Archive for January, 2007
Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 1610 words
Just about everyone who was not affected by the hurricane has this distorted image of how it was for everyone who was affected. Although I made it back to my hometown safely, I sensed that everyone I talked to was disappointed that I had not lived on a roof for a week waiting to be [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 211 words
There are already many projects going on in the city alone that combat the education problems of today’s youth. Many tutoring programs are designed to help children with there school work. One project that I want to work on that addresses the education problem is youth tutoring. My church has and aftereschool homework help program [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 122 words
After actually evaluating the biggest problems in today’s world, I’ve decided to look ast the most evident and to deal with those that are continuously overlooked by the people of society including those reading this post. Today, children are neglected all around the world but the most prominent example that could be used are [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 1058 words
As stated in my last blog entry, I felt that one of today’s biggest problems is the improper care of our children. Today, many of our children have become victims of violence, abuse, or have been left abandoned without the guidance of what America believes to be a “good parent”. I feel that [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 153 words
Most people in the world today suffer from illnesses and diseases that could have been prevented with the proper healthcare and vaccinations. I figure that by expanding the knowledge on the importance of healthcare and immunizations, children will get a chance to live a healthier and happier life. I decided to volunteer at upcoming events [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 1251 words
There are so many problems in the world today; poverty, war, illnesses. The list of problems that the world has can be infinite. Some problems are more important than others, for example the war in Iraq seems to be the hot topic in every discussion today. People who live in New Orleans are more focused [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 120 words
The problem I am addressing is the lack of good education in the world today. For my project, I would like to help make the neighborhood schools better by renovating them. However, I know funds are not available for this task so I plan to help with after-school tutoring and weekend projects. I would like [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 1006 words
Last week I wrote about some of the major problems facing the world today. I took a minute to think of a solution that would hopefully help improve just one of them at a time. The issue of public health in children occurs globally and can be easily controlled. Children are becoming infected with [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 111 words
For my project I plan to use the resources I have in an attempt to make the world a cleaner place. I will do this in many ways including getting involved with various clean up efforts as well as making people more aware of the problem. Also I plan on contacting people I know who [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 50 words
My project is to eliminate a lack of awareness that is prominent in society. I will mainly try to inform the students of Xavier of political issues and oppurtunities that they have. My main method of conveying this information will be through either flyers and/or the internet (Facebook mostly).
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 1142 words
The three biggest problems I see facing the world today are hunger, pollution, and poverty. These three problems combined make up most of society’s problems. Since the beginning, man had the task of finding food in order to survive, which has plagued every generation of human being since this time. Food is a necessity [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 1019 words
Of the three problems that I wrote about in my previous blog, I believe that the problem of unawareness in the community is the dilemma that I have the highest possibility of having some significant affect in eliminating. Many people, myself included at certain times, are often completely oblivious to what is going on in [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 131 words
I want to become a mentor to middle age children because I had a mentor to help me make the right choices. I feel that getting an education is a major problem in our world today. Over the next several week I plan to mentor/tutor at one of the local charter schools in [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 1029 words
Education is the key to knowledge, and without it in our society what do you have. Education is free for the most part and everyone should have one, but do they understand how important having an education is? Well since many of our young children do not understand the importance of an education, [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 90 words
Of the three problems I listed the problem of the Lack Of Education in our society. To help solve this problem or even reduce it I am going to devote my spare time helping children in underprivileged communties with homework and other after school activities. I believe that crime and poverty are the result of [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 90 words
Of the three problems I listed the problem of the Lack Of Education in our society. To help solve this problem or even reduce it I am going to devote my spare time helping children in underprivileged communties with homework and other after school activities. I believe that crime and poverty are the result of [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 65 words
I would like to make the youth in my church community active. My goal is to resurrect an old youth group that I was a part of and had a very positive influence on my life. It will consists of the neighborhood children participating in fun community service activities, recreational activities and trips. I hope [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 1007 words
This is harder than I have anticipated. Even thought I know it is possible, the task appears to be quite daunting. I know I spoke about wanting other to become active and fight the “couch potato syndrome.” But I was thinking more small scale, like getting a few people and going to the gym or [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 1426 words
I think the three biggest problems in the world today are careless money-spending, lack of good schools, and technological advances.
First, the world has a problem with money, rather it be a lack there of or too much, there is a problem. It seems like money is used as if it is dispensable. People are spending [...]
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Sunday, January 28th, 2007: 1034 words
There is no such thing as a perfect world. The world in which we live in is filled with horrible things such as: ignorance, poverty, greed, crime, hate, jealousy, and much more. There is always room from improvement. The question is, what can we, as a member of society, do to try to make a [...]
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