Sentences with phrase «address social ills»

The year after his death, the PGA christened The Stanley Kramer Award, presented annually to a member whose films address social ills.

Not exact matches

The social ills Brooks suggests we address are worsened by the aggressions of our opponents; they can not be combatted if we lay down our arms.

Until the left owns up to its mistakes, Genovese argued, it will lack credibility in addressing current social ills.

My supposition is that the individualization of sin is the trivialization of sin, and given the systematic connection between our understanding of sin and our understanding of God as the one who addresses us in our human plight, the trivialization of sin has an inexorable affect upon two areas: the doctrine of God, and the sense of individual and corporate responsibility for social ills.

It shifts the blame and scapegoats dedicated, highly skilled teachers instead of addressing poverty and social ills that are the true causes of chronic under - achievement.

Referencing the report, «Homelessness in Oneida County, NY: Understanding and Addressing a Hidden Social Problem,» written by Social Sciences Associates in support of the Mohawk Valley Housing and Homeless Assistance Coalition and funded by The Oneida County Department of Mental Health, Picente said that data makes it clear there is a problem with chronic homelessness, and that the problem of homelessness is intertwined with other social ills, including substance abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number of family breakups caused by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military service.&Social Problem,» written by Social Sciences Associates in support of the Mohawk Valley Housing and Homeless Assistance Coalition and funded by The Oneida County Department of Mental Health, Picente said that data makes it clear there is a problem with chronic homelessness, and that the problem of homelessness is intertwined with other social ills, including substance abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number of family breakups caused by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military service.&Social Sciences Associates in support of the Mohawk Valley Housing and Homeless Assistance Coalition and funded by The Oneida County Department of Mental Health, Picente said that data makes it clear there is a problem with chronic homelessness, and that the problem of homelessness is intertwined with other social ills, including substance abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number of family breakups caused by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military service.&social ills, including substance abuse and chemical dependency, status as an ex-offender, and the increasing number of family breakups caused by economic stress, domestic violence and even transitioning back to the community from military service.»

«Addressing loneliness and social isolation could have an important role in the prevention of two of the leading causes of ill health and mortality worldwide,» said lead researcher Nicole Valtorta, a research fellow in the department of health sciences at the University of York.

«If you happen to match with someone with ill intent,» he said, «they are able to gain access to your social media pages, which are likely to include addresses, pictures, and more personal information.»

Of course, objective social and economic shocks and the intervention of socialist politics and political analysis play the decisive role, but an especially vivid sense of a society's ills, its psychic ills among them, and the human urgency of addressing them come from visual images and drama.

Saying that we can not expect significant progress in schools until we first address a host of social ills outside of school is a recipe for inaction.

And the second half makes the case that until a wide variety of social ills are addressed, it is unreasonable to expect much improvement from the traditional public - school system.

The coalition for A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education claimed that the greatest gains could be achieved by addressing health, housing, and other social ills (see «Straddling the Democratic Divide,» features, Spring 2009).

They may have a strong commitment to social justice, a deep desire to address complex societal ills, and a hope to make their community and their world a better place.

At least three - quarters of mathematics, science, and social studies teachers report that they are expected to address ELA standards in their instruction, although most are unfamiliar with the standards and feel ill - prepared to help students achieve them.

On one side, there are people like New York University professor / former Deputy U.S. Education Secretary Diane Ravitch who argue that larger social ills such as poverty, joblessness, economic despair and lack of health coverage negatively affect educational achievement, and that until those problems are addressed, schools will never be able to produce the results we want.

Socially aware and socially conscious novels, films, music, mural painting, social realist painting, addressed the ills of American society.

So, I think the discussion about how public policy on things like climate change should be crafted to also address broader or additional social ills

So, I think the discussion about how public policy on things like climate change should be crafted to also address broader or additional social ills, like income / wealth inequality, or institutionalized oppression of almost any sort....

Secondly, knowledge failures (research and information challenges), such as failure to address social and environmental drivers of ill health, a historical scarcity of transdisciplinary research and funding, together with an unwillingness or inability to deal with uncertainty within decision making frameworks.

Meanwhile, modern science is beset with structural and social problems that modern science is ill - equipped to address.

Critique of prisoner isolation is driven by the more problematic aspects of the practice that defy justification: the isolation of the mentally ill; isolation for petty reasons; indefinite isolation; isolation in lieu of appropriate safety measures; isolation to address overcrowding; isolation for excessive periods of time; lack of procedural safeguards for decision making and reviews; isolation in punitive conditions of confinement; failure to deliver meaningful mental and physical health care; and a lack of programs and social contact to ameliorate the effects of isolation.

The appellants assert the courts are institutionally superior to Parliament to address the moral and social dilemmas inherent in the AS / E issue.l [31] CCD / CACL respond that the considered judgment of Parliament to maintain legislation which underpins a social paradigm based on respect for the lives of all Canadians, however disabled, is entitled to great deference.l [32] These interveners further respond that courts are ill equipped to overule Parliament's position on moral or ethical issues, unless that position inherently violates the Charter.

And wrapped around and under everything we do, we must seek to address the causes of ill - health and health inequality — the social determinants of health, and in particular issues relating to income, welfare and poverty.