In this week’s blog, we were asked to research about our topics to provide statistical information in order to give support to our arguments and making them valid.  My major topic that I focused on, as well as many other classmates of mine did, is to prevent world hunger.  I’m pretty sure that many of [...]

Figuratively speaking, becoming impoverished can happen in a matter of seconds.  An article in Forbes about America’s most impoverished cities says that “data from the Census Bureau, released in September, show that during the first year of the recession, incomes fell farther and poverty leaped higher than during almost any other time in a generation” [...]

The ability to obtain and maintain good health is not only a serious problem that exists in the United States of America, but is also one that exists in a number of other different countries throughout the world. On a day to day basis, people are dealing with the many effects or consequences that result [...]

The problem that my project is focusing on is the educational aspect of the black community. Diverting my views, particularly amongst women, I feel the need to help increase the education rates with the average African- American household. The life and prosperity of a community is gnerally dictated by the degree of education obtained. One [...]

A Chemistry professor had said at his Xavier’s seminar earlier during the year, “Just because we don’t hear about it, doesn’t mean that it’s not a problem.” The amount of trash that is accumulating every day is a problem that is not mention as much on the news or newspaper, but it is big problem [...]

For this week’s blog, we were asked to conduct research about the biggest problem we think the world is facing today. The main problem I think we have in the world is the scarcity of food to feed all the people in the world. Living in America, we see some poverty and hunger issues, [...]

In today’s world, there is a huge quantity of people that are left without food. Hunger is explained as the excruciating feeling of lack of food. This chronic and uncontrolled lack of access to food can direct to malnutrition above time. My main goal is to find an idea to help those and contribute [...]

Well we were ask to provide statistics to back up our argument. I said that hunger is a major problem of the world today. Well it goes without saying that everyone agree that hunger is a major problem so I doubt  anyone would want to argue against that. Of  course, I will still do some [...]

Kelly Allison
Recycling is such a huge part of conserving our world’s natural resources.  It gives us an opportunity to re-use materials instead of constantly going back into the environment and stripping the earth more and more of its materials.  Also, it conserves a lot more energy in manufacturing materials is they are already recycled instead [...]

In this blog, I am going to do a lot of research to see the statistics in the world of world hunger and poverty. As far as I know, the statistics are pretty bad and we need to do something before it is too late. There are so many things we can do to help [...]

     In this blog, I will post some statistics about the problem of world hunger. I hope that these facts and statistics will provide some insight about this problem and that many people benefit from it. World hunger is a very big problem in today’s world. World hunger is an issue that involves people’s health [...]

In caring out research I had to be careful not to get any false sources about the facts so everyone would know exactly how why I choose to address the three big problems in today’s world and to reinforce this issues in my project. Everything in the article is all facts no fiction I also [...]

My project to improve the world is on underage drinking. Many parents and adolescents do not realize the effects of alcohol and the fines of serving alcohol to minors. Today I will give some facts relating to this issue. According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services, students that [...]

Scientific experts see eye to eye that the Earth’s climate is shifting. Climate change, more commonly known as “GLOBAL WARMIMG”, is caused by the emission of heat trapping gases produced by vehicles, power plants, energy usage, and deforestation. As these gases build up, they act like a big blanket. They over heat the planet and [...]

This section of statistics and facts that were found while doing research include facts that were originally from many different sources but were compiled together by the creators of the Love Your Body Campaign. The creators are the National Organization for Women (NOW) Foundation which is a campaign of the Women’s Health Project.
All of the [...]

 
Do some research about your problem and blog some solid statistics to back up your argument. Be sure to cite sources.
            The problem that I am addressing is the lack of health insurance in the community. Health insurance is something that we all need, but not everyone is able to afford it.  According to the [...]

Giving that my project may take a different direction, I am going to research and give some facts about the three possible problems I will be dealing with: obesity, malnourishment, drug and alcohol abuse.
Obesity: Living in the United States and further exemplified by living in Louisiana, obesity is seen everywhere. For many, being obese can [...]

Poverty is a real problem in America just as it is for millions of other human beings on the planet. The poverty rates of 2009 are record breaking. Since the recent disasters in the southeastern region, wildfires on the west coast and tornadoes in the mid-west region many are left homeless and are forced to [...]

The media is a gateway to billions of people around the world and ultimately because of this many false images and stories may be shown in the course of a normal day. My project’s intention was the focus on media exaggeration and its negative influence on the self-esteem of many females around the world. It [...]

     Global warming is defined as an increase in average temperature which corresponds with the change in climate and result from the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect causes the planet’s temperature to increase when it’s gaseous atmosphere traps infrared light and emits some of the light into the surface of our planet, causing it to [...]