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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Despite of many aids from both government and communities, the rate of homeless people keeps increasing every year. ... "I experienced the way people looked at me sitting out in front of the shelter and felt that I was invisible to them. ... They made me feel dirty and ashamed.... In the fact, the rate of people having been on the street for years is increasing. ... The increasing rate of homeless people on the street causes unstable lives in local areas. ...

• Word Count: 1989
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Later in the essay Will states; "Two supposed signs of the "crisis" are America's high rate of infant mortality and low rate of immunization of preschool children. ... We know that the number of people living on our planet is growing at a soaring rate and that within a relatively short time we can expect it to total in the tens of billions.. ... In short, it appears to me that it would be better to start from the head rather than the tail. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He told me about the time he had spent in prison, and how he read the Bible all the way through. ... Ed told me that he acquired this "really bad habit" when he was serving for the U.S. ... The station sat on a corner of the part of town with the highest crime rate in Dallas. ... He would always ask Matt and me what we wanted, "weed, coke?... Mobile is from Alabama, and he constantly told me of his plan to get back to Alabama. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As one poor man from Ethiopia said, "For me, a good life is to be healthy- (qtd. in "Dying- 4). ... The average income of the poorest fifth of families in Latin America fell $210 or 1.8 percent ("Poverty Rates-). The average income of the middle fifth of families rose $630 or 1.5 percent ("Poverty Rates-). But the average income of the richest five percent of families climbed $6,440 or 3.1 percent ("Poverty Rates-). ... In Africa millions of dollars have been given to help improve their poor state, but their poverty rates only continue to increase (Raghaven). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Unfortunately, statistics also show that the national poverty rate has barely decreased as a result of welfare reform (Williams, 2006). ... This course helped me to realize the ways that social policy and government regulations impact health care and human services. ... I, of course, plan to stay on the side of the advocate in order to assist me in my employment endeavors while maintaining professional respect in my position. ...

• Word Count: 1443
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This study was done to verify the association of poverty in early development and the rate of success as an adult. ... The first study we see is a graph showing the rates of kindergarten proficiencies for the poor, near poor and middle class children. ... If you ask me there are so many types of poverty when it involves children, they can be money poor, they can love poor and they can just be poorly advised due to there environment, but the broad term for early childhood poverty is a child living in a poor family, and that is what this article is mainly about. ... The study concluded that pov...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was inspirational and lit a fire in me. ... One of the reasons poverty in America is getting so bad is because the immigration rate since 1980 as doubled. ... By helping the countries many of them come from, it would reduce the illegal immigration rate because they would not need to come to America for opportunity, if we gave it to them in their country. ...

• Word Count: 2257
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School