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Income Per Capita 100 000 People
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Aboriginal People Four Percent
600 wordsIn recent years, increasing awareness of exploitation of indigenous culture and intellectual property has led to recognition of the need for more effective protection of indigenous rights in Australia. Aborigines, the indigenous people of Australia, are severely disadvantaged in terms of poverty, poor health, over-representation in the prisons, employment opportunity, and housing. There have been many reports, inquires and decisions about the need for more effective protection for indigenous cul...
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World Health Organization People With Aids
1,735 wordsThesis: The AIDS and HIV viruses are getting worse in the United States and the rest of the world. Although more people die of heart disease and cancer each year, AIDS has become the health problem people fear the most. Much of the fear comes from ignorance and misunderstanding. Education is the most effective tool against AIDS. It is more important than ever for young people to learn the facts about AIDS. Many teenagers don't know anyone who has AIDS. It is hard for them to believe they are at ...
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Black Middle Class African Americans
1,782 wordsAfrican Americans continue to have high levels of poverty compared to European Americans. What are the causes of these problems, and what are some possible remedies for the future? How are African American women faced with even more discrimination than African American men? There's an old saying that you don't know where you " re going if you don't know where you " ve come from. To explore our options of improving social justice in the future, we must first take a look at our past. There are spe...
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Recidivism Of Sex Offenders
1,305 wordsSex offenders have been a serious problem for our legal system at all levels, not to mention those who have been their victims. There are 43, 000 inmates in prison for sexual offenses while each year in this country over 510, 000 children are sexually assaulted (Oakes 99). The latter statistic, in its context, does not convey the severity of the situation. Each year 510, 000 children have their childhoods destroyed, possibly on more than one occasion, and are faced with dealing with the assault ...
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Federal And State Prison Inmates
725 wordsDrug abuse takes a toll on society that can only be partially measured. While we are able to estimate the number of drug-related crimes that occur each year, we can never determine fully the extent to which the quality of life in America's neighborhoods has been diminished by drug-related criminal behavior. With the exception of drug-related homicides, which have declined in recent years, drug-related crime is continuing at a strong and steady pace. Numerous Drug-Related Arrests Occur Each Year....
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Women Economic Opportunities And Health In Brazil
1,350 wordsWomens economic opportunities and health in Brazil is affected by many factors. Brazilian womens economic opportunities are affected by such factors as gender inequality, violence from men, and racial inequality. Health is affected by reproductive rights, maternal mortality rates, domestic violence and sexual violence. This paper will examine health and economic opportunities available to women in the countries of Saudi Arabia, the United States and Brazil. Brazilian women were over half the pop...
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Information Symptoms And Treatment Of Schizophrenia
1,557 wordsSchizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating mental illness. The disease can cause you to withdraw from the people and activities in the world around you and retreat into a world of delusions and fantasies. Schizophrenia is the most common and destructive kind of psychosis, which is an impairment of thinking in which your interpretation of reality can be severely abnormal. Psychosis is a symptom of a disordered brain. Researchers haven't identified the cause or causes of schizophrenia, although t...
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Westward Expansion Labor Productivity
1,801 words... the average value of their landholdings grew from $ 12, 000 to $ 27, 000 and the average size of their slaveholdings from thirty-eight to fifty-eight slaves. (Federal Census Returns) In the North the top 1 percent of the wealth holders were mainly urban merchants and manufacturers whose businesses were based on wage labor, while in the South the top 1 percent. The big planters of the cotton belt were generally consolidating their economic positions during the late antebellum era. Between 185...
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Third World Nations Washington D C
1,781 words... Cancer Project. At most, the use of pesticides results in twenty extra deaths from cancer per year in the United States (out of a total of 200, 000) equivalent to about 1 percent of the deaths caused by the use of spices like mustard and cinnamon, and about one-hundredth of 1 percent of the deaths caused by natural properties of foods themselves. Proponents of "organic" farming might counter that this is, all the same, unacceptable: though we cannot (or do not wish to) eliminate the risk of ...
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Natural Rate Of Unemployment
2,309 wordsNatural Rate of Unemployment Natural rate of unemployment was the most famous theory of Milton Friedman. It should be noted that it was developed with the goal of achieving zero unemployment, yet failed to do so. In the following essay I am going to speak about concept called natural rate as well as mention the Phillips curve as well as natural hypothesis together with my personal findings and opinion. Zero unemployment does not mean 100 percent employment. For various reasons, the unemployment ...
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Fossil Fuels Technological Developments
1,080 wordsThe world is changing rapidly. A single technological development can lead to an infinite number of consequential developments each of which having varying impacts on humanity. These impacts, or indicators, display the results of technological development. Climactic, global economic, social, and energy related indicators are important in showing humanity's use of techno science, and demonstrate that certain political and economic changes are needed so that techno scientists can use their knowled...
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Years Of Age Hispanic Women
746 wordsCONTRACEPTIVE USE AT FIRST INTERCOURSE The 1995 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) report on Contraceptive Use at First Intercourse presented tables of data based on women population 15 to 44 years of age in the U. S. who had voluntary premarital intercourse. The tables illustrate percentages of women that used contraceptives and selected methods of contraceptives during first time intercourse. This information is broken down by age, race and Hispanic origin, and year of first intercou...
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Law Enforcement Agencies 100 000 Population
1,001 wordsCrime In the United States Introduction: Our report is on Crime in the United States. Crime is a major problem all over the world, but we are focusing on the crime problem right here in our own country. We have listed some different statistics, problems, and solutions. FBI Crime Statistics: Final 1995 crime statistics showed that 13. 9 million Crime Index offenses were reported to law enforcement across the Nation. The 1995 total represents a rate of 5, 278 offenses for every 100, 000 United Sta...
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Economic And Political Cultural And Social
1,899 wordsSmith 1 Women in post-Communist Russia face violent crime, high unemployment, low wages and bear most of the responsibility for domestic duties. A colossal rate of alcoholism have given Russia one of the highest proportions of widows of any nation. The vast majority of Russian women must work full time to survive. They are also expected to do the bulk of the cooking, shopping, and childcare. Yet women earn, on average, only 40 percent as much as men and are three times as likely to be unemployed...
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Population Growth Rate United States Government
1,905 wordsHunger-A World Dilemma Hunger is a problem, not only in third world countries, but in the Untied States as well. During the time that the United States experienced one of its longest economic growths, one in every ten households experienced hunger by a lack of food (Nutrition Concepts and Controversies). According to a 1995 national survey 4. 1 percent, or 4. 2 million, of all United States households experienced hunger (Could There Be Hunger In America? 1). Of the 4. 1 percent of these American...
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Minimum Drinking Age Fatally Injured
1,219 wordsDRINKING AND DRIVIN Drinking and Driving is dangerous to yourself and others around you. Alcohol is a depressant; it impairs your ability to drive, slows down your reaction time and causes you to make some risky decisions that you wouldnt normally take. The penalty for Drinking and Driving is driving Under the Influence (DUI). If your Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) registers over. 08, which is 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood, you are driving Under the Influence. After having o...
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Alcoholics Anonymous Drink Alcohol
1,366 wordsTeenagers Teen Alcoholism Teenage Alcoholism Teenagers today have no idea what alcoholism really is. They think that they can never become alcoholics. They think that it could never happen to them, but they are wrong. Stress, family problems and the desire to be popular are issues that cause teenage alcoholism. Signs that a teenager has a drinking problem and steps that parents can take to help their child are what I will discuss in this paper. The critical ingredient common to all alcoholic bev...
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Twenty Years Ago Labor Unions
1,129 wordsWhat do you think of when you hear the phrase " labor unions? " Most people associate a negative connotation with labor unions. They think that labor unions are the only cause of strikes and work stoppages. Most think that people in unions are greedy and will do anything to get more money. Others swear by their unions, saying that their employers would take advantage of them if they didn? t organize their unions. However as we prepare to enter the new millennium, labor unions are decre...
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Carbon Monoxide 1 Percent
404 wordsCarbon Monoxide, chemical compound of carbon and oxygen with the formula CO. It is a colorless, odorless gas, about 3 percent lighter than air, and is poisonous to all warm-blooded animals and to many other forms of life. When inhaled it combines with hemoglobin in the blood, preventing absorption of oxygen and resulting in asphyxiation. Carbon monoxide is formed whenever carbon or substances containing carbon are burned with an insufficient air supply. Even when the amount of air is theoretical...
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