In fact, in the 1940s, population experts were predicting that the American population would stop growing. ... This article is about the United States, the aging population, is expected to have increasing impacts on the economy, politics, society, and culture. As Aimee Howd states: "they may be aging, but they're powerful and statistics show that America's baby boomers, who number 77 million, are an incredibly active, cohesive and effective lobby." ... The author also states that: "Fifteen years into the third millennium they will become the largest generation of retirees in Ame...

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The language is most commonly used by the deaf population in North America and is the major communication alternative for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. ... ASL is an exceptional form of communication and beneficial to an enormous part of the population. ... This amazing statistics have a good impact in the deaf community. ... According to an Occupational Employment Statistics, in May 2013 only in New York there were 3700 interpreters in sign languages. ... (Scientific American). ...

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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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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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Socially, African-American's faced countless examples of discrimination. ... The economic status of African-Americans was also highly discriminatory. ... This caused much of the black population to migrate to Northern cities where they still faced disadvantages due to their lack of education and work experience. ... Much of the black southern population couldn't vote, despite the ruling of the 15th Amendment in 1870. White vigilante groups, such as the Klu Klux Klan that was re-founded in 1915, imposed a huge deal of fear and intimidation into the black population in the South and ca...

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The educational system in America is unstructured. ... Instead of promoting change in the classroom, the NCLB increased population in prisons. ... Well, certain government officials saw that America's educational system was under par, so brash policies were made in order to improve national educational statistics. ... The educational system in America is flawed. ... Students in America are being robbed the right to learn. ...

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These media activities have created trends in the teenagers as well as the female population, in general, which can be qualified as a cult of modernity. From this, I can remark that the media has impacted negatively on sexism and beauty and is misleading the teenage population. ... There is an increase in a number of people going for surgical processes the relative percentages are as follows: breast argumentation 36%, tummy tuck 84% and 132% for Body lifts according to statistics by American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) (ASPS, 2005). ... Regardless of the archived dangers, the overall p...

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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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But, what happens when the law enforcer turns out to be the lawbreaker by targeting African Americans for traffic stops? ... Imprisoning would punish the crime, which aimed at maintaining a free labor pool with these African Americans. ... According to the Bureau of Justice Standards (2001), among licensed drivers 12% of the black population and 10% of the white population was pulled over, (keeping in mind there are only 35 million blacks in the U.S. compared to 210 million whites). ... According to the South Carolina Department of Corrections, the prison population in the past decade has s...

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According to Historian Betty Ickes, Tokelau traditionally included the Swains Islands or Olohega before becoming a territory of American Samoa in 1925 (Ickes 3). ... Currently, the population of Tokelauans living in New Zealand is estimated at nearly 7,000 (Statistics New Zealand 2006), and Hawaii at "Some nearly one thousand" (Glenn 16), compared to the population living on the homeland at a little over 1,400 (Statistics New Zealand 2011), it is safe to assume this is one of the reasons why the language and its culture is in danger of being lost. ... On Saturday September 21st, I l...

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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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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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Overview Since the mid-1990's the crime rate throughout America have been declining at a high rate and the field of criminology apparently had no idea for why it was happening. ... Statistics showed clearly the idea that crime rates would drop in the mid-90's was ridiculous and no one would have believed such a thing, especially due to the fact that in the 1980's crime rate was steadily increasing at a moderate rate. ... Vanessa Barker even provides details in the article that showed that America at the time was known as a dangerous place and crime rates multiplied substantially...

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The residents of Cumberland are almost evenly proportioned in gender with 47.7% of the population being male and 52.3% female. ... Only 4% of families with children are below poverty in the town of Cumberland and 22% of the population is under the age of eighteen. 5,135 of those children are enrolled in the widely respected public school system which consists of one high school, two middle schools, and five elementary schools. ... Similar to the town statistics, 96% of these students are white showing an obvious lack in diversity within the town. Of the remaining students, 3% are Hispanic ...

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Later, Britain reinstated the death penalty and brought it to its American colonies. ... They base most of their argument against deterrence on statistics. ... They cite such factors as the percentage of urban residents in the state, the level of economic prosperity, and the social and racial makeup of the population. But a small minority is ready to believe in these statistics and to abandon the deterrence argument. ... In Texas in 1991, blacks made up 12 percent of the population, but 48 percent of the prison population and 55.5 percent of those on death row are black. ...

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Many feel it is unjust, for three main reasons: it often punishes innocent people, convicts are often subjected to prejudice, and statistics show that the abolishment of the death penalty lowers the crime rate. ... In America's history, in the over 18,000 convictions of capital punishment, only thirty-seven were of a white person being punished for the murder of an African-American. Also, despite the fact that African-Americans constitute only 12% of the national population ("Five"), they comprise 43.1 percent of the prisoners on death row ("Death"). In fact, a comprehensive study in Ge...

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Yes, the government provides basic health in the form of Medicaid and Medicare; but only for people who are below the poverty level and elderly population aged 65 and older. ... A few topics to validate discussion on this topic exist; (1) the increasing cost of health care and (2) aging of the American population. ... The American Journal of Public Health states, "There is widespread agreement that the solution to lack of access to quality health care by a large fraction of the US population is the development of a system of comprehensive health care coverage for all Americans. ... Many u...

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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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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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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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No matter what the reason adults are choosing to enter or re-enter college, the numbers speak loudly and clearly as to the motivation of this population. ... The number of graduate students older than 50 grew by 38 percent between 2001 and 2005, to about 173,000 from 125,000, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. ... John Zogby, who is cited throughout the Blumenstyk article is the author of a new book called The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream. ... The best way to handle this population and their growing and changing needs...

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Today the Coptic Christian population of Egypt constitutes a substantial minority of about 7 million, although official government statistics reduce this figure. ... Its total membership as the 1990s began was about 995.8 million (about 18.8 per cent of the world population). The church has its greatest numerical strength in Europe and Latin America but also has a large membership in other parts of the world. ...

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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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