Is Our Society Changing Over Time

Between January 31, 1865 and February, 1869, three of America’s most crucial amendments were passed. After the Civil War, during the Reconstruction Era these amendments were put into place to give the African American the equality they deserved but to do this they had to make changes to the Constitution. For these action to happen, there must be a proposed amendment. These amendments must be proposed by Congress with a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House of Representatives or by a constitutional convention called by two-thirds of the state legislatures. From there this amendment may become part of the Constitution by either the legislatures of three-fourths of the states or by State ratifying conventions held in three-fourths of the states. If voted yes, this amendment will change the constitution and be apart of it.

The federal and state governments are the largest supporters of health care services in the United States. Examples of support that our government provides include assisting those who are in need of health care with numerous options such as Medicare and Medicaid, the employment of millions of people, and billions of dollars each year for new discoveries, treatments, and cures. The government does indeed offer great assistance with programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, two of the largest programs that the government is involved in. Not only does the government provide those who are in need with Medicare and Medicaid, but there is also the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). These programs provided by the government are there to help those who cannot afford insurance. Insurance is not affordable to many families due to the economy and I feel that just because a family or an individual cannot afford insurance does not mean they should not be able to

America was not always the successful country that it is today and some Americans were once not actually from the United States. Instead, the states stemmed off from different cultures around Europe, the land being split between many big contenders like Britain, Spain, and even France. The thirteen colonies were the start of the US and would eventually become rebellious enough to break away from the system that they had once lived under. The states undergone construction to build a new government and a new way of life for the generations that would come. After two hundred and thirty nine years of practicing and figuring out our way of life, America has both succeeded and dropped in many areas. The definition of America has certainly changed throughout the years, but one thing

Poor neighborhoods need more free health care centers to keep the children from getting sick and prevent them from getting sick in their later years. There was a movement in the years 1865 through the mid-1960’s called The Black Hospital Movement. Through the movement, Freedmen's Bureau built 90 health care facilities throughout the South including children’s homes, institutions for the deaf, poorhouses, black asylums and infirmaries. There’s a need to stop pouring money into prisons and police and help the poor neighborhoods by building more health care centers for blacks. Since blacks are less likely to receive health insurance through their work, they’re twice as likely than white people to get a serious illness (Forbes). In this demand it talks about the state action of passing a bill to establish equitable health care facilities helping communities of color. In other countries, such as Egypt, Algeria, and Germany, they have universal health care. Also France has a process of universal health care financed by the government through a system of national health insurance. It is ranked one of the best health care systems in the world. They are hoping that we can make that happen here in the U.S. Not much has changed for pushing towards universal health care for poor neighborhoods since the mid

The information that I found to be most thought provoking form this weeks reading was regarding the income gap. According to Shi and Singh in a given geographical area the larger this income gap is, the poorer the overall health status will be of the population (Shi & Singh, 2013, p.35.). I grew up in an impoverished area where the income gap was extreme in the case of some, but in general fairly even across the board. The majority of the people I knew received healthcare through their parents private insurance or were on government subsided plans. Most received preventive care and nonpreventative care when needed, even though their families often earned a wage below the poverty line. Coming to Spokane three years ago, a city with a large

It is important to understand determinants such as poverty, lack in health care access, exposure to disease early in life, social positions, gender, race/ethnicity will all effect communities who receive health inequalities. Organizations such as WHO, National Institute of Health (NIH), and Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been working to provide the best quality of care for urban/rural populations. An adjustment in policies is needed to protect access to health, education, and employment for disadvantaged populations. Even though governments have made policies to provide health to all, we can see urban/rural populations are in a lack of quality of care. Health needs to be a right for all, and not based on whether in urban area or socioeconomic status they are in. Individuals’ irrespective of socioeconomic class or race should have the same rights and

The word has changed in the past century. Today we have a lot of modern in technology and communication and transportation . Over the past 100 years, there has been many improvement in technology , communication, transportation. In the past 100 years, our world has changed a lot in the areas of, technology and communication and transportation.

Many people have said society has changed over the years, but they never say if it has changed for the better or for the worst. I know it has changed for the worst and It is obvious if you just look at the amount of people you see lying everyday. People think they have to lie for inconsequential reasons or to protect themselves and their families. They feel if they tell the truth, no one will believe them or something might happen to someone they care about.

And since these families tend to be larger the families are going to need medical attention that the government pays for.

Nevertheless, every person has the right to be provided with care regardless of them living in poverty. Refusing to assist someone who may be seriously injured or even going into labor should not be tolerated. Our hospitals are so concerned with money that the well being of citizens no longer matters. Profit has overpowered people and that is not acceptable. One may categorize people living in poverty as lackadaisical and extraneous to oneselves but their lives matter just as much as the next person’s. Although they may not have the money to pay a hospital bill how can someone in the correct mindset dump a mentally ill person on the street or reject care to a woman going into labor. No person should trump another when considering the amount of money they generate or type of insurance they possess. We are all human and should be granted medical assistance

In 1964, the Economic Opportunity Act was passed by Congress and this attacked poverty and health care at the roots of the problem. This program started neighborhood clinics and made jobs for the low class. This program also helped bring down prices at the hospital because people were getting help with their problems before it got to severe (PrinGreen). Meanwhile, the health care system today helps fifteen million people nationwide. About sixty percent of the citizens whose health care system helps them are below the poverty level which is fourteen thousand two hundred six dollars (Stanton). Two thirds of the people who the health care system takes care of are racial minorities. The health care system is helping employment dramatically; they have made over seventy-eight thousand full time positions; these are people in poverty stricken areas. These jobs have boost local business and economy helping the entire community. The health care 's main action is to prevent rather than to treat. The health care system has classes and meetings so one can go there and protect themselves and family from getting diseases and illness (Stanton). They teach everything from public hygiene, like washing hands after going to the bathroom, too symptoms of certain diseases.

2014). The model it promotes widely takes recognition of the wider determinants of health that focus on socio-economic, environmental and influences of politics (Ahnquist. J, Wamala. S.P & Lindstrom. M, 2012. Within the deprived and less well off communities, multiple disadvantages are reinforced by the presence of these determinants of health and thus continually diminish people’s health status (Tod. A, Norton. C, Baillie, L, Deaton, C et al, 2015). This calls for the need to actively work in partnerships with policy makers, education, health services professionals and the relevant communities facing inequalities (Soni. H, 2014). There tends to be a perception that maybe one size would fit all(Piazza. J, Charles. S, Luong. G & Almeida, D. 2015). This happens as the social model of public health never puts emphasis on individual behaviours but on action that healthcare should be downstream- treatment of illness intervention in individuals(Tod. A.M & Hirst, J, 2014). There is also a need to look upstream –preventative healthcare where the impact would be felt within the different communities and population at large that would avoid the requirement for downstream treatment (Malhotra.S & Naughton. L, 2015). If barriers are tackled in the first place that hinder access to health and care services within people and communities at

All credit goes to Einstein's special theory of relativity, which tells us how objects behave and interact as they approach the speed of light and also how mass and energy are related to each other. Our calculations and experiments are getting more and more accurate, and we are able to take into consideration things such as the speed of light. The world didn’t change, but theories describing how the world works has changed over time. It's an unavoidable truth: Some things are absolute, and some are relative.

On Halloween, I decided to replicate the style and overall persona of 90’s R & B star Aaliyah. I wore baggy male pants, crop top, Timberland boots, and a large overcoat. Even though my prissy and consecutive mother was not very fond of my costume selection, I wore best Halloween costume at the neighborhood party. I was not judge or criticized for being in what was established as male clothing because it is the social norm for my generation and the generation before me. However, if I was edgy Aaliyah for Halloween in prior decades, I would have been seen as a social abomination because women and men did not wear each other’s clothing. Gender roles has always been expressed through fashion and as gender roles continue to progress so does the dance costuming. After analyzing the Waltz, Salsa, and, Hip Hop dance cultures, I have noticed that the female costuming traditionally represented women being submissive and socially inferior to men; however, as dance began to evolve and social revolutions began to take place, costuming showcased the movement towards gender equality.

As the world continues to go through changes, we observe that there are many patterns in history that continue to repeat over and over again. We constantly question the state of the world and what our past has currently let us to. How did our ideas become about? What has influenced our patterns of thought? How do our interactions amongst others in society differentiate with our relations in the past? When observing the current state of the world, it is quite easy to come to the conclusion that society is nothing like it used to be. However, when you are looking at the structure of our capitalistic society the world remains the same. Literature and theories of Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx, the three classical social theorists,