Feral children

products. Children are no exception. Today’s youth is being exposed to advertisements in almost every aspect of their life, often times not even realizing that what they are looking at is an advertisement. The average child is exposed to approximately 40,000 advertisements a year, with the companies spending more than 12 billions dollars annually on marketing specifically at kids (Cooper, n.d.). Society should not be targeting children in advertising because overall it can…

Adolescent Homelessness As of today our adolescent homelessness is becoming a major problem in the United States. I am going to talk about the causes, the consequences, and the programs that may help them off the streets. So, why do these adolescents become homeless in the first place? Well the meaning of homelessness is a person or individual without a permanent home who may live on the streets, stay in a shelter, mission, single room occupancy facilities, abandoned house or a vehicle or…

Before watching the documentary, my stance on advertisement to children were fairly positive. For me as long as the advertisements don’t promote sex, drugs, alcohol, or other inappropriate topics to children, advertising to them seems acceptable. In fact, last semester in one of my advertising classes, I was asked if I would be comfortable to promote McDonald’s Happy Meals to kids, knowing that the kind of food encourage kids to eat unhealthy. At that time, I didn’t feel it was unethical. I felt…

Now serving children of all ages, they will be subliminally coaxed into buying the newest unhealthy fun food, and yes there is a prize inside! The tactics of television advertisement have become the driving force behind not just the United States food industry, but many countries around the world. Particularly in the United States, these major food companies target the most influential and vulnerable, children. Consequently, how does the emphasis on food advertisement in television affect…

District 6 in San Francisco needs to develop a comprehensive national strategy to end homelessness among youth. Homelessness is a serious social problem - with a rising of 10% increase between 2013 and 2015, number of persons concerned. The youth homelessness recorded a particularly striking increase during the term of the homeless strategy. Based on the 2015 General Count, 57% of the unsheltered homeless population was identified in District 6. In 2013, 2576 people aged 18 to 24 were registered…

The difference is that sex trafficking is forced and prostitution is not. According to the Government Accountability Office, “...there are 80,000 to 100,000 trafficked women and children in Cambodia” (Ahmed). This figure actually represents the amount of prostitutes in Cambodia, and they aren’t necessarily all sex trafficking victims. The U.S. Government just assumes that all prostitutes could not have possibly chosen sex work for…

Introduction Children in this current generation are born and brought up differently compared to the past generations. This has been made possible due to the improvement in technology, as well as, the living standards. Education, being the key value, has played an important role in cognitive development in children which has made many changes in the normal way of life. For example, education has made children become more conversant with their rights. Also parents have become more involved in…

right. ‘During the 2011--2012 school year, school districts reported 1,166,436 homeless youth (Delisle n.p.).’ There is a number of them that live with family and friends but about a quarter of that number are in shelters or on the streets. Moreover, children who go to school and attend regularly will not know where their next meal will come from, if they will have clean clothes, a shower, or even a bed. However, they are showing motivation and being audacious bringing hope to the future. Their…

on the streets, in cars, in homeless shelters, or in subsidized transitional housing during a one-night national survey last January. Of that number, 206,286 were people in families, 358,422 were individuals, and a quarter of the entire group were children (“Homelessness Statistics,” n.d.).The phenomenon of homelessness is one of the phenomena experienced by Western and Arab societies alike, but according to the different ratios and conditions in each country and society. The phenomenon of…

Homelessness has been depicted as people living on the streets. When someone thinks of homeless people, they think of middle aged drunks on the streets. Homelessness isn’t just people on the streets; it's also people staying from one place to another because they don’t have a secure home. Homeless people are labeled as lazy drunks who do not want to better themselves. It isn’t always the case. Many do want to better themselves but struggle to do so. That is the case for some homeless youth. Many…