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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MEASURING SOCIALISM IN NORTH AMERICA: A COMPARISON BETWEEN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Which of the two countries is more socialist, Canada or the United States of America? ... To measure this variable, we will look at the number of public representatives who are elected by the population. ... In accordance with the Government of Canada , the Canadian population elects a Prime Minister and members of the House of Commons (In Canada, there are 301 members). ... When we count the number of representatives who are elected by the population, it seems that the American pol...

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If it is true that equal opportunity doesnt exist in American than the idea of the "American Dream" would be false. ... However I dont have any statistics to prove that at this time, I hope to accomplish that in my research. ... Literature Review: In the article "Getting ahead: social mobility among the urban poor" by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, the author examines the social mobility within the urban poor population. ... It was a pleasant change from the monotonous statistics that usually fill these types of articles. ... In this article the author goes over these statistics as well as explainin...

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Prison Literature in America. ... The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965-1975. ... In the last two decades the population of black male inmates grew three times as fast as the number of black men enrolled in higher education. ... In a country less than 13 percent blacks, one half of the prison population is African American. ... Goods and services must be provided to keep imprisoned populations alive. ...

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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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After researching various statistics, I found that premarital pregnancy is quite prevalent in teenagers throughout the world. ... It would suggest that allowing young people to remain in foster care beyond age 18 may be one way to reduce teenage pregnancy among this population.  ... About 900,000 pregnancies occur each year among American teenagers aged 15-19. ... After seeing those statistics, if makes one wonder if there are any more studies which will create a solution. ... Almost every home in America has at least one TV, the internet, and a cell phone. ...

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These theories have a devastating impact that effects the African American and Black South African population. Astonishingly, reports show that even though African Americans make up 12 percent of the U.S. population they account for nearly half of HIV/AIDS cases. ... Among Black South Africans, a fifth of the population believed that one could tell by a person's appearance whether they had the disease. ... Similar research done in Louisiana by Parsons et al (1999) provides statistics that do not fair to go better. ... Many often wonder what went so wrong in Germany that an entire s...

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Those of Mexican decent have typically depended on the wages mothers were able to bring in due to minimal human capital and a lack of marketable skills needed by this overall population. ... The African American working population dates back to slavery. African American men faced discrimination and a lack of marketable skills that lead to underemployment or unemployment. This meant that African American women had to work to survive (Hattery, 14). ... Department of Labor showed that in 1999 this number had grown to 46.7%, almost half of the professional working population (Kimmel, 122). ...

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The Effect of AIDS and Birth Rates are falling but Population is not. ... Another problem is AIDS, which is both a population and social problem. ... Another problem we are facing is a real population explosion among the poor. ... Statistics show that most of them leave the mother to support the child on their own with no financial support whatsoever. America's inner cities -Vs- Third World Countries At first, it might appear impossible to compare conditions in America's inner cities with those that characterize overpopulated countries of the Third World. ...

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America was destined for another, more far-reaching civil rights movement. ... He believed in the immediate integration of blacks into mainstream American life, regardless of the consequences. ... Led by Carrie Chapman Catt, women suffragists formed the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890. ... Roosevelt brought the new deal into American life in the early thirties. ... The "forgotten Americans" were the citizens who needed the new deal to benef...

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Abstract An exploration of the aging boomer and how they will age differently from their parents, creates a powerful new epicenter of marketing in America. ... Cultural Differences Asian, Hispanic, and African-American ethnic groups are growing larger in proportion to the whole population, becoming more diversified. Today's women are established in the workforce and the general population is highly mobile. ... In the U.S., Baby Boomers are aging and the population of Hispanics, Asians, and other ethnic groups is growing. ... The extension of life span has been a growth in per ca...

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Immigration of various populations into the United States and other parts of the globe occurs as one of the topics that has and continues to be explored by various scholars. ... Speaking of the 1965 Immigration Act, this connotes to a policy document that allowed populations displaced by the Second World War to enter into the United States and attain American citizenship (Minetor 64). ... Despite the fact that the above connoted act was in favour of immigrants displaced by the World War II, there is a need to comprehend with the fact that the Act set a platform for the entry of other populat...

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With the enactment of the Volstead Act in 1919, America embarked on a social experiment known as Prohibition. ... In some of America's largest cities, local governments had been heavily corrupted by the influence of organized crime. ... Some recent figures from the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) cast doubt on that assertion. ... They represent almost 12% of the total federal prison population and about 2.7% of the state prison population. ... Although African Americans comprise only 12.2 percent of the population and 13 percent of drug users, they make up 38...

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These vaccine preventable diseases will all hopefully follow polio and become a problem of America's past. ... These diseases are not a risk if vaccines were to become compulsory, when parents become aware of these statistics that can be easily found they will not have as many worries about vaccinations. ... Gary Null, who is an American radio talk show host as well as an author who speaks for alternative medicine and naturopathy. ... In his article he wrote about a senior Epidemiologist, which is a person who studies patterns, causes, and effects of diseases in specific populations, fro...

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The statistics that put this statement into perspective are rather disturbing: "The weapons industry is the world's number-two industry, after oil. ... Because of these disturbing statistics, it can be ascertained that our world is becoming increasingly violent, and that the possibility is becoming more likely. ...

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Before the Industrial Revolution, human activity released very few gases into the atmosphere, but now through population growth, fossil fuel burning, and deforestation, we are affecting the mixture of gases in the atmosphere. ... Several factors can affect the emissions per person in a state, for example, the types of fuel used to generate electricity, population and vehicle miles traveled ,and whether fossil fuels are extracted or processed within the state. ... At the peak of the last ice age (18,000 years ago), the temperature was only 7 ∘F colder than it is today, and glaciers cov...

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We hear on the news how health care providers are incapable of providing medical care to an increasingly number of chronically ill and the aging population. ... There are simply not enough physicians to service the population's needs. ... Many people living in rural America have inadequate access to medical care. ... The shortage of doctors in rural America has not gone unnoticed. ... The number of practicing physicians grew from 259,000 in 1960 to 453,000 in 1980 (American Medical Association, 2008). ...

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In the 1980s, many new American drug laws resulted from escalating efforts to "get tougher" on drugs and drug users. ... The vast majority of these offenders are in state and local jails and prisons, where they now account for almost one-fourth of the total population behind bars. ... In the 1998 report Behind Bars: Substance Abuse and America's Prison Population (SAAPP) the author's assert, [d]rug and alcohol abuse and addiction are implicated in the crimes and incarceration of 80 percent--some 1.4 million--of the 1.7 million men and women behind bars in America. ... If this rat...

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Potential answers to these questions may be found in the statistics of prison population or in the effects of mandatory sentencing or any other laws that affect prisons. ... It's common knowledge that the harsh drug-sentencing laws that congress passed in 1986 have greatly increased the prison population. ... In the past seven years this population has increased by almost 19,000. ... Also, workers have noted instances of inmates being told to replace "Made in Honduras" tags with "Made in America" tags in order to defraud customers. ... Consider just the year 2001, and just the Corrections...

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Statistics compiled by the Pew Hispanic Center report that an estimated 11.7 million illegal immigrants resided in the United States in 2012, 58% of that population being from Mexico (Passel). With over half of this massive population being from just south of the border, it is no wonder why discussion surrounding immigration in the news is dominated by topics such as violence in border communities due to drug trafficking, the "takeover" of Spanish speakers in the U.S., the competition for jobs amongst American citizens and Mexican immigrants, and the financial burden placed on border...

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Society as whole is unhealthy if even the smallest part of the population is being put in harm's way in terms of personal health. ... This may also cause challenges for economically developing areas in which the population is not very healthy nor educated. ... There are statistics and facts regarding what most areas look like in terms of poverty, population, and convenience stores per capita. ... Food deserts are the leading cause for health problems related to foods and drinks consumed by the American population. ...

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Webster conducted a national public opinion survey about to gauge Americans' support for many of the gun policies introduced by legislators across the country. According to the survey, large majorities of Americans- including gun owners and Republicans- supported a wide range of gun policies, including policies to enhance the background check system for gun sales, to prohibit certain dangerous persons (e.g., those convicted of a serious juvenile crime) from having guns, to institute greater oversight of gun dealers, and to prevent people with mental illness from having guns (Webster 666-6...

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Immigration is a vital part of American society. The majority of Americans residing in the United States today are descendants of immigrants. ... The "drawing winners" get the opportunity to come to America. ... The Act also introduces solutions in determining how the United States government might work best with the governments of Canada and Mexico to deter terrorists from arriving in North America and ways to keep them from crossing the borders into the U.S. ...

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Immigrants from all over the world contribute to the United States by revitalizing cities, building the economy, and bringing their energizing culture to the bland society of America. ... Subject B came to the United States from Nicaragua legally in the year of 1998, as her 15th birthday present, as she was visiting a category 5 Hurricane, known as hurricane Mitch struck all of Central America and the Yucatan peninsula but Honduras and Nicaragua were especially hit hard, on October 22 of 1998 (history par.2 & 3), which did not allow her to go back to Nicaragua. ... Soon after her mother flew b...

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South Korea has been a pro-Western nation, embracing many aspects about American political ideologies; also, South Korea followed many aspects of Chinese education system. ... U.S. decennial census data states that in 2010, immigrants made up 13% of the population, but 16% (23.1 million foreign-born persons in the civilian labor force) of the labor force (Singer, 2012). ... Immigrant workers are especially essential to the United States and also Russia (ranked second for destination country for immigration) because the U.S. population is aging rapidly as the baby boom cohort is entering old ag...

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