Sentences with phrase «various social ills»

In general, though, community counseling as a discipline tends to view the various social ills that plague a particular population as connected in some vital way.

comparative studies on people with religiosity and various social ills has shown higher rates of belief in a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion.

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Poverty has various manifestations, including lack of income and productive resources sufficient to ensure sustainable livelihoods; hunger and malnutrition; ill - health; limited or lack of access to education and other basic services; increased morbidity and mortality from illness; homelessness and inadequate housing; unsafe environments; and social discrimination and exclusion.

In Meteor Man, Townsend plays the D.C. schoolteacher Jefferson Reed, a Good Samaritan who survives getting run down by hoodlums and struck by a meteor, simultaneously, the latter calamity imbuing Reed with various superhuman powers to fight one of Hollywood's favorite social ills in the 1990s — gang violence.

These critical areas of multicultural education present twenty - first century school leaders with the daunting responsibility of deconstructing the traditional approaches to education that have ill served students of various races, religions, social classes and ethnic groups.