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Alcohol and Teens

prevalence of teenage alcohol abuse are major public health problems in the United States. Nobody denies the simple fact that th...

Native American Past and Present Historical Issues

diseases such as smallpox, malaria, measles, cholera, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, whooping cough, mumps, influenza and typhoid fe...

Native American Issues

In six pages issues of land, leadership, and health as they pertain to Native Americans throughout the course of history are discu...

Addressing the Problem of Native American Suicide

water for a significant percentage of these people. The dissolution of the nuclear family is another problem that should be mor...

How Could Global Warming Affect Our Health?

no longer escape from our atmosphere as effectively as it once did. This couples with clear cutting that removes trees that actua...

Chinese Americans, A Cultural Assessment

in the 1960s a new wave of immigrants resulted. Since the early 1970s, roughly 250,000 "Chinese intellectuals, scientists and engi...

Adolescent and Child Obesity

In eleven pages the problem of obesity in American children is examined in terms of adolescent health risks and causes that includ...

Asian American Senior Citizens and Their Counseling Needs

is nonlinear and the cultural effects on elderly living arrangements persist longer than expected, especially as it concerns mode...

Airline Industry After Terrorist Attacks of 2001

spirit, that the company regrouped, restructured and in many instances showing a profit despite the ongoing hostilities with bin L...

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension a.k.a. DASH

documented that "total cholesterol levels were reduced in patients following the DASH diet by an average of 7.3 percent and LDL-C ...

Article Critique/Dypsnea in the Obese

review or even a description of their own research, which led them to the conclusions that they indicate. The inclusion of even a...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

Health Beliefs of African Americans

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

The European PHEC and the American DTC

advertising in the US Since the mid-1980s, the FDA has allowed DTC advertising in the US. Originally, a few DTC ads were allowed ...

The Computer’s Impact on Society

computer people would call one another on the telephone or they would write a letter. If they wanted to send someone a picture the...

Evidence of the Integration of Quantitative Methods in U.S. Society

This 8 page paper provides an overview of the use of qualitative methods in U.S. society. This paper uses examples from AT&T, Coc...

Gender and Sport in American Society

The ideological and political representation of sports are on some level the same for both men and women in that sports are part o...

The Influence of Television on American Society

1977, p. 4). For children in particular, there is no activity that permits as much intake "while demanding so little outflow" (Win...

Jerry Mander/The Indian Worldview

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

Issues: Robert Oppenheimer The Inequality of the Draft and Illegal Immigrants Trying to Avoid Exportation Because They are in High School

This is just 3 examples of the types of moral dilemmas we sometimes face in American Society. There are four sources listed in thi...

Comparing the 50s and the 80s

This essay contrasts and compares various aspects of the 1950s American society to that of the 1980s. Five pages in length, five s...

American Cancer Society and Cancer Services

This research paper describes characteristics pertaining to cancer services and information offered by the American Cancer Society...

Minority-Owned Media Outlets

is cause for serious concern (Rawls, 2003, See also Wilson and Gutierrez, 1995). "The cultural, economic and social gap between w...

The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in American Society

means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...

The Nonprofit Sector and American Society

means that while these organizations serve a public purpose of some sort, they also "meet the interests, needs and desires of the ...

Society and Politics of Italian Americans

For example, they like to focus on characters such as Al Capone instead of individuals who contributed a great deal to America and...

Engines and the Development of a Superpower

The new mode of transportation and the new roads it needed meant that people no longer had to live close to work, and suburbs deve...

American Society and Body Image

is telling women that they should be very, very thin. While perhaps some women can shrug off such images--like Camryn Manheim who ...