According to Family First Aid the United States has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and births in the western industrialized world. Teen pregnancy costs the United States at least $7 billion annually. Even though we might not think when someone gets pregnant that it has nothing to do with us but on the contrary for [...]

“Many schools in America can’t tell us on any given day who’s in school and who’s not, nor in any given year how many students have successfully made it through their four years of schooling to graduate and how many have dropped out.”
 
This statement issued by The Silent Epidemic most accurately states not only the [...]

I have been doing research on my project, and I have found various statistics that back my thinking that teenage pregnancies are a huge problem in the world today. I read a story about a group of teen girls that made a pregnancy pact stating that they would get pregnant and raise their children together.(Teen [...]

“Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger”
In this class I have chosen to do my project on poverty because I feel that this is a very serious issue that changes our world.  As time progresses and technology develops it is getting more and more expensive to buy common household necessities.  Hopefully, by devoting my time [...]

“About 25,000 people die everyday from hunger or hunger-related causes…”
            When asked, “What do you think poverty is?” my 18-year old nephew replied, “Those hungry children in Africa with all those flies around them.” This may seem funny at first, but it is sad that the youth are so ignorant of this topic. Many of [...]

Problem: Hunger

Where does starvation exist in the world today? Starvation is not just a problem in New Orleans, not only in Louisiana, not only in the United States, but starvation is a worldwide problem. The causes of starvation are numerous and complex, but poverty is the first and foremost leading cause of starvation. [...]

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 [...]