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Teaching Sexual Education In Public School

Pages: 8 (2487 words) Sources: 9 Document Type:Term Paper Document #:19342188

… the standard curricula in public schools or changing state education policies. Yet these difficulties and challenges should not overshadow the fact that sexual literacy is as important as any other life skills course in school. Students have a right to understand their bodies, their minds, and the ……

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Abbott, K., Ellis, S. J., & Abbott, R. (2016). “We”ve got a lack of family values’: an examination of how teachers formulate and justify their approach to teaching sex and relationships education. Sex Education, 16(6), 678–691. doi:10.1080/14681811.2016.1169398 

“America’s Sex Education: How We Are Failing Our Students,” (2017). USC Department of Nursing. Retrieved from  https://nursing.usc.edu/blog/americas-sex-education/ 

Bauman, S.D. (2018). When sex ed pretends to be secular. Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 8059. Retrieved from  https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/8059 

Kirby, D. B. (2008). The impact of abstinence and comprehensive sex and STD/HIV education programs on adolescent sexual behavior. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 5(3), 18-27

Lepore, J. (2015). The facts of life. 94 Foreign Aff. 144 (2015).

National Conference of State Legislatures (2019). State policies on sex education in schools. Retrieved from  http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-policies-on-sex-education-in-schools.aspx 

Pardini, P. (2019). The history of sexuality education. Rethinking Schools. Retrieved from  http://rethinkingschools.aidcvt.com/sex/sexhisto.shtml 

Planned Parenthood (2019). What is sex education? Retrieved from  https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/for-educators/what-sex-education

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How Media Perpetuate Racism

Pages: 9 (2554 words) Sources: 15 Document Type:Essay Document #:95502793

...Literacy When Willie Lynch wrote his letter to white slave owners in America in the 17th century, laying out the blueprint for the American Establishment on how to create racial tensions in order to facilitate the white slave owners’ rule over their African slave, he unwittingly laid the foundation stone for American elitism and racism that has since come to characterize the ruling class’ use of mass media in controlling the population (Heaggans). As Horkheimer and Adorno later showed in their analysis and dissection of the Culture Industry, the controllers of mass media have essentially used the basic framework of Lynch to perpetuate the idea of racism and to use race as a means of dividing and conquering the population, keeping the mass of men and women disunited and disempowered, turned against themselves, focused on their own external differences, and preventing them from uniting and standing up to the powers that……

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Adorno, Theodor and M. Horkheimer. The culture industry: Enlightenment as mass deception. Stardom and celebrity: A reader, 34, 2007.

Aldrige, Derick. “From Civil Rights to Hip Hop: Toward a Nexus of Ideas.” http://www.thehiphopproject.org/site/pdfs/hhp_civilRights.pdf

Blair, Elizabeth. “The Strange Story of the Man behind Strange Fruit.” NPR.  http://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/158933012/the-strange-story-of-the-man-behind-strange-fruit 

Cashmore, Ellis. The Black culture industry. Routledge, 2006.

Collins, Patricia Hill. "New commodities, new consumers: Selling blackness in a global marketplace." Ethnicities 6.3 (2006): 297-317.

Davis, Angela. The Meaning of Freedom. San Francisco, CA: City Light Books, 2012.

Guy, Talmadge C. "Gangsta rap and adult education." New directions for adult and continuing education 2004.101 (2004): 43-57.

Heaggans, Raphael C. "When the oppressed becomes the oppressor: Willie Lynch and the politics of race and racism in hip-hop music." West Virginia University Philological Papers 50 (2003): 77-81.

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Benefits Of Lifting Weights For Women Between The Ages Of 25 40

Pages: 6 (1869 words) Sources: 7 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:41970293

...Literacy Executive Summary
This white paper introduces the idea of lifting weights by discussing how it can improve health and who the role models are for women today. It discusses prior research on women’s health, then describes new findings from recent research that shows the benefits of lifting weights for women. It shows the benefits as relating to improved mood, increased confidence, and improved physical and mental health.
Introduction
The keys to having a healthy life are nutrition and exercise. A good diet such as the world-renowned Mediterranean Diet and sufficient levels of physical activity throughout the day can improve one’s health and outlook (Guntzviller, King, Jensen & Davis, 2017). This paper will focus on the exercise part of that equation and discuss the benefits that lifting weights can have for a select population—specifically for women who are between the ages of 25 and 40.
In the past, lifting weights has……

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Choi, P. Y. (1992). The psychological benefits of physical exercise: Implications for women and the menstrual cycle. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 10(2), 111-115.

Clapp III, J. F. (2000). Exercise during pregnancy: a clinical update. Clinics in sports medicine, 19(2), 273-286.

Dressler, W. W. (1985). Extended family relationships, social support, and mental health in a southern black community. Journal of health and social behavior, 39-48.

Guntzviller, L. M., King, A. J., Jensen, J. D., & Davis, L. A. (2017). Self-efficacy, health literacy, and nutrition and exercise behaviors in a low-income, Hispanic population. Journal of immigrant and minority health, 19(2), 489-493.

Lavallee, M. E., & Mansfield, L. A. (2013). Weightlifting training gives lifelong benefits. ACSM\\\\\\'s Health & Fitness Journal, 17(2), 34-36.

Lowery, K. (2019). Where Are The Ladies?: The Social and Cultural Reasons Why Women Still Shy Away From Weights in 2018 (Doctoral dissertation).

Rogers, P. & Fogoros, R. (2019). A Fundamental Guide to Weight Training. Retrieved from  https://www.verywellfit.com/weight-training-fundamentals-a-concise-guide-3498525 

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Healthcare Marketing

Pages: 11 (3219 words) Sources: 3 Document Type:Essay Document #:80789957

… a website that is easy to use, informative, intuitive, and friendly;
4) use marketing emails to keep customers informed and to raise health literacy in the community, such as the need for screenings for breast or prostate cancer.
Healthcare content marketing is a great method of attracting ……

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Arnold, D. G., & Oakley, J. L. (2013). The politics and strategy of industry self-regulation: the pharmaceutical industry's principles for ethical direct-to-consumer advertising as a deceptive blocking strategy. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 38(3), 505-544.

Blythe, J. (2009). Key Concepts in Marketing. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Chand, S. (2019). Target Marketing: Four Generic Target Marketing Strategies. Retrieved from  http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/marketing/target-marketing-four-generic-target-marketing-strategies/13400 

Dolliver, M. (2009). Take care when targeting the younger generations. Retrieved from  https://www.adweek.com/digital/take-care-when-targeting-the  younger generations-online-113643/

Goi, C. L. (2009). A review of marketing mix: 4Ps or more?. International journal of marketing studies, 1(1), 2.

Hartley, K. & Rudelius, W. (2001). Marketing, The Core, 4th Ed., McGraw-Hill.

Hawn, C. (2009). Take two aspirin and tweet me in the morning: how Twitter, Facebook, and other social media are reshaping health care. Health affairs, 28(2), 361-368.

Lane, T. (2019). Healthcare marketing laws. Retrieved from  https://smallbusiness.chron.com/healthcare-marketing-laws-67307.html

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Amazon S Code Of Ethics

Pages: 2 (619 words) Sources: 2 Document Type:Essay Document #:81537020

...Literacy Amazon is a company that takes its social responsibility to stakeholders seriously. As it is a company that operates all over the world, it recognizes that it has a truly global role to play in making the world a better place. That is why it focuses on sustainability as one of its core corporate social responsibility (CSR) objectives (Amazon Sustainability, 2019). Its other CSR programs include working with Feeding America, Worldreader’s LEAP 2.0 program to promote education among underserved populations, and “Girls Who Code,” to help promote gender equality in the IT industry. Underlying these CSR programs is a Code of Ethics that seeks to promote compliance with all local, state and federal laws and to foster a strong ethical spirit among its workers.
The Code of Ethics for Amazon first focuses on compliance with all external lows of the city, state and federal government. Secondly, it focuses on removing……

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Amazon Code of Ethics. (2019). Retrieved from  https://ir.aboutamazon.com/corporate-governance/documents-charters/code-business-conduct-and-ethics?c=97664&p=irol-govConduct 

Amazon Sustainability. (2019). Retrieved from  https://www.aboutamazon.com/sustainability 

 

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