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County’s 4-H program include: • 4,797 youth and adults attended an education program by the Kanawha County 4-H program in 2016. • 210 Kanawha County youth participated in summer camping programs including Kanawha county day and residential camps, and state camps. • 2,178 youth received nutrition education yearly through the Family Nutrition Program.…

In 1972, An Na was born in South Korea. Her parents decided to move to the United States while she was still very young. She was raised mostly in San Diego, California, and now identifies as an American-Raised Korean. Her father believed that Americans would have an easier time pronouncing only the first syllable of her given name, so it was shortened to “Na.” Her family name, “An,” was frequently spoken before her given name - many Americans now simply call her “Anna.” This was a conscious…

Educating new undergraduate students who are academically unprepared for college is a critical issue for American colleges and universities. According to Bettinger and Long (2005), there is a great number of students each year that graduate from high school academically unprepared for college. As a result, approximately one-third of entering postsecondary students require remedial or developmental coursework before enrolling in college-level courses (Bettinger & Long, 2005). The focus of this…

Health and Research, 2007). d. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2010) estimates that there are approximately 19 million new STDs each year and almost half of them are among young people between ages 13 and 24. STDs cost the United States health care system an estimated $15.9 billion annually (CDC, 2010). e. According to CDC (2011), teen pregnancy accounts for nearly $11 billion…

Joiner’s Interpersonal Theory Veronica Moreno Professor, Jacobson Iona College Joiner’s Interpersonal Theory Joiner’s theory was developed by Thomas Joiner, and it tries to explain the reason why people commit suicide. The theory has three factors that lead people to suicide behaviors and attempts. According to Joiner, the combination of perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness causes the wish to commit suicide among people (Simlot, McFarland & Lester, 2013). The need…

Why Not Sports? High school sports plays a big role in a students’ academic performance. It can impact a scholar’s academic performance in school both negatively and positively. Many people believe that when a student makes sports a higher priority over their education, the sports takes time away from their learning, affecting their overall academic performance. Although this may be true in some aspect, sports do not impair their education but more so encourage students to improve and excel in…

children in America cringe to hear. The argument of homework has been going for a while now, whether is it is improving education or “busy work” to make the teachers look innocent. By giving homework to k-12 students, their school and home life is miserably the same as schools have not researched enough about the effects of homework in the U.S., homework is creating health problems, and research shows there is no improvement with more homework.…

Most public schools are separated by neighborhood or districts, so this means that all of the “good” schools are located in the “good” neighborhoods. These schools have a strong police presence protecting them, public parks, and most importantly a quality education. These schools also happen to be in predominantly white areas, whereas schools in areas that aren’t “good” neighborhoods don’t have as many amenities that go along…

Census data, more than seven percent of American workers fell below the federal poverty line, making less than $11,170 for a single person and $15,130 for a couple.” In studies done by the Economics daily, “the number of ‘working poor’ in the United States was 10.5 million in 2013. The working poor are people who spent at least 27 weeks in the labor force during the year, either working or looking for work, but whose incomes were below the official poverty level.” In…

Schooling Schooling is a big factor in everyone’s life. It can be both good or bad, depending where you live. In many of the past stories, the only way some of these kids have gotten a chance at further education is from the help of their high school. There is a direct link from race to gang violence to per capita income. On page 136, Robert Putnam gives this thought. “91 percent non-Hispanic white, with a per capita income of $84,000, whereas Santa Ana, the county seat, just 20 miles away is…