Poverty Literature Reviews Samples For Students

The excellence of the air around us is referred as ‘air quality'. In the case when the area is given good air quality credit, then it means that the air around the area is clean and most of all, unpolluted. Clean air is the most important aspects required for all living creatures on this planet. There are variant factors that causing poor air quality or pollute the air. The emissions from factories and vehicles used to play a major role in air pollution toxins. When the concentration of the pollutants reaches beyond the mark and can affect the health of ...

The literature helped in the provision of sufficient information concerning the statistics of the adolescent men who are exposed to crime due to poverty in the society. The sources give an elaborate analysis of the cases of crime as a result of poverty in the adolescent men, in the society. The sources also outlines the role of poverty as a cause of criminal activities among the adolescent men in the U.S.
The overall strengths of the sources used involves the provision of statistical evidence in analyzing the relationship between crime and poverty among the adolescent youths. The sources are also ...

Social housing and work-lessness have always been a debated issue in the United Kingdom. Over the years, the housing associations and the Policy makers in UK have discussed the issue of work-lessness among the social housing tenants. The first thing to know here is what social housing means. Social housing is basically low rent housing which is provided to those families who are struggling to meet the cost of their housing due to issues like poverty, work-lessness, financial exclusion. It is normally councils, local authorities, and non-profit housing associations, which provide such housing. Worklessness has been a major issue among the ...

Introduction

Race, gender and power are issues that affect our day-to-day life and can hinder or promote progress, depending on how they are handled. Race and gender are issues that a person has to live with as he or she has no choice once found to belong to a particular group. There am2qare challenges that comes with being born in a certain gender depending on expectations of the society. Power, on the other hand is an occurrence that can happen or disappear depending on the circumstances. Since the issues of gender, power and race are part of our life, it is necessary for ...

The impact of poverty on the young population is greater than would appear from an outside perspective. Approximately one in six children in Australia lives below the poverty line, a figure that has increased since 2003. Those in poverty are defined as making less than half of the median income. In all 575,000 children were in poverty according to 2009-2010 data.
There are some effects of poverty on childhood development that are not immediately tangible. According to Lipina and Colombo, the impact of various types of deprivation early in life can have lasting cognitive and neurological impacts on ...

The Rerum Novarum is an encyclical issued in the year 1891 by Pope Leo XIII. It is considered to be an open letter to all the Catholic bishops addressing the issues of working class people. Pope Leo wrote the encyclical in response to all the social conflicts that had led to socialism due to the wake of industrialization. According to Pope Leo, the role of the State was to endorse social justice by protecting people’s rights while the role of the church was to speak out on matters regarding social issues and teach acceptable social principles while ensuring ...

Understanding the relationship between agricultural growth, rural development and poverty reduction has become very difficult because of the lack of reliable data to describe the entire scenario in the subSaharan African region. Bart Minten’s (2008) paper, Agricultural Technology, Productivity, and Poverty in Madagascar, attempts to demonstrate the existing relationship of agricultural growth, rural development, and poverty reduction by quantitatively using a spatially-explicit dataset. The objective is to study how such adoption of agricultural technology and crop yield shape the food prices, real wages of unskilled workers and key welfare indicators of Madagascar. Rice industry in Madagascar was used as a ...

Joseph Conrad and William Faulkner are two of the most prominent writers of the modern literary era. In fact in an event held in the year 1957 at the Virginia University, Faulkner openly stated that his works were influenced by Conrad’s writing style. Faulkner have rated ‘ A Heart of Darkness’ as one of his favorite books, and reportedly when he travelled through Kent he remarked to his mother about the serenity of the place, and commented that ‘ no wonder Conrad writes such fine books from here’. Such was the admiration he carried for Conrad. Both of them wrote ...

Introduction

We Are The Poor is a wonderful book written by Ashwin Desai describing lives of South Africans after election of the first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela. The South Africans expected that the end of Apartheid would end their problems, unfornately this did not happen. The normal conditions of the people living in the slums of Soweto remained the same. Communities began to racism the government citing racial discrimination, unemployment, poor allocation of resources, neglect of the natives, poor housing, lack of water, neoliberalism among other burning issues.
Communities especially those living in the slums of Soweto argued that ...

The nursing profession has been plagued by poor performance for a long time. There have been cases of patients receiving poor healthcare from nurses, which has, in some instances, resulted to death of patients. There are a number of causes for the poor performance in nursing (Marquis & Huston, 2009). They include poor and unrealistic patient and work scheduling, biased and poor enforcement of policies, lack of leadership in the profession, failure to pay attention to the grievances of employees, failure to show care to the employees and failure by the management to lead by example.
Unrealistic patient and work scheduling ...

ABSTRACT.

Poverty is in its own a culture and a socio-economic class, which traps individuals in a vicious cycle that are hard to break. Education plays a crucial role in breaking this cycle, but under normal circumstances achieving while faced with this calamity is a challenge. Teachers working with students from low economic backgrounds face the consequences of the culture of poverty, which goes to the extent of failing their state tests. Working with such students needs an understanding of poverty, and what they can do to address their literacy needs. This study provides a review on education achievements and poverty in order to examine the ...

According to Jiandong Ju, the low movement of capital inflow from rich countries to poor countries can be explained using the assumption of one sector in the economy. He came up with three major propositions as to why there is little capital outflow from the rich countries to the poor countries. According to Lucas, the capital flow is determined by the marginal product of capital. The first factor he proposed for the low capital outflow was the sovereign risk assumption. Sovereign risk is the assumption that the government bills and bonds are risk free. He explains that the sovereign ...

This is the documented and in-depth analysis of a specific real life situation or even a hypothetical scenario, usually used as a training tool. In most cases, students are asked to analyze the given cases and present their individual or group interpretations or solutions, that are expected to be supported by their line of thinking as well as their assumptions.
A longitudinal design or study is a method of statistical analysis in which the study or test is repeated severally, after the initial test, mainly to be able to identify the trends in the analysis. Its actually a Co relational research that is ...

In contrast to the image that the title of this book brings about and the prejudiced idea in our mind about how it is overwhelmingly difficult to end poverty in the distant or near future, Jeffrey Sachs’s The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time provides an honest, uncomplicated strategy for ending poverty that is appealing to both common sense and logic. Sachs provides conclusive proof that in our time, poverty can only be alleviated through a major shift in assistance policy. Yet, in contrast to many who think it is impossible to solve the challenges in Asia ...

I used two 20th Century sources about the demographic and economic conditions of Ireland at the time Swift write “A Modest Proposal”, and in my opinion these would have strengthened the paper overall by placing it in a more detailed historical context. Neither of the articles would have changed my basic conclusions that Ireland was suffering from extreme poverty, hunger and poverty because of England’s colonial policies. They would have offered further proof of my main thesis that even though Swift’s essay was intended only to be satire, he had a very serious political purpose. In my opinion, during ...

In the writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are few ghosts as large and imposing as that of the Past. In The Great Gatsby, the tragic truth for James Gatz is that there is no way for him to overcome his history in time to salvage his dreams. As a poor youth, Gatz dreams about affluence, but he does not have the discipline to do the hard work required to rise legitimately: when he is given a work-study position at the university, the janitorial tasks he must perform in order to earn his tuition are, he feels, beneath him. When he ...

Introduction

The heavenly Christmas Tree is a book by Fyodor Dostoyevski which highlights the story of a poor boy just after his mothers death. The pain of having to overcome the death of her mother on Christmas Eve as well as obtaining his necessities makes his day both hard and unbearable. To add pain to all this, nobody seems to care about him as he is encountered with negative reactions at all places he visits. The thought of how different the situation would have been if his mother were alive brings him fantasies, which are only fulfilled in his death. There is a ...

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The Sociology of Poverty
In this article, author focuses on the discussion regarding sociology of poverty and sociology of deprivation. The article tells that poverty of an individual in the society is wealth of other individual, and minimal standards in industrial and developed societies can be considered as idealistic goals and objectives in underdeveloped societies. Deprivation is in the society because of improper distribution of wealth and income (Coser). Under-privileged individuals, however, make comparison of their lot with that of privileged individuals. A poor man can be defined as an individual whose economic means are not proportionate with the ...

Introduction

It is a reality that poverty affects child's development and educational outcomes in different ways, starting from the early life of the children. According to Colclough (2012), poverty limits the chance of a child in attaining education, which is the safest approach of escaping poverty. Poverty, as will be used in the above study, indicates persistent problem throughout life and is considered to have diverse impacts on societies across the world. The above paper seeks to outline the manner in which poverty influences child development and its effects on educational outcomes. The study is worth conducting, as through it, ...

Did the Welfare System Cause the Dissolution of the Black Family?

Introduction

In 1965 when the civil rights movements was experiencing an explosion, Daniel Patrick Moynihan penned a report to President Johnson claiming that one of the major reasons for poverty amongst black Americans was the fact that a quarter of black families were being headed by women. While that report caused a lot of uproar for the then White House aide, today we still see that many African American homes are manned by single women as many black babies seem to be born outside of wedlock. This is a problem that looks to ...

The following literature review evaluates scholarly research on the challenges of entrepreneurship, project management and sustainable development in Africa. Based on the discussion meaningful implications and suggestions are mentioned towards the end. Africa is a land of magnificent natural sceneries and resources but even in the 21st century it is still considered the Dark Continent, bearing metaphorical meaning. It is the least developed continent in the world. Despite major efforts in improving the lives of Africans there are many challenges that face the continent.

Sustainable Development in Africa

Africa has immense natural resources and precious minerals. For decades the practice of finding energy ...

A Modest Proposal is a satirical work by Jonathan Swift aimed at skewering English reactions to the then-contemporary issues of poverty and famine in Ireland. It revolves around a detailed argument that the problems of poverty, famine, overpopulation and many other social ills could be solved by selling one year old Irish children to be cooked and eaten dressed “hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs” at English dinner tables (Swift, 1729, p.9). It was written in the early 18th century when Ireland was effectively an English colony and had been ruled as such for centuries. Colonialism ...

Abstract

Tuberculosis, better known as TB, is an infectious disease that affects the global community. Its incidence rate has been significant in the New Zealand region where the disease is considered to be pandemic and has accrued a significant burden on the healthcare system for its demands on timely diagnosis and treatment. Although a decline of its incidence in New Zealand was noted, such decline halted sometime in the 1980’s and the rate of incidence becomes consistent thereafter and it remains to be an apparent health problem in the region which is highly associated with migration issues and other factors that ...

Literature Review

Literature review is the process of describing the relevant literature to a given topic or piece of work. It is beneficial because it gives the reader a glimpse of the existing, relevant theories and hypotheses including the methodologies useful in that field of work or topic. It makes use of secondary sources a representation that the research has no new information. In my literature review, I will discuss the different aspects of homelessness among blacks and ethnic minority groups in the UK.
My method of searching for relevant sources include a wide search of various websites among them, governmental departments, shelter England, ...

Background

Everyone feels hunger especially when there is not much food left to eat. This is a common scenario in third world and developing countries. At some point, hunger could also be seen even in developed and industrialized countries such as the U.S, Japan, and other prosperous countries in Europe. Whenever one feels hunger, it simply means that it is time to eat. But what if there is simply not enough food to eat or worse, there is nothing to eat at all? In that case, that person’s body, although still starving, will try to compensate by turning the body’ ...

Introduction

Many people frequently use the words “homicide” and “murder” interchangeably, but they are not the same. Homicide is a legal term referring to any killing of human by another human being. On the other hand, murder requires the intent to kill another human being. Homicide involves any death where a person has a fault, but there appears mitigating circumstances that can influence the charge of homicide. Those convicted of murder carry two charges, which include homicide and the malicious intent to kill. The United States laws carve exceptions form some killings, which would otherwise fall under criminal laws against murder or manslaughter. ...

Literature Review

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Introduction
With childhood obesity on the rise, there is increasing concern about the prevention and treatment of obesity. Current national data on childhood and adolescent obesity show 16.9 percent of 2-to-19-year-old children and adolescents are obese (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2014). An effective intervention to manage obesity is essential. The current weight management practices involve dietary modification, behavioral change therapies involving exercise, pharmacological therapy and surgical intervention. The purpose of this literature review is to explore the current research on Motivational Interviewing (MI) as an effective method for ...

Abstract

During the just concluded presidential elections in America, one of the principal matters in the agenda of either presidential hopeful was the issue of immigration. Debatably, the United States is the country experiencing the highest rates of immigration in the entire world. One of the consequences of having high inflows of foreigners is the fact that some individuals find their way illegally into the United States. As such, the aspect of illegal of immigrants has been described as one of the most serious menaces facing the United States. Typically, immigration is a concept that concerns itself with the movement of ...

Impact of Video Games in English Learning

Impact of Video Games in English Learning
Technological changes have brought new ideas, software, video games and many other developing applications in computer use. Adults and children are using computers to distract their minds and perform challenging tasks that improves their innovative skills. Children play video games primarily for fun and education. There are different forms of video games that can be found over the internet via YouTube and many other technological sources. Children tend to choose the kind of games meant for their age levels that keep them interested. There are many different kinds of games available. For ...

The Role of the Teacher in Fostering a Positive Impact through Warm Demanding versus the Academic Performance of Students in Public School Setting: A Correlational Study
This part of the research is a review of literature and related studies on the role of the teachers in using warm demanding or not and how it influences the academic performance of public school students. Warm demandingness is not just about caring to students, but also include insisting them to meet expected and actual academic standards of learning. In view of the previous literature on the subject, many authors (e.g., Holland, 2012; Sullivan, ...

Abstract

Teen pregnancy is very critical and a big problem affecting the United States. The paper will address the background of the issue; include a problem statement as well as literature review explains the prevalence of teen pregnancy. The paper will look at the scope and impact of the problem and discuss the interventions and controls that can be taken to reduce the rates of teen pregnancy. It presents the challenges that are associated with teen pregnancy as well as the individual and environment impacts. The paper illustrates that; the implementation of the programs will instill a sense of knowledge and create awareness ...

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Notably, the cost of receiving healthcare in the United States has been on the rise in the recent years. It is, therefore, imperative that for the nation to address the problems associated with lack of sufficient healthcare there is the need to have caps on the skyrocketing nature of the healthcare costs (AHIP, 2016). The most notable areas where the rising costs have been detected include soaring costs of medical services, costly pharmaceuticals, unhealthy lifestyles, expensive medical technologies and the fee-for-service payment system whose only focus is on volumes instead of the expected value. It is worth noting that ...

English

Abstract
Going to college is an important landmark in the life of a student. College life provides a sudden experience of freedom that was so far unavailable to students. With the newfound freedom, students aggressively pursue an active social life. Coupled with social activity lies academic pressure. Requirements of academics force students to stay awake at night to prepare for class. A combination of social activity and academic pressure invariably takes a toll on the sleep quality and quantity of students. They, therefore, become inevitably sleepy in class. A number of researchers have explored the aspects of sleepiness, sleep quality and ...

Carter Sickels novel, The Evening hour, revolves around the devastation of the West Virginia landscape as well as that of the local communities. The main character in the story is twenty-seven year old Cole Freeman who works as an aide in a nursing home. He also indulges in the sale of illegal drugs, which he either steals or buys from the local elderly population in the nursing home. It portrays several aspects of drug abuse in any given community, which includes its causes and effects in the society.
The novel portrays poverty as one of the major factors that ...

Recent studies have established that people do not mind their eating habits. They do not know the dangers either associated with poor eating habits, or are just ignorant to the fact that healthy eating is paramount to healthy societies. However, poor eating habits should not be confused for malnutrition (Krahn and Lengyel, et al. 2011). The major problem associated with poor eating habits is obesity, which exposes people to diseases such as hypertension, coronary artery diseases and diabetes. These are very threatening diseases that have very simple origin-poor eating habits-but also have simple solutions - proper dietary measures.

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Introduction

Many a times parents do not realize that their attitudes towards their children is affecting them seriously, which results in impulsive and irrational behavior leading to dangerous consequences. The difference in adolescent behavior can be observed but without the knowledge of the reasons as to why such behaviors are escalating, both parents and teachers are unable to solve them. Hence it is important to study the reasons of such behaviors so that we understand how these individual differences affect children and be able to manage such erupting behavior problems.
Moreover, it is important to identify children and parents who ...

Tiny Feet by Gabriela Mistral

Poetry was always the way to express yourself, to scream aloud about things that worry an author. So does Gabriela Mistral in the poem “Tiny Feet”. The topic of poverty is very familiar to her – “she was not from a moneyed elite background, but from an impoverished provincial middle-class family” (Miller, 2005). That influenced her poetry in a whole, as she tries to warn others about the terrible state of poverty.
The whole form of the poem is interesting. It consists of six stanzas; each stanza contains four lines. They all share the same scheme – three full lines, and ...

Overview

The English Premier League is among the most popular football leagues in Europe and across the world. Different teams in the Premier League have many fans in England and across the world. In addition to the attractive football, the other element that is characteristic of English football is the high turnover of managers. Despite the cost associated with dismissing managers before the completion of the term, teams in the English Premier League have a history of dismissing managers for various reasons despite the cost implications. For instance, Liverpool Football Club had to part with six million pounds sterling to ...

Oral health presents a significant public health problem that affects every group in the human population. Typically, children with poor oral health tend to show an undesirable oral health outcome throughout their childhood and adulthood because people are constantly susceptible to the development of dental caries during their lifetimes (Kawashita, Kitamura, & Saito, 2011). Past investigations have reported that oral health is linked to numerous health issues. Dental caries in childhood, for instance, increases the risk of comorbid maladies like cardiovascular disease and diabetes (Kawashita et al., 2011). The World Health Organization (2015) recognizes the significant impact of oral health ...

Why Youth Joins Gangs?

The number of youth joining Gangs is increasing day by day. The public is concerned about the involvement of youth in the gangs and also the violence associated with their activities is being increased. Being in a gang is highly related to the delinquent behavior. Youth joins gangs because they experience certain pulls pertaining to the attractiveness of the gangs like gang membership can enhance their prestige or status among friends, they can make money etc. Thus, youth personal advantage in gang membership. There can be numerous reasons for why youth join gangs like parental/family influences, poverty/socio-economic status, neighborhood ...

Introduction

The existence of classes in the society has a long history dating back to the 19th century in the Western Europe after the industrial revolution (Abrutyn, 2013). As such, because of the industrial revolution, classes emerged. In this regard, the classes that emerged comprised of those of the rich and those people who worked for them. However, since then different forms of stratification emerged in the society. Examples of such stratifications or classes are the ones based on gender, race, age, and religion (Bartos & Wehr, 2002). Consequently, various arguments exist concerning these new forms of stratification with some people viewing ...

Introduction

Professional setting: Nursing manager
A nurse manager has the responsibility of the clinical and administrative functions of a nursing unit. In my case, I am in charge of the intensive care unit section. There are many challenges that face the sector in specific and the nursing industry in general. The most acute case in this sector is the shortage of nurses.
This paper will provide a literature review on the subject through research by use of peer review journals. It will also use bibliographic databases to prove its facts. The concepts of search include the acute and growing nursing ...

In addition to the fact that Tiebout's assumptions are unrealistic, as mentioned before, even with these assumptions he did not provide a mathematical proof of the equilibrium in his article. Some scholars tried to formalize the model and suggest that the model does not work as we would expect from a pareto optimal general equilibrium model. Bewley (1981) showed that Tiebout equilibrium does not have a Pareto optimal solution unless we add some other restrictive assumptions to the model. He provided a series of examples which highlights the inefficiency of Tiebout model. Moreover, as the reviewed literature shows, relaxing Tiebout’s assumption does ...

Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake (2003) and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008) bear striking resemblances to each other. Both novels are set in an apocalyptic dystopian future; both novels use modern advances in the media as a central part of their plot; and both could be argued, in a way, to address the issues of male/female relationships. They are linked too by critical confusion over their genre. Are they both science fiction novels? Are they fantasies? Are they informed predictions of the fate of humanity? Atwood has always been adamant that her earlier novel The Handmaid’s Tale was ...

Abstract

Introduction
Transitioning from a life at home with parents and the teachers as in charge into a college life where the student finds independence of every choice possible, problems like risky behaviors and irregular sleep patterns are nothing out of the ordinary. This new-found freedom is in most cases seen to be unfavorable for the college student because 70 to 96 percent of the student in college get less than 8 hours of sleep per day.
This is not a blanket rate which applies to the student of every major from each and every department; rather there are students ...

1. Historical evolution of Mumbai
Mumbai has a long history of evolution that spans for 1000 years. In 1343 the cluster of seven islands was controlled by the Sultanate of Gujarat, and later in 1534 following Portugal invasion, the area was converted into a trading center (The British Library Board). The Portuguese coined the term Bom Bahia, meaning ‘the good bay’, and developed dwelling units, factories as well as ship building yards in the Island cluster, which later became known as Bombay (The British Library Board). With the establishment of East India Company, the British ousted Portuguese, and used ...

Literature Review: Principle of Equivalence

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Literature Review
Principle of Equivalence
Background
Usually, whenever a property is purchased or acquired from a willing or non-willing seller, it is expected that a fair compensation is given to those whose interests are deprived. However, it may be difficult to determine what a fair compensation constitutes. In some cases claimants may receive more or less compensation compared to the value of their property. In other instances, the monetary sum provided may be a huge sum, but it may not cover non-quantifiable losses such as psychological and social implications. As experience has shown, there are ...

Introduction

Recent history, more so, the frequency of economic downturns over the past few decades, has championed the fact that college education is indeed a necessity towards social as well as economic advancement (Hughes, Serebryanikova, Donaldson &Leveritt, 2011). As more people focus on attaining college education, there are challenges that come to light. One of the most prevalent challenge being scarcity of economic means towards establishing direction towards setting out a brighter future path to greater success and opportunity for those from needy family backgrounds (Rondeau, 2007). Without a doubt, tuition fees present needy college students with the largest expense. ...

Introduction

Recent history, more so, the frequency of economic downturns over the past few decades, has championed the fact that college education is indeed a necessity towards social as well as economic advancement (Hughes, Serebryanikova, Donaldson & Leveritt, 2011). As more people focus on attaining college education, there are challenges that come to light. One of the most prevalent challenge being scarcity of economic means towards establishing direction towards setting out a brighter future path to greater success and opportunity for those from needy family backgrounds (Rondeau, 2007). Without a doubt, tuition fees present needy college students with the largest expense. ...

Introduction

Traffic crashes is an exceptional cause of deaths in the United States. The number of deaths occasioned by traffic crashes is higher compared to deaths caused by terrorism. Moreover, it is discernible that damages consequential from traffic crashes account for approximately four hundred billion dollars in the United States. The immense deaths and losses caused by the traffic crashes has compelled scholars to write works that detail the causes of traffic crashes and legislation on traffic crashes. This is in order to tackle the ever rising number of traffic crashes by emphasizing the causes of the crashes. The authors ...

Abstract

This proposal presents a plan for the study of how inter-ethnic conflicts develop in newly decolonized countries around the world. The preliminary literature review shows that these states have volatile constitutions and the poor or non-existent separation of powers causes the country to marginalize its minority ethnic groups. This leads to failed policies on integration and the homogeneity of the military. The poor and unresponsive intervention of the Executive arm of government in a bad situation causes minorities to pick up arms and seek their right.
This paper proposes that the findings of the preliminary literature review be tested on ...

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Airport Development
2.2.1 Airport History
The history of the development of airports worldwide dates back to the late 1800s with the first ever professionally functional airport according to NYC Aviation (2012) was developed in the outskirts of Paris dubbed Port Aviation. This fact is however indispute since other factions lay claims to being the world’s first or oldest airport. For instance according to Prince George’s Department of Parks and Recreation (2010) College Park Airport in Maryland is the oldest airport that is functional to this day having been established in 1909 ...

Facilitator:

In the last five years, the best practices in hand hygiene has proved to be a reliable mean of reducing unnecessary infection in modern dynamic society. Global healthcare professionals have ranked hand hygiene as one of the basic initiative that has significantly improved health condition in the world. Evaluation of various hand washing practices have affirmed that these strategies are effective in reducing the spread of infectious diseases by lowering microorganisms load (Jefferson, Foxlee, & Del Mar, 2007). Hands contact is a common vehicle through which transmission of microorganisms happens from patient to resident, form resident to the client and from the ...

Introduction

The rate of divorce has increased over the years. Research indicates that for every three marriages that take place in today’s society, one of them ends in divorce (American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2011). Furthermore, the majority of the families that divorce have children. Consequently, divorce causes various impacts on children depending on how they perceive it and what kind of life they lead after it occurs in comparison with the past. Some children often take the blame on themselves for being responsible for their parents’ divorce and this will have devastating impact on their lives. Mostly, ...

Two individuals who decide to enter into a relationship, and get married or live together often to start a family, both intend to “live happily ever after.” However, this is not always the case in our present society. Violence in the domicile has become more prevalent, either because there have been an increased number of reports or such cases have increased in frequencies. This paper looks into the existing body of literature to identify the areas which have been extensively studied. The findings of a select number of scholarly materials will be presented in the succeeding sections focusing on the following aspects: (a) ...

Discrepancy Index and treatment time

Introduction
During the past many decades, considerable efforts have been made to develop reliable and standardized measurement tools in orthodontics. Quantitative indices like the peer assessment rating (PAR) and the objective grading system (OGS) have been successfully used so far to assess outcomes of an orthodontic treatment, but these are limited to occlusal aspects only (Cangialosi, 2004).

ABO’s DI

The American Board of Orthodontics’ (ABO’s) main goal is clinical excellence as it aims to deliver high quality orthodontics. With this goal in mind, it has devised a tool, the Discrepancy Index (DI) with an intention of providing an objective evaluation ...

Abstract

This literature review investigates the aspect of higher education retention among Native Americans. Areas covered include persistence rates among students, higher education funding, change in careers goals and aspirations, Indian race/ethnicity, changed perceptions, regarding college life, and the challenges associated with integrating into higher education. Other aspects that will be addressed in this literature review include retention and student success, equitability of the US education system, and Native American values.
Keywords: Retention, Higher Education, Education funding, Diversity and culture, Education System, Factors influencing higher education, Native American

A Literature Review on Key Issues

The issue of higher education retention is a major subject in academic ...

In developmental psychology, there has always been a question, “how do new skills come to infants and where do they come from?” Some believe that new skills develop from prior accomplishments; others feel as one skill disappears, the new one quickly appears; some others believe that the skills are based on physical similarity - where old and new skills are similar in form. However, most widely believed theory is the shared psychological function where the old and the new skills rely on the same underlying psychological mechanisms with an objective to achieve the same goals.
We have summarised below ...

Sunglasses - False Consciousness

In this picture, a pair of sunglasses is placed on a tablecloth, folded and pointing toward the viewer. These sunglasses are indicative of the Marxist thesis of false consciousness, wherein the capitalist machine creates a false sense of happiness and harmony between social classes. In reality, the rich control the poor but the poor do not quite know it. This harsh reality is overshadowed by materials and institutions that place importance on consumerism and capitalism as a means to accrue happiness. With the potential for wealth dangled in front of a public that does not see the truth, people can actively vote or work ...

One of the major public health problems and the societal concerns these days is the maltreatment of children which impacts millions of children all over the world. There are a variety of long and short-term health consequences of child abuse and neglect which leaves a long-lasting impact on the mental and social growth and development of the children. Child abuse does not just mean broken bones or bruises, it impacts the safety, physical, social, mental, emotional and educational needs of the children. Child abuse and neglect as defined by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 2010, ...