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A Personal Perspective of Why a College Education is So Important

In this three page essay the author presents their own perspective of why a college education is critical. Written with some refe...

Minority Police Officers - Are More of Them Needed?

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

Treating a Hispanic Alcohol Abuser

are distinctive patterns of drug and alcohol abuse within the Hispanic population. Overall, Hispanics use alcohol at rates simila...

From Ellis Island to JFK by Nancy Foner, Asians, and Hispanics

from South America and Mexico are not the same. They possess different traditions, religions, social practices and are in essence,...

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

American Southwest and the Severing of Hispanic Regional Control

common practice for the Spanish crown to grant land to individuals, communities and parishes. With the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidal...

A Jury Selection Experiment and Prejudice

A paper that contains eight pages considers a student submitted case study in which a white man is found not guilty and an Hispani...

Prejudice and a Jury Experiment

the control and experimental groups and what exactly was accomplished. A student will want to point out that an attempt to explain...

Math Classrooms and Cultural Sensitivity

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

Community Colleges, Hispanic Students, and the Impacts of Financial Aid During the First Year

is accentuate by the way in which students are admitted to college. Higher level institutions rate high schools and so they will l...

Nursing Profession and Hispanics

of the great need for Hispanic nurses which has been created by the growing Hispanic population, this occupational choice presents...

Group Work and Alderian Therapy

to move beyond only the routine approach to group work, she still provides an overview of group counseling theory as a foundation....

Spanish Language as Cultural Expression

in a particular cultural and language community-that is, language allows us to be able to communicate in a culturally appropriate ...

Hispanic Culture and the Family

several Southern and Midwest states Hispanics populations have more than doubled during the decade of the 1990s. Their numbers ha...

Group Labeling and an Investigation of Differences VI

reveals that "70% of Cuban Americans, 64% of Puerto Ricans, and 50% of Mexican Americans 25 years-of-age and over have graduated f...

New York City Politics and the Effects of Religious and Ethnic Groups

in New York, regardless of numbers. This is because New York City is "home to the nations largest community of American Jews" ("N...

Reality and Hispanic Cinema

brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...

Hispanics Assisted by George W. Bush's Views on Affirmative Action

works, one he personally put into action in Texas. Bush has stated that he is not happy with the amount of racial diversity...

Social Behavior from a Structural Perspective

bitterness in reporting that she took care of her mother and her entire family even as a young girl. Given that "the mention of h...

Hispanic Population and the Banking Industry

Global Banking Heavyweights Are Racing to Cater to the Banking Needs of the Fast-growing Hispanic Population. Monica Campbell Repo...

High Rates of Dropouts Among Hispanics Addressed by Social Workers

given that they did so before they ever entered the U.S., an address of the factors that cause Hispanic students in the U.S. schoo...

Texas Crime and Minorities

in Texas is immense and far-reaching. Bratschi (1995) contends the ultimate factor in the overwhelming racial bias within mass me...

Pediatric Obesity/Overweight

for "population, intervention, comparison intervention and outcome" and therefore offers nurses a structure that prompts nurses t...

Hispanic Heritage

in an after-school program that aids non-English speaking students with the requirements of their academic studies. This program h...

Diabetes Education w/Adult Hispanic Learners

well as aid those Latinos/Hispanics who have been diagnosed with diabetes, nurses have to confront the problems involved with poor...

A Domestic Violence Project for Immigrant Hispanic Women

that large populations of children are exposed to violent disagreements in their homes and that Hispanic children are likely to ex...

Domestic Violence/Immigrant Hispanic Women

in the face of adversity" (Greene 2). Studies of risk and resilience are similar in structure to epidemiological investigations ...

Diabetes Self-Management - Hispanic Patients

has always been about the development of autonomy, equality, social justice and democracy" (Mezirow, 1999). The transformative app...

Mexican-American Homeless & Programs

research that has investigated the characteristics of new Latin American immigrants has determined several characteristics that ma...

Cultural Cohesiveness and Distinction in the Latino/Hispanic Population

a multitude of cultural groups. Consider, for example, the tendency of the dominant US culture to lump all people of Asian herita...