Homelessness Research Proposals Samples For Students

Grounding connection design

The two most important impacts of correct grounding layout are the following.
- The circuit has a zero voltage reference point, the ground. (Green, 2014, para. 1)
- The ground is critical for safety.
If a heater’s insulation wears out, then touching the metal of the heater gives a shock unless the heater has been grounded. The metal heater housing is where the conductor is installed. The conductor is then connected to a ground. The ground may be in the building or far away from the location of the heater. The ground can be a panel or an electrical outlet. ( ...

Ideally, sleep out isn’t about participants the idea of what it feels like to be homeless or to paint the idea of homelessness to the participants although the situation leaves some little feel of how the situation could be and the challenges involved in the entire situation. We have to admit that there is no particular way that the attempt of single night, despite the situation of how cold or wet the night could be, can replace the helpless despondence and the harsh personal pain of being a true homeless person in any part of this globe.
Therefore, ...

The war on drugs is an effort to regulate the drug market in the United States. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is an agency under the United States Department of justice and was created in 1973 (Rabkin, 1999). The agency’s overall goals are to stop drug smuggling within the United States. The major efforts which the DEA cover are tracking down any drug related activity of any major organizations, nationally and internationally. The main focus of the DEA is to dismantle any efforts of organizations which deal with drug related crimes; this largely involves drug trafficking within the ...

Introduction

Homelessness is characterized by people who lack or have limited access to reasonably priced, secure and safe housing. One common characteristic of the homeless people is the financial struggle that they are faced with. The people do not live a personal and private life due to the lack of privacy. According to the Australian Government, Housing department, “Homelessness also means a lack of connectedness with community. Often, people who are homeless do not have the opportunity to join in community life and activities and they can experience profound isolation and disengagement” (4).
The homeless live in various areas depending on ...

Dissertation Topic: In the context of Moroccan expansion policies in Western Sahara region, how adversely these policies impacted refugees of the Western Sahara region.

Study Outline:

1. Preface
2. Chapter One: Introduction
I. Study Background: Morocco’s expansion policies in the western Sahara and its impact on the refugees of the region
II. Objective of the Research Study
3. Chapter Two: Literature Review
4. Chapter Three: Research Methodology
5. Chapter Four : History of the Western Sahara Issue
I. Dispute between Morocco and Polisario front
II. US Support to Morocco and ...

For my research paper on homelessness, I will be using a variety of sources, including the novel The Soloist, to help illustrate the problems that the homeless have to deal with on a daily basis, as well as the possibility for recovery.

The paper will first address the homelessness statistics in Canada, particularly cities like Burnaby, as a backdrop for the more personal stories from the homeless and to provide context for the ordeals that face today’s homeless. There are several types of stories I would like to convey through the research paper, including family homelessness and individual homelessness. The memoir ...

Interview and Proposal on Syrian Refugees

In the current world, there are many fights between governments and the within the nations. The conflicts have increased the number of refugees, and Syria is one of the countries that are currently experiencing the challenge. The issue needs to be solved to ensure the citizens live comfortably.

The government of Turkey opened its doors to the refugees from Syria to seek a temporary protection in the country. Before May 2014, over two hundred and twenty thousand refugees had crossed into Syria and were hosted in multiple camps along the border. As the number of refugees has continued to ...

Rationale for the study

Both property and housing markets are essential for economic growth in Hong Kong. Similarly, the price of land is high in Hong Kong because it is scarce and decreases in terms of availability. By limiting its supply, the value of real estates will be kept at high levels. During these periods, property owners will make high returns on housing investments due to the increase in the number of speculative transactions.

Objectives

The main aim of this paper is to examine the driving forces that are behind the development of housing market in Hong Kong. Secondly, to provide an explanation regarding ...

Change for a better future

Today’s world is full of different kinds of conflicts, wars, and disasters. Such serious problems leave people without their shelter and disable them normal lives. There are a lot of refugees nowadays. People who suffer from such unpredictable circumstances are from Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda, Yemen, etc. Almost half of refugees are children. Children require special attitude as they are more unprotected than adults. Such organizations as UNICEF and UNHCR take an active role in the protection of such kids. The future of children refugee is very important in the creation of the stable and peaceful ...

ABSTRACT

Statistics reveal that there are over one million asylum seekers around the world every year. Asylums seeker have different definitions, but the most basic idea is that they are people seeking to leave their countries because their lives are at risk because of their race, color, religion, political persecution, war, or natural disasters (Bozorgmehr and Razum, 2015; Esses, V. et al, 2008). Many factors determine whether the refugees will be accepted in their intended country or not. Demographic variables, as well as the attitudes of the natives and the attitudes of the asylum seekers, determine the kind of attitude ...

Introduction

Summerlin is a 22,500-acre master-planned community on the west side of Las Vegas and next to Red Rock canyon National Park (Summerlin, 2016). This property is under development by The Howard Hughes Corporation in multiple phases. Summerlin North lies within the city limit of Las Vegas but Summerlin South lies in the unincorporated Clark County. Summerlin’s population has almost doubled in last 15 years. Close to 120,000 people currently leaves in Summerlin currently. Summerlin was named as “Best Places to Live in America” by Money in 2014 (Summerlin, 2016).
Figure: Summerlin: Near Read Rock Canyon and ...

Developing a Health Program in a Non-Profit Family Shelter

Summary
Health promotion is an elemental aspect of the healthcare strategy in the primary care settings and it contributes to the health focus in the primary care to the population. The healthcare program will seek to demonstrate a variety of elements. First, it will seek to demonstrate the various principles of the health promotion practices based on the recognized planning approaches of health promotion. The program should also demonstrate the avenues of linking the communities in the planning, the delivery, and the development of the health promotion programs in the primary healthcare settings (Ministry of Health). The health promotion ...

Austin Community college does not provide accommodation for its students. Individuals who wish to join the college are encouraged to make own housing arrangement. Austin has been facing housing shortages since 2001. Research conducted by BBC research and consulting has established that currently there are sixty thousand renters with low-income, and there are only 12,000 affordable housing units. Based on this data, there is a deficit of 48,000 units needed to at least satisfy the current market demand. Also, statistics from the Mayor’s office indicate that there are over 110 people moving to the city daily. ...

Introduction

Green building is currently emerging and changing the construction, the design, the renovation process and operation of existing and new buildings and it is reshaping the whole communities and its cities. The terminology currently attached to this new facility is highly performance green building. As the movement is worldwide, the idea is trending at an alarming rate, as it a topic of discussion, for actors, designers, politicians, manufacturers and academicians. Every nation today has realized the need to drive sustainability in every aspect in our life. The undisputable truth that sustainable buildings are environmentally friendly is known to every civilization ...

And their Effect on the Reduction of Human Trafficking

Introduction
Human trafficking has been defined by Clawson et al as “modern day slavery” and it is a crime that affects every nation of the world (2009). As a crime it is most commonly associated with the women folk and little children who find themselves traded for the purpose of sexual or labor intensive services. The Citizens for Community Values (n.d.) stated that human trafficking does in fact go beyond sex and labor to other forms of exploitation. Agreeing with that definition the arm of The United Nations that handle unfair treatment of human beings have described trafficking as “the ...

Amongst mentally ill patients at high risk for early readmission, does the utilization of a multi-component transition care plan as compared to usual care help to improve early readmission rates?

Abstract

The early hospital readmission rate in a 30-bed psychiatric unit in California is 25%. This figure is higher than the 13% reported in the literature for high-income countries like the US (Vigod et al., 2013). Early readmissions are problematic as they are costly and disruptive to the personal and professional lives of patients and their family members. In addition, they are construed to be negative patient outcomes and negative indicators of ...

Introduction

History
If we manage to assume the situation in the last ten years, we would actually observe the following: the House Price Index began to be lower than GDP per capita in 2012, in spite of the fact that both aforementioned indicators was increasing. Some Chinese dwellers unanimously claim that an average citizen of Beijing has to neither eat nor drink for approximately eighty years just to buy a floor space of around one hundred square meters.
The property market within China will likely going to be strong and medium-term oriented. According to Global Property Guide (2015), “That's because ...

the role they play in the human rights movement

Background 2

Human Rights Movement 2
Type of Organisation 3
Role of Organisation 4
Outcomes 5

Bibliography 6

Background:
The politics of human rights are undertaken by various organisations and what they do in order to promote their ideological positions is important in their development. The mandates, or mission statements, of these organizations are important aspects in their ability to promote and carry out their goals. Through the implementation of these considerations, the organizations are able to provide moral and legal frameworks for the international community to develop a consistent rationale ...

Chinese real estate market began to develop rapidly from late 1990s, when it became available to private investors. Significant problems in the Chinese real estate market relate to the lack of transparency of procedures’ offers of first-class land, variability administrative behavior, insufficient development of support services of functioning real estate market, the lack of support of the secondary market and overly speculative nature of the property. Obviously, many of these issues should be considered in the context of the reform process going on in China. The uncertainty of outcomes and policies, weak legal support, inadequate market mechanisms, unstructured management ...

Introduction

Native Americans are the American Indians who live in the United States. When you look at the indigenous people of Americans in a legal perspective, it is evident that they stand unique in the United States legal system. The Native Americans are divided into various tribes which are considered to be politically independent or sovereign nations which exist within the boundaries of the United States. In the early 1990s, the Native Americans tribal governments controlled two percent of the lands in the U.S. the lands are located under the tribal jurisdiction act and are therefore known as Indian country. The ...

No can deny that the Great Depression created traumatic times for all the people living in the United States. “I get hundreds of letters each day and practically every one carries the same story, hence I am positively convinced that conditions are extremely bad, not only in our section but throughout the entire country.” In 1932 the front page of The Pharos Tribune reported that “water was being turned off in homes of the poor, meaning that many people were not only starving, but thirsty too.” Across the whole continent there was joblessness and homelessness. The Farm Security Administration ...

Chapter One: Introduction

1.1. Background
The arrival of new technologies as helped improve many aspects of life. For example, License Plate Recognition is a modern technology that has helped improve mobility and safety in transportation (Rashid, Aibinu, Rahman, Suhaimi and Yunis 93). Many car parks have resulted to the use of technology to help in the logistics of operating a car park. Rashid et al., (93) argue that automatic parking systems are progressive because in addition to improving logistics, they also increase the convenience of public parking, eliminate the hassles of fee collection and also enhance the security, especially when the car ...

The US Subprime mortgage crisis was a banking and financial emergency situation that led to a recession not only in the US but spread to many parts of the world. The disastrous effects of a crisis in the domestic subprime market on the rest of the world beg questions about the interconnectability and interdependence of the international economy as well as the financial institutions. The international financial crisis also revealed how vulnerable the global financial system was. Not only did the subprime crisis have a direct effect on global markets and countries that held a huge number of US mortgage backed securities and were ...

Domestic violence is any kind of abuse that can happen between partners in a relationship. In Australia it is also referred to as intimate partner’s relationship and it can occur in different forms. The major types of domestic violence that have been established include physical, social, emotional, spiritual and economic violence. This violence usually affects people of all ages and it is not necessarily that it occurs at home to be classified as intimate partner violence. Many a times, domestic violence is usually about the power and control, in both the family and intimate partner relationship, and in most occasions ...

Executive Summary

Lehigh Valley Campus in Pennsylvania is proposing to incorporate renewable sources of energy (Hybrid Photovoltaic Cells and Thermal Collector) into the campus and a cybercafé/bookstore business venture in honor of the recently deceased alumnus of PSU, Wayne K. Newton. It is our firm belief that this project will fulfill the Late Wayne Newton’s visionary dream and fulfill the family’s wishes to donate the funds.
The campus aims to use these funds to procure hybrid solar module and design a cybercafé/bookstore business premise

The total cost of the project will be $87120.

The remaining funds will cater for future needs should they arise before the ...

Abstract

Banking and finance is arguably and in reality one of the biggest industries, if not the biggest. According to a recent report published by IBIS World, the banking industry has collective revenue of around $687 Billion. This is consolidated for the approximately 5,324 individual businesses and firms tied to the industry. In terms of its manpower size, the said report claims that the industry as a whole employs, both directly and indirectly, some 1.56 million people .
If building doing business in the banking industry is being considered a venture, one has to factor in some important factors such ...

Chapter One: Introduction

1.1. Background
The arrival of new technologies as helped improve many aspects of life. For example, License Plate Recognition is a modern technology that has helped improve mobility and safety in transportation (Rashid, Aibinu, Rahman, Suhaimi and Yunis, 2012). Many car parks have resulted to the use of technology to help in the logistics of operating a car park. Rashid et al., (2012) argue that automatic parking systems are progressive because in addition to improving logistics, they also increase the convenience of public parking, eliminate the hassles of fee collection and also enhance the security, especially when the car ...

Introduction

The racial and cultural or ethnic composition of the American people is in fluctuation. The rise in the number of immigrants from Latin America and Asia have increased a large portion of cultural and phenotypic assortment to the American populace in recent decades similar to the immigration wave from south and east Europe over a hundred years ago. In addition, the precincts between racial and ethnic groups are becoming extinct through the rise of intermarriage as well as the upsurge of the number of persons with diverse ancestry. The issues and concerns of ethnicity date back centuries in America. Social analysts ...

Distribution of Wealth

Research Question
The distribution of wealth is an elemental component of the determination of the equality or inequality of wealth within a population. Wealth is equated with the net worth or the sum total of the assets less the liabilities. As such, the wealth is a significant indicator of the economic situation and the well-being in the US, which is the focus population for this research. For this reason, this research seeks to answer the question; what is the status of the wealth distribution in the United States?

Significance of the Study

The types of the assets, which the households hold can be different ...

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Returning to prison for paroled inmates: Introduction

The prison population in the United has steadily risen over the past three decades. Since 2008, the prison population has slowly been decreasing; however, as of 2012, there were still more than 2 million confined in US jails and prisons. The report of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) aver that since 1990, more than 590,000 convicts are discharged yearly from the correctional system in the Federal and state jurisdictions, and more than 5 million former inmates are under community based monitoring programs. It is expected that upon release from prison or community based programs, these will ...

Multivariate Analysis

Guillaume, Knippenberg, and Brodbeck (2014) theorize that social classes or groups are an important starting point to determine the effects of societal diversity on individuals’ attitudes and behavior. People with similar backgrounds whether social, economic, or cultural are more comfortable and more likely to perform better both psychologically and behaviorally (Guillaume et al., 2014). Besharov (2014) states organizational identification occurs when members place a high value on organizational membership and define themselves accordingly. Additionally, creativity, helping behaviors, job satisfaction, and social support are other actions, which contribute to defining classes or groups (Besharov, 2014).
Organization identification benefits are fleeting ...

Towards the end of the 19th century, the American childcare started to have formal and informal provisions for childcare. The provisions had close associations with the immigrants, the poor and the minorities who were stigmatized. This led to a weak foundation for the development of social services in the 20th century. Women reforms were at its peak in the progressive era and childcare became something that could bring modernizations and reforms. A group of women formed a nationwide organization that has its attention on pushing for childcare and rights of women. Reformers formulated solutions for poor mothers who worked outside their ...

INTRODUCTION

Domestic violence against women is a global issue which has no social, religious, cultural, geographical, national or economic barriers. Gender based violence does not select based on religion, language, ethnicity or race; it is believed to one of the common and serious human violation rights and is widely spreading. Violence against women as a problem carries a lot of effects not only within the social setting but it affects female victims’ physical and emotional health and general well being, it also has effects on family, children and the society at large.
Domestic violence on women holds them prisoners under certain restriction ...

Executive Summary

Morale and happiness with one’s career shape not only how individuals work and interaction, but also whether they contribute to an organization’s personnel retention and ultimately their success. Although several factors are related to employee morale in organizational settings, the single most influential factor in enhancing job satisfaction and group cohesiveness is superior-subordinate communication. (Baird & Bradley, 1978).
This proposal looks at the effects of employee morale and satisfaction on an organization and the impacts that those employees have on an organizations success. A key area of focus is that of communication and will be expanded upon ...

Introduction

It goes without saying that life without good health and peace is of no relevance. The very purpose of living is defeated if there is an absence of good health that can sustain the need of life, learning, and future challenges. One of the challenges of modern times is deformities at the time of birth. According to Lannucci (2000), "Birth defects are abnormalities that are present in an infant at birth. They include visible, structural abnormalities as well as inherited disease" (P. 7).

Statement of research

The purpose of this study is to identify the elements and features of birth defects, and ...

Domestic Violence

Introduction

Domestic violence is increasingly becoming a global epidemic and one of the most pervasive incidences associated with the violation of human rights, which involves the a trend of abusive behaviors propelled by partners who are in a relationship that is perceived to be intimate. The recent trends of domestic violence are worrying as evident by the killings, physical and emotional tortures, and the denial of the victim’s rights to enjoy their fundamental freedoms. Domestic violence is evident in almost every country irrespective of the cultural orientation, ethnicity and age factors, with the most of the cases of domestic violence occurring ...