Population Control Essay

Marginality of American Asians In the United States, Asians encompass 6% of the total population. There are now 17.3 million Asian Americans, up from 6.9 million in 1990, in the United States. Asian Americans are currently the fastest growing population in America (Census data, n.d.). The rise of Asian Americans really tweaked my interest in Asian Culture. Asian culture is one that I have very little knowledge. In my teaching experiences, there have been very few Asian Americans in my…

Homogamy, defined as the similarity between partners, plays an important role in the gene pool, the distribution of resources, and the social relations in communities. In Partner Choice and Homogamy in the Nineteenth Century: Was There a Sexual Revolution in Europe?, Marco H.D. van Leeuwen and Ineke Maas (2002) used qualitative and quantitative data from nineteenth century northern Sweden to determine if there was a move from homogamy to heterogamy. They found little support for decreasing…

The given bar chart is about German immigration to the US. The data is taken from the US Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services and especially from their web page “http://uscis.gov”. The graph shows the amount of Germans immigration to the US at different times during the 20th century. It covers a period of 100 years. The information is represented through a horizontal bar chart, which shows the data in absolute numbers in thousand. In the time span from 1901 to 1910 almost 350.000…

wasn’t until the 1970s when you first started to see the hispanic community move in along with asians, and black people. By the 1990s the hispanic population jumped to 17,000, and the asian community jumped to 1,000. While the white population was starting to decline slowly, since the 1930 where the white population was at 60,000 by the 1990s the white population was at 37,000. By 2000…

In Edin and Schaefer’s $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America book, they use the first chapter “Welfare is Dead” to talk about the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The AFDC was a sixty-year-old program that provided cash assistance to families with children, implemented up until 1996 when it was replaced with the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. The program first began in 1935 during the midst of the Great Depression. Back then, people had…

(2012) and Alzheimer’s Association (2013) predict that the global population affected by dementia might increase by 79.8 million people over nearly 40 years from 2011 (Cheung et al., 2015). In Vietnam, the population is expected to enter the aging phase with ten percent of older adults aged 60 and over in the country in 2017 at a much faster pace than other countries, such as Sweden, Japan, and Thailand (United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Vietnam, 2010, 2011). Notably, dementia has been…

I. Penetration The data for this study were drawn from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It provided the Medicare Advantage (MA) plan penetration rates at the state/county level. In this study we compare the following counties: Broward, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Orange (Home County). Exhibit 1 shows the market penetration for the months of December throughout 2012-2015. Each line represents a different county. As you can see in Palm Beach County the…

What color is love? Rora Blue, an artist, has many fascinating pieces of work; but the most famous project may have confirmed what color people imagine love to be. Almost two years ago, Blue started a project called “The Unsent Project”. The artist created an archive for people to submit texts they’d like to send to their first love. In addition to writing what they feel, people pick a color they associate with their first love. The colors people can choose for their texts range from white to…

The strength in the lower limbs is recognized as a strong predictor of functional limitations in the elderly (Hyatt, Whitelaw, Bhat, Scott, & Maxwell, 1990), both institutionalized (Bassey et al., 1992; Fukagawa, Wolfson, Judge, Whipple, & King, 1995; Rantanen, Guralnik, Ferrucci, Leveille, & Fried, 1999) as those who live independently in the community (Foldvari et al., 2000; Gross, Stevenson, Charette, Pyka, & Marcus, 1998). As an overall physical capacity strength is of great importance to…

Introduction The number of adults over the age of 65 in the United States has drastically increased in the last few decades. In 1970, 9.8% of the United States population was 65 and older, in 2010 13%, and by 2030 more than 20% of the United States population is projected to be 65 years of age and older (Ortman, Velkoff, & Hogan, 2014). Consequently, the problems and challenges of aging are an important societal concern. Age-related normal and pathologic cognitive changes have been well…