Abstract
This paper provides an introduction and a section on how the Healthy Kids program will impact the macroeconomics of the area.

From the Paper
"This Healthy Kids program will have far-reaching effects in Florida that extend beyond the confines of individual children's health. If left uninsured, Florida's children would incur healthcare costs that greatly exceed the costs of providing them with insurance and this added cost would devolve to the taxpayers to cover, thus making Florida a less attractive place to live or open a business. With the Healthy Kids program in place, however, the taxpayer burden can remain within the usual limits. The Healthy Kids program would..."

Tags:Healthy Kids, macroeconomic

Abstract
The paper relates that the Covering Kids Initiative is a national foundation that has as its mission to enroll eligible children in Medicaid or SCHIP programs. The paper discusses how CKI has been given a three-year grant to financial support in the foundation's mission of reaching children in the District of Columbia and 49 states and coalitions in these areas are established with the grant funds and outreach programs directed toward low-income children are started. The paper explains that the goal is to reach and enroll as many low-income children as possible. The paper mentions that currently, enrollment is the main focus, and this marketing campaign will go a step further by encouraging low-income parents to keep a health passport for their child. The paper explains that the health passport is a recording of the immunizations, physical exams, illnesses and treatments for the child.

From the Paper
"Covering Kids Initiative is a national foundation that has as its mission to enroll eligible children in Medicaid or SCHIP programs. CKI has been given a three-year grant to financial support the foundation's mission of reaching children in the District of Columbia and 49 states. Coalitions in these areas are established with the grant funds and outreach programs directed toward low-income children are started. The goal is to reach and enroll as many low-income children as possible. Currently, enrollment is the main focus. This marketing campaign will go a step further by..."

Tags:covering, kids, initiative

Abstract
This paper analyzes research which shows that kids who watch a lot of TV in adolescence are more likely to behave aggressively in adulthood. The paper examines both sides of the argument, that violent Tv causes crime and that it doesn't. The paper utilizes relevant academic studies and requires that the reader form a personal opinion in the end.

From the Paper
"Research shows that kids who watch a lot of TV in adolescence are more likely to behave aggressively in adulthood. Analyze the relationship between violent TV programs and criminal behavior by presenting BOTH SIDES OF THE ARGUMENT - VIOLENT TV causes crime & violent TV does not cause crime. Utilize relevant academic studies and formulate your own opinion in the end. Some research indicates that children who watch a lot of violent TV in adolescence are more likely to behave aggressively in adulthood. However, the relationship between violent TV programs and criminal behavior is complex, so that it is difficult to deliver an unequivocal judgment..."

Tags:violent, tv, kids

Abstract
This is an introduction to a longer paper on the Florida Healthy Kids Program model that will examine and modify the model to make it suitable as a national model.

From the Paper
"The Florida Healthy Kids Program provides access to affordable healthcare for thousands of uninsured children in Florida. The way the program operates is by acting as a quasi-single payer financing mechanism that brings together local, state, federal and family funding to cover the premiums on the commercial health plans that assume the risk. The program ensures that children whose families could not otherwise afford to purchase health insurance for them are insured. The commercial health plan in Florida..."

Tags:Florida, Healthy Kids Program, healthcare, health care, model

Abstract
The discussion includes the freedom that the kids retain in the re-integration process known as the Salesians methodology. The paper explains the importance of team participation with the government and the need for representatives of the government to change their way of thinking in relation to the street kids.

From the Paper
"In El Salvador there is a Human Rights organization called Olof Palme that is trying to save the lives of thousands of children who are living on the streets. The government at one point ordered the extermination of all the street kids in El Salvador viewing them as a lost sub-culture that were worth nothing to the country. Olof Palme protected the street kids from assassins--most children were spared--9 were murdered by the government's hired killers. Street kids in El Salvador are raped, beaten, given death threats and killed."

Tags:education, responsibility, couseling

Abstract
Discussing how gang activity is on the rise throughout the United States, along with the poverty that is the root cause. Comparing two articles that deal with this issue - Tim Lucas' article focuses on the general panic across America concerning the presence and spread of gangs. It explores the barriers built between the white majority and the impoverished Hispanic minority in Santa Cruz's Beach Flats area, and discusses how these barriers have affected the rise of gangs. The second article details a study in which Australian street kids were observed and interviewed. This study focused on gender relations between street kids as well as social organization and moral conduct. These two articles are compared on several grounds, this first being an assessment of the main points of each, second is an evaluation of their contributions to the literature on this subject. Next, the differing approaches to research are contrasted, as well as the results of this research. Finally, the strengths and weaknesses of each article are compared.

From the Paper
"The issue of urban poverty, homelessness and gangs is a very serious one, and will only continue to gain importance as more and more of the world develops. These two articles both deal with this issue but in very different ways. Lucas tries to develop a model that can be universally applied to urban gangs, and does this through the example of the Beach Flats area of Santa Cruz. It's main conclusions are that although youth crime is increasing, there is an over inflated fear of this increase, and that it is the boundaries formed in the midst of this moral panic that the problem of youth gangs is exacerbated. Winchester and Costello's article is at the opposite end of the spectrum, in that it focuses solely on a single group of homeless children, in an attempt to understand their nature more thoroughly, but with no attempt made to provide deeper insight into the problem of homelessness as a whole."

Tags:australian, cultural, geography, homelessness, living, poverty, youth

Abstract
This paper presents a brief introduction to Egbede World Outreach for Saving the Kids, a benefaction of the Edo prince Nosa Okunbor and others, often of the Nigerian elite abroad. The paper shows that the organization is typical of those that emerge in response to particular, topical developments, in this case, the news that Nigerian anti-AIDS treatment was being extended to adult cases, ignoring the countries thousands HIV positive children.

From the Paper
"The mass media can give the idea that large and longstanding non-governmental organizations, or United Nations agencies, are the main source of relief or development work in poor societies. However, Nigeria's Egbede World Outreach for Saving the Kids provides a reminder of how important quite small, and privately financed projects can be. The charity's main sponsor has been Prince Nosa Okunbor, a member of a family much involved in different kinds of Christian and other Edo activism, alert to the need to invest in children in sub-Saharan Africa, as the only chance for the future."

Tags:egbede, princeokunbar, aids

Abstract
This paper presents a rhetorical analysis of Sandra Hughes' CBS news item, "MySpace: Your Kids' Danger? Popular Social Networking Site Can Be Grounds For Sexual Predators." It aims to move beyond the implicit and relatively superficial review of the text to a fuller understanding of how the text creates meaning, how it helps the reader to construct knowledge and how it sways us to take action. The paper specifically looks at how the language of this article works.

From the Paper
"Visually, the story is arranged as a headline, a smaller-font secondary headline, and then twenty-two paragraphs, this for a story containing not quite 650 words. Immediately below the headlines, half of the reading column is taken up by a graphical image showing a computer in silhouette with transparencies of several young children, mostly girls, and several of them using cellphones. Below the graphic is a quote, suggesting the danger the article warns of. The effect of the graphic, the quote, and the headlines is to draw readers to the story that follows, a story that opens with three suggestive vignettes about children being approached in a sexually explicit manner on the Internet. Two of the three teenage girls described in the opening vignettes were murdered."

Tags:networking online, rhetorical triangle, computers

Abstract
The paper outlines Margaret Wente's thesis and then discusses her faulty Appeal to Authority (using an authority figure who is really not an authority figure) and her implicit Appeal to Antiquity (she seems to dismiss progressive education as a fad without examining what substantive benefits it might offer to students). The paper then concludes by noting that her article does illuminate the faulty Appeal to Popularity and Naturalistic Fallacy that both inform the position of those squarely in the progressive education camp when it comes to teaching children communication skills. The paper asserts that the article is flawed, but does have a few merits.

From the Paper
"The following paper will provide a rhetorical analysis of Margaret Wente's article, "Earth to Parent: Not All Kids Are Equal." The paper will outline her thesis and then discuss her faulty Appeal to Authority (using an authority figure who is really not an authority figure) and her implicit Appeal to Antiquity (she seems to dismiss progressive education as a fad without examining what substantive benefits it might offer to students). The paper will then conclude by noting that her article does illuminate the faulty Appeal to Popularity and Naturalistic Fallacy that both inform..."

Tags:margaret, wente, kids

Abstract
This paper explains that, by schooling low-ability pupils and high-ability pupils together, the low-ability pupils may wrongly come to understand their position in the hierarchy as a reflection of individual worth and most often do even worse academically than before. The author points out that many European schools do not employ tracking and yet their students as a rule perform better than American students. The paper stresses that, if a child runs into problems, only a careful analysis of his own personal case can ever hope to resolve the difficulties rather than imposing a core curriculum that is the same for every child.

From the Paper
"Nor will dividing an individual class into ability groups necessarily alter relative performance. This method, while having the advantage of keeping the students together at least on a social level, still divides them when it comes to learning. If the teaching method used with each group is identical, the division into groups will only benefit that group for whom the teaching method is most suited. A "head start" reading program in pre-school for example, will benefit high-ability students but will likely do nothing for low-ability students who need more attention or cannot keep up with the pace. At the same time, students who flunk out of such a program will then be behind their peers. In other words instead of being on the "fast track," they will be on the road to underachievement. Once a bad apple, always a bad apple."

Tags:character, low-ability, high-ability, mathematics, research