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Boys And Girls Los Angeles
1,899 wordsA year in the World of Female Gangsters: There is no way you can neatly squeeze in a single report what female gang life posses. What I am giving is highlights and statistics staffed with local information. There is no such thing as a typical gang each possess a history that reflects the community they grew up in. The research is in Los Angeles and smaller California communities San Antonio, Texas, and Chicago, Ill... Most research has been done in L. A. where female gangs have achieved a greate...
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Racial And Ethnic African Americans
764 wordsHow Do Americans View One Another? The Persistence of Racial/Ethnic Stereotypes In national surveys, fewer and fewer Americans admit openly to holding racist views for instance the view that African Americans are less intelligent than white Americans. Many polls have attempted to measure racial and ethnic stereotyping by presenting declarative statements of negative attributions and asking respondents to agree or disagree with them. Whether they may hold these views or not, many survey responden...
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Black And White Speak Spanish
525 wordsThe experience to be around different cultures influenced me in many ways. For five years of my developing life (12 - 16) I lived on the Northwest Side of Chicago, which is called Humboldt Park. Humboldt Park is a multicultural neighborhood, mostly dominated by Latinos. Where I resided was 3240 West Evergreen Avenue in the heart and soul of Humboldt Park. My first week there in Humboldt was a worst, I hated it. This was my first time ever living in a place where I saw more than Black and White p...
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American Political System Profit Organization
393 wordsCongressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Inc. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus was organized in 1976 by five (5) Hispanic Congressmen: Herman Badillo (NY), Baltasar Corrada (PR), E. Kids de la Garza (TX), Henry B. Gonzalez (TX), and Edward Royal (CA), to monitor legislative and other government activity that affects Hispanics. The Caucus was originally formed to serve as a legislative organization through which legislative action, as well as executive and judicial actions, could be monitored to...
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Racial Stereotypes Rap Artists
710 wordsRace relations in the United States are much better now than they were when Toni Morrison wrote A Slow Walk of Trees 25 years ago. The United States prides itself in being considered the most diverse country in the planet. Living in Los Angeles, California, one of the biggest metropolitan cities in our country, I have the opportunity of seeing different races every day. Our cultural melting pot of a country has evolved so much from the mid- 1970 s, that interracial marriages, minority executives...
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Social Mobility Black Males
1,614 words... eir homeland. This was a great article on social mobility. It was excellent in explaining and examining social mobility of Latinos in California. This article has great relevance for the future of America. The number of Latino immigrants is increasing rapidly in the United States. Many Americans fear this because they see Latino immigrants as leeches that just come to the United States to get on welfare and live off the system. This is obvious not true. They are obviously very determined and...
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President Of The United States Al Gore
1,075 wordsAs this election 2000 is coming, each candidate is working very hard. They are doing debates, electoral campaigns all over the country in order to get more popular votes and therefore get the electoral votes they need to be the next president of the United States. In all of the inquiries that the media did in most of the states, Al Gore seems to be the favorite one, because he knows what he is doing, he has enough experience to rule our country, and he also has very interesting positions in the ...
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Affirmative Action Native Americans
1,103 wordsEquality is one of the basic principles the United States is found on. In the Declaration of Independence it states All Men are Created Equal. Through out history you would not figure that that statement was held to be true. The United States has a very ugly past when it comes to the topic of equality. The most notable act of inequality was definitely slavery and the segregation laws passed by government. Black people faced discrimination from the start and are still facing it today. Other incid...
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Target Market Hispanic Community
1,108 words"Latinos are changing the way the country looks, feels, and thinks, eats, dances, and votes. From teeming immigrant meccas to small-town America, they are filling churches, building businesses, and celebrating this Latin heritage... In America, a country that constantly redefines itself, the rise of Latinos also raises questions about race, identity, and culture - and whether the United States will ever truly be one nation. " (Larger, pg. 50) This passage aptly describes the dawning of a new 'en...
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U S Population Census Bureau
1,139 words... ect marketers to incongruent statistics that lead to misrepresentations of the demographic profiles of the Hispanic market. In their Census 2000 Brief, Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin, the U. S. Census Bureau states, "The Federal government considers race and Hispanic origin to be two separate and distinct concepts. For Census 2000, the questions on race and Hispanic origin were asked of every individual in the United States. The question on Hispanic origin asked respondents if they wer...
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Census Bureau Hispanic Population
1,081 words... Hispanics and Asians, the American Marketing Association suggested that generic marketing alone does not work. Mainstream advertising does not impact a specific target market but rather generalizes every subgroup to encompass the entire market. Secondly, proper understanding, use and translation of material into Spanish is critically important. Finally, understanding that the Hispanic community, while part of mainstream society, isn't necessarily best reached through mainstream messages. (19...
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Board Of Education Avant Garde
2,838 wordsChicano Studies Vitality and incremental influence characterize the political history of the Hispanic community. This history is both positive and negative, and expresses a tradition not always fully known or appreciated by all of the contemporary participants, Chicano and non-Chicano alike. Political efforts continue to vary in expression in accordance with the temper of the time and the response of the majority society's institutions; for example, petitions can lead to mass protests, which may...
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Hispanic Americans Civil Rights Movement
1,674 wordsHispanic-Americans Civil Rights Movement America is facing the largest cultural shift in its history. Around the year 2050, whites will become a "minority. " This is uncharted territory for this country, and this demographic change will affect everything. Alliances between the races are bound to shift. Political and social power will be re-apportioned. Our neighborhoods, our schools and workplaces, even racial categories themselves will be altered. Any massive social change is bound to bring unc...
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Sense Of Community Groups Of People
2,327 wordsBenefits of modern technology become available sooner or later to the majority of population. The electronic products of all kinds, as well as the technological advancement in medicine, are initially available only to the richest individuals in society, but with time, the latest innovations spread to the rest of the population fairly quickly (Kitahara 91). For instance, some items like automobiles or televisions are now available to practically everyone both poor and rich. This is what we call, ...
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Silicon Valley Asian Pacific
1,138 wordsCupertino (Homestead High) &# 038; Baldwin Park (Baldwin Hills) For our community profile presentation, we investigated Homestead High School in Cupertino, and Baldwin Park High School in Baldwin Hills, California. Cupertino is located about 40 miles south of San Francisco, and roughly 10 miles north of San Jose, in the Northern California Bay Area. Cupertino is nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley, and has experienced an income boom among working professionals in the last decade and a half, d...
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Hispanic Whites
2,204 wordsDiabetes mellitus is a group of diseases characterized by high levels of blood glucose resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. Diabetes can be associated with serious complications and premature death, but persons with diabetes can take measures to reduce the likelihood of such occurrences. Most of the food we eat is turned into glucose, or sugar, for our bodies to use for energy. The pancreas, an organ that lies near the stomach, makes a hormone called insulin to h...
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Death Penalty Cases Criminal Justice System
2,432 wordsHutchinson, Death Penalty, 1? They [prisoners sentenced to death] are almost all poor, usually white, often high school dropouts. Most have never killed before. Most are from the South? (Benac). Introduction: Opponents of the death penalty have said that capital punishment does nothing to deter crime. There is some critical information that is important to know before going more in depth on this discussion. The purpose of this paper is not to discuss whether capital punishment is effective in de...
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En El De La
516 wordsJOHN GILBERT+ RODR-GUEZ Poderoso y pol mico son algunos de las palabras usar on para described el trabajo art still de John Gilbert Rodr get. La foto graf a no ha sido un medio fuerte y popular a express o comunidad la experiencia de Latino y la cultura en nuestra sociedad. Ni lo tiene fue expres ado de un punto de Veterans de Chicano Vietnam del panorama. Today a, para un grupo grande de nuestros ciudad anos, este trabajo y estas im genes represent una interpret aci n de la cultura, los sentime...
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House On Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
1,634 wordsJane Juffer In the introduction to Alfred A. Knopf's 1994, ten-year anniversary reprinting of her House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros recalls what initially inspired the now internationally acclaimed novel. As a graduate student in the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, Cisneros felt alienated by discussion of Gaston Bachelards Poetics of Space. She says, " What was this guy talking about when he mentioned the familiar and comforting house of memory? It was obvious he never had to clea...
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Institutional Racism Racial Equality
2,657 wordsstudent Mid Term take Home Exam Question 1: The correlation between socioeconomic status and student performance has been consistent for as long as records have veen maintained. Students from affluent backgrounds tend to do better in school and on standardized tests than students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. In the following paragraphs, I would like to present two different ways of understanding this pattern. I believe that both socioeconomic and genetic phenomena can be best exp...
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