Tuesday, April 9, 2013

A Profile of Black and Hispanic Subgroup's Access to Dental Care Findings


In Ronald Forthofer’s article, "A Profile of Black and Hispanic subgroups Access to Dental care Findings" (1992), he reports that African Americans and Hispanics are least likely out of any other race to obtain dental insurence. Forthofer supports this with a National Health interview. Forthofer’s purpose for this article is to provide direct statistics to this dental care problem. His language is very professional and informative in the article.

Dental care visits among low-income African Americans


In his article "Determinants of dental care visits among low-income African-American children” (2007), Sohn Woosung asserts African American children are far less likely to have been taken to dental visits on a regular bases compared to white children. Woosung supports his claims about African American dental care by providing a study done in Detroit where a lot of the low income Blacks lived, and assessed them using the International Caries Diagnosis Assessment System. His purpose is to inform individuals in society that African American children are not receiving adequate dental care . His tone seems to be very professional and informative.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Bib: Legislation

Tori Bishop
Dawn DiPrince
ENG 102
12 March 2013
Annotated Bibliography
Shinn, Marybeth. “International Homelessness: Policy, Socio-Cultural, and Individual Perspectives” Journal of Social Issues. 2007;63(3):657-677.
In her article "International Homelessness: Policy, Socio-Cultural, and Individual Perspectives" (2007), Marybeth Shinn asserts that one of the contributors to homelessness is social interactions among a personal conversations to other individuals. Shinn supports claim by announcing how our society is centered on social policies that reduce inequality among the people. Her purpose in is to show how homeless people have no room for social mobility because our lack of involvement, and association with them. I’m looking to use this source to show how our discrimination within society is crippling our lower class citizen’s room for advancement.
Gerry,  Sarah. “ Jones v. City of Los Angeles: A Moral Response to One City’s Attempt to Criminalize, Rather than ConfrontHarvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. 2007; 42(1):239-251.

In her article "Jones v. City of Los Angeles: A Moral Response to One City’s Attempt to Criminalize, Rather than Confront, Its Homelessness Crisis" (2007), Sarah Gerry asserts that discrimination within our criminal system is a becoming a big problem. Gerry supports her claim by introducing her readers to a court trial that was in session to try to prohibit any individual from being stationed on the street. Her purpose in writing this article is to show peoples objective to the removal of homeless people is becoming the center of discrimination. My purpose in using this article is to show how discrimination is a problem in America, and how this problem has trickled to our criminal system. This article will help me argue why we need to go as far as passing a legislation to protect the rights of homeless people.

Wen, Chuck K. “Homeless People’s Perceptions of Welcomeness and Unwelcomeness in Healthcare Encounters.” JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2007;22(7):1011-1017.
In his article "Homeless People’s Perceptions of Welcomeness and Unwelcomeness in Healthcare Encounters" (2007), Chuck Wen asserts that discrimination within the health care facilities is prominent and subject as to why homeless individuals are hesitant to seeking medical care. Wen supports his claims by introducing a study he did about the “I-it’s” and the “I-you’s” and how they  choice of wording physicians use is very important to making a homeless or non-homeless person feel welcome in their facility. His purpose in writing this article is to how physicians in healthcare facilities use discrimination in their practices with simply their word choice. I’m going to use this article to show how discrimination is everywhere for a person who is homeless, even in the healthcare facilities. Healthcare is essential for everyone and for someone to feel hesitant about seeking care is a problem within our society.

Lynch, Philip. “Homelessness, Poverty and Discrimination: Improving Public Health by Realising Human Rights.” Deakin Law Review. 2005;10(1):233-259.
In his article "Homelessness, Poverty and Discrimination: Improving Public Health by Realising Human Rights", Philip Lynch asserts that there are communications between homelessness, poverty, and discrimination and poor health. Lynch supports his claims about these connections by providing how the homelessness has became a socio-economic problem in their troubles to improve their health. His purpose in writing this article is to inform the American culture the discrimination within the poor community is subject to their lack of advancement. I plan to use this article to show how discrimination is subject as to why poor people are deprived of social mobility.

United States. Cong. Senate. Concerning Crimes against Homeless Person. 68th General Assembly., 1st sess. State of Colorado, 2012.
 This is the source where I acessed my bill, the bill is one that tries to persuade voters to qualify homeless violence a hate crime according to Colorado State Law. I’m using this source to inform my readers of the content in which this legislations pertains

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Article 5: Homelessness

In her article "International Homelessness: Policy, Socio-Cultural, and Individual Perspectives" (2007), Marybeth Shinn asserts that one of the contributors to homelessness is social interactions among a personal conversations to other individuals. Shinn supports claim by announcing how our society is centered on social policies that reduce inequality amoung the people. Her purpose in is to show how homeless people have no room for social mobility because our lack of involvement, and association with them. Her tone is very argumentative as she tries to advocate for homeless people.
 Citation
Shinn, Marybeth. “International Homelessness: Policy, Socio-Cultural, and Individual PerspectivesJournal of Social Issues. 2007;63(3):657-677.

article 4:Homelessness


In her article "Jones v. City of Los Angeles: A Moral Response to One City’s Attempt to Criminalize, Rather than Confront, Its Homelessness Crisis" (2007, Sarah Gerry asserts that discrimination within our criminal system is a becoming a big problem. Gerry supports her claim by introducing her readers about a court trial that was in session to try to prohibit any individual from being stationed on the street. Her purpose in writing this article how peoples objective to removing homeless people is becoming the center of discrimination on their behalf. Her tone is very argumentative as she tries to advocate for homeless people. 

article 3: Homelessness


In his article "Homeless People’s Perceptions of Welcomeness and Unwelcomeness in Healthcare Encounters" (2007), Chuck Wen asserts that discrimination within the health care facilities is prominent and subject as to why homeless individuals are hesitant to seeking medical care. Wen supports his claims by introducing a study he did about the “I-it’s” and the “I-you’s” and how they the choice of wording physicians use is very important to making a homeless or non-homeless person feel welcome in their facility. His purpose in writing this article is to how physicians in healthcare facilities use discrimination in their practices with simply their world choice. He seems to have a tone that shows his activism on behave of homelessness discrimination.

article 2: Homelessness


In his article "The Cruel and Unusual Criminalization of Homelessness: Factoring Individual Accountability into the Proportionality Principle" (2006), Elizabeth O’Connor asserts here in the US we have specific laws that are geared to monitor the acts for the homelessness. O’Connor supports her claims by involving the Eight Amendment prohibition on criminalizing statuses. Her purpose in writing this article is to how these specific laws are discriminatory in the matter of focusing on one specific group, which is all together morally wrong and discrimination. She seems to have a professional tone to provide her seriousness about the topic.