is to see how my little brother is doing. He gets bullied sometimes and doesn’t have very many friends. I volunteer at my church‚ in the preschool classroom. Occasionally I teach lessons but I also hand out snack‚ and intervene when needed to help create positive conflict resolution. I also read books to them.Volunteering at my church was something I grew to love because at first I was super awkward and it seemed perhaps even a little minatory though eventually I relaxed tremendously. Working
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The Growing Social Problems Facing our U.S. Veterans Today There are numerous social problems that plague our world today. These issues can be very detrimental to our society as a whole and can also have very negative impacts on many lives. One major social problem we are facing today is the way we are dealing with and handling our United States Veterans. Despite the fact that we are one of the world’s most powerful nations we are failing to properly take care of our service members who put
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always last for one month. According to the Department of Veteran Affairs‚ the number of Veterans with PTSD varies by service era. For example‚ in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom‚ about 11-20 out of every 100 veterans who served in OIF or OEF have PTSD in a given year. With the Gulf War‚ about 12 out every 100 Gulf War Veterans have PTSD in a given year. When it comes to the Vietnam War veterans‚ about 15 out of every 100 veterans were currently diagnosed with PTSD at the time of a study
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For Veterans with PTSD‚ A New Demon: Their Meds Threat of Addiction to Prescription Painkillers Heightened With Mental Illness By Thomas Catan @tomcatan Thomas.Catan@wsj.com Thomas Catan Biography Thomas Catan @tomcatan Thomas.Catan@wsj.com Thomas Catan Biography Updated Nov. 10‚ 2013 10:32 p.m. ET NEWPORT‚ N.H.—Desperation drove Timothy Fazio‚ a former Marine‚ to turn up around midnight at a veterans’ hospital near Boston. His post-traumatic stress disorder was causing
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My Role in Honoring Veterans What does honoring means? Honoring is high respects‚ as shown for a special merit; esteem. Although honoring a veteran may not seem important to some‚ it should be a very high priority and very important to all Americans. After all‚ we would not be the country we are today without our veterans fighting in wars and protecting us and our freedom. But how can one honor a veteran? One of the simplest ways is simply flying the American Flag proudly. Salute the flag
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think American veterans should be honored for several key reasons. The first and foremost reason is that these brave men and women risked ther lives for the freedom of the United States‚ or even for the freedom of a country half way around the world‚ which they knew nothing about. Either way these soilders fought for freedom‚ and each one should be honored one way or another. Another reason veterans should be commended is because we never want to repeat the time when Vietnam war veterans came back to
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are effected by this but many kids are growing up without homes and proper care. There needs to be changes in our system to help aid these less fortunate people‚ providing affordable housing‚ or giving them financial aid wouldn’t solve this problem completely‚ but it would be a start to helping millions of people get the help they deserve. The first reason that we should help homeless people is because The United States is wealthy enough to afford it. In our country we believe in unity‚ and that we’re
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Since the beginning of the trimester‚ I have been volunteering three days a week in a second grade classroom at Oak Trace Elementary School. I have enjoyed every minute of my time here because I feel so appreciated by everyone that I help. Every day I walk in‚ I am greeted by the women in the office‚ and then I am usually waved to by a student in the hall on the way to my classroom. Once I get to the classroom‚ I am greeted in the best possible way by the students. Most of them will run up and hug
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Brianna Obermiller English 1000 “A Vietnam Veteran Opposes the War‚ 1971” In 1971‚ veteran John Kerry stands for himself and many other veterans in a speech opposing the Vietnam War. Relaying how the veterans feel after coming back from such a horrific war‚ the audience is sympathetic with those who return with such terrible memories that they must bare for the rest of their lives. For John Kerry‚ it may be hard for him to describe such atrocities to his audience‚ and it may be even harder
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among homeless veterans because Veteran Affairs (V.A.) medical centers currently do not have services that are designed specifically for women and that there is limited sensitivity about or understanding of women’s needs at the V.A. medical centers (p. 60). At the time of this study‚ Selgado’s study (as cited in Benda‚ 2005) shows women only comprised 5 percent of veterans with access to health care services in the V.A.‚ or approximately 1.4 million of a total of 25.5 million veterans. The lack of
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