blogger #6

I choose a video from my organizations GRIP outreach for youth website. In the video it shows children reading statistics about the fatherless generation. It starts with the words fatherless in the beginning then cuts to children read the statistics. Then the video cuts to fatherless again and shows the children saying you can make a difference so they don’t have to deal with certain consequences of a fatherless childhood.  At the end of the video it shows a verse from the bible and the website you can visit.

I feel like this resource will be helpful in both my proposal and my presentation. It could work well in my presentation because it pretty much sums up what my organizations mission is. It would also work well because it depicts the different children who are affected by growing up fatherless.  It would work well with my proposal because I could use some of the statistics in the video in my paper. It can also help back up how important it is to have a father in a child’s life.

blogger #7

            The organization I choose to write my paper about is called The Fatherless Generation organization.Their mission is to reunite  fatherless children with their biological fathers all while providing the resources and services that strengthen, support, and elevate the commitment to fatherhood and family values. They have quite a few partnerships such as, Boys & Girls Clubs of America,Watch D.O.G.S, and Diamond in the Rough Youth Development just to name a few. The Fatherless Generation Organization  has be featured in magazines, TV shows and radio casts. Here is a quote from a interview the founder Dr.Torri.J Evans had with JET magazine she said "A fathers love is  reassuring and children need that presence in their life." (Evans,"Decades Without Daddy")

Evans,Torri. "Decades Without Daddy". JET Magazine. JET.mag.com, 2 Apr.2012.

blogger #7

The organization I have chosen to back is called The Borgen Project. They fight for poverty in developing countries at a political level and have volunteers from many parts of the country, as well as the world. They have caught the attention of the public and many editorials over their years of being operational. The Borgen Project has shown up a couple of times in articles by the Huffington Post, a news editorial known worldwide. In one of those articles, Katie Tate, a writer for the Huffington Post wrote, "The Borgen Project is an incredible non-profit organization that is addressing poverty and hunger and working towards ending them" (Tate, "The Borgen Project: Working to Downsize Poverty").

 Tate, Katie. "The Borgen Project: Working to Downsize Poverty." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 24 Jan. 2011. Web. 25 May 2016. 

Blogger #7

Randy Elder, a scientific director for systematic reviews for the Community Guide Branch and he  joined CDC's Injury Center in 1999 to conduct research in the areas of alcohol-impaired driving and alcohol epidemiology, wrote his article, What Works: Strategies to Reduce or Prevent Drunk Driving, to help spread awareness about drinking and driving. When you think about college, what comes to mind is; education, degrees, masters, and possibly, parties. Parties can be a huge thing in college, and most likely college students will be drinking. To help prevent a student from drinking and driving Elder listed many possible ways to help. One possible way is to have an Ignition interlock installed into cars. Elder stated, "Ignition interlocks installed in cars measure alcohol on the driver’s breath. Interlocks keep the car from starting if the driver has a BAC above a certain level, usually 0.02%." This invention can definitely help prevent deaths caused by drunk drivers from happening.

Citation
Developing the Guide to Community Preventive Services - Overview and Rationale. [PDF - 191 kB] Benedict I. Truman, C. Kay Smith-Akin, Alan R. Hinman et al. Am J Prev Med. 2000; 18 (1S) :18-26.

 

Blogger 7

Wilson M. Compton, author and director of a division of National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Department, writes an article entitled Abuse of prescription drugs and the risk of addiction. In this informative article he states “Abuse of several categories of prescription drugs has increased markedly in the United States in the past decade and is now at alarming levels for certain agents, especially opioid analgesics and stimulants”. Mr. Compton is interested in research to help fix this massive problem of drug abuse and addiction and also states “Future scientific work on prescription drug abuse will include identification of clinical practices that minimize the risks of addiction, the development of guidelines for early detection and management of addiction, and the development of clinically effective agents that minimize the risks for abuse.” He is afraid for the youth and the recreational use of the prescription medication. He explains: “with the high rates of prescription drug abuse among teenagers in the United States, a particularly urgent priority is the investigation of best practices for effective prevention and treatment for adolescents, as well as the development of strategies to reduce diversion and abuse of medications intended for medical use.” This illustrates my concern and my social issue. My organization will provide alternative medicine and care for those who desperately need an alternate solution for their pain and wellness. My organization will also provide awareness and promote the use of alternative medications that are less addictive and harmful.

Citation:

1. –“Abuse of prescription drugs and risk of addiction” -Wilson M. Compton, division leader in the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2016)
2. –“Abuse of prescription drugs and risk of addiction”-Nora D. Volkow, M.D.,Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2016)

Blogger # 7

           Alison Kunh a writer for the Iris Magazine for thinking young women wrote a an article about the role that media plays in shaping today's rape culture. Kunh discusses how the media is portraying victim blaming. Many victims get asked what they were wearing and if they had drank before the incident as if that makes it okay. Kuhn mentions that "people start to believe that perhaps women are at fault in cases of their own rape" (Kuhn,2014). Because people believe that the victims are at fault, they do not receive any support. The victims often don't speak up because everyone else seems to just dismiss the issue.

 Citation
"The Role Media Plays in Shaping Our Rape Culture." Iris A Magazine About Thinking Young Women RSS. Alison Kuhn, 31 Jan. 2014. Web. 10 May 2016.

Blogger Entry: Citations

Due: Wednesday 5/11

Prompt 

Read the "In-Text Citations" handout.  Based on these notes, follow the directions below.  

1. Select a text from your research that is related to 1) your social issue and 2) your organization
2. For each text:
1. Write a paragraph that introduces the text and one quote from the text you find interesting (MLA format for in-text citation).  Establish your sources credibility. 
2. Then, create a MLA formatted citation for the entire text at the end.    

blogger #6

     I recently watched a documentary on Netflix called "Underworld Inc.". One of the episodes covered human/sex trafficking throughout the United States. They mainly focused on illegal immigrants. The sex traffickers help these immigrants to cross over the border and if the fine cannot be paid on time they will be forced to pay if off by prostitution. They prostitute children, men and women alike. Most of the time people become trapped because the sex traffickers will enslave them to work for them until they are of no use.

      I found this information very helpful because it allows me to tie in both human and sex trafficking together correspondingly. I will be able to further use this information for my presentation and proposal as well,