However, more fundamentally, I thought of the loss of opportunity, a duality in lifestyles resulting in heightened infant mortality rates; a battle for sovereignty within their lives and misunderstood cultural differences. ... Let me imagine, a dark skinned boy in school, taking a politics class at a public school. ... Being that the infant mortality rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is 6.2 in every 1000 live births compared to 3.7 per 1000 live births for non-indigenous people. Though the most appalling of statistics is the potentially preventable death rate for indigenous childr...

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As I began to talk about this with both peers and other people it became clear to me that it is a divided topic. One of my older relatives said to me that we should absolutely not educate criminals because all we are doing is creating "smarter ones " when the get out. ... One of my peers who I discussed this with stated his feelings about this topic with me: He said that he thought that criminals were in jail in order to be punished for their crimes and not to be given the great opportunity to be able to receive an education that a lot of his own friends can't even seem to access. ... Th...

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Considering some of my own personal struggles and experiences, my research, introduced here, will serve to assist me further in reaching out to those students with similar backgrounds. ... I found that the major issues which have prompted this research are retention and graduation rates. Among students who enrolled in four-year colleges, for example, the first-generation students had a graduation rate of 44.9%, while the rate for non-first-generation students was 59%. ... Among students whose high schools offered highly rigorous course work, first-gens had a college-graduation rate of 58.6%, w...

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This leads me to ask, because of our gender roles within society, does that impact on the way women are treated in the criminal justice system, are women true born criminals and what really motivates women to commit crimes? ... In the United States, since the 1960s females have a much lower serious crime rate, at 15% in connection to homicide and violence against others, and less than 10% of severe crimes against property such as robbery. ... However Adler states, that as the world progresses and becomes more modernised, women are developing a more masculine competitiveness which will show th...

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And call me old fashioned, but I do believe in the saying "Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food" (Pollan). ... Otherwise, how did diseases manage to be under control and in much smaller rate before the fast food influence? According to the article "The growing burden of Obesity in Thailand", Thailand had an obesity rate of 0% from 2000 to 2005, at 2006, the rate of obese people rocketed up to 8.3% (WHO, 5). ... Vietnam too, like Thailand has an increase of obesity rate to 2.5% in 2001. ... "The prevalence rates of obesity were fo...

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Kazin stated he once heard his mother say, "How sad it is," "It grips me! It grips me!" ... She always came home upset and depressed and because being exposed at such an early stage allowed me to become vulnerable to depression. Watching my mother suffer during my childhood could lead me to symptoms of depression. ... For example, as written in Lennon's research, "Rates of depression among women are 1.5 to 3 times that of men".However, even with women having a higher rate of vulnerability, it does not exclude the fact that either I or Kazin may still be susceptible of receiving such a d...

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They want the gender turnover rate to continue to be negligible and hope that enhanced flexible work arrangements and increased day-to-day flexibility will aid the men and women of the company to better control their schedules and daily lives. ... If given the opportunity to discuss the company with an employee of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, I would have a number of questions that I would like discussed and/or answered for me. By having the following questions discussed in depth, a greater knowledge of the business and its culture will be able to help me decide if a future career with this com...

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Subjects rated all items on a 6-point scale ranging from 1=does not describe me at all to 6= describes me very well. ... Personal Goals: Students we asked next to rate the importance of achieving certain goals during the upcoming school year. ... Possible responses ranged from 1= not at all important to me to 5= very important to me. ...

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Whenever I would question my teachers on the purpose of these exams, they were never able to give me a justifiable response as to why it would be relevant to my education. ... I personally did not excel on all of the standardized exams given to me that were meant to judge my future educational outcome such as SAT. The "educating" aspect of my education in my academic years in high school proved to be more beneficial to me than the schooling that I had received. ... This belief has successfully rocketed the Finnish education system to rate among the highest amongst developed countri...

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Juvenile crime rates are at worrisome high in the world today. ... While these arguments have merit, I have found sufficient evidence to lead me to the following conclusion, that the capital punishment laws should be changed to exclude minors, in all states. ... In his essay and graphs, Johansen points out that the homicide rate drops steadily during the years when executions are on the rise and rates rise sharply when executions are brought to a halt or held to very low number. ... The average murder rates among death penalty states were 8.0, and the average among non-death penalty states...

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In this article she claims that the economic gap between the wealthy and the poor is increasing at an unprecedented rate. ... Her first claim that the economic gap between the rich and the poor is increasing is supported by her research over the tax breaks and lower tax rates that make the top one percent even wealthier while the bottom 90 percent struggle to make the monthly payments. ... The top earning Americans saw their tax rates decrease from 30 percent in 1995 to 17 percent in 2007. ... One thing that I read in this article that got me thinking about how the author really feels abou...

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It did not take me long to realize that this is the career path that best suits my needs and desires. ... Administrators are no stranger to the business aspect of the organization as they are often responsible for planning budgets and setting rates for health related services. ... Clearly, this organization is known for being the best of the best and their success rates prove this to be true. ... It is very important to me to have a supervisor who will be there for me to answer questions or offer any advice that would enable me to perform my job to the best of my ability. ... I feel this exper...

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She is a bitch and I hate her for making me do this. ... She obviously hates me, hates that I'm her son and that I smoked pot and that-I can't help what happened. ... But now she hates me. ... How is that supposed to change me? ... These stupid f-ing people with their backpacks and water bottles and granola, they won't change me. ...

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Their silence and the high attrition rate in sexual assault cases may be attributable to several factors, including; police response, the ordeal of the trial, cross examination, and judicial attitude towards the complainants. ... A study by Gregory and Lees (1996) of attrition rates in two different London police boroughs found a high attrition rate appeared to be attributable to the police practice of "no-criming", where a proportion of recorded cases were categorised as no crimes committed, thus they were not recorded as offences (p2). ... A phone-in survey conducted by the Real Rape Law Co...

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Until that time, Canada had one of the lowest divorce rates in the Western World, this is because opinions by social and religious leaders condemned divorce as a threat to the family. ... The cycle continued while the divorce rate soared. ... The lessening of religious and social sanctions against divorce and also the movement towards a more ""me""-oriented ethnic which stresses self-actualization over maintenance of the family unit. All of these factors suggest that an increased divorce rate may be an indication that expectations about the quality of marriage have risen and that many people p...

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In this part of my essay you will have to bear with me because this is where our ever so lovely U.S. Government pisses me off. ... So as to why the government pisses me off? ... Please someone give me an explanation for this other than the person that did it was raised with no morals or respect for others let alone themselves. The death rate for homeless people is about four times greater than that of the general population and even higher in young homeless men. ...

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The crime rate of juvenile delinquents is increasing, resulting in a higher capacity of offenders with these mental illnesses. ... The adolescent population represents the age gap between 10 and 19 years which has decreasing crime rates over the last century. ... Furthermore, mental health disorders in the juvenile delinquent population has an extraordinary high rate exceeding 50%. ... If it were up to me the research would be done in three simple steps: survey, monitor and activity and before and after. ... Many of the promising programs will eventually grow into an effective program once the...

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For Latinos, the dropout rate was far worse: 22 percent" (Rivera and Berkeley 1). ... The relationship between children and income increase at an inverse rate; the more children the less income conserved. Hispanics have the highest birth rate compared to other minorities, which hinders them from pursuing education goals. ... The relationship between education and income increase at a constant rate. ... Despite his parents disapproval, Lara said, "The teachers didn't try to motivate me, the attitude was, if you want to learn or if you want to mess around, that's on you. ...

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The crime rate of juvenile delinquents is increasing, resulting in a higher capacity of offenders with these mental illnesses. ... The adolescent population represents the age gap between 10 and 19 years which has decreasing crime rates over the last century. ... Furthermore, mental health disorders in the juvenile delinquent population has an extraordinary high rate exceeding 50%. ... If it were up to me the research would be done in three simple steps: survey, monitor and activity and before and after. ... Many of the promising programs will eventually grow into an effective program once the...

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Urrea gives many examples of this concept in his book, but I think the example that he gave that genuinely made me stomach flip was when Jesusita and her husband were executed by a local militia living in the slum. ... That vivid description had me raging with frustration in my room while I was reading. ... After a while, slums will just form due to such a large unemployment rate and people needing a place to go. ... Urrea explains why these migrants are moving at such an alarming rate when he states, "Imagine how bad things must get to make you leave behind your family, your friends, you...

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The Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) was a humiliating defeat in which Russia's position as a powerhouse was jeopardized by the much smaller and second-rate power of Japan. ... Losing against a second-rate power (with an army of 2,000,000 Russians versus the meager 400,000 Japanese soldiers) led to a loss of prestige which discredited the government and led to an overwhelming lack of faith in the Tsar's rule. ... It was clear that by 1905 discontent in the countryside was rife, and the fact that it was on the precipice of revolution anyway leads me to believe that this had the potentia...

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However, after reading its input on me, it has opened my eyes to some possible changes that could benefit me in the future. ... It is because of that I feel that this exercise was indeed helpful to me. ... It said that I wish to try and change my partner and mold her into the ideal person for me. ... However, despite this enormous fault in my personality, RELATE rates my overall relationship satisfaction as "Very Satisfied". ... Also I believe that the people at RELATE should have included a section on jealousy to help me and others like me. ...

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Now more than ever people are venturing out and starting their own businesses and are succeeding at a tremendous rate. ... Despite the growth of personal business in the United States one discouraging factor is that of the increasing divorce rate in America. ... Even though America is mostly a Christian country we still manage to have one of the highest divorce rates in the world. ... With the trend of increasing divorce rates one can look at Kennedy's "Remarks on Church and State" to see how our country's democratic values shine through. ... He states that if he is elected president...

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In addition to being heartless 50 introduces, violence and drugs to the receivers of his listeners, 50 also reveals some association with drug and drug trafficking in his song "G'D Up" The second artist Lloyd Banks continued with violence, guns, but the shock to me was when he stated " before you niggaz speak on 50, buy forty in a spare clip." this artist visually showed me that he will fight, bounce , or die with 50 also initiate fights or conflicts on behalf of 50 cents. ... During registration there were to freeport females behind me conversing about Nassau. ... Young Buck drew my att...

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According to Omar Jadwat, lawyer of the Immigrants' Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, "Arizona's law is quintessentially un-American: We are not a ˜show me your papers' country, nor one that believes in subjecting people to harassment, investigation and arrest simply because others may perceive them as foreign " (par. 3). ...

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