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    Bowling Alone focuses on the decrease in civic engagement of American society and provides detailed examples and data as to why civic engagement such as voter turnout and “secondary association” involvement is decreasing. Putman attributes this decrease to demographic transformations by means of changing from “the corner grocery store” to the supermarket and even to electronic shopping. With a change like this there is less interaction while buying goods at the supermarket to almost no…

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    thousand Americans were homeless. Sixty-five percent of homeless individuals live in emergency shelters or temporary housing, while the other thirty-five percent are living in their cars, on the streets, or in abandoned houses, shops, and other buildings. When broken down into age groups, under eighteen, eighteen to twenty-four, and twenty-five and up, approximately twenty-three percent were under eighteen years old, ten percent were eighteen to twenty-four years old, and sixty-seven percent of…

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    person to use all their imagination and all sorts of abilities to design those buildings, schools or homes that catch everyone’s attention. Well that one person happens to become an architect. An architect is the one responsible for the remarkable places, they’re the ones who designed the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Empire State building, Sydney Opera House, or the best one of all, the Burj Al Arab Hotel. All these amazing buildings were designed by architects, and man, don’t they get paid for it.…

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    reports to the Detroit Workforce Development Board, which was established by the office of the mayor. The purpose of this site is to assist job seekers, returning citizens, veterans, and youth with finding “one-stop services” near them to help with building their education, skills, and work experience.…

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    professional disciplines, who work together to achieve shared aims and objectives” (Amer, 2013, p. 150). Continuing education is a core belief in nursing. Most nurse believe “there is always something new to learn” the same goes for communication and team building techniques. Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (STEPPS) and Achieving Competence Today (ACT) are interdisciplinary teaching programs that focuses on quality, safety and health systems improvement…

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    Many would say that teens are “the future of tomorrow” where thanks to what they learn, it will impact them and the future of society. It is with that knowledge that, when we see many teenagers on their phone using some kind of social media, we worry for the future of America. A justifiable worry as 95% of teenagers in the United States currently go online and 80% of them partake in some type of social media. (Cookingham and Ryan 2). Teens make up a large portion of the most famous social…

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    Mobile Soup Kitchen pledge to feed the homeless and to do it in such a manner which benefits the community. The mission of New Life is “to meet the needs and cultivate the strengths of the poor and marginalized in Central Queens through community building and a demonstration of the love of God. We believe in breaking cycles of poverty and academic failure while creating cycles of new life.” I found their mission to be very explicit and creatively put using the term “New Life” in their mission…

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    Social work students and professionals have opportunities to organize community gardens, which will allow guiding communities toward empowerment and working toward social equality and justice at a macro level. Kam (2014) called social justice "the crucial mandate of social workers," and indeed, it was the goal of pioneering social workers such as Jane Addams. While social work as a profession has moved away from macro work in recent decades, there still exists a need for this important work.…

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    Plywood Research Paper

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    Plywoods are sheets of thin wood stuck on top of each other. These sheets are alluded to as wood finishes. These layers when assembled deliver an exceptionally solid and strong wood material known as plywood. The sorts of cement used to stick the thin sheets of wood together is a main consideration in making quality bits of plywood. At the point when a solid and enduring cement is utilized, plywoods turn out to be greatly improved than plain woods in opposing breaks, contracting, curves and…

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    Coleman Social Capital

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    Social Capital Social Capital is a social concept developed by Coleman in 1990. Social Capital portrays that numerous people within a social structure need to have two traits in common to make it easier for people within that social structure to function.The two main aspects that Coleman identifies are trust and obligation. This solidifies the strength of a community’s social structure creating a social capital, weather it is at a local or public level. An example of local social capital are…

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