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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjrXQC4U3nI
lunes, 22 de junio de 2015
The typical problems presented in the common life.
The Wait, Sometimes it's the only option. At other times, it's the more convenient option. Whichever way, the wait does seem to have become an unavoidable part of life.
- Waiting for someone.
- Waiting for something.
- Waiting for that coffee to cool down.
- Waiting for the weather to get better.
- Waiting to cross the street.
- Waiting with the traffic.
- Waiting at a restaurant.
- Waiting for appointments.
- Waiting for the boss.
- Waiting to become the boss.
- Waiting for the maggi to cook.
- Waiting to drink.
- Waiting for the opening.
- Waiting for the closure.
- Waiting to get healed.
- Waiting to overcome hurt.
- Waiting for revenge.
- Waiting to burp. (You know, manners.)
- Waiting to become an adult.
- Waiting to mature.
- Waiting for success.
- Waiting for that kiss.
- Waiting for someone.
- Waiting for the right one.
- Waiting to become someone else.
- Waiting to get back yourself.
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The first World Problem
Stereotypes
A “stereotype” is a generalization about a person or group of persons. We develop stereotypes when we are unable or unwilling to obtain all of the information we would need to make fair judgments about people or situations. In the absence of the “total picture,” stereotypes in many cases allow us to “fill in the blanks.” Our society often innocently creates and perpetuates stereotypes, but these stereotypes often lead to unfair discrimination and persecution when the stereotype is unfavorable.
Discrimination
When we judge people and groups based on our prejudices and stereotypes and treat them differently, we are engaging in discrimination. This discrimination can take many forms. We may create subtle or overt pressures which will discourage persons of certain minority groups from living in a neighborhood. Women and minorities have been victimized by discrimination in employment, education, and social services. We may shy away from people with a history of mental illness because we are afraid they may harm us. Women and minorities are often excluded from high echelon positions in the business world. Many clubs have restrictive membership policies which do not permit Jews, African-Americans, women, and others to join.
Racism
Anthropologists, scientists who study humans and their origins, generally accept that the human species can be categorized into races based on physical and genetic makeup. For example, many, but certainly not all African-Americans have physical differences from Caucasians beyond their dark skin, such as wiry hair. Virtually all scientists accept the fact that there is no credible scientific evidence that one race is culturally or psychologically different from any other, or that one race is superior to another. Past studies which reached conclusions other than that have been found to be seriously flawed in their methodology or inherently biased.
Yet despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, there are people who maintain that their own race is superior to all others. These people, known collectively as “racists,” are the most likely to engage in discrimination, persecution, and violence against those they deem to be members of “inferior” races.
Anthropologists, scientists who study humans and their origins, generally accept that the human species can be categorized into races based on physical and genetic makeup. For example, many, but certainly not all African-Americans have physical differences from Caucasians beyond their dark skin, such as wiry hair. Virtually all scientists accept the fact that there is no credible scientific evidence that one race is culturally or psychologically different from any other, or that one race is superior to another. Past studies which reached conclusions other than that have been found to be seriously flawed in their methodology or inherently biased.
Yet despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, there are people who maintain that their own race is superior to all others. These people, known collectively as “racists,” are the most likely to engage in discrimination, persecution, and violence against those they deem to be members of “inferior” races.
Sexism
The concept of equal rights for women is as old as the ancient Greeks; the Greek philosopher Plato advocated for equality between the sexes in his Republic. Few civilizations have even approached this equality, however, and it has only been in modern times that women have been granted legal rights which were routinely applied only to men. Actual equality in society has lagged far behind legal emancipation, many believe.
Minority Persecution and Genocide
Just as a school bully can assert his power over a weaker student by pure physical intimidation, a minority group may be victimized by a more powerful majority which is insensitive to the needs and aspirations of that minority. Minority groups may be subjected to dehumanization experiences made to feel powerless by being subjected to degrading and humiliating experiences based on prejudice.
Source: http://remember.org/guide/history-root-stereotypes
jueves, 28 de mayo de 2015
Homelessness Prevention
Homelessness prevention is a set of strategies to help low-income households resolve a housing crisis that would otherwise lead to homelessness. A prevention program may stabilize a household in their current housing or help them to move into new housing without first entering shelter or experiencing homelessness. Strategies may include financial assistance, legal assistance, housing stabilization services, and other interventions used singularly or in combination. The more coordinated and well-targeted the prevention program is the more likely it is to reduce the number of people who experience homelessness.
Problem or Challenge:
Ending homelessness requires effective and well-targeted strategies to stop families and individuals from becoming homeless. Most people can successfully avoid homelessness if they get the right help at the right time. A small amount of assistance is often enough to prevent an episode of homelessness and the cost of prevention is usually much less than the cost of shelter and other services people need when they experience homelessness. Prevention diminishes the trauma and dislocation caused by homelessness. When effective, homelessness prevention programs reduce the demand for homeless shelters.
Solution:
As part of a community’s homelessness assistance system, prevention programs serve vulnerable individuals and families who are at imminent risk of becoming homeless (i.e., entering shelter or transitional housing or living in cars or on the street). The goal is to help the household resolve their crisis, secure short-term financial or rental assistance as needed, and access ongoing sources of support in the community in order to remain housed. If the individual or family is unable to stay in their existing housing, the prevention program helps the household to find a safe, reasonably affordable and adequate, alternative housing arrangement.
Homelessness prevention programs are usually designed to use available resources to offer time-limited assistance to a large number of families and individuals. The assistance may not be enough to cover all needs, but can often act as a means to leverage other income and supports and permit the recipients to remain housed. In some cases a homelessness prevention program is structured to provide deeper assistance to a defined population, such as persons being discharged from prisons, hospitals, or foster care, to prevent them from experiencing homelessness.
Time-limited homelessness prevention programs are not the only way to prevent homelessness. Some long-term interventions have demonstrated effectiveness in reducing the likelihood that families and individuals with significant needs will enter or return to homelessness. Rental housing assistance is the most direct and effective tool to prevent homelessness; it has been shown to be highly effective in helping people with extremely low incomes retain housing. For households with long histories of homelessness and the greatest barriers to stability, permanent supportive housing has proven effective in preventing returns to homelessness.
POPULATIONS AT RISK OF HOMELESSNESS
Many poor people are at risk of homelessness. Ultimately, this is because it is hard for them to afford housing. Unemployment, housing cost burden, and living doubled up are indications of this struggle to afford housing. Longitudinal trends and changes from 2012 to 2013 indicate populations at risk of homelessness may not be experiencing the benefits of the economic recovery.
- The number of unemployed people fell 8.4 percent and the unemployment rate continued its multi-year decline, falling to 7.4 percent. Nearly all states saw decreases in the number of people unemployed, with only 6 states seeing modest increases in the number of unemployed people.
- Despite improvements in employment, the number of people in poverty (4.8 million) and the poverty rate (15.8 percent) remained relatively steady. 26 states saw an increase in the number of people in poverty; 25 saw a decrease.
- The number of people in poor households living doubled up with family and friends grew to 7.7 million people, an increase of 3.7 percent from 2012 to 2013, with 39 states seeing increases. Since 2007, the number of people living doubled up has increased 67 percent.
- The number of poor renter households experiencing severe housing cost burden, those households in poverty paying more than 50 percent of their income toward housing, total 6.4 million in 2013, decreasing by 2.8 percent nationally from 2013 with 37 states seeing a decrease. Since 2007, the number of poor households with severe housing cost burden has increased 25 percent.
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE SYSTEM
Communities across the country respond to homelessness with a variety of programs: emergency shelters, transitional housing, rapid re-housing, and permanent supportive housing. The HEARTH Act, passed in 2009, placed a greater emphasis on permanent supportive housing and rapid re-housing as permanent housing solutions to homelessness. The shift away from transitional housing as a response to homelessness began to be seen in 2013 and continued in 2014.
- Rapid re-housing capacity grew dramatically—nearly doubling from 19,847 beds in 2013 to 37,783 beds in 2014, a 90 percent increase. 40 states increased rapid re-housing inventory.
- The number of permanent supportive housing beds continued to grow from 2013 to 2014 by 15,984 beds (5.6 percent) to a total of 300,282 beds. 35 states saw increases and 15 states saw decreases.
- Nationwide, emergency shelter utilization remained at the same highs seen between 2007 and 2013, with 102 percent of emergency shelter beds full at the time of the point-in-time count. Transitionalhousing utilization was lower, at 84 percent.
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