world- over three billion people- live on less than $2.50 a day (1). Poverty is a direct indication of how well the economy is and is not doing. The fact that the majority of humanity lives on just a few dollars a day, whether you live in the richest nation in the world, or one well known for poverty, you will see high accounts of inequality everywhere, which is eye-opening to say the least. People that are just making ends meet, when they lose their jobs don't have the resources to pay their…
Today, local community taxes are responsible for a majority of costs regarding school facilities--42% of operating costs including staffing and 82% of capital costs including buildings, facilities, and equipment (Filardo, 2016). However, this funding mechanism proves to be problematic as we consider that decades of state sanctioned discriminatory housing policies from racial segregation to redlining and predatory lending have had…
Introduction Detroit, Michigan is a unique city boasting of an iconic past, a gloomy present, and a potentially bright future. Once one of America’s largest and most thriving cities because of professional opportunities in the automotive industry, Detroit fell to devastating lows after the loss of thousands of jobs from Ford Motor, General Motors, and Chrysler. Detroit is the 18th overall most populated city in the United States, the largest city in the State of Michigan, and recently became the…
Ethan Tooke Ms. Lawrence English 10 - 2 February 21, 2024 Samuel Morse Samuel Morse was an influential figure in the 19th century. Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on April 27, 1791. As a businessman, inventor, and artist, as well as Inventing the Telegraph and Morse Code, Morse had a varied and exceptional life. Samuel Morse changed long-distance communication and opened the door for contemporary telecommunications, influencing both history and technology. Morse’s early life was marked by…
Woods, and Slack (2013), state; the dropouts in 2006 cost taxpayers an estimated seventeen billion dollars in Medicaid and uninsured medical expenses alone over their lifetime. The dropout rate is a plague that affects nearly every region of our nation. Across our country, there are…
birth outcomes, and chronic disease as well as with mental health injuries (Cubbin, Pedregon, Egerter, & Braveman, 2008). Although some social determinants of health are increasingly being studied for understanding racial/ethnic health disparities, the role of neighborhood context for originating raceil/ethnic health disparities has garnered insuffficient attention (Osypuk, 2013). This paper will show how the neighborhoods we live in influence our health outcomes, what can be done to improve…
I. Intro Malcolm X once said, “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” As this country’s demographic continues to shift, we must recognize the value of minorities achieving educational and economical success as a vital part of this country’s prosperity. In 2000, minorities comprise approximately 30% of the population in the United States(U.S Census Bureau). In 2010 that number increased to 37% and will maintain a steady increase.…
make, and humiliate the people. These corporations and western world power integration into these developing countries have intensified debt, poverty and economic inequality. These countries are spending less money on government expenditures such as building infrastructure, education, social services, and job growth from within to fund export orientation. This directly makes poor countries reliant on transnational countries for jobs and money. These transnational businesses, such as Nike, would…
I have determined some of my theological positions, such as my stance on church discipline, I did so as I examined what it would look like in the context of my community and its worship of God. I pray that as I move forward in my current role ministering to youth, that the Lord would continue to humble me under the task of creating a biblical framework for Christian Worship to take place and would continually point my eyes back to the early church and their enduring…
Federal Building Bombing. In it’s nearly first century of statehood, Oklahoma faced more shortcomings than some states had faced in decades. Through every event, we faced scrutiny, tribulations, and got locked shut in a cage of distress, but we still sang. We sang because we are Oklahoma. We are “red people”. We are red with passion, energy, and the strength of our state. We boldly sing the song of freedom boasting more than 200 beautiful manmade lakes, the number one suburb in the nation, and…