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Diabetes Articles, Reflection, Synthesis

of literature pertaining to type 2 diabetes mellitus, begins by describing, summarizing and analyzing the study conducted by Barko...

ELL Disproportionte and Special Education

Minority and linguistically diverse students have had a disproportionate special education placement history. It continues today. ...

Art and Mourning, A Reflection

This essay pertains to "The Art of Collecting Lightbulbs" by Michael Kimmelman and "False Identifications: Minority Populations Mo...

Canadian Immigration, Racial Minorities and Attitudes

This research paper reports on the Bilodeau, Turgeon and Karakoc (2012) study, which explored the attitudes of white Canadians tow...

Four Countries: Analysis of Minority/Ethnic Rights

This research paper describes the issues associated with minority and ethnic rights within the context of the United States, Russi...

Asthma Effects on Minorities in School

treatments available to them in fighting the disease. Their reactions are significantly reduced by using oral corticosteroids, eno...

Issues in Juvenile Crime

This research paper addresses the fact that juvenile crime, overall, declined in 2001, but drug arrested increased. The writer de...

Logical Fallacies and Philosophy in Minority Report

if the "future is set and cannot be altered or whether free will makes that future a possibility rather than a certainty" (Berardi...

Racism in the Criminal Justice System

Dies, Who Decides," 2010). It is hard to dispute this observation. Yet, the other side of the coin contends that there are more bl...

The Criminal Justice System, Discrimination and Disparity

Americans are "overrepresented" in the criminal justice system. There is a disparity between the number of blacks in the U.S. and ...

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...

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...

Overrepresentation Of Minorities In Special Education

typically live in poor neighborhoods, which means their neighborhood schools will be mostly populated with other poor students. Ba...

Racial Profiling and Racial Discrimination

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...