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Before social welfare existed, the 1900’s were a time of poverty, drunkenness, and misery. For ages Temperance groups such as ‘The Dominion Alliance For The Total Suppression of the Liquor Traffic’, and the ‘Woman’s Christian Temperance Union’ struggled to put prohibition in place for many reasons. Some being that historically, alcohol has been around from…

Violence by young people is one of them the most obvious forms of violence. Even fatal attacks or non-fatal in which young people are involved, in greatly contribute to the overall number of premature deaths, injuries and disability. Youth violence largely deeply hurts not only the victims but also the families their friends and companions….

Social justice, or issues of fairness and equality have played an important role in the history of the US. Social justice grants all citizens equal opportunities. It does not discriminate based on age, gender, religion, sexuality or race. One current issue that I am passionate about is race discrimination and the need for equality of…

What is the first thing that always pops into someone’s head when they hear “homeless”? Normally when we think about a homeless person we think an alcoholic or a junkie, sadly this is not always the case. A homeless person can vary from a struggling college student, a family who just went through hardship, veterans,…

Introduction As housing prices have risen, middle class people have increasingly sought to become gentrifiers to renovate neighborhoods rather than move into high-income neighborhoods. Gentrification, defined by professor emeritus of urban planning Peter Marcuse, as “displacement of a lower income population by a higher income one” through the combination of physical, social, or economic “upgrading,”…

Introduction Today, women in USA have the right to vote. A long time ago women in USA prohibited to vote. The suffragette movement successfully change that women have the rights to vote and the result in 19 Amendment is finally ratified, contain that men and women in the USA have the right to vote that…

When exploring what power and privilege can mean in relational terms to one’s own advantages, it can be upsetting or even uncomfortable. Often it involves the ability to see how we can be both empowered and disempowered by deeply rooted cultures and social backgrounds; it also includes how we are able to hinder others while…

Prohibition was a success or a failure depending on how you look at it. I will explain both instances below. Prohibition did put a decrease in the alcohol use but there was other problems that decreasing it caused. Truthfully it did not eliminate drinking, but created a black market. This in turn caused random violence….

Is there a gender equity in our society? Or there is still a perspective in our community, that the men are the predominant and the ladies’ are subordinated. Possibly at some point, we can say that the men are the superior, yet in some point ladies’ are prevalent. But in the eyes of our God,…

“One in eight American adults is an alcoholic,” states a study published in JAMA Psychiatry in 2017, which is approximately 12.7% of the population. Furthermore, SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) estimated that 8.4% (20.2 million adults) had a substance use disorder in 2014. Drugs and alcohol can be used to initiate or…