For each county sampled, the study collected data from two sources: (1) reports from the local Adult Protective Services (APS) agency responsible for receiving and investigating reports in each county: and (2) reports from "sentinels"-specially trained individuals in a variety of community agencies having frequent contact with the elderly. ... Consistent with three national incidence studies on child abuse and neglect, this methodology assumes the sentinel reports represent substantiated reports. ... Of this total, 70,942 (16 percent) were reported to and substantiated by APS agencies, but t...

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The truth about how our government treats citizens of other countries and other accounts of how bad U.S. ... To understand how the American media plays into a bigger picture of the foreign media it is important to understand how they both operate. ... Lance talks about how fragile this relationship is by stating, "When those sources are powerful officials surrounded by an entourage of eager reporters clamoring for news, it is always possible that those who report what officials want them to will be rewarded while those who fail to convert key political messages into news will be punished." ......

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Of course, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there were reports of numerous scandals and reports of kickbacks, and other various types of shady activity within corporations and the government. ... Let me start with a simple definition of what "soft money" is. ... I want to briefly talk about how an "Iron Triangle" works why it constitutes much of the "soft money" in the political system. ... In fact, in the book it states, "Enron's employees and Political Action Committee have given over $600000.00 to Bush over the course of his political career" (Lewis 11). ... The Federal ...

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It started in 1962 with the publishing of Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring." ... Her book attacked the use of chemical pesticides. ... It began by the publishing of a book. The book was The Feminie Mystique, by Betty Friedans. The book explained how women were being mistreated and what women can to do to be equal to men. ...

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The CBS investigative report "Harvest of Shame" was aired on television on November 26, 1960. The timing of this documentary's release was not coincidental, as the producers wanted Americans to understand where much of the food they had just enjoyed for Thanksgiving dinner actually came from (Blair).The nearly hour long report came under some criticism for being an exaggeration of actual life working on farms, but much more people praised the film for not being afraid to showcase the truth, no matter how unattractive that truth was. The report was regarded as "the first ti...

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Research reports are divided on the causes of school violence. ... They say that when students are likely to live in poverty, witness drug abuse at home, have parents arrested and/or sent to prison, then it is not surprising how many students behave well, rather than some of them are violent. ... Edwin Sutherland developed a theory that attempted to explain how group relations impact a person's attitude and behaviors. ... A child who starts acting violently will often do so during periods of unstructured and unsupervised time. ... Children learn that failing to intervene or re...

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It's tremendous to see how American capitalism has influenced the history of an entire continent in Western Hemisphere that the result are still exist until nowadays. ... The railroad completed in 1890, and started to run into its business. ... " (4) May Stacy commented in her book 'The United Fruit Company in Latin America. ... "In their report on Central America, the British could not avoid acknowledge their lack of power to deter the increasing American influence in the region.... Peter Chapman in his book 'Banana, How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World...

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At first the little book of strange verse seemed a failure. ... After returning to Brooklyn this is where he tried to start a Free-Soil newspaper. ... He attended Dartmouth College for a few months in 1892, then tried teaching, reporting, and other work. ... The New York Times Book Review gave this quote "new poem after new poem makes clear how deeply each Frost poem bears on all Frost poems, and how surely all are a constant symbol of his life's commitment to making metaphors that clarify the dark paradoxes they contain. ... Whitman often wrote of wartime and how he saw it. ...

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However, only 39 percent of schools teach students how to properly use condoms ("Facts on American Teens' Sources of Information About Sex."). ... One in four teen's reports only receiving abstinence education. ... Many researchers believe that this may be due to European countries starting their students with sexual education at a much younger age. ...

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It is healthy for teenagers to share with friends and families their "latest crush" or how they spent their weekend. ... For example, transsexuals often report feeling trapped in the wrong body; they experience themselves as female, but their biological sex is male, or vice versa.... Relation to EDPS 322 Material: "During adolescence, about 8% of boys and 6% of girls report engaging in some same-sex activity or feeling strong attractions to individuals of their own sex. ... And shows how Utilizing real-life outside/inside the classroom curricula interventions can promote soci...

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But in 1938, the New York Academy of Medicine reported marijuana as a relatively harmless drug with no physically addicting effects and that it did not help in having any effect on the crimes of violence committed by people. ... In a pharmacy book written by the emperor Shen-Nung about 2657 B.C., he recommends marijuana as a cure for "gout, rheumatism, malaria, beriberi, constipation, and absent mindedness (Stwerka 5)." ... Marijuana was first mentioned in an American book in 1843 where it was recommended as a treatment for gout, tetanus, hysteria, depression, and common insanity. ... Harold A...

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We hear on the news how health care providers are incapable of providing medical care to an increasingly number of chronically ill and the aging population. ... In rural counties all over the United States it is easier to check out a book at the library or rent a video from the local store than it is to find a doctor who can provide medical treatment. ... By most standards, a primary care physicians starting salary is about $150,000 compared to a specialty physicians who makes two to three times more than that. ... In response to the GMENACs report, Congress eliminated subsidies to medical sch...

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Abstract An exploration of the aging boomer and how they will age differently from their parents, creates a powerful new epicenter of marketing in America. ... How to market to this critically important group is vitally as important to the market mix. ... Politics will continue to play the most significant role in how this shift takes place. ... Relentless Technology, a marketing and media company, reveals, "[i]n order to run a fluid and successful project from start to finish, IMC planning is essential to ensuring the success and implementation of each component of a marketing strat...

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The development and premise that Asians were just tools of trade to be used for services but not able to maintain a foot inside the doorway of America showed how hypocritical and uncanny the Americans were to the Asian minorities. ... On the other hand, others wanted to start a new life in the new land, but most immigration decisions involved family. As the Chinese took over most of the jobs, complaints about the Chinese started to surface. ...

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According to the book Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action, a social problem is be defined as "a social condition that has negative consequences for individuals, our social world, or our physical world" (Leon-Guerrero, 2015). ... According to the article America's Youngest Outcasts: A Report Card on Child Homelessness, some of the major causes of homelessness for children living in the United States include single parenting, lack of affordable housing, racial disparities, and the nation's high poverty rate (Bassuk, et. al, 2014). ... Because a child is star...

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In the book A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives, author Michael Hunt stated that, "Since 1977, Hollywood has been succeeding where Washington consistently failed: namely, in selling Vietnam to the American public."3 Hunt is referring to the fact that the government did a horrible job gaining the support of the American people during the war, and as a result, Vietnam was a failure for the United States military. ... The peace movements began with the start of the war in 1964. In New York City twelve men burned their draft cards as a statement op...

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The 2010 Trafficking Report by the (U.S. ... The circumstances aren't always like how Jal's were when he was brought into child labor. ... Chaga and the Chocolate Factory is a children's book by Bob Hartman based on the true life of a young boy in Mali, that illustrates how that happens. The book is about a young boy named Chaga whose parents sell him to a man to go work at a cocoa plantation (or the "chocolate factory") This book touches base on certain circumstances of human trafficking that people often don't realize. ... Victims may start off dancing or strip...

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Young men just starting their lives or preparing to by studying at university knew that they were now likely to be drafted into the armed forces. ... Soldiers did not know how to cope with these things. This lack of knowing how to handle things may have been what Everett Neal, an American soldier, was referring to when he said, "There is no way to prepare for the shock of real combat." Mental stresses such as not knowing how to handle situations is what made real combat different from basic training. ... One soldier always carried a book from the states with him and read it repeatedl...

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This is what started the feminist movement which is defined as the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men. ... As I read this story I remembered my teenage days and how girls would get certain repetitions simply off of sexual behavior. ... Women are raped everyday as per the movie "The Accused" In the United States a rape is reported every six minutes". ... Its a shame that a woman like the main Character in the movie "The Accused" was initial not seen as creditable enough to even be witness to aid her case,...

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As the movie moves along the anger of the parents turns to war as Canada and the United States start to battle each other. ... These two example of how Parker and Stone attack the homophobia of this nation. ... In Stan's mission to make Wendy like him, he asks Chef how to make a girl like him more than any other guy, Chef tells him to find the clitoris. ... By putting this in the movie it was a critical look at how much we put an emphasis on sex in our culture. ... In news reports through out the movie, The United States ignores Canada's pleas fo...

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The underground society of weed smokers Outline Although weed is an illegal drug an underground society still exists that utilizes sellers of the product to satisfy the consumers in the society whose unique techniques for achieving effects that they want from the drug. I. There are personal use...

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This method points to the 44 sounds represented by the English alphabetic construct and how the combination of these letters blend together to form individual words Phonics and Whole Language Instruction (Ponnuru, 1999). ... In a report published by the National Reading Panel (NRP) concerning teaching reading to children, the panel states, "Phonics teaching is a means to an end Programs that focus too much on the teaching of letter-sound relations and not enough on putting them to use are unlikely to be very effective- (2000, p. 10). ...

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A 1997 report from CNN attributes the migration of gangs to family relocation. ... Brief History It is important to look at a brief history of gangs in order to gain an understanding of how they evolved in what they are today. ... Gangs started to reflect this change and became more violent. ... In his book, Dangerous Society, Taylor points out several gang-prevention strategies on which we might focus. ... How Communities Battle Street Gangs Currently there are many programs being used by communities nationwide that are youth based. ...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States history as well as posterity was created, approved and just two years later instituted as the foundation for a fledging yet promising nation destined for greatness. It was a great concept envisioned by extraordinary men, a system in which the people of the land reign, governing through democratically ...

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