Competing representations of Youth homelessness: Media Vs. Advocacy Discourses Introduction Youth homelessness in Canada is a paradoxical reality: although the country has the high GDP‚ the large economy and the high consumption rate in the North America and even the whole world‚ there are still a large number of young people who have to face the lack of basic living conditions‚ such as employment and housing. Today‚ youth homelessness‚ which is recognized as a serious social issue in Canada‚ has
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Area-Wide Baptist Youth Week after church every Sunday. When I reached the aged where I was able to walk and talk‚ my mom and my aunt would take me with them and my cousins to Youth Week. My twelfth birthday happen to fall on a Sunday‚ which was the same Sunday Area-Wide Youth Week started. Since that day‚ I have been an active member in the Area-Wide Baptist Youth Week movement. Somehow I knew that was just the beginning. From the moment I stepped foot into the doors of Youth Week‚ I wanted to
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Today’s Youth Market Machele Principles of Marketing BUS330 Instructor: Robert Murray March 24‚ 2014 Today’s Youth Market In today’s world‚ they need consumer brands with new customers. Our youth market is the key in today’s growth. With demographics in the Western Europe‚ North Asia‚ and North America point to an aging of population with the Baby Boom generation heads toward retirement‚ and fewer replacements following behind‚ this is due to decades of declining fertility
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The causes and consequences of youth unemployment in Australia has been of particular concern within both government and private sectors for many years. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)‚ 10.9% of the total 15-24 age population was unemployed in September‚ 1995. This figure climbed to 15.3% in September‚ 2003. This evidence gives cause to the growing concern surrounding the increase in youth unemployment. For sizeable numbers of youth‚ its not going to get any easier to find
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whether society stigmatizes youth. I plan to analyze the proposition that ‘society stigmatizes youth’ and also refute the proposition with supported evidence‚ and conclude as to whether I believe society does stigmatize young people. Furthermore‚ I will provide a sustained‚ coherent argument of youth viewed negatively and positively. In addition‚ I will address how the mass media creates preconceptions of youth‚ which influence societies view of all young people and whether youth are or are not stigmatized
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50 The Internet and Youth Culture Gustavo S. Mesch S ince the internet and other media have been adopted and integrated into the daily lives of an increasing number of young adolescents in Western countries‚ scholars and commentators are debating the impact of these new media on the activities‚ social relationships‚ and worldviews of the younger generations. Controversies about whether technology shapes values‚ attitudes‚ and patterns of social behavior are not new. In the recent past‚ the
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word in the West and is responsible for the wide dissemination of information all over the world. It is perhaps the greatest invention of the 20th century and gives great power to its users; with great power comes great responsibility‚ especially for youths. The Internet is a new medium for distributing information. It has its own culture‚ its own way of communicating‚ no law enforcement‚ no national boundaries as well as free access to every kind of information known to mankind. Its potential for
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between youth engagement and positive development . Youth engagement is defined as "meaningful participation and sustained involvement of a young person in an activity‚ with a focus outside of themselves " . For the purposes of this article‚ a community refers to the geographical boundaries established by municipalities ‚ a neighborhood‚ or a school environment encompassed within larger geographical boundaries. Past research on youth engagement has been grounded in two theories: 1) youth development
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Homeless Youth: Demographics‚ causes‚ and the need for occupational therapy Homeless youth are typically described as being persons under the age of 21 that do not have safe housing with a relative or caregiver and have no alternative safe living arrangements (Reeg‚ 2003‚ pg. 55). According to research conducted by the US Department of Justice‚ in 2002 there was an estimated 1.69 million homeless youth in America. The proportion of males and females are quite equal with ages 15-17 comprising the
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more young people by exposing them to criminal justice intervention. The attitude expressed in Misspent Youth‚ a research paper considered as being critical in the formation of the CDA 1998 (Unitas‚ 2012: 23)‚ considered that more needed to be done to protect victims of “young peoples’ inconsiderate behaviour” (Carvadino and Dignan‚ 2007: 98). This statement lends emphasis to the view that youths were deemed to have more autonomy over their choices and the CDA 1998 founded itself on the belief that
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