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Question 3

  Picture this. You want to raise children, or assist parents in raising children, who are . The demand that one not inflict poverty and violence upon their children is not a mere parental instinct, but a complex ethical and socio-political insistence. I parent a teenage daughter, and I don't want to live with her in poverty and violence. In an initial group exercise aimed to delve into the multifaceted global culture encapsulated in Prospera Tedam's (2013) article, I found myself particularly taken by the Kenyan proverb #7, "He who keeps the company of a bad person, themselves becomes bad" (p. 26). This seemingly straightforward saying raises some pretty complex conversations about the kinds of social environments we might be in and what kind of influence they might have on our moral development. At its core, it's about the phenomenon of social contagion and the idea that we're somewhat porous to influences in our negative and positive behavior. This definit...
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Question 2

  B)"Community engagement and cultural relevance are key features that drive the success of addresses. Programs are required to meet the needs of the communities they aim to target by realistically revealing their cultural backgrounds, traditional beliefs, and storytelling. The `Dancing in Jaffa` program is an illustration, besides being the one that survives the traffic jam of the Israeli and Palestinian children, in other words, introduces the two groups to each other through the view of dance. Teaching skills that the newcomers can grasp not only in this program but also for life outside of it speaks a lot about children art programs' proper orientation toward the notion of justice. Students ought to be equipped with technical hardware that aids them in becoming self-sufficient and having agency over their lives. The story told by Malence at the TED event is an illustrative one, through this, he shows that fashion design education can create jobs in these marginalized group...
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Question 1

  a) In Chicago and around the world, police violence is a serious human rights abuse. And for black people? It's even worse. The Chicago Police Department has a long, notorious history of violence against black people, and those tendencies remain very much alive today. Specifically, police violence in Chicago has a demonstrably disproportionate impact on marginalized communities, particularly the so-called 'neglected' neighborhoods on the South and East Sides, like Englewood and West Lawndale. For kids and families in these communities, the threat isn't just that you might get shot if you're stopped by the police; it's that you're much more likely to be shot by a cop if you happen to be in these neighborhoods, even if you're not doing anything illegal. b) An organization based in Chicago that is actively involved in reducing violence and fighting against systemic injustice is Black Lives Matters, accessible at www.black lives matters.org. Mission of B...
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