Demographics of the United States

As a country founded on the ideals of freedom and liberty, the United States of America created a Constitution with democracy at its core. Although the Framers strenuously debated on how democratic the Constitution should be, the product of their efforts produced a document that has served as the basis for the democratic republic that America is today. However, some individuals, such as Robert Dahl, a political theorist and an author, illustrate the specific areas of the Constitution that have…

implementations in the United States have caused persistent conflicts between those who want protection and those who want to keep their civil liberties. Moreover, Many citizens were not aware of this conflict prior to the gruesome aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack. This devastation, referred to as 9/11, was the result of an attack on the World Trade Center in New York City and an attack on the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. As a result, the United states’ government promptly…

According to research, people who had attained a higher education level lived a healthier life, in contrast to those who had a lower standard of education (Spivack, 2011). In the United States, white people attain a higher education level than the Hispanic community, meaning that the Hispanic population averaged a less healthy lifestyle compared to the white community (Kotecki, 2012). The research shows that 6 out of 10 persons with…

want to write, so if I could copy one in here that would be phenomenal. However, I can 't, and therefore must write about what it means to be an American. It is the tendency of people to identify themselves with a group. Whether that be a team, a state, town, gang, school, country, it doesn 't really matter. People love to be a part of something bigger than themselves, and countries are no different and definitively fall into this category. Countries are normally relatively simple to group. For…

entitled “The Revolution against Affirmative Action in California: Racism, Economics, and Proposition 209 by authors R. Michael Alvarez of California Institute of Technology and Lisa Garcia Bedolla of University of California, Irvine. In this article, it states majority of the citizens of California approved to banned the use of affirmative action (Proposition 209). The authors conduct an experiment to see if the people who voted for this proposition were by race and racial attitudes. The…

on TV. As an avid connoisseur of pop culture and popular television, the practice queerbaiting the audience and/or killing minority characters is a distressing trend that contributes to the continuing prejudice against LGBTQ people across the United States and around the world. Pop culture influences the citizens (and leaders) of our nation, who then vote and promote policy, which shapes the future citizenry, who then vote...and the cycle continues. If our culture continues to demonize those…

The article focuses on the population of English language learners who also speak Spanish. The concept being researched in the study is language screening that is used for children that have not yet entered the kindergarten. With the increase in bilingual population, there is a need for an accurate screener that is appropriate for Spanish-English speakers and could detect possible language impairments (LI). Through the use of the Bilingual English Spanish Oral Screener (BESOS), researchers…

self-interest are often measured relative to efficiency. However, this is not the only aspect that should commend the acceptability of a business sector’s technique of increasing profits and reducing cost. The privatization of prisons or involvement in state prisons by companies that gain from the forced labor of prisoners advanced by high numbers, low wage and extremely long sentences is one system that brings strong moral questions to mind. Prisoners acquiring jobs in jail, no matter how…

California is a dynamic state whose needs are in the eternal realm of changing and adjusting because of the growing population. Correspondingly, every county experiences different problems, and most of those problems require strategic problem solving because there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution. This is the essence of California’s political system. The counties are the legal entities responsible for governing and protecting segments of the population. Whereas, the state is responsible for…

Realizing that cultural diversity is not the same thing as demographics, what is the changing nature of cultural diversity in the United States today and in the likely future? Cultural diversity refers to the differences in how individuals in different societal setting do things. Cultural diversity is a wide facet of social sciences that focuses mainly on how individuals appreciate the various phenomena that exist in the society. Demographics on the other hand is a general science that deals in…