But it also tells of how Beah was rescued, rehabilitated, and eventually adopted by an American family. It is this book and the story it tells that has made Beah’s face synonymous with the fight to end the use of child soldiers. “He [Ishmael Beah] not only lived through that but he was part of it,” said Cassandra Siebert who is a freshman studying human rights at Webster. “You hear statistics everyday but this is one name, one face, and an actual full story. It gives people a more personal view.” This personal view is what Beah had aimed for.
Teaching Casper, WY About LGBTQ and Suicide Mayra A. Del Muro Grand Canyon University: NRS-427: Concepts in Community and Public Health February 8, 2015 Teaching Casper, WY About LGBTQ and Suicide The teaching plan I proposed was involved with secondary prevention and screening for an extremely vulnerable population. I proposed to bring awareness about the vulnerability of the LGBT community in the conservative community of Casper, Wyoming and how we can help prevent suicides in that particular group. The town has a really great group of people that work real hard in educating the public in the topic of suicide within the youth community. They have an umbrella agency named Natrona County Prevention Coalition in which many other
The National Rifle Association of America is an American nonprofit organization that advocates for gun rights. The advocates for reducing gun violence fail by focusing on fighting the NRA instead of winning over the public with specific proposals. In a recent article published by Brandon E. Patterson, two of the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School appeared on Fox News Sunday to lay out what they wanted to accomplish with the Washington DC protest against gun violence and arguing for stricter gun laws. Stated in the article, “Fox’s Chris Wallace asked Kasky (one of the students) to respond to a clip of one of his classmates seemingly accusing supporters of the march of wanted to take guns away from law-abiding gun owners during an interview.” Kasky also said, “The NRA wanted people to think that. They’re fear mongers.
In response to the prevalence of sexual violence in the U.S., Frank Baird created what is now the national movement, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, the International Men’s March to Stop Rape, Sexual Assault and Gender Violence, in 2001. Walk a Mile in Her Shoes gathers men in communities around the nation and world to walk for one mile in high-heeled shoes to protest sexual violence against women and to raise funds for rape crisis centers and domestic violence shelters, according to the organization’s website. Walk a Mile in Her Shoes was hosted on Temple’s University main campus on March 22, 2012. Prior to the event, there were 19 instances of reported forcible rape on Main Campus and in non-campus, public area and on-campus student housing areas between 2008 and 2010, according to Campus Safety Services. Kate Schaffer, program coordinator for alcohol and other drugs, interpersonal violence and mental health in the Health Education and Awareness Resource Team, has been instrumental in organizing the event.
Solving Problems with Nail Polish Ankesh Madan, Stephen Gray, Tasso Von Windheim, and Tyler Maloney, are four students from North Carolina State University, who are potentially changing the purpose of nail polish. The four students came together at the beginning of the 2014 fall semester, to create Undercover Colors. In the article “Date Rape Drug Protector” by Natalie Ilsley, she talks about the development of the product, the purpose, and how it is helping prevent crime. During the start of the fall semester, the four boys entered a local contest which challenges students to design working solutions to real world problems. The students put their brains to work, tying to brew up an idea about a problem going on today.
In 1964, she decided to resist paying taxes by keeping sixty percent of her income taxes in 1963. Baez also founded the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence (along with her mentor, Sandperl) and encouraged draft resistance at her concerts in 1964. Baez was arrested twice in 1967 for blocking the entrance of the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, California and spent more than a month in prison. “We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war (Einstein 203).” Einstein stated his
To begin, Wechsler Henry talks about what need to be done to get rid of binge drinking in college campuses, we all know every parent worries about their children and sometimes they just don’t know when to step in and when to give them a little bit of privacy. The author points out factors that promote binge drinking tailgate parties and during homecoming activities and with parents who have their children in campus or one day they will be there, they will be curious to read it in order to know what goes on behind the scene through these they will be able to know what advice to give to their children. The author comes in with negative effect on binge drinking which include academic difficulties injuries, drunk driving including
After that day school officials have been working with the county sheriffs’ office, conveniently located on campus, to help prevent anything like this from happening again. The school has since decided to perform random drug screenings and property screening monthly as a precaution to keep this sort of event from happening again. These searches could be a great benefit to our school, there would be lass students using drugs, GPA’s would increase, and our school would be a
I believe that if hate speech codes were put in action in every college and university people would see a drastic decrease in racism on college grounds. For one, if it’s clear that racist, hatful comments will be reprimanded; many people will keep racial comments and gestures off of campus grounds in fear of being sanctioned. I feel that when campuses eliminated racial hate speech out of school property, it opens the opportunity for heated educational debates that teach people to disagree more civilly. Also, allowing debated on race and stereotypes without the use of racial hate speech gives a platform for people with opposing views to become less ethnocentric, and more tolerable to different opinions, and
And while she said she's "counting the days until graduation," she doesn't plan to leave high school without fighting back. She and her mother are preparing a lawsuit against her bullies and their parents. "I think parents can do their part by raising children who understand that there are all different kinds of people and it is in no way acceptable to bully any kind of person for any reason," the resilient student told CBS2. According to figures from the National Center of Education Statistics, almost one-third of students report being bullied in school. A new study from the Justice Policy Center's Urban Institute found that 17 percent of youths had been cyberbullied in the past year.