Homeless Epidemic In America Being homeless is the biggest epidemic in modern day America next to health care. As the numbers climb the local and federal governments have no answers as to why. As 407‚966 people are homeless the local cities need a answer to this problem. With the homeless drug addicts roaming the streets and committing crimes. Also with them bringing down the looks of the local neighborhoods we need to build a bigger homeless shelter for this people to be able to go. That is
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Reflection Paper: Week One 1/15/2011 I really enjoyed the video for this week “The Meth Epidemic”. I did not realize the amount of people that are affected by such a drug and how it started off in the state of Oregon. In the video‚ they mentioned that meth is the fastest growing drug abuse in the United States. This is such a scary thought because of how harmful this drug is to the human body. What I found the most disturbing was the companies that made the cold medicine used to “cook” meth
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Affluenza is an epidemic which effects millions of people in the United States. "Until this century [20th]‚ to consume was considered a bad thing" says Jeremy Rifkin an expert on affluenza ( Gross ). The victims of affluenza are consumers who work long hours at a job they hate so they can buy things which they don ’t need ( Fight Club ). Like AIDS‚ affluenza has spread quickly throughout the United States showing no prejudice of race‚ sex or color. However‚ unlike AIDS‚ affluenza
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of course‚ they got divorced. We lived together! How did this happen?” Cohabitation in the United States has increased by more than 1‚500 percent in the past half century. In 1960‚ about 450‚000 unmarried couples lived together. Now the number is more than 7.5 million. The majority of young adults in their 20s will live with a romantic partner at least once‚ and more than half of all marriages will be preceded by cohabitation. This shift has been attributed to the sexual revolution and the availability
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Mate Selection and Cohabitation The authors begin this chapter by defining mate selection as process by which unmarried couples get to choose who they will marry. They proceed to distinguishing mate selection in traditional cultures versus modern cultures. In traditional cultures‚ families have the power to select their children’s spouses. In this kind of selection‚ the spouse comes mostly from their extended families depending on who they see as the fittest partner for their child. On the other
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The Potato Epidemic One fine morning in the Kingdom of Sandwiches‚ SandwichKing and Sandwich‚ his pet‚ were going for a walk. Suddenly‚ green potatoes‚ “The SWAT‚” came out of nowhere and asked a million questions about mashed potatoes? Then suddenly‚ as fast as they had appeared‚ they disappeared. “Who was that?” asked SandwichKing‚ “And what do they want with mashed potatoes? Whatever.” Then SandwichKing and Sandwich continued on their walk. The next day‚ when SandwichKing looked out his window
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problem with this scenario is that children will be harmed‚ adults probably no happier‚ and the social order could collapse." (David Popenoe in Promises to Keep) Cohabitation by definition is two unmarried people of the opposite-sex living together. It has been called by various terms‚ such as "living together"‚ "shacking up"‚ "cohabitation"‚ "serial monogamy" or "living in sin." It is a halfway house for people who do not want the degree of personal and social commitment that marriage represents‚
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Child Obesity is Epidemic Child Obesity is Epidemic Rosanna Torres Western Governors University WGU student ID#: 000254815 1 Obesity is defined as an abnormal amount of body fat that causes health problems such as; diabetes‚ heart disease‚ and cancer (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 2011). Obesity can be determined measuring the child’s body mass index (BMI) is calculated by the child’s height‚ weight‚ and age to determine if you have excess fat. It is known that children
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I. Introduction/Statement of the Problem The medical definition for obesity is having too much body fat. Many people tend to get obesity and being overweight mixed up. Being obese is different from being overweight in that being overweight is the status of weighing too much. This weight can come from many places‚ such as muscle‚ bone‚ fat‚ and/or body water. While technically they don’t mean the same thing‚ they both‚ however‚ mean that a person’s weight is greater than what is considered healthy
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I think that the critiques described by the students in “The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts" are based on many factors that can be attributed to the classroom instruction but also the students’ levels of motivation. In my experience so far in the high school classroom‚ I have had many students who are just trying to do the absolute least amount of work possible to get by and I know this because only many occasions‚ I have been asked‚ “What’s the least I have to do to make
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