Part I: Consequences Part I of The Weight of the Nation discussed the effects of the obesity epidemic in America. It immediately grabbed my attention when they stated that more than 18% of American children are obese. Two-thirds of America (or 68.8%) is overweight or obese. There is a strong connection between a high BMI and diabetes mellitus and hypertension‚ especially when accompanied by a high percentage of abdominal fat. I found it interesting‚ and important‚ that the first woman who shared
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be fixed quickly and easily with money‚ however with welfare this is not the case. While money can help with smaller social struggle‚ it only numbs the pain of large‚ substantial issues like welfare. As Mandela stated above‚ money is not the way to success. However‚ when it is considered to be the way to success and a better life‚ it can become destructive which increases national debt‚ creates more poor‚ and causes the poor to stay poor. Welfare has become a weight on society that has caused more
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A Nation of Immigrants The question of what our policy toward the world’s huddled masses should be is especially topical at this moment. The Statue of Liberty still lifts her lamp beside the golden door‚ but in a time of economic downturn‚ there is no longer an assured consensus that the door should be kept open very far. Restrictionism is back in fashion. For every journalistic article like that of Business Week in July 1992‚ which notes that "the U.S. is reaping a bonanza of highly educated
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There are both positive and negative implications of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 on Medicaid. A negative implication is that even though most of the people on welfare and Medicaid are able-bodied people who could be self-sufficient if they had to be‚ Medicaid and other social programs reinforce these people’s laziness and unwillingness to contribute to society. Welfare reform has only decreased handouts marginally. A positive implication is that some effort was made to reduce the number of people
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For Centuries‚ Indian Nations converted their knowledge into wealth and social order through that process of innovation. The purpose of innovation is to create a new value for a society at large. Indian Nations created those new values in the form of advancements in many fields like Mathematics‚ Architecture and Religion that modern society continues to build on. Divergent Indian Tribes‚ throughout North and South America‚ had been thriving and living for generations with a deep reverence for their
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Hay Mann Zaw (540415501) National Artifact Assignment (Part 1) Human Geography‚ Chiang Mai University Submitted to Professor Elizabeth Lunstrum 29th January‚ 2013 My Hometown‚ Mandalay as a National Artifact My name is Hay Mann Zaw. I’m a second year student majoring in Social Science at Chiang Mai University. I am a Myanmar who has been living in Mandalay‚ Myanmar my whole life until I came to study in Chaing Mai. I am very proud of my hometown and it makes me a nationalist in some ways
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abstracts welfare reform Abstracts for Welfare Reform The state of the social safety net in the post-welfare reform era. Publication: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Publish date:September 22‚ 2010 Author:Bitler‚ Marianne P.; Hoynes‚ Hilary W. The 1996 welfare reform led to sweeping changes to the central cash safety net program for families with children. Along with
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1999 The ruling ideology dealing with welfare is a negative view among the majority of Americans. It states that welfare recipients are lazy people who have lots of children and collect checks for a long period of time. This statement is believed mostly among higher-class people because they feel that if they can work hard for their money‚ welfare recipients can do the same‚ and not live off other people’s money. Charles Murray supports the statement "welfare policies encourage poor women to have
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Welfare is government aid intended to help people and families with little to no income‚ this includes people that work and make very little money. Welfare was created mainly for families with children‚ the elderly and disabled people. Welfare can include cash assistance (TANIF)‚ food stamps‚ section 8 housing‚ childcare assistance and Medicaid. In some states‚ welfare can take the form of vouchers‚ credits‚ or grants as well. There are certain eligibility requirements for welfare in the United States
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excerpt entitled “Idiot Nation”‚ Michael Moore details his frustration and anger at the sorry state of the United States education system and the role the US government has had to play in its downfall. So how does Moore characterize the politicians and pundits with regard to the state of the US education systems? Well‚ in a typical scathing rant he labels them as over privileged‚ ignorant idiots who have no business running the country. “An idiot leader of an idiot nation” (pg. 125 Moore 2002). This
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