... and the highest divorce rate of all major industrialized nations. Between 1960 and 1992, the number of births to unmarried teenage girls between 15 and 19 quadrupled, although the rate has declined somewhat in the past few years. From the '60s to the '80s, the divorce ... affect the competence, resilience, and well being of each of us. Today, social change is not only affecting the population around us but also the family we rely upon in our everyday lives. According to a national web site polling Americans on certain topics about family issues, "There is a ... The workforce will continu...

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... majors as males. Education is the key factor of women's development. Improving the level of women's education can help reduce population, and improve health of family members. In this way, women should gain priority of education. Women are discriminated in politics. American women have been facing great obstruction in sharing rights and policy decision. After a long period of struggle, women have become more active ... in political arena, but there is still a long way to go to catch up with men. Women, half of the population, have made great contribution to society, but they are still i...

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... than that "it signals a dangerous new twist in the twisted way that the system relates to the masses of Black people and other oppressed peoples (971)."" According to American Factfinder, African Americans in 1990 were only 12% of the population, whereas Caucasians made up 80%. This massive difference in population numbers added to the fact that in 1992 80% of America's drug users were White males ... proves statistically that the number of Black men in prison is an injustice (Hutchinson). The aim of this paper is to ... introduce the reasons that black males make up the majority of pr...

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... Americandemograghics(no space); I have used this site to gather statistical information for work related projects and for class work in the past. Rural areas are enjoying widespread population gains in the 1990s. This surprising reversal is based on several new trends. Lower fertility combined with heavy migration from cities is ... million people from July 1992 to July 1994. The non-metro population of the US had an average annual growth rate of 0.9 percent between 1990 and 1994. This is still not as fast as the 1.1 percent growth rate in the metro population, but the gap has narrowed c...

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... longer hours only to mass consume. The mass consumption of goods mostly takes place during a two-day increment, The Weekend. According to Schor (1992), "Americans report that they only have sixteen and a half hours of leisure a week, after the obligations of job and household are taken care ... an entire new workforce in corporate America. My significant other is in medical school and I"m working on a degree in commercial recreation. We make bets to see who's going to be the breadwinner. Juliet Schor (1992) states, "The ethos of "male sacrifice" is disappearing: a declining portion of th...

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... because of more serious delinquency offenses. The 1991 Children in Custody Census found 57,542 juveniles in public facilities. This was the largest number since the census began in 1974, with an overall rate of 221 juveniles in custody per 100,000 juveniles in America (Moone, 1993, p. 1). Essentially, these statistics represent a growing population of juveniles in custody, with an overwhelming majority of these juveniles being held for ... cases increased 74%, and person offense cases increased 55%" (p. 1). According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, juveniles were responsible for 16%...

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... size conducive to the carrying capacity of their environment. However there are many factors that can throw off this balance. Evidence of this may be seen in a 1971 Population Reference Bureau publication explains, "A number of civilizations, including India and Indonesia, had a clear picture of the limitations of their villages or communities" ... people while poor nations have some 4.1 billion, we consumed 8.9 Terra watts to the poor nations 4.1. This means with little more than a quarter of the population, rich nations used roughly 2/3 more power. To further reinforce this point, not...

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... of money as well as lawyers fees and court causes can be harmful to both parties. The high costs of lawsuits can be huge dilemma for companies. "The average cost in 1992 of an individual's discrimination suit against a company was $75000; the cost of the average age discrimination suit was $750,000- (Hemphill 14). It is absurb how companies are wasting their ... the publication of the Hudson Institute's Workforce 2000 (Johnston & Packard, 1987) as the beginning of the cultural diversity efforts in U.S. corporations- (Fine 113). This report clearly opened the minds of many organizations,...

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... bottom of the ranks when it comes to voter turnout of the voting-age population. In fact, only 52.6 percent of the voting age population heads out to the polls. However, the problem does not lie in the low turnout, it is that only two-thirds of the voting-age population is registered to vote. Though it is probably too late to change the minds ... accounted for only 24 percent of voters, making them the only generation to under-represent its voting-age population in the election. In the 1998 midterm election 18-24 year olds represented 39 percent of the voting-age population and accounte...

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... of Chicago conducts this survey. It has been conducted annually from 1972-1992 and biannually from 1992-present. The GSS allows me to extend the scope of my study. I have the ability to analyze 2832 respondent surveys in my current study. I am able to conduct this study making use of ... on to analyze the next variable educ. The education of the respondent had a mean of 13.36, which was expected considering the majority of the population receives a high school education. The median for educ was 13, this was very close to the mean. The minimum score was 0 (no school) ... the two variabl...

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... been growing rapidly in the past ten years. These businesses rent out garage-like rooms to store items safely away from home. Customers pay anywhere from $40 to $400 a month to store items they may never use again. The over-consumption caused by consumerism has reached unhealthy proportions. The United States contains about six percent of the world's population, but consumes thirty ... fuel. He condemned SUVs as wasteful and polluting, but said Ford would continue to manufacture them anyway because they are extremely profitable. Less than twelve percent of the world's adult population o...

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... If a black person is offered a job then it is usually at a lot lower wage. FEC completed a study between 1989 and 1992 that proved white Americans were offered jobs more often than black Americans with equivalent qualifications. Labor market discrimination exceeds twenty percent, therefore African Americans ... . Glass ceiling is a barrier through which top management positions can only be seen and not reached by Asian Americans. By being stereotyped in this manner, many believe that Asian Americans are passive and lack the aggressiveness required for the administrative part of a job. Ev...

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... that were deviant. The racial layers of American society contained the principles of white superiority and black inferiority. Blacks were defined as deviant and the police were in charge of social control over the black population. Measures had already been taken to institutionalize slavery which was a 100 year period between 1660 and 1760. Slave codes were made to regulate the growing black ... South between the Reconstruction and the beginning of the twentieth century, the blacks made up 70 to 95 percent of prison population. Even though in the 1960's Civil Rights banned segregation a...

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... It has been during our current thirty year crime wave that we have seen the number of juveniles incarcerated, on probation or parole or in alternative programs like wilderness and boot camps, community based school or work release programs increase to nearly one million under supervision (Abruzzese 1). The ... of date, which makes it tough to see the results of short-term changes in the system. In a report made last year, the FBI stated between 1965 and 1992 law enforcement agencies reported a 423 percent increase in the number of assaults, robberies, rapes, and homicides by juveniles. I...

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... Because of this, one would perceive that America is becoming really diverse. According to Frey, the latest estimates on the population shows that "multiethnic counties are few and far between". He suggests that anyone that rides a taxi or shops in a large city such as Los Angeles or New York City would assume that America is "growing more racially and ethnically ... States. Being naturalized gives people the right to vote and to participate fully in our system of government Newly eligible and long-term residents have contributed to a 70 percent increase in naturalizations between 1992 ...

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... to pay. Not surprisingly, they have very high turnouts. Second, many nations automatically register all of their citizens to vote. In the United States, however, citizens must jump the extra hurdle of voter registration. About 40 percent of the eligible adult population votes regularly, whereas about 25 percent are occasional voters; 35% rarely or never vote. Voters are usually more highly educated ... the status quo. There is no reason to vote, because the system is working fine. Moreover, many individuals may be more interested in individual rewards and gratification than they are int...

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... by a stranger but stem from an argument between people who know each other and often are related. For murders in 1992, for example, in which the relationship and circumstances were reported (61 percent of all murders): Almost half of the victims were either related ... In single victim/single slayer situations, 87 percent of all male victims were slain by a male offender. Nine out of 10 female's victims, however, were slain by a male. From 1963 to 1973, the per capita homicide rates more than doubled: from 4.3 per 100,000 to 9.3 per 100,000. During this same period the nation's handgun p...

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... , suicide among teenagers, alcohol and drug abuse, death by violence, and disease--you have what Indians go through," said Rep. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who was the only member of congress in 1992 who identified himself as an Indian (www.2nativeamericans.com). Being stripped of its values and traditions, the Indian culture is slowly disintegrating. Indians strived for economic stability after their land ... was intruded on and basically taken away from them. Indians make up a tiny minority of the United States population and live mostly in poverty and isolation. For this reason, many Ind...

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... represents a statistically significant decrease from the estimate of 11.4 percent in 1997. The rate was highest in 1979 16.3 percent, declined to 5.3 percent in 1992, then increased to 10.9 percent in 1995. The estimate of cocaine users 12 and older in the us in 1998 was 1.8 million people down from its peak in 1985 of 3 percent of the total population in the united states. Current statistics show that a large number ... 't want to drive a car without all the parts on it or fly in a plane that is missing a vital screw that someon! e forgot to put in. The smallest on the job mistake could...

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... different world than that of our founders. The rise of the United States into world dominance, the shift of population into the cities, and the increase of drug use and violence has produced great change in our society. Americans once feared the loss of the free state would come from foreign invasion or political corruption, but now the greatest threat is the ... activists, the issue is about crime and the regulation of the weapons used to commit these crimes. In their opinion, law-abiding citizens should have no need for guns. In this respect, the big controversy seems shallow. However...

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... different world than that of our founders. The rise of the United States into world dominance, the shift of population into the cities, and the increase of drug use and violence has produced great change in our society. Americans once feared the loss of the free state would come from foreign invasion or political corruption, but now the greatest threat is the ... activists, the issue is about crime and the regulation of the weapons used to commit these crimes. In their opinion, law-abiding citizens should have no need for guns. In this respect, the big controversy seems shallow. However...

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... that takes them to another level. Other teens smoke pot because they are curious or because of peer pressure. The drug use in America is not decreasing. "Between 1992 and 1995 the marijuana usage among 12-17 year olds doubled. Sixty percent of kids who use mariju! ana before the ... use cocaine than non marijuana smoking peers (Newsweek 2)." "If drugs did not exist then our governors would have intended them, to make the population more vulnerable to arrest and imprisonment (Vanity Fair 4)." Marijuana use has many problems that range from short term to long effects. Either way ... those...

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... at how much money certain corporations donate to these people for their campaigns. Judith Hendry points out Rush Limbaugh as a Wise Use supporter in the supplemental reading packet. Is Limbaugh really a person who gives no regard to the environment, or is his partisanship really that bad? ... This leads to a question of which states are known as Republican strong holds. These states are usually the states that have very little population and lots of public land. So who are the leaders and followers of the Wise Use movement? David Helvarg describes them as anyone with ... as a "conserv...

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... contribute to politicians as they choose. This unregulated money represents a certain instability in our representative political system as the privileged people of America are drowning out fair elections with unlimited campaign contributions. "According to one study of the 1992 congressional elections, less than 1 percent of the population provided candidates with 77 percent of their money" (Jezer 2). Thus, the ... overwhelming majority of a candidate's funds come from the wealthiest people in our nation. These prosperous contributors have become power brokers, like the party bosses ....

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... According to the government census, 52.7% of America is Christian. That is a very large percentage when you take into consideration all of the other religions that exist. With this fact in mind, President Bush turned the conflict into a religious war. Although it should not matter what god a person prays to, many people out there will roll over when you say ... not allow any interference from another's faith to have sway on a political party. The Federal Election Commission sued the Christian Coalition "During the campaign periods prior to the 1990, 1992 and 1994 federal elections, Chri...

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