well if you dont know my problem then you should, i feel that the biggest problems in the world are that people dont place God first in their lives and treat other the way they would like to be treated. have you ever been in a situation were you felt like you were being mistreated [...]

-There are 2.2 billion children in the world and 1 billion of them are in poverty.
-Almost half the world, over 3 billion people, live on less than $2.50 a day.
- Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year [...]

In this weeks blog, we were suppossed to show statistics on our problem that we are trring to fix, which is cultural ignorance. Now after doing research on the internet, I decided not to use the results I found. I have never been a huge fan of taking statistics from other people’s surveys or whatever [...]

In our second blog we talked about what we thought were 3 major problems in today’s society and I chose not caring, racism, and poverty. Well my mini project pertains to poverty. What is poverty exactly? Well there are many definitions to the word poverty. Many people have a different meaning and understanding to what [...]

Violence today, is such a big issue that is overlooked by so many just because they dont know the people involved. i dont really know if they really do not care or if they just dont notice it but i do. There is a girl I work with who has a son daughter named Nevaeh. [...]

Just to refresh you memory I did “My Project” on domestic violence. I choose that topic because I felt that it is a very important topic and we need to address these issues much more. I did not just talk about domestic violence from a female point a view; I also did if from a [...]

When you are informing an audience about a topic it is very beneficial to provide statistics and facts to back up your argument. This way the audience you are trying to educate will know that what you are talking about is not just opinion but also based on solid evidence that proves the topic. In [...]

Pick any given day, and there is likely to be about 6,000 men, women, and children searching the National Marrow Donor Program Registry for a life-saving donor like you. I felt I wasn’t that informed of all the dangers and benefits of marrow donation, therefore, I searched the web to further educate myself. I found [...]

After doing further research about my project, I have realized that gas stations are owned directly by oil companies and are the ones liable for the increase in gas prices. They are very slick and know they can increase prices because people need gas in order to go to work. People need the [...]

When I first saw this blog, I was taken aback because I didn’t really know where to start with the finding of these facts about my problem. Because my problem isn’t a traditional one, it is hard to do research about it and find solid statistics about my problem. So instead, I will do research [...]

My project pertains to diabetes intervention, awareness and maintenance, with particular attention towards the high rate prevalent in African-Americans. After extensive research, I discovered interesting statistics regarding diabetes on both a national and local level. I obtained my information from Louisiana’s medical statistics handbook (received from the New Orleans Department of Health), Blackhealthcare.com (http://www.blackhealthcare.com), and [...]

My research was primarily based on poverty and what little thing that I can do to alleviate such conditions. Knowing that I cannot alleviate poverty by myself, I decided to start off small by introducing kids to new technology by setting up a field trip to the Apple store. Experiencing first hand to the detrimental [...]

my project is on improving the education system of new orleans, the research which i found is just some examples of how the schools and the education systems of the new orleans area is improving. By the middle of the 2006-07 school year, it is stated by bored of education that 62% of the city [...]

A story that truly illustrates the limitations of science and technology is the story of a twelve year old little boy, Deamonte Driver. Deamonte Driver died from an abcess tooth that could have been remedied with an eighty dollar extraction. This story really resonanted with me as a pre-dental student, but it was this same [...]

Facts about Hunger
*There are about nine hundred twenty three people around the globe who are hungry.
*Every five seconds, a child dies from hunger related causes, that adds up to about sixteen thousand deaths a day.
* Hunger is the most extreme form of poverty, in this case, the individuals or families cannot afford to meet their [...]

In this weeks blog, we were suppossed to show statistics on our problem that we are trring to fix, which is cultural ignorance. Now after doing research on the internet, I decided not to use the results I found. I have never been a huge fan of taking statistics from other people’s surveys or whatever [...]

After doing an extensive search on my topic I have come up with some valid statistics. Hopefully these statistics will help young people see the seriousness in these diseases. In one article I read from USA Today, it said that the known Chlamydia cases in the U.S. have topped over one million. Many of these [...]

I was looking at some number of how many African Americans actually vote. The number actually was very high the last time there was a presidential election. More than half of the general population of African Americans voted. So that means that they are really taking their lives seriously and understanding that who is in [...]

My project of preventing our future generation from being promiscuous stems from the staggering amount of teenage pregnancy in our country. According to stayteen.org, the United States has the most teenage pregnancy in the world. I cannot be the only person that believes that this is wrong. Do we really want to [...]