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Small-Scale Fisheries and the Global Fisheries Crisis: A Capabilities Approach
Considering the threat of environmental degradation to fisher livelihoods and wellbeing, this paper focuses on the following questions: 1) How should the wellbeing of small-scale fisherfolk, as derived from their livelihoods ... -
SNAP Into Collaboration: An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Food Security Programs
This paper will first address the gaps left by the federal program SNAP. It will then discuss the private sector programs and finally it will suggest ways that the private sector can improve its methods to greater complement ... -
So Splendid It Hurts
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Social Capital and Poverty: A Community-Based Approach
In the course of this paper I will expand on the moral obligation of enhancing social capital as a means of addressing poverty, examine the resources of social networks that can build social capital and help reduce poverty, ... -
Social Entrepreneurship: Social Businesses in the Fight to Alleviate Poverty
This brings us to the main question: how can social businesses best help in alleviating poverty? I will argue that the hybrid business model, one that combines aspects of both for-profit and nonprofit in their organizational ... -
A Social Gospel of Antiquity: Examining Walter Rauschenbusch's Description of Early Christianity Through the Life and Works of Saint Basil of Caesarea
Walter Rauschenbusch, the father of the social gospel, criticized early Christianity's rejection of property, the “ascetic tendency,” as antithetical to social reconstruction. Two contributing factors to this antithesis ... -
Social Identity and the Take-Up of Healthcare: Exploring the Intersection of Caste, Gender, and Public Policy in Nepal (thesis)
To reach equality in health outcomes, Nepal -- in concert with most developing countries -- has focused on the decentralization of healthcare. Although accessibility to health services is now relatively uniform, health ... -
Social Service Vouchers: Eliminating Poverty by Including Sectarians in a Constitutional Manner
In the first section of the paper I will begin by describing the state of welfare at the end of the old system, then I will discuss the changes that were made to the system, and then I will discuss the system as it is set ... -
The Social, Medical, and Economic Consequences of Childhood Exposure to Community Violence
Community violence refers to violent crime that occurs outside of a person's home in their neighborhood. It has major consequences for children growing up in high crime areas that extend far beyond what happens to a ... -
Socialism in Early 20th Century American Literature (thesis)
. . . But I needed to know more in order to understand why someone who called himself a communist or a socialist would turn on friends and neighbors who called themselves something else. So I set out to discover what ... -
Societal Grace in Criminal Justice: A Theological Perspective on Probation and Parole Policies
Reintegration into society has long been a problem for ex-felons. The United States has one of the highest recidivism rates, with over three-quarters of ex-felons returning to prison within five years of their original ... -
Societal Obligations for Mental Healthcare Provision in Correctional Facilities: An Ethical Approach
The prison system has increasingly come under scrutiny due to poor conditions, racial inequalities, privatization, and overcrowding. Moreover, increasing numbers of incarcerated individuals are being released in response ... -
Socioeconomic and Geographical Inequalities in Mental Health Combining Social and Health Sector Perspectives
Through personal observations and discussion with both practitioners and administrators, I developed an informed perspective on many of the issues that exist at the intersection of poverty and mental health. At the conclusion ... -
A Sociolinguistic Analysis of 'Immunity': Lessons from Reality Television (thesis)
Through sociolinguistics, the paper explored how immunity changes throughout the course of a Survivor season. It surveyed the way that contestants treat public forms of immunity -- tribal immunity idol and the individual ... -
Soft Skill Development in Children Born with Low Birthweight: How and Why Should Society Help?
This paper brings together the existing literatures on low birthweight and soft skill development in order to demonstrate that interventions focused on soft skill development hold promise in improving the life outcomes of ... -
Some Aspects of Slavery in Rockbridge County, Virginia
Rockbridge County, like most of the South, employed its slaves to help grow its crops, to perform the hard labor necessary for its industrial production, and to act as its domestic servants. Rockbridge County's planters ...