... casual and not as strict. She explained to me that religion is very important to their culture. This alone is responsible for their very low divorce rate and the reason girls place high value on their virginity until marriage. Anca told me that divorces are very rare in Romania. She was ... they are eighteen. The common language in Romania is Romanian. Many people also speak Hungarian. English and French are taught in the classrooms. Crime rate used to be very low when she lived there. She has heard that recently there has been a lot more crime due to poverty and ... anything to achieve...

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... as well as arsenic from the factories, that the city has one of the highest rates of infant mortality in Illinois, the highest rate of fetal death, and also a very high rate of childhood asthma. The schools, not surprisingly, are utterly impoverished. East St. Louis High School, one of the two schools I ... spending enough for public education? East St. Louis, like many poor cities in America, taxes itself at a very high rate. It's one of the most heavily taxed school districts in Illinois. In New Jersey, its counterpart is Camden. Camden has almost the highest property tax ... rate in...

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... there is a threat to the personal safety of American families everywhere. However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. In 1988 there were 9000 handgun-related murders in America. Metropolitan Centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for ... homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Washington, D.C. there was an estimated 400 homicides including guns. In addition criminals using guns have seen gun ... street t...

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... school within the last month. Are people not disgusted with the masses of young people who are getting a hold of guns? To me that's disturbing to think that the kid sitting next to me in Math or Spanish class could have a gun in their backpack. Or the guy that has been trying to pick a fight ... with me. That really makes a person think twice at school before getting into a fight. What if that person does have a gun? I know I do, I ... do not feel safe at school. Can you blame me?. When a survey was taken in America in 2000 by O" Donnel; it was reported that there was an average of one ...

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... been involved in a divorce, most reported that they had experienced some of these emotions. My friends told me that they experience some of these emotions to varying degrees. One of my friends told me that his parents got a divorce because his dad cheated on his mom. He said that he felt ... goes through in their life. Ten years ago, professor Jeanne Dise-Lewis conducted a survey of 700 junior high school students in which they were expected to rate events on the basis of stress (Zinsmeister, 1997). Divorce was considered the second most stressful life event, following the death of a pa...

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Teenage Pregnancy I sat watching the Maury Polvich show one day and the topic was on teens, sex, and pregnancy. This is a really interesting topic to me because I am the mother of two teenage girls. While watching these shows, I asked myself " What was the parents involvement in the prevention of these teen's pregnancy?" Most of the parents ... the age of 20. Which is stated by Alice Johnson, "Nation's Cities Weekly." She goes on to say "Quite simply, to many teens they still think, It can't happen to me." (Johnson 5) Teen pregnancy is a growing concern in our country. It is a problem that a...

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... "Book "Em", Becker says that the prison system actually solves the problems. He states, " Prisons have actually helped people as well as decreased the crime rate in America" (Becker 1). What is the prison system and what does it do to those that are captured behind its walls? The prisons are overcrowded with ... He believes that the prisons are doing their jobs. But are they really decreasing the crime rate? I disagree with Becker totally. The prisons are not what is keeping the crime rate down. What is keeping the crime rate down is the fear that people have for punishment. One is scar...

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... cyanide capsule around his neck to avert capture and torture by government forces. In the best of times, Tamils have a high suicide rate, unlike Palestinians (whose suicide rate is well below that of Israelis, or ours). But Tigers who appear to be unstable or depressed don't get taken into the ... Ali, a burly fellow with a clipped reddish beard and a wandering left eye, who showed himself to be a star pupil as he practiced his preaching on me. The words were angry, but the man was not. After listening to a round of passionate opening statements, I got my own turn to practice, using ......

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... America. Questions such as, what does the media have to do with crimes? Why Americans are more concerned with violence than Canada and why is the crime rate of Americans so much higher? Why do 11,000 people die in America from gun violence each year? These are the questions Moore and his film crew set ... theory of ethnic diversity by showing that Canada, which has very diverse cities of its own, has an amazingly low gun related murder rate. Moore had visited Canada to interview people on why the crime rate is so low there and so high in America. First he asked a group of teenagers who s...

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... a big problem in the area although the settlements were heavily populated. Abraham Cahan says that "On the other hand, the wards having the highest death-rate...constitute two of the numerous Italian colonies which are distributed through the city....The greatest density (57.2 tenants to a house) is in the tenth ward ... (almost exclusively occupied by Jews), which also has the lowest death- rate....The low death-rates of the seventh and tenth wards are largely accounted for by the fact previously mentioned, that they are populated largely by Russian Jews ... Jewish business men to pro...

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... country would still have a lighter population density than England, Belgium, or Holland". Although the facts he gave where true, it is obvious to me that he was motivated by the gain of financial opportunity when he made this comment. However this information has no bearing on the issue of overpopulation ... sources (fish, grain, fresh water, and electricity) available to us. According to an article by Mark Elsis at http://www.overpopulation.net/, growth rate of earth's human population is declining by 2.1 million each year. In fact Earth reached its population growth peak back in 1987 w...

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... not know what it's like to suffer from depression, to want to take my own life. I have never uttered the words "I want to kill myself" or "There's nothing left, give me a reason to live". I do not know what it feels like to believe there is no way out but death. I am lucky. I have friends and family I can talk too. I am mentally ... 10 to 14 year olds. 90% of suicides in America were by Caucasians; 72% were by white men. African-American women have the lowest suicide rate of any ethnicity in the US. The most shocking suicide rate I came across, was that in China. It is reported that 560...

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Rural Growth (re-submission) Chapter (The Rural Landscape)of our textbook(Rural Communities and Legacy) and the handout "Wisconsin Land & Life prompted me to learn more about the exodus of those living in metropolitan areas and the influx of them to this and other areas of the United States. A great source of information ... . During the 1980s, for example, non-metropolitan counties--those without an urban hub--grew by only 1.3 million people, for an average annual growth rate of 0.3 percent. Meanwhile, metropolitan counties gained 21 million people, with an average annual growth rate of 1.1 ...

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... as of now is still dealing with foreclosures most heavily. Although the bank loaner's scams played a big part, other things such as the economy and the rate of people losing their jobs caused things to downfall. Death and illness can also be a major factor in not paying the payments. For example, if someone ... what kind of an impact this will have on so many families who will have nothing once they lose their home. It's so sad, and it makes me angry that the lenders and banks could do such unmoral things for money! Alex Veiga's article also talked about a homeowner who received a foreclo...

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... law. This new law put a price floor of twenty-five cents an hour on this rapidly growing market. Not only did the law set an hourly rate, but also a maximum work week of forty-four hours. As time went on, the minimum wage increased. During the Reagan years in 1949, the hourly ... was getting paid five dollars and seventy-five cents an hour. I was very happy with a wage like that because I was new to the work field, and it provided me with a means of providing myself with money to buy certain things that I wanted. If there was no price floor on wages, I would have been underpaid severely....

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... think of a different situation. The other person is an athlete. Athletes really benefit the schools by bringing in money, and many other things. If the university chose an athlete over me, I would not even question their move. An Asian-American high school student Amy S. Cheung describes the paradox that schools face with enrollment. "Looking at them as a race and giving them ... blacks and 6.9% for Hispanics (Krauthammer 23). This shows the large number of non-qualified minority students that were enrolled in the prestigious colleges. I say non-qualified because of their dropout rate a...

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Reality Is Immorality "Uh, Mom and Dad, would you maybe like to pick out a set of gorgeous twins for me to date? Oh yeah and we"ll do it on national television." Even five years ago this type of television would have been unacceptable. ... at work here. A show actually exists where two parents choose twins for their son to date at the same time. Sounds more like a sexual fantasy to me. American television should not portray relationships or marriage as a game, but instead take them seriously. Still people everywhere are seemingly addicted to the sudden flood of ... if she chose to continue t...

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... world today, and America is the biggest market for drugs. There are more drug dealers in this country than there are dentists. Illegal drug abuse must be stopped. The crime rate will sky rocket if we let this behavior continue. Illegal drugs and their abusers are a plague to society for many different reasons. Drugs have very harmful effects on the users ... to drink, well, it is not. I really don't know why they want to put their bodies through the pain. I guess it is for fun or out of boredom. At the rate that most teenagers drink, they should be getting cirrhosis of the liver, cancer...

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... I cannot blame myself for how I grew up nor can people in other countries; it is all about opportunity. It was inspirational and lit a fire in me. They deserve to know how much opportunity they could have. If the intentions are right, and research is done to respect their culture, affluent countries and their ... will not understand. I saw it: and I do not even understand. One of the reasons poverty in America is getting so bad is because the immigration rate since 1980 as doubled. On average, they are less educated and have fewer skills compared to American-born citizens, which explai...

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... all the crimes that are going on, and for the safety of the people. Compared to other nations the United States has the highest death and crime rate in the world. Miss. Lawera told me that there are approximately two deaths in Toronto for every 200 deaths in America. The people in Toronto do not have the gun control law enforced in ... their country, which goes to show it is much safer than the United States. In China people are not allowed to have guns and yet the death and crime rate in China ... or the peoples fault for all the crimes that are going on in the United States." Than ag...

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... in order to produce law-abiding behavior upon release. A second punishment is incapacitation. This is isolation from society, confinement or prison. . Imprisonment and death are likely to affect the crime rate by deterring others. A third purpose and form of punishment is justice. Justice punishes persons guilty of crime according to what is observed and justice should not punish the innocent victims ... penalty did not exist. For example, the state of Delaware executes more people per capita (1/87,500) than any other state and has a murder rate 16 times lower than Washington D.C. and W...

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... the same way they were brought up in the 60's and 70's. 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. Many of the children that were being born were either under weight or not strong enough to survive. The use of drugs during ... writes, "Humankind today is well aware of the spectrum of threats looming over its head. 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...

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... started a hospital. "so in your early thirties you were a assembly clerk, postmaster, and sponsor of libraries, hospitals, academies and a college?" Correct Tell me more about Ben the scientist. "Well, at the age of 42 I decided to retire with enough money to live off for the rest of life and ... I wanted to start doing one of my first loves, Science. I would write down ideas or questions about everything I saw. Can you tell me some of the things you invented? Clocks, the stove , the lighting rod, astronomical instrument, bifocal glasses, the flexible catheter, a chair that can be conve...

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... Their complexions, differing so much from ours, their long hair and the language they spoke, which was different from any I had ever heard, united to confirm me in this belief. Indeed, such were the horrors of my views and fears at the moment, that if ten thousand worlds had been my own, I ... rope near the foremast that he died in consequence of it, and they tossed him over the side as they would have done a brute. This made me fear these people the more, and I expected nothing less than to be treated in the same manner" (From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of ... slave. "Though...

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... social issues that people are not aware of that are affecting our economy, our growth as a nation, and our youth's future. One of these pressing issues of today is the rate of teenage pregnancy. Teenage pregnancy is not something that just comes out of nowhere. When you look at countries such as The Netherlands that are developed just like the United ... believing in false myths such as "it won't happen to you" or "if he pulls out, I won't get pregnant" is a crucial factor of the teen pregnancy rate here in America. On the contrary, some teens really do not have access to contraception,...

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