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    Mo Asad 12/11/2014 Kent-Drury ENG 291 Children at home and abroad There are a growing number of concerns in the nation. All of which are focused so heavily on by news and media outlets that even the most serious of issues are overlooked. One of these topics is child prostitution, and its an epidemic that’s propelled by inadequate orphanages, ineffective laws, and a demand in commercial sex. Even places like the UK and America are no strangers to the underage sex industry. In London there’s a dark

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    and valuable possessions were sold for money just to be able to eat for the next month. Living on the streets moving from shelter to shelter they were barely getting the nutrition that is needed to survive. So many people can end up homeless from children, to adults, and even veterans. According to Doran, fifteen percent of America’s homeless are chronically homeless, which means the person has been homeless continuously for a year or more or has had at least four episodes of homelessness in the past

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    women, causes problems in their life, and can end up killing the females if it is continued. Prostitution is a lot more than it seems to be. Prostitution is known as the “world’s oldest profession” and involves the sexual exploitation of women or children. Many victims of the horrible business are forced to “sell” their bodies to men and women for sexual relations. Over a hundred years ago, sex trade was tolerated and was allowed on the streets of American cities. Today, this practice is done throughout

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    Children of Men: An Unconventional Sci-Fi Film According to Bill Nichols, genre films create a world in which personal and social conflicts are addressed; they have the ability to draw an audience into this world and explore the imagination of an alternate reality. The science fiction genre, also known as sci-fi, establishes genre conventions that distinguish it from other genre films, by creating thought provoking content that appeals to a wide audience. It creates a world altered by time and technology;

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    Homeless Children According to recent reports child homelessness, an estimated 2.5 million children are homeless in the United States. Sadly, nearly half of these children are under the age of five. In fact, one in every thirty children is considered homeless and the numbers continue to increase annually (Bassuk, E., DeCandia, C., Beach, C., & Berman, F., 2014) Though many factors contribute to this social epidemic, the high poverty rate, lack of affordable housing and single parent households are

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    The book “With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets” written by Marni Finkelstein refers to the homeless youth. This book describes the lifestyle of the teenagers with no home and explains with detail about what consist in their everyday lives in the streets of New York City. The purpose of this book is to explain to people who these kids are and to see life in their point of view. It explains the difference between street kids and the kids that live on the street. We

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    evaluated within this paper. There has been significant discussion on the impacts that attachment has on a child’s external behaviors. Parents, educators, and future researchers should be aware of these impacts in order to understand how to help children who are having behavioral issues. First, this paper will analyze empirical research articles and their significance. This will lead into the factors that affect development change in attachment, as well as how culture plays a roll. Lastly, this paper

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    2014). Childhood attachment classifications obtained through the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) were also examined in this study. Disorganized attachment has shown to be the most detrimental on children. Given the high risk sample, the current study had an even split of secure and disorganized children. These results have been replicated in the past by Easterbrooks, Biesecker, and Lyons-Ruth (2000) with low-income high psychosocial risk families. The

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    Homeless Youth in the 20th Century There is an inaccurate count of the number of homeless youth individuals are currently in America. They only account for those who are in the shelter’s system, which is a small portion of the total population of homeless youth. One report estimated that only one in twelve homeless youth ever come into contact with the shelter system (Somllar, 1999). The main focus is on “street youth” who are still on the streets with no home, and no adult guidance. The downfall

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    Feral children or “wild children” (What happens to those who grow up in complete isolation?) The lack of parents’ presence and responsibilities make children become wild. These following points show how a child becomes feral: lack of family, lack of guidance, and lack of love. In Shelley’s novel, there is a monster that was created by Victor. He has suffered these lacks. According to Shelley’s novel the creature also becomes wild because the lack of family, guidance and love. A child that grow

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