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    In society, social problems are often brought to the public’s attention through popular culture and media. The compelling film, Fruitvale Station, directed by Ryan Coogler is a nod to many social problems found in the United States of America today. The film portrays social problems like poverty among minorities, racial profiling and especially police brutality through the last 24 hours of Oscar Julius Grant III’s life. The star-studded film not only pays homage to Grant but also to the ideas of

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    A social problem is a condition that at least some people in a community would deem as being undesirable. A social problem is also a condition ‘created’ by a society that is can usually be alleviated or solved by society. According to our textbook, Social Problems: Reading with Four Questions, there are three criteria that a problem must meet in order to be a social problem. First of all, the problem must be social in origin and caused by social factors. The more its causes are social, the more it

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    ways so we do not know whether the food is adulterated a lot. They artificial add flavours and colours which are harmful to our health. 5. Illiteracy: Illiteracy refers to the inability to read and/or write. The problem of illiteracy is a major social issue in India. The problem has spread through-out the country in a wide way. It is one of the most dangerous obstacles in the economy’s growth. The major reasons of illiteracy in India are: • Since many adults in India are illiterate, they don’t understand

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    Beckley Social Entrepreneurship I Book Report The Social Entrepreneur’s Playbook, Expanded Edition: Pressure Test, Plan, Launch and Scale Your Social Enterprise by Ian C. MacMillan and James D. Thompson Statement of the Book 's Purpose The book itself is a social enterprise, with the intention of generating revenue in order to assist social entrepreneurs in their efforts to start a successful venture. This book is for someone that wants to learn useful skills on how to run a social enterprise

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    Prostitution, also referred to as “the oldest profession,” has always been a controversial and challenging social issue. It is practiced in many different forms including: call girls, convention prostitutes, apartment prostitutes, hotel prostitutes, house prostitutes, bar girls, streetwalkers, and parking lot lizards (). Civilizations such as the Samarians, and countries including Morocco and parts of India engaged in a form of prostitution known as temple prostitution. Temple prostitution is based

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    Rochester and Antoinette are two characters that are both outsiders of their respective communities. Antoinette is excluded from both the white and black communities, and eventually it leads to her instability and uneasiness throughout the novel. While being excluded from the community isn’t dreadful enough, she suffers being called a “white cockroach” (23) and becoming an aberration through her own husband’s eyes, Rochester. Moreover, Rochester is ignored by his own family. His isolation stems from

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    homes, and aging out are a few problems that the foster care system have control over and can change. It’s clear that the they aren’t meeting their goals, but what happens in the lives of these children that are the victims in the situation is a social issue that society as a whole should be a part of. According to the Child Welfare Information Gateway the estimated number of children in foster care was around 427910, 45 percent were placed with non relatives

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    The concept of Social realism as a film genre is to portray the ‘real life’ of a working-class society. Social realism films depict the social, political and economic injustices’ that influence and impact people in society (Taylor, 2006). Social realism is raw, and gives the audience a true indication of what life is like (Lay, 2002). Social realism first came about during an economic downfall in the 1920s. It was an art movement that social realists started to represent the

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    Poverty, what is it? Poverty cannot be defined by just one definition. Poverty is a serious worldwide issue that is affecting all of our lives in the world. In Fact,Did you know nearly half of the world’s population, more than three billion people, live on less than two dollars and fifty cents a day. Just think, If you were given that same budget could you survive? Would you be able to live the same lifestyle that you do? The answer is most likely no and this is a mind blowing statistic. Statics

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    would like to be involved in Toby Eccles’s great idea of investing in social change and apply it in Indonesia to reduce the crime rate. Personally, I feel that this idea is important because I want to help make Indonesia a more developed nation and I believe that one of the most crucial steps is through helping the low income class, motivating them to have a better mindset. In contrast, the idea of business can be good at solving social problem by Michael Porter is also mind-blowing. However, it solely

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