The use of intervention crisis to help individuals suffering from drug, alcohol or substance abuse
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
Drugs, alcohol and other substances can have a very significant effect on the homeostasis of the people who consume them. There 3 main approaches to drugs: 1.Drug Use, using drug for health and therapeutic reasons, commonly after medical advice. 2.Drug Misuse refers to the use of drugs for...
The mass media and poverty
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
As long as societies exist, social problems will exist as well. Just as there is arguably no ‘perfect' human being, there is just as much reason to think that there is no such thing as a ‘perfect' society. It is a sobering fact that social problems are normal...
The image of McDonald's in France
Case study - 1 pages - Services marketing
For the French people McDonald's is a symbol of junk food, like all fast food. But it has more the image of American food with the results it provides, such as obesity. The French consider this diet is not balanced with those fries and burgers full of these sauces. To make matters worse in the...
Race Poverty and the Underclass by Christopher Jencks
Book review - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In his book, Race Poverty and the Underclass, Christopher Jencks formulates a thesis that is aimed at revealing the short-comings of popular social policy remedies. He addresses options that are based on political ideologies which do not fare well in recognizing the reality of...
Korean Unification
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The notable economic and social problems that have developed in North Korea have spurred recent talks to reunify North and South Korea. While this move has been judged by many analysts to be a positive move toward establishing political stability in the Far East, the reality is that...
Africa and the western media
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Getting the masses in the United States to be concerned about combating global poverty is a difficult task. Generally speaking, we tend to be in denial about the social problems in our own country, preferring to fantasize about the lives of celebrities, and give very little thought...
Abraham Kuyper and John Calvin: Calvinism and Neo-Calvinism compared
Thesis - 4 pages - Philosophy
On November 9, 1891, the Dutch pastor and statesman Abraham Kuyper spoke to the first Christian Social Congress in the Netherlands on a profound and continually relevant subject—poverty. The address was peculiarly relevant to that time, even past-due, as Kuyper himself announced in...
The corner meets the school: the inner City's drug culture and its effect on schooling
Essay - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
“The school system will have taken its shots, tallied its misses, and closed its files, relinquishing any further claim. The corner will have them all.” - Ed Burns, The Corner Many believe that as the margin of social stratification and inequality in our nation widens, the most...
Describe the merger of narcotics trafficking and terrorism, called narco-terrorism
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
For decades, government authorities all over the world have implemented a number of programmes and initiatives to tackle a number of social problems, including organised crime. During recent years, a link between these two significant threats seems to have emerged, and a number of...
A Sociological perspective of poverty in Urban America
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
During the course of this report, we will investigate leading theoretical reasons behind the poverty of minorities in urban locales. A multi-level or holistic approach as to how neighborhoods of the inner-city became poor may provide much wanted evidence as to the origins of metropolitan...
Families make a difference
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Research suggests that adolescent delinquent substance abuse is one of the more prevalent social problems in the United States. I chose this topic because I have seen it among my own peers. Substance abuse is a problem regardless of race, class, ethnicity or gender among...
Female infanticide and female feticide
Essay - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Female infanticide and female feticide represent serious social problems in India. However, these issues also create much debate over a woman's right to choose whether or not to have a child. While women in India do have the right to terminate a pregnancy, there are several legal...
Water Pollution in San Diego
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Environmental issues pose a threat to humanity. Therefore, must urgent measures to ensure there is a permanent solution for this predicament (Biggs, Trent W., and Heather D'Anna 627). It is obvious that the environmental issues will have an impact on future generations if the present cohort fails...
Ontario budget 2009 & addressing the challenges of the future and crime prevention
Thesis - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
On March 25, 2009 the Ontario Government tabled its budget for 2009-10. There was much speculation regarding its contents in light of the current recession and prior announcements by the Federal Government with respect to cost-shared infrastructure spending. When it finally did come out it became...
Bipolar Disorder as depicted in the film Mr. Jones", Using Films for Healing
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
“Mr. Jones” is a film centered on a man diagnosed with a psychological condition, bipolar condition, and admitted to a psychiatry care-giving centre. The main actor in the film is Mr. Jones (played by Richard Gere, a charismatic man with a bipolar condition. At first, there is an...
A second chance:A report on the effects of after-school programs and the prevention of delinquent behaviors
Tutorials/exercises - 6 pages - Educational studies
Research shows that delinquency among children and adolescents is an extremely prevalent social problem, especially among adolescents in poverty stricken neighborhoods. Studies have shown that these kids are twice as likely to use and abuse drugs, participate in gang related...
Cultural competency of adolescent ethnic minority females: Theory, research and practice
Thesis - 9 pages - Social, moral & civic education
As the land of immigrants, the United States is arguably in the most need of a culturally competent society. Yet, internationally Americans are increasingly regarded as US-centric (Berzonsky et al., 2003; Fullerton, 2005; Pew Research Center, 2005). Given such issues as teen pregnancy,...
The Eden Project
Case study - 10 pages - Ecology & environment
The Eden Project is a multiple greenhouse complex in the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest greenhouses. The complex is dominated by two gigantic enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house plant species from across the world. Each enclosure imitates a natural biome. The...
Study of competition: Innocent Smoothie
Case study - 8 pages - Services marketing
In 1998 during a festival in London, three twenty year old students decided to sell fruit juice. The success was beyond their expectations and when they were newly graduated, they decided to start a real company that has just opened an office in Paris, having already conquered the UK, Denmark and...
Casual explanations of child abuse
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The topic, which is always under discussion and attracts the attention of scientists of different fields of investigation, is child abuse. According to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA): Child abuse is any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker,...
The fate of immigrants: Emmanuel Todd
Book review - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Emmanuel Todd is a historian, demographer and French anthropologist who gained popularity owing to his work on the Soviet system; he had predicted its collapse years before it took place, and more recently, he had predicted collapse of the American Empire. In ‘The fate of immigrants'...
Racism book review - Brym & Lie, 2013
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
The society dictates social interactions among its members. For example, some cultures eat snakes while this is totally unacceptable in other cultures. Other aspects of cultural interaction include nature of interactions between two people from different races (Brym & Lie, 2013). For...
The Beveridge report: Political and intellectual origins
Thesis - 32 pages - Political science
The historiography of the political and intellectual origins of the Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services - or Beveridge Report, named after William Beveridge, the Chairman of the Commission- was chiefly displayed in the document itself. Published in 1942 and highly edited, the...
Urinary Incontinence
Presentation - 34 pages - Medical studies
Urinary incontinence is defined as involuntary loss of urine of sufficient severity to be a health and/or social problem. Although it is commonly hidden and not discussed with health professionals, urinary incontinence is a prevalent, morbid, and expensive condition. Half of young...
Urban Segregation in Sao Paulo
Thesis - 7 pages - Geography
Since the 1950s, the majority of Latino-American cities have experienced a demographical growth and a major extension of their urban area. Some writers had even talked about the “monstrous cities”. In about half a century, from 1950s to 1990s, the demography of the cities boomed from 13...
Corporate culture: Case study of IKEA
Case study - 19 pages - Human resources
"Let us begin with an anecdote to highlight the theme of corporate culture in an intelligible and meaningful manner”. The following testimony is that of an officer of a company which was recently formed by the merger of two industrial companies: "When I need a new piece, I can ask someone...
The Role of Logistics in Sustainable Development
Thesis - 7 pages - Economy general
In 1987, the Commission of Brundtland focused on the concept of sustained development. This concept continued to serve as the central element of the Summit of Rio which took place in 1992, and gave rise to the view that 'sustainable development is development which makes it possible for the...
Controlling Organized Crime
Case study - 2 pages - Criminal law
Organized crime is defined as a group of individuals composed of numerous ethnicities and transnational groups who work and operate together, apart, or in combination with legitimate businesses and political entities. Organized crime has been a rising concern since at least the beginning of the...
Restoring Toyota's Reputation
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Akio Toyoda faces a hard task of trying to bring out a good reputation to the Toyota car maker. The reputation Toyota had gained because of the quality of their products made them rank number 17 in a reputation study, and they were the highest ranking in all the other automakers (Davis 2012). The...
Employee welfare measures
Thesis - 7 pages - Human resources
“Welfare” is a broad concept referring to a state of living of an individual or group, in a desirable relationship with the total environment - ecological, economic and social. Labor welfare includes both the social and economic contents of welfare. Social welfare...
