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    Rationale The rationale of the quality improvement project proposal is to improve the regional, and ultimately the national, statistics of adolescents with unintended pregnancies and exposure to sexually transmitted infections by providing digital educational outlets. The digital educational outlets will maximize the community-based initiative of sexual health and wellness promotion while addressing the issues among adolescents that often go unnoticed or unattended due to community stigma. Description

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    Should parenting classes be required? If you think about it that’s not really a bad idea. Right now it’s just an elective, but by the time that high school kids want it or need it it’s too late. That is a well needed life skill. Students complain about not learning anything about life when they could it’s just not required. Also if a student took a parenting class they might realize how much work it is to take care of a kid and be more careful. Which in turn would bring the teen pregnancy rate. The

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    takes a glance at a tv, a billboard, or a magazine to observe a recurring theme: sex sells. In our increasingly hypersexual nation, sex may sell, but it is certainly not taught. This is prevalent in the fact that US has both the highest amount of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases than any other first world country (Malone and Rodriguez 2). Because of this, there is now a greater concern in both how sexual education is being distributed and taught in the United States, and how that

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    THE EFFECTS OF DRINKING ALCOHOL WHILE PREGNANT BY SANDRA FIGUEROA DOCTORS TELL PREGNANT WOMEN NOT TO DRINK BECAUSE THERE IS NO SAFE AMOUNT TO DRINK • It can not be explained why one fetus with exposure to alcohol during pregnancy can be born with no disabilities while another with similar exposure can be born with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) • When drinking while pregnant the alcohol you consume goes thru the umbilical cord and passes through to the baby. • The baby cannot break it

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    the current sex education curriculum is having. With the highest proportion of unplanned pregnancies being 98% and belonging to teenagers, the impact the improper sex education has is straightforward (Unintended Pregnancy Prevention). Unplanned teenage pregnancies can inhibit the mother’s ability to continue her education, ostracize her from society, and be a significant financial burden on, not only the mother and her family, but American taxpayers, as “teen childbearing costs . . . between $9

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    In many cases the mother is not the only person effected by the pregnancy. A large portion of teenage mothers stay living with their parents and her parents are usually paying the costs; Especially, since in some states the grandparents are financially responsible for the children of minors. The unplanned pregnancy may cause a depletion of savings

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    Black Dynamite Movie and its Camp aspects The Movie Black Dynamite, released in 2009, is an action comedy film and a parody of the 1970’s blaxploitation genre. The film is mainly about a character, named Black Dynamite, a former CIA agent, who spends the majority of his free time policing inner-city streets, and protecting prostitutes from their abusive pimps. When mysterious forces kill his brother, “Black Dynamite roars back into action, battling evildoers on an epic quest that takes him from the

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    When a female becomes pregnant during her teenage years, it can have a lasting effect on the rest of her life. The Tennessee Department of Health states that when an adolescent becomes pregnant, she is "more likely to drop out of school, remain unmarried, and live in poverty" compared to someone who waits to have a child later in life (www.tn.gov). Currently, the teen pregnancy rate is declining in Tennessee. It went from a whopping 53.8 in 2008 down to 33.0 in 2014 (www.tn.gov). However, the teen

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    Teenage Drinking

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    While exploring the problem and symptoms of teenage drinking. It was determined that drinking was one of the many causing factors in which we came across when it came to teenage pregnancies. Of course teenage pregnancy must be looked at on a case-by-case basis. It was found that there are multiple causes, symptoms that can take place in the youth daily lives to create the environment conducive to the problem. Some of the events that take place are things like skipping school or dropping out of school

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    Film Analysis: Juno

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    Krista Marrs Thornton Film Analysis GED-200-07 Sp ‘15 May 6, 2015 Film Analysis: Juno Storyline Sixteen year-old Juno is the type of girl that beats to her own drum and doesn't care what others think of her. She finds out she's pregnant from a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend. Juno and best friend Bleeker like each other. They do not consider themselves to be exclusive and definitely not be ready to be a family. Originally Juno decides that she will have an abortion, but she ultimately

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