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Pilot Study on Cancer Diagnosis and Minorities

suggests that there is a level of stigmatization and fear that is prevalent in minority communities that reduces the chances that ...

Minority Healthcare Disparities

U.S. health care system, shares some of the biases of that system (Eichner and Vladeck, 2005, p. 365). Instead of helping, Medica...

Germany, Japan, and UK Identity Politics

cherished force in creating the national identity" (Allott, 1998). Minorities, therefore, seem to be less important in this conte...

Parole, Probation, and Sociological Factors

twenty-five years. Last year just under 2.1 million offenders are incarcerated around the country (Whitford, 2004). Another 15 m...

Iran's Kurds

but others see federalism as reasonable (2005). They believe that they can be a nation within a state. Radical groups do not se...

Minority and Aging Issues

minorities, those who are now sixty-five or older, experienced the realities of coming through the civil rights movement. They hav...

Minorities and the Military

of those who enlist in the military for the first time are African Americans, which is "well above the African-American fraction o...

Ethnic Minorities and Paradise Lost by Peter Schrag

generous in regards to social welfare and progressive policies, according to Schrag. This situation has changed drastically accord...

Social Justice and California Juvenile Hall's Minority Student Education

more of the same behavior the recovery programs seek to overcome. A recent study has shown undeniable evidence that boot camp and...

Minorities and Low Income Groups and Investigation of Differences III

likelihood of ... overrepresentation in the criminal justice system" (Smith in Hanson, 2000; p. 77). Hispanics Point. Stud...

California Minority Arrests

Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts, 2006). "In California the rate for Latinos is 9.4 per...

Sexual Minorities and Discrimination

is a "century-old belief that governments, both state and federal, should not be allowed to discriminate" the constitutional promi...

Peremptory Judicial Challenge and Racial Minorities

exclusively white legal society (Scherer 655). Political scientist Samuel Krislov agrees, adding that minority jurists reflect mi...

The Magnificent Seven Film and the Cowboy Mentality

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

Federalist No. Fifty One by James Madison

Madison is whether utilitarianism has a place in the framework of Americas Constitution and if it does, to what extent is this ass...

Ethnic Discrepancies Regarding Cases of Asthma

in the prevalence of asthma. Akinbami, Rhodes & Lara (2005) suggest that "many studies have demonstrated that these large disparit...

Minorities Overrepresented in Special Education

for special education services (Samuels, 2005). It honed in on the minority problem as well. Samuels (2005) writes: "Districts wit...

Poverty : Causes And Effects

the five states with the highest rates of poverty were New Mexico, Arkansas, West Virginia, Louisiana and Texas (Rodgers, Payne an...

Under-Representation of Minorities in Sports Leadership Positions

however, has been questioned, but there is probably some truth to it. To take a trivial example, if we see a black janitor in a sc...

Administrative Position Paper: Excessive Force

upheld. This in turn has created liability and civil suits for the city, and has tarnished the image for both the city and the de...

Racial Profiling and Racial Discrimination

"episodic" view of discrimination is probably inadequate because of the cumulative effects of discrimination (Measuring racial dis...

The Vietnamese in Houston

and Fort Worth has a population of 16,000 less than Houston. Slide 3 The Vietnamese population is important to the area and i...

Odessa, TX/Race Relations

the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...

Lead Poisoning and Asthma

Joseph, Havstad, Ownby, Peterson, et al (2005) explore lead poisoning as it relates to asthma. These researchers explore the hypo...

American Industrialization: 1877-1920

qualifications to be president, except that he looked like one," took office (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 669). A Republican who turn...

Psychological Article Reviews

article acknowledges the perceived weaknesses within a particular culture; however, it also identifies the fact that all students ...

The Issue of Equality and Efforts to Achieve Equality

be representative numbers of minorities within the results. Feminists and activist groups not only took to the equality of opportu...

Minority Men and Women and the Obstacles That Confront Them

the still stringent attitude society takes in relation to minority women in the workplace. The rumblings of gender inequity were ...

Australian Universities and Ethnic Minorities

to place limitations on the educational opportunities of children from any non-dominant groups (Blackledge, 2001). Bullivant (1984...

Pregnant Adolescent Minorities and the Treatment and Prevention of Substance Abuse

think, to work on this area. For example, a counselor discovers that because of a childhood trauma, she has an unreasonable dislik...