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How can we improve the Foster Care System in the United States? An Annotated Bibliography About two years ago, my aunt adopted a little boy from the United States. It was a joyous occasion and we all adored him and love having him as an addition to our large family. While my younger cousin has a happy life right now in the care of my aunt, there was so much trauma and struggles that this little boy had to face at such a young age that came from the big process of adoption and foster care. It…

is a Professor of Sociology, Immigration Studies and Public Affair at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and the Graduate Center in the City University of New York (CUNY). Smith may specializations include Ethnography, Globalization, Ethnicity, and Migration. His foremost book, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants won a Presidential award from CUNY and the American Sociological Association in 2008 as the overall Distinguished Book as well as many other prizes. His…

proficiency levels. Most of these students are distracted for most of the school day, and they do not participate in learning. For example, some of the distractions that they are engaged in are conflicts in the classroom, fighting, and walking out of the classroom The policies for curriculum use in classrooms are based on the financing of public education practices. The education, politics that govern the education practices in each state can be complicated and often changing by decades. There…

During my academic semesters, I joined to different clubs such as the Student Government Association, the Culture Club and the History and International relations club. I am an active member of those clubs because I like to represent the needs of my classmates and I like to organize and develop a different kind of pedagogical activities for them…

is also a history teacher at Sacramento State (CSUS). She has degrees in subjects such as Psychology, African and Middle Eastern studies, and African American studies. Dr. Gaston has visited Africa and served on two Fullbright-Hays Seminars in Africa: one being in Ghana and the other in Rwanda. She also serves as Chair of the Center of African Peace and Conflict Resolution Advisory Board at CSUS and is a member of the international African Studies Association. From taking Dr. Gaston’s History of…

of rights enumerated in the 1875 legislation. The Supreme Court analyzed these cases in view of the Fourteenth Amendment and concluded the Amendment was not designed to apply to private citizens or private organizations, but only to the federal and state governments. This decision resulted in the Civil Rights Act of 1875 being invalidated, and opened the doors to blatant discrimination by businesses and individuals. John Marshall Harlan, who was a supporter of civil rights, was the lone voice of…

better socioeconomic status, and improve our health. Not only that, sleep is the best way to recover energy. Sleep is important for our well-being. Sleep quality and amount can change according races. Dr. Fuller-Rowell is professor in the college of human sciences at auburn University and has done tons of research about sleep. (“Thomas E. Fuller-Rowell, Ph.D”). Dr. Fuller-Rowell and colleagues did study where it show the less we sleep; then, less productive we become (Fuller-Rowell…

fails to pass a standardized test or regents exam. Further, it is not fair, for teachers to be criticized based on how well their students perform in their state exams. In addition, it is also not fair for principals to use test scores to judge teachers how effective and ineffective they are? Ever since, the nation has industrialized, we have forgotten how strenuous teaching is and often times, they are not always observed fairly and their accomplishments are also not always acknowledged.…

An experiment conducted out of the Northwestern Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, followed 40 Chicago-area students over the course of four years of high school. After being divided into two groups based on academic paths, the results taken by analysis tests from their freshman to senior year of high school showed the students that had taken music classes maintained quick response times to sounds and lasting stability to sound processing, whereas the students partaking in the junior…

The United States of America, are rich in history but not always the world know the reality of all races of this country. One of the races that many people are trying exclude is the colored race, African American people. For many years they suffered the power of the wealthy people “whites”. Between the time was passing many names have been appearing, names like Frederick Douglas, Marcus Garvey, W.E.B Dubois and many other people that where figthed for the rights of the colored people. Thanks to…