... States have been identified as apathetic, indifferent, and disinterested in the process of attaining an education. Many Americans point to the high Mexican-American drop-out rates and the low number of Mexican-American professionals as a confirmation of this stereotype. This Latino group has struggled to dispel the characterization. In response, Mexican-Americans, as well as Anglo-Americans, have ... hope to eliminate chasms in Latino-Anglo relations. Other Educational Programs In addition to implementing bi-lingual and dual immersion systems of education, school districts across the co...

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... however it has made the battle to guarantee equality more complex. Ending affirmative action in California has caused a drastic drop in the number of minorities admitted into the UC system, the lower amount of women in higher education programs in California and the decrease of women and ... that has all dropped since 1997. The fight for equal educational opportunities now seems to be over. Women are still receiving doctorates in great numbers, but not in the represented fields. Women comprised only 8.7% of the Ph.D.s in engineering and 18.4 of doctoral degrees in the physical ... city...

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... from two very elite universities of California campuses, Berkeley, and UCLA. AT Berkeley, the number of black freshmen declined 57% in 1999, And a massive 40% for Hispanics. AT UCLA the numbers were 43% decline for blacks and 33% for the Hispanics. The numbers are startling (Krauthhammer 30). The number of minority students attending American colleges and universities jumped 48% in the 1990's, with all ... minorities posting double digit gains in college enrollment, according to a study by the American Council on Education. The Study which analyzed statistics from the U.S Department of ...

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... reauthorization, not entitled the Individuals with Disabilities Act in 1990 and 1997, the number of students nationwide receiving special education services had increased dramatically. Nationwide, between 1993 and 2000, the number of special education students has increased by 41%. And at the same time the number of qualified special education teachers had decreased. A study done by Dr. P. ... McKnab in 1995 concludes that the decline for special education teachers is 9.8%, as compared to a 6.1% deterioration rate in regular education teachers. Another astonishing statistic centers on s...

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... today are flooded by episodes dealing with teen pregnancies. The teenage rate in the United States declined in 1993 and 1994. Unfortunately, the number of birth decreased only to older teens, ages 18 and 19. Babies born to teens younger than 17 actually increased, reflecting a growing ... population of younger girls who are what we now euphemistically call "sexually active." The number of girls aged 14-17 will increase by more than a million between 1996 and 2005. Increasing numbers of children born to children are likely to repeat the devastating cycles of almost everything bad- ... th...

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... American mothers. According to the survey, African American mothers were three times more likely to put their children to sleep on their stomachs. The County took steps to reduce those numbers, by conducting targeted outreach efforts to African American mothers and providers to encourage a change in behavior that would save infant lives. Under the Connerly initiative, Los Angeles County would ... women is needed. Vital statistics, collected from birth and death certificates, would be jeopardized. In order to calculate infant mortality rates among African American babies, data is needed ...

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... ages of 18 and 24 are female. Affirmative action is needed to attract women to underrepresented fields and to help them attain greater numbers in senior academic positions. Because a 2000 study showed that females had less confidence than males in their ability to do well in ... 73 cents, African American women 63 cents, and Latinas 53 cents. Similarly, a study done in 1988 found that workplace discrimination was the "number one barrier" for women in achieving future promotions .Even in today's supposedly "more equal" workplace, men in higher-paying jobs ... were due to money problems f...

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... oil into pond or rivers there by polluting the water and killing thousands of species that live in the water. Habitats with the highest number of threatened mammals and birds are lowland and mountain tropical rainforest. Freshwater habitats are extremely vulnerable with many threatened fish, reptile, amphibian ... Zoo. Cause of this species extinction? Humans hunted them for a sport. The Blaauwbok, or Blue Antelope, was all ready limited in number when they were first discovered. Their habitat was the grassy countryside of Africa. When the grassland changed into bush and forests as the ...

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... the true nature of Proposition 184, the voters passed it anyways. We are now experiencing the many pitfalls of this law, and our prison system is seeing a dramatic increase in numbers of non-violent criminals that are being incarcerated for long periods of time. As of March 7, 1994 if someone commits a crime that is considered a felony and they have one previous ... to do and has created problems for the justice system. In order for this to be a constructive law it has to be changed. Our prison systems cannot handle the large numbers of these "three-strike" offenders. Our tax dollars co...

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... is where children first learn to interact with other students when they are away from their parents. Here is where children are taught the very basics of education. Colors, shapes, numbers and other basic information are the elements most often learned in pre-school. This is a child's first educational learning experience. A child will then go on to kindergarten upon completion of ... their work (which is necessary and more important that an elementary students work) is dependant on a computer. A solution to this problem may be to ration the number of computers throughout grades K-12. B...

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... 12 months. That adds up to a significant amount considering more then four thousand prisoners are in jail for third strikes, and the numbers are still rising. That money that is spent on the prisons could be used for any number of things including schools or other educational activities. This law has to be amended in order to fully operate at the potential ... having a third strike law; the more offenders there are, the more criminal justice workloads there is causing loss of time and an increasing number of headaches to those who have to deal with them. There are also a growing number ...

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... /distance theme in the relationship (Hanson, 1993). This theory, however, is criticized by many researchers due to the theory's implication of blame, especially on the woman. There are a number of theories that attempt to explain domestic violence. Regardless of which theory one may prescribe to, one cannot overlook the common link that underlies many of the theories. This common ... more than 20 years since the first formal battered women's shelters were established in both Great Britain and the United States. In the past decade alone, there have been a tremendous number of shelters esta...

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... "I" has no power when compared to "we". When a single man or family stands in protest, the western residents have no fear. With their numbers they can swallow this rebellious family and spit them wherever they desire. What was once a movement of small families dripping into California, has become a ... . They fear that these lost farmers will come together, although weak, when united, will overcome their strength. They know that with the migrant numbers united, the westerners will be swallowed and spit off their land. This passage presents the idea that, unity in masses brings power. St...

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... a few initiatives of the War on Drugs. This is the model California follows today, and it is what has been overpacking prisons since the 1980s. Between 1980 and 2005, the number of drug arrests more than tripled from 581,000 to 1,846,351 (Mauer, 3.) What is more disturbing, however, is that 81% of those arrests were for possession, and only 19 ... % for sales (Mauer, 3.) These numbers should be reversed. Even America's perception of drugs before the Drug War was insignificant. According to Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of ... are short ter...

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... previously excluded from jobs or educational opportunities, or were denied opportunities once admitted, have gained access through affirmative action. When these policies received executive branch and judicial support, vast numbers of people of color, white women and immigrants have gained access they would not otherwise have had. These gains have led to very real changes. Affirmative action programs have ... bitter tenor in the trenches. "Angry white men" blame affirmative action for robbing them of promotions and other opportunities. And while many minorities and women support affirmat...

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... and felt. They are currently over 30.3 million Hispanics in the United States and their purchasing power has gone as high as 273.40 million dollars a year. Looking at this numbers t will be not a surprise if more advertisers would choose to target the Hispanic market. For example, Salma Hayek for Revlon and Daisy Fuentes for Philips televisions are some of the ... how do they fare in owning business? There were 7,310,000 with at least High School education in 1994 according with the U.S. Department of Commerce, that number should be a lot more now and days. The number of business owned ...

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... include glue sniffing, use of opiates, etc.), 23 were related to marijuana (meaning that marijuana was present either at time of death or in the system). To help put this number into perspective, in the same timeframe 30,150 people have died from choking on food while 378,960 people died from alcohol related circumstances. With statistics like these, it is ... these inmates are in jail on drug related charges. States spent over 32 billion dollars in 1999 just on corrections. It is quite obvious that if marijuana was legalized, these numbers would drop drastically and the prison system w...

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... action to accept minorities into the learning environment. It is used to remedy discrimination, not completely abolish it. It should be based on a reasonable preference for race, rather than set numbers of minorities that need to attend the school. It has proved to be successful in advancing other races, without stifling the white population. Affirmative action should be used in the ... mandated by the government for funding or by courts in discrimination cases. There are methods by which minorities are accepted and include; quotas (they require a specific number of minorities to be acc...

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... must be adopted to check this tide of Asiatic immigration""(Daniels 35). This would only be the beginning in anti-Asian sentiment. American miners in California felt that the overwhelming numbers of low-paid Chinese were reducing their wages. "Numerous mass meeting in the mining districts passed resolutions of protest against "unfair" competition"(Daniels 33). Not only did white laborers complain ... on the nearest tangible factor as to why the economic conditions were going down, it was due to the Chinese workman and those who employed him. In July of 1870, a number of anti-Chinese dem...

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... system shows that they are there because of lack of education, poverty, homelessness, drug addictions, and spousal abuse. Leslie Acoca (1998) states that given the rapidly increasing numbers of incarcerated woman and that a great number are in fact young and in their childbearing years, pregnant inmates are becoming increasingly common. In 1996, the National Counsel on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) did a study ... California has state programs that give incarcerated moms a chance to stay with their children. These programs were conceived about 20 years ago as an alternative way of handli...

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... campaign. In his paper, Stuart Harrop addressed the relationship between animal welfare and their conservation. He addressed the issue of climate change and the effect it had on reducing the number of species as well as worsening the natural habitats for most of these animals (Harrop 48). Legislature for the conservation of wildlife has been sluggish and this has allowed industrialization ... and poaching to deplete the remaining numbers of chimpanzees, and other species. I am partly motivated by the contribution of Mr. Harrop since he saw it fit to discuss the issues at hand before it ...

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... not have huge water tanks; on long trips they depended on rain after the initial supply of water ran out. The Chinese were permitted to come on deck in small numbers when the weather was good, but during heavy wind and waves they remained in the hold of the ship with almost no light, save the little that came through the ... southern corporations and gold farms. During the antebellum period, the Southern whites were generally hostile towards the Chinese and often used violence to drive them away from the business. Moreover, a number of laws that imposed numerous taxes on the foreign min...

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... of excitement and enjoyment for those who are incapable of finding their enjoyment elsewhere. In addition to providing enjoyment, lotteries strengthen hope for hopeless individuals as well. Hope is the number one driving force that keeps people going in this world. Individuals get out of bed every morning because they have motivation. Motivation can stem from many things. Those who find ... a person who unfortunately has to work a minimum or sub minimum wage job to support their family. From the moment the ticket is purchased to the date they announce the lucky numbers; hope of a life-c...

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... careless drivers cut someone off, the "normal" reaction is to honk the horn, flash the lights, and in some cases, flip the old faithful finger. Nowadays, there are an alarming number of violent retort towards tailgaters and otherwise reckless drivers. The major cause of road rage stems from traffic congestion, and the lack of people's patience. With the population growing at ... rage victims and offenders, says, "Like other violence, in America people used to scream and yell at each other, now they are shooting each other. It is not just the numbers but also the intensity of motoring an...

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... that was out of their control, much like social class. Although the income distribution pattern in the United States is very different from that of a third world country -- where a small number of families may be very wealthy while a majority of families are very poor -- the change in income distribution is, nonetheless, disturbing. The poor in our society are not benefiting from ... riches that we could achieve, all the toys and gadgets that we wish we had, so we don't seem as rich anymore. However, as long as we keep seeing the numbers, whatever they are, something like top one percen...

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