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On a freezing November day, I sat in Cindy Reed’s office in Birch Run, Michigan where she conducts her daily work as a clinical social worker and/or therapist, ready to begin the interview. The room had a designated area away from Reed’s desk, where Cindy conducts her sessions with her patients. Filled with comfy black furniture, and trinkets for patients to fiddle with, it was easy to feel at place and not intimidated. Having been kind enough to make room for the interview on her day off, Cindy

McClain 1 11 October 2013 The Transition to High School: Why Are Today 's Freshmen Struggling? It 's the rock bottom of a student 's educational career: The day a student drops out of high school. From there, the world may seem to go down in a spiral. Today, 16% of dropouts are unemployed and 32% live below the poverty line. Dropouts with jobs earn an average of only $12.75 per hour (Messacar 55). Students who do graduate from high school have an unemployment rate of only 7.6% (Bureau of Labor

Remember the Titans Joshua Pepin Saginaw Valley State University The world needed change. The merger of the all white and the all black school was going to come together to create T.C. Williams High School. Nonetheless the parents, students, faculty, or even just members of the town weren’t even a little bit happy with this merger, but the desegregation of the schools was the state of Virginia’s idea to show that change was coming. Remember the Titans (2000) is a sports/drama movie released

To get a sense for how low America ranks, it was found in a 2009 PISA study that the United States ranks 25th out of 33 countries on the exam, where countries such as Japan, South Korea, and Finland score consistently near the top (Sparapani et al, 2014). Such results make it clear that there is a significant difference between these nations and

Dissertation Concept Paper A Case Study: Managing Threats of Campus Violence At Michigan Community Colleges Russ Panico Western Michigan University Fall 2014 A Case Study: Managing Threats of Campus Violence at Michigan Community Colleges Statement of the Problem An unknown factor regarding the management of potential acts of campus violence is how community college administrators use information obtained from campus threat assessments to objectively address the potential

When we look at a foster care kid we don’t really think much we just feel bad for them. We don’t really think much about the system and how it is bad or good, we just know that this person lost their family. But there is a lot of things wrong with the foster care system. The group homes, there are far too many kids living in homes that is supposed to be temporary. Foster care cruelty, many kids in foster care witness abuse. Ageing out of the system,many kids who age out of the system have no clue

The Blending of the Generational Workforce Rachel Williams Saginaw Valley State University October 20, 2014 Abstract: The workforce of today incorporates employees from not one but several different generations. With each of these generations, there comes the challenge of being able to manage them effectively in the workplace. Each generation is motivated by different factors and responds differently to management styles. Human resource management of today requires being able to identify

Christian J. M. Currie Professor Emily Beard English 212 Thursday, April 23, 2015 Ocean Acidification: The Secretive Wrecking Crew of Our Planet Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, mankind has slowly increased the total greenhouse gas emissions that enter the atmosphere. Over time, this pollution began to add up. Now planet Earth is struggling to maintain its health with the combined forces of global warming and ocean acidification looking to bring demise. From all portions of the world

Chronic Confusion Shelby Stubbs Saginaw Valley State University Abstract Chronic confusion is defined as the progressive deterioration of intellect, memory loss, and behavioral change. This disease has a rapid onset and the symptoms dominate the body and mind in a very progressive manner. This paper examines the comfort theory as one way to aid in the unmet needs of a chronically confused patient, and by forming relationships between a patients’ needs, with nursing interventions, the

Substance Abuse Whitney Primeau Saginaw Valley State University Abstract There are many factors that impact vulnerability including social conditions, such as education, environmental factors, nutrition, stress and prejudice along with a family’s poverty level. Vulnerability will be discussed as it relates to adolescent substance abuse. Adolescence is considered a vulnerable time in life for many reasons and it’s the most vulnerable time in life for an individual to develop a substance abuse