Archive for the Social Issues Category
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The Mayans May Very Well Have Gotten it Right
Throughout the ages, powerful and inspiring thoughts have been presevered and handed down by the medium of legend, the fable, and the fantasy. The folklore of the Mayans has origins in the calendar, the indisputable instrument for measuring t
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2012: The Year of the Reckoning
The economic, political and social outlook in 2012, for countries all around the world, is beginning to look like the coming of the apocalypse, the end of an era that is no longer relevant. But, there is another way to look at the year 2012--it is a
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Author Interview: Sociology Students Ask Questions About Growing up Poor
The Project: Students studying sociology at a northeasrtern university were asked to read the memoir, "Everything Will Be All Right", as a class assignment. They were asked to use their sociological imaginations to study the behavioral patterns of
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Texting Can be a Learning Experience
My world changed when I decided to expand my knowledge about social networking. Before that, I'd been surfing the web on my little desktop PC for several years. My friends and children were openly expressing concern that I was about to become so tra
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OWS Struggles to Fit in with the Homeless
“Just because a child is born into poverty,” a Job Corps teacher once said to me in a rather scornful tone, "it doesn’t give you the right to demand other people’s money or property — neither more nor less than any other member of society."
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Sargent Shriver: A Man Who Had Been Given a Great Gift
Sargent Shriver died on January 11, 2011. Lyndon Johnson once referred to Sargent Shriver as "Mr. Poverty," because of his extensive work in creating programs like the Jobs Corps. Today, poverty levels are at an all time high. Our nation could learn
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Why Troubled Teens Fight
In earlier blog entries I have talked about the high incidents of crime in poverty neighborhoods. What most people don’t understand is that poverty doesn’t always allow you to be good. Poverty is evil, but most people are not. I was invo
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Troubled Teen Escapes Poverty: Achieves Financial Independence
That's me, Doug Wallace, top center in the above photo. My siblings and I lived with our parents in the Kirkpatrick Homes housing projects in Granite City, IL in 1955. There were six of us children back then. Years later, our mot
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Troubled Teens: How Can We Save Them?
When thinking about the culture of poverty, start with the proposition that poverty is evil– people are not. By way of example, we’re all born equally innocent, a happy baby in search of the good. There is no rule that says a child bor
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Overcome the Odds
The photo to the left was taken during my first week as the new office manager of Frost Arnett Company, in Atlanta, GA. This image is a photo of the office which I managed. I was 22 years old when the photo was taken. I had just bee
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