Latinos constitute 19% of the prison and jail population compared to their overall 15% share of the population. ... While African American youth represents 17% of their age group within the general population, they represent 46% of juvenile arrests (The Sentencing Project 2008). The US Bureau of Justice Statistics concludes that the chance of a black male born in 2001 of going to jail is 32% or 1 in 3. ... Whites comprise the majority of the American population, blacks about 12.7%, and Latinos represent about 11.7%. ... (How is the criminal justice system racist, 2005) The disparities found in...

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More than half the population of America supports the legalization of marijuana. ... Benefits of legalizing marijuana in America far outweigh the negatives. ... Available statistics indicate that almost 19 million Americans smoke pot and about 60% of American adult population has smoked pot in their lifetime. ... The American government has always had strained diplomatic relationships with Latin American nations because of its stringent drug policy. ... Even as half the American population especially the youth wait in anticipation to 'light it up' without being bothered by the polic...

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Native Americans, as a race, have suffered from the very beginning of contact with the English colonists. They once constituted 100 percent of the population in North America, whereas today they represent 2 percent of the population. ... Disease accounted for most of the deaths of the Native Americans. ... The Pequot name was later removed from all of New England's maps so that there was no recollection of their existence Statistics largely support the case of genocide against the Natives. ... To conclude, I firmly believe, based on statistical proof and actions by the colonists, t...

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Demographics and Causes of Underage Drinking Statistics shows the differences between different race and ages of underage adolescent drinkers. ... This evidence shows that there is a need for continued research among the different populations of care. According to Hopkins, the exposure to African American youth to alcohol advertising is said to be more than any other population of race. In 2004 statistics had shown that 34% of African American youth saw more alcohol advertising in magazines compared to other youth in general. ... Compared to African Americans ad Asian American adolescents, Eur...

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This information and other independent studies by the author and the University of California - Berkeley, have provided the numerical statistics in this report. ... There are over 60 million Americans who are considered obese, which is to say that 60 million Americans have a Body Mass Index equal to or greater than 30 BMI. ... Right now over 20% of our population can be considered obese by these BMI standards. ... Certain people do have legitimate medical reasons for being obese such as pituitary disorders and hereditary diabetes, but that represents a very small percent of our population....

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Today it could take decades to build bridges, roads, dams or other such needed fundamental foundations, including the planning and development stages, costing upwards of ¼ of a billion dollars (statistics of Sunshine Skyway Bridge, St. ... During the Great Depression at least three quarters of the population throughout the United States lived in the cities. ... Younger Americans were often apolitical. ... This extended to previously underprivileged parts of the population as well. ... The year 1960 marked the first time in United States history that a majority of students actually gradua...

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This allowed doctors to generalize diseases and diagnostics among a population rather than treating someone on an individual basis and background. ... An increased use of statistics was used to understand patterns of diseases. ... With an American medical school to be modelld after, Abraham Flexner and the American Medical College Association came into play in regards to medical schools. In an effort for the American Medical Association to assert power over medical education, it formed the A.M.C.A. ... " The incorporation of medical science into the American medical practice finally certi...

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Though still making up a large percentage of the population at approximately twenty-five percent, the combined Protestants denominations account for more than double their Catholic counterparts. ... Greeley, author of An Ugly Little Secret this difference in populations and attitudes has caused waves of anti-Catholic sentiment since the country's inception and up through the present day, and this prejudice is the topic of his book. ... The basis of his book is that though a large percentage of the United States population is Catholic, and most noticeably Polish, Irish, and Italian the...

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Compared to Whites, minorities such as Asian's, African Americans and Latinos are given lower statuses in commercials and ads, portraying negative and false stereotypes of the these populations. Asian's are given a stereotype of smart and nerdy, which sometimes could be a good thing, but the way some commercials portray these stereotypes have a negative affect on the population's self-identity. ... Statistics show that African American's never appeared in advertisements unless shown as underneath whites. ... As the Latino population is rapidly growing in America, advertise...

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To start, ethnicity is a population of human beings whose members identify with each other, on the basis of a common ancestry. ... In contrast to the makeup of older nations, its population has been, and continues to be, drawn from all over the world. ... Generalized statistics are often cited to back up model minority status such as high educational achievement and a high representation in any professions. ... Examples of the model minority stereotypes are generalized data such as from the US Census Bureau, where the median household income of Asian Americans is $68,780, higher than the total...

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The United States of America is a country known for being prosperous, but it too suffers from this epidemic. ... The Campaign to End Child Homelessness states that over 1.6 million American children go to sleep without a home of their own each year. ... In "Record number of homeless children enrolled in public schools" by Valerie Strauss, it states that "homeless children statistics each year are 10 percent higher than the year before and 72 percent higher than before the recession". ... Children are not the only population affected by this crisis, veterans are also a popul...

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In the United States, nearly 20% of hate crimes are an aggravated response to the sexual orientation of the victim (2010 Hate Crimes Statistics). National hate crime statistics show that members of the LGBT community are "far more likely than any other group in the United States to be the victimized by a violent hate crime.... We wonder why people still harbor fear of homosexuals and the answer is clear, most of the population knows little to nothing about homosexuality. ... In history classes we learn about African American activists, women's rights activists, etc. however there is ...

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Racial profiling is the police practice of stopping and searching African-American and Hispanic drivers at rates far disproportionate to their numbers on the road. ... Statistics confirm that African Americans-particularly young black men-commit a dramatically disproportionate share of street crime in the United State. ... In recent years, victims report blacks as perpetrators of around 25 percent of violent crimes, although blacks constitute only about only about 12 percent of the nation's population. Statistics such as these make it seem as if racial profiling is not the result of bigot...

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Legislation was introduced to cut down immigration and to promote equal opportunities for ethnic minority communities. 3.3 million Britons are now from an ethnic minority which accounts for 5.5% of the population, but there are numerous differences between the groups in their standards of living, access to opportunities such as jobs, education or housing, as well as in their belief systems, likes and dislikes. ... The first Afro Caribbeans arrived in 1948 to work in public transport, manufacturing and the National Health Service.According to the Office for National Statistics figures for 1...

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Throughout California and all of our American history, federal and state governments have separated Americans into various racial and ethnic groups. ... Other groups in opposition include the Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum, the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, the Public Health Institute, and the National Health Law. ... Vital statistics, collected from birth and death certificates, would be jeopardized. In order to calculate infant mortality rates among African American babies, dat...

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Social Change The next big social change for the United States is equal rights for the gay and lesbian active duty, guard, reserve and veteran population within the United States armed forces. ... In order to grasp the sheer enormity of the social impact on the issue of equality of rights for the gay and lesbian service member's one must take a look at a variety of statistics. In 2005, the Government Accountability Office estimates of cost to the American people by way of budgeting on a National level, to be $95.4 million in recruiting and $95.1 million for training replacements for the 1...

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In January of 2003, The American Journal of Sociology published an article written by Eric P. ... As for the data they used, they combined information form NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics), the U.S. ... The data used form the Census was to measure two aspects of their theory, the minority population size and the economic inequality. ... While the 2 independent variables were the homicide rate, the degree of conservatism in the politics, and the general size of the minority population, and the level of economic inequality. ... The most important findings, reveal that the h...

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Canada has a population of over 35 million, which at least 14 million live in Ontario alone with Toronto being the largest provincial city. ... The increase in the population is due to the immigration rate, which is one of the highest in industrialized countries. Laurent Martel, of the demography division of Statistics Canada has stated in the Toronto Star News article that she believes the population of Canada "will break the 40 million mark by 2026, and 50 million by 2054". ... The same way immigrates over the years have help build the US economy; an increase of population can adva...

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A recent online survey tried to find out how the population thinks about this issue by asking over six thousands adults from Britain, America, France and Germany. ... In all this three parts, only around 50% of the questioned Americans want the state to intervene in these social issues. ...

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Corrigan's statement by adding that Miami now gives us a glimpse of America Tomorrow (Grenier and Stepick, 15). ... Thanks largely to these senior citizens, and the businesses that sprang up to serve them, the population of the county has doubled since 1980 (Toobin, 80). ... Today that southern region of the state is better known as the melting pot in which descendents of the Latin American countries live. It is clear that South Florida has become the destination point for Latin-American immigrants from the Caribbean, South America and Central America among the Haitians that s...

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In the post-war years, the U.S and its population reached a higher and thriving economic status and did not want to lose these capitalistic privileges to communism; President Eisenhower promoted huge projects which would aid the growing economic status of the country and in turn would also alleviate the fears of the people. ... President Eisenhower recognizes the great living standards that Americans now possessed and lists them in a press conference in 1954. ... The American people were afraid of the spread of communism and its lack of the freedoms which the bill of rights gives. ... They he...

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Nelli used many facts and statistics to prove Chicago was not the only city in America that was affected by Italian organized crime. ... Through extensive research Nelli discovered during the early 1900's cities such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Kansas City, Los Angles, Washington D.C., New Orleans, and Denver all experienced a rise in the Italian population and consequently a growing crime rate. ... Italian crime syndicates refused to adapt to the American culture, instead they made American culture adapt to them. ... This acceptance was degrading to the America...

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The societies where the number of pensioners higher than working-age population will incapacitate in development of economy and other essential aspects of life (Borjas). ... Consequently, with the help of immigrants, countries of Western Europe and North America are able to compensate for a trend of low fertility and an aging population. ... However, this idea is wrong because the statistics of USA and Russia, where the rates of immigrants are higher than in other countries, show that immigrants make only quarter of criminal and economic offences. ... According to United Nations, in 2013...

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These idealized models and celebrities are not considered average among the American population, because the average person cannot relate to the models and celebrities due to their appearance from surgeries and extreme diets. ... As the models' waist size goes down, the average American waist size goes up. ... If the viewer examines the commercial closer they will notice that the crowd following David Beckham represents the average American population, overweight and obese. ... High statistics of obesity contributes to why Americans feel insecure about their self-image; advertisements con...

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While the housing market for high scale apartments and luxury homes continues to grow, millions of Americans are living in housing they cannot afford. According to a study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, 75% of the low-income population is spending over half of their income on rent or utilities (5). ... Statistics show that the national ratio of affordable units to low-income families in the United States is a slightly more than 3:10 ratio (8). ... If we think back to the 1700's - 1800's, In US history American workers were moving to the West at an astounding rate. ...

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