be aided financially because they are the main contributors to its culture. I‚ however‚ disagree with this view. Countries are ever-developing structures and though cities are the pillars
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How to fix America The United States of America might be the reason humanity prevails and thrives‚ or the reason it ceases to exist. In order to make this country‚ that we call home‚ great again some major changes need to come into effect. Unfortunately‚ that won’t be a simple task‚ but it must be done. The social and economic policies that the United States government is built upon are flawed‚ and need to be revised. For example‚ the Welfare policy is a huge issue due to the easy manipulation
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Unemployment Rates Daniel Park March 28‚ 2013 America continues to have a high unemployment rate that causes many Americans to move out of homes‚ while South Korea has of the lowest unemployment rate. The U.S. has struggled with continuous rise of employment rates since 2008. The main focus to the issue is creating jobs. America believed that creating jobs would be able to help the economy because people would be able to get jobs. So the government tried to add as many jobs they would
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Here is good news for you: according to the New York Times‚ the unemployment rate in America dropped to 7.7% which is the lowest rate in four years. But is this rate low enough? The answer is no. The labor market is far from recovery. There are around 11 million people who still need jobs. Throughout American history of unemployment‚ The United States has experienced 11 recessions since the end of the postwar period in 1948. The U.S. unemployment rate rose steadily from 5% in January 2008 to a
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Rodriguez 1 bilal adem eng ll2 Natasha Olivera Exploratory Essay Homelessness in America: Disparity Amid Prosperity Homelessness has been affecting societies despite of economic stability and the overall wealth of the nation. It is seen as a stigma and directly associated with the concept of marginalization. There are the conventional notions of people sleeping in a cardboard box or addicts concealed between the alleyways of streets. Yet the homeless include those who live in their cars‚
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