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The need for love, as well as for security, is a powerful motivator of behavior (Brendtro et al., 1990). Alienated youths, experiencing harsh social conditions, may seek alternative ways to fulfill these needs, including running away. Young people also desire autonomy. For many street children, freedom from adult control is the most important attribute of their adopted way of life (Scharf et al., 1986). Street children who experience harsh social conditions and broken family relations tend to…

College is a big part of life for a lot of people. Not only is a lot of time invested in making it through school by attending class and doing homework, but a lot of time is also spent on picking which college to go to. In Andrew Delbanco’s newspaper article “A Smug Education,” which was published by The New York Times on March 8, 2012, Delbanco urges that notorious colleges should stop encouraging their students to take excessive amounts of pride in which college they go to. Delbanco explains…

Carbonaro, 2010). The first part of the study was related to how socioeconomic status relates to the level of participation in extracurricular activities (Covay & Carbonaro, 2010). Sixty percent of children with families in the socioeconomic status quartile that is the lowest are involved in an extracurricular activity, but 80.6 percent of the next quarter participate in extracurricular activities (Covay & Carbonaro, 2010). Covay and Carbonaro (2010) state, “We find, as Lareau (2003) suggests,…

Organization Behavior and personality go hand in hand. It is impossible to look at Organization Behavior without looking at personality. The following is an assessment of personality in three parts. The first part delves into the Self-Assessment Library Personality test I took. The Self-Assessment Library personality tests are three major tests with several smaller components. The three tests evaluated my individual personality as its own entity, my individual personality and how I interact…

Imagine having an uneasy feeling every time you drive your car in fear of anticipating a wrongful encounter with the police.; Imagine being afraid of someone that is supposed to protect you.; Imagine being victimized due to the color of your skin. According to Pew Research Center “Seven in ten blacks said that blacks in their community were treated less fairly than whites in dealing with the police.” Discrimination is an unjust treatment of different types of people or things, the most common…

Is America the land of opportunity? Are we really all living the American dream we imagined when starting our journeys to success in this country? Over the years, America has become the land of economic disparity, not opportunity. The American dream has changed and people now are happy just getting by. There are many factors that are detrimental to one’s ability to succeed; among them are socioeconomic status. One’s very class can even affect health and education. With sixty percent of…

Year Author Title Journal Purpose Design/Sample Results/Recommendations Limitations Level/ Grade 2015 Sion Jo, Taeoh Jeong, Young Ho Jin, Jae Baek Lee, Jaechol Yoon, & Boyoung Park. Emergency Department (ED) crowding is associated with inpatient mortality among critically ill patients admitted via the ed: Post hoc analysis from a retrospective study. American Journal of Emergency Medicine. “To evaluate the assassination between ED crowding and inpatient mortality among critical ill…

Putin’s Policy of Nationalism Why does President Putin need to use nationalism as a diversionary tactic? This next section will explain the current domestic issues in Russia as well as the methods Putin is using in order to develop a nationalist discourse in the country. When the Soviet Union fell, Russia experienced many economic, social, and political challenges in its transition to democracy. Unfortunately, it left many feeling a lack of national pride and economic suffering. When Vladimir…

Critique of the Rhea Medical Center Community Health Needs Assessment Rhea Medical Center conducted their most recent Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) in 2016. The CHNA data applies to people living in the geographic areas of Dayton, Graysville, Evensville, Spring City and Grandview, all communities of Rhea County, Tennessee (Rhea Medical Center, 2016, p. 11). One thing that surprised me in the CHNA was of the top 15 causes of death in the United States, nine occurred at "Higher than…

Limitations for the determination of anticancerogenic potential of vitamin C and other food nutrients: One of the important studies carried out to determine the effect of vitamin C on cancer is very significant since it finds the anticarcinogenic effect of the vitamin on prostate cancer with patients who do not use alcohol, but the same authors did not find any association between prostate cancer and the vitamin for the patients who drink alcohol regularly. It clearly shows that regular intake…