What are the disadvantages that children encounter in low impoverish community as opposed to rich communities? ... Occasionally, employers tend to hire children from high-income communities. ... I always wanted to know why didn't my communities have this side to Brooklyn. As I'm waiting for my doctor's appointment, I just couldn't ignores over hearing a conversation between two individuals about the abundance of programs available afterschool for them. ... It can be argued that people don't experience exceptional lifestyle in poor communities while those living upper...

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Story-telling is important to social relationships, because in hearing a person's stories, we learn to understand an individual's experiences and finally learn to understand him or her. ... Boyett relays his experiences with hearing stories both from his grandfather and other older adults. ... Boyett, also, writes of his experiences in marketing for a local retirement community. ... Conversely, when people look to others for stories, they are happier and feel a sense of belonging to both community and culture. ...

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The original purpose of the act was " To Provide assistance in the development of new or improved programs to help older persons through grants to the States for community planning and services for training, through research, development, or training project grants, and to establish within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare an operating agency to be designated as the Administration on Aging" (U.S. ... Hearing loss Recognition and early diagnosis of impairments may lead to effective treatment for these individuals and can assist them to remain in the community setting (Reuben, ...

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The common reaction, for example, upon hearing of Paul Bernardo' s torture and murder of Leslie Mahaffy and the subsequent mutilation of her body, is one of reprobation, outrage, and even revulsion. ... The legislation, which is educative, is directed at the entire community. ... In other words, criminal legislation is a form of impersonal communication with the entire community. ... The victim experiences resentment; the community experiences moral indignation. ... It can and should affirm the community's values to all. ...

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Social norms are the perceived standards of acceptable attitudes and behaviors prevalent among the members of a community. The community can be small (a family or workplace), or it can be large (city, state, country). ... If a member who has just recently been diagnosed with cancer can only relate cancer to death because most everyone he knew that had cancer has died, then being in this group situation and hearing of the survivors experiences may change his attitude about the disease, different treatment options, cures, etc. ...

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Bernstein's codes theory stated that, "between the school and community of the working-class child, there may exist a cultural discontinuity based upon two radically different systems of communication," (Bernstein, 1974, p.144) It was said there are two different language codes in operation within the setting of schooling. ... Working class families with working class jobs who are used to conversing by relying on sometimes non-verbal communication such as hand gestures and facial expression do not give children the opportunity or exposure to other types of language and therefore are more ...

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One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation. In this context, the role played by the state, both its coercive and ideological apparatus, is thus to be considered as well. In order to clarify our perspective on the problem, it is also important to note that violence against women is to be considered as being essentially related to the more general problems of women's oppression. So instead of conceptually...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate