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152). Homelessness for older people has become a serious problem. The causes of homelessness include "a lack of affordable housing, to few jobs for unskilled workers, and a reduction in human services support" (Martin, 2015, p. 152). For the older subgroup of individuals, causes of homelessness include "too old to sufficiently recover from a job loss, enter a new career, or renter the workforce, as well as experiencing chronic illnesses that either are costly or bar older adults from being…

Successful aging is important, especially in the efforts of psychologists to understand this continuous process that shapes and affects us all. Though misleading, ‘life expectancy’ simply means how much longer a person can expect to live. The problem is that we have no reliable way of judging the effects of several key factors on future life expectancy, including race (Stuart-Hamilton, 2012). As the number of older adults increases, the number of individuals who age unsuccessfully also increases…

The Thundertones as a Social Network The Thundertones have been a central part of my social network during my time at Wheaton College. Thundertones is an a cappella group that pulls its members exclusively from the Wheaton College Men’s Glee Club. Being an elite section of a larger group gives the Thundertones an interesting social network in side of the Men’s Glee Club; however, due to the limitations of this project I have chosen to focus primarily on the social network of the Thundertones…

In the journal article, there is an evaluation in the study of CD45RO+ memory Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This study can have a great impact on today 's problem because lung cancer is considered to be one of the most lethal malignancy around the world. To find the most reliable guidelines for treatments, the TNM classification is the best determinant because it uses a combined data on tumor burden, cancer cells in regional lymph nodes and…

Chinese Americans. During World War II, Chinese Americans did not want to associate themselves with Japanese Americans. This was all done to avoid the sphere of racism that existed in the United States. During the 1960s, students from these Asian subgroups “coined the term ‘Asian American’” , which related their combined experiences of “racial oppression and economic exploitation.” As Asian Americans, they importantly carved out their unique American identities within an American culture that…

For many, pregnancy is a beautiful time of change, discovery, growth, anticipation, and excitement; however, it is also a time that often ushers in great life changes and can upset the normalcy of life. It is a time that is sometimes long awaited and sometimes unexpected, sometimes desired and sometimes unwanted. It is a time of uncertainly and unknowns, because the end result of pregnancy is not always as expected, and tragically, one the most common adverse pregnancy outcomes is fetal death,…

Poverty in the African American community has always been a problematic. Most African American woman that live in poverty are single mothers. The family resources correlates to the child cognitive and behavioral development in early school years. For instance the mother’s employment, education attainment, depression symptoms and the environment the family lives in. The children that are being raised in poverty are at a disadvantage because they don’t have the proper support from their family.…

Many have worried about how genetic engineering would affect humans, and the perception of beauty or self. Would those who are born naturally become ugly? Would one only be beautiful if their looks were predetermined? What would happen to the self-confidence of those who are born without genetic engineering? Would the children blame the parents for any of their faults? Or will the world continue spin, without much being changed? Some think this would affect the looks of humanity. The idea that…

Items and their Coverage The 21 items on BAI were originally developed from self-report evaluations that were administered at intake at the Beck Clinic (Beck et al., 1988). The intake sample consisted of 810 outpatients of mixed diagnostic categories. From these self-report evaluations and in accordance with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III (DSM-III), 21 items were selected based on two successful factor analyses of different samples (Doward, 2014). The initial item…

While conducting this research, one of the two components for it, is why there’s a lack of physical exercise among the Latino community. Previous research has been done on this topic Bull et al.., 2006). That showed that Latino who are low income do have a lack of physical exercise because they’re not well informed about what type of physical exercise they can do, also a lot of them can’t afford to pay a gym membership. In addition, even if they want to do physical exercise at their home or park…