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Functionalism is the belief that society is a system of interrelated parts in which everything and everybody plays a crucial function. This explains the need “for a social system to exist” as well as “social institutions to satisfy those needs” (Hunter and McClelland 2013:34). The main purpose of functionalism is to create a society with stability, homeostasis…

In one study conducted by Cazilia Loibl and Patti J. Fisher from the Ohio State University and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the authors looked at the implementation of personal finance standards in three different subjects, including social studies/economics, family and consumer sciences, and business education (Loibl and Fisher 17). All…

In The University Of Pennsylvania Journal Of Constitutional Law, Celia Goetzl agrees: “Such policies stereotype, stigmatize, and criminalize the poor without cause” (2013, p.1541). Studies support the assertion that applicants for welfare are no more likely to have substance abuse issues than are the general public. Moreover, problems that have arisen with drug testing results due to faulty testing and results. According to Pollack, et al, “Suspicionless, population-based chemical testing of…

Why teach? That is the question. There are many different reasons I want to become a teacher. The biggest one being that “next to parents, teachers are the most important foundational element in our society” according to DESE (Missouri’s top website for teacher stuff). Coming from a private grade school to a public high school, having experienced many different teaching styles, some teachers had their masters in education and others simply had their bachelors in their content area.…

executes innocent people; the sheer possibility of innocent deaths is sufficient evidence of the system’s faultiness. Not only are there actual known cases that suggest that the system was faulty in its accusations, but the fact that a rate of innocent executions even exists is enough incentive for protest against the system. Therefore, because the success rate of capital punishment is not one hundred percent, it is logical to argue that capital punishment should be abolished to completely…

Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist, writer and a poet. She was born April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. She passed away on May 28, 2014 in Winston-Salem, NC. Her actual birth name was Marguerite Johnson. Pam Munoz Ryan was born December 25, 1951 in Bakersfield, Ca. She attended the San Diego University and is a writer. Pamela also teaches at an Oklahoma college. Maya Angelou and Pamela Munoz Ryan are an influence for many people. They are both very similar but different at the same…

In the contemporary US, the social justice system is relatively comprehensive. In the development of the social justice system, the probation as one assuaging method emerged in 1841 America. At first, probation law emerged because John Augustus, who was the first probation officer on the record, decided to parole one drunkard for three weeks. After this event, governments started to consider the possibility of probation law. In 1878, Massachusetts promulgated a new law about probation, which was…

lifelong career in the nursing profession while serving the diverse population living within our community (Joliet Junior College [JJC], n.d.). In addition, the nursing school’s philosophy is to prepare students to enter into the growing healthcare system as proficient, safe general practitioners, and the training is centered on four major elements: client, environment, health and nursing (JJC, n.d). In keeping with the mission and philosophy, the school conceptual framework is to provide a…

legislation addressing house bill 186 is of predominant interest to me because I am a student at the University of West Georgia and I believe that every student should feel secure while within his or her institution. This issue also directly impacts my fellow peers and professors as well as my mother, a grade school educator, and her students. From personal experience I have noticed the change in school systems where the building’s security has become more like a prison and less like an inviting…

in Joplin Missouri, United States with an African American, white American and also native American ethnicity. Hughes parents were both educators, however his father abandoned him while he was still a kid. Hughes lived in many different parts of the U.S with family members while he was growing up. While he was attending high school in Cleveland, Ohio he developed an appreciation for poetry, which he then was elected to be class poet. Hughes was highly involved within the school system that…