diploma is 3.5 times more than native born Americans. 17.6 % of immigrants and their children under 18 live under the poverty line, compared to 10.6% of native born and their offspring. Based on findings from the 2010 U.S. Census, our immigrant population reached 40 million. Said to be the largest number in US history. Although the number of immigrants is higher it only represents…
Cities have come a long way. However, from the pre-industrial times, there were merely ten thousand people that inhabited the city. According Professor Nelson in lecture, there were three reasons that caused this, “transportation of food, disease, and defense.” But since these cities were grimy, disease ridden due to lack of sanitation, why did people choose to live there? There are a couple of reasons, few being the opportunity to become economically prosperous by selling your craft, the…
economy. When looking at the expected population pyramids of Sub Saharan Africa and comparing it to that of developed area like Europe, we begin to see dramatic differences between the two regions. As of 2016, Sub Saharan Africa’s population pyramid currently displays the attributes of a stage 2 country in the demographic transition model where majority of the population is under 15 and is dependent on others until they going the working population…
1.0 Introduction As Australia’s population is increasingly ageing, several challenges and opportunities are arising for organisations nation-wide (The Australian, 2016). Several potential problems in this business include the need for succession planning (D’Netto, 1995). As expressed in the article” Volunteering in Australia 2012”, by Volunteering Australia, this need is caused by the growing population and therefore increasing demand for volunteer-based organisations, “More volunteers are…
Newspapers and book publishing was expanding. As the population became more educated people wanted a say on the way they were governed. In 1750 only a small five per cent of the population could vote in the elections in the houses of commons. But women were ruled out. Five per cent of the population could vote in the houses of common but women in 1825 still couldn’t vote. At a political meeting held in Manchester…
economic and educational development The second nursing diagnosis is the increased risk of HIV and other STD’s among the teenage/young adult population related to knowledge deficit of oral contraceptives, sex education, and increase sexual activities. The first goal for this diagnosis is to reduce the number of HIV/STD’s occurrences among the targeted population. The first objective is that both male and female will be provided sex education. An intervention for this objective is that the…
Similarly, Togo’s Fertility can be analyzed through studying different measurements taken from certain groups of the population throughout different points in time. The crude birth rate is probably the simplest and most common measurement of fertility and as of the year 2015, Togo maintained a rate of 38 births per 1,000 of the population per year. Additionally, the total fertility rate was most recently (2015) projected at 4.8, however, that projection only shows what would happen if the…
Asia is a vast and multicultural continent with an overall population of 4.3 billion people, taking up about 30% of the earth 's land. Among the 48 countries we chose Thailand, it is a country with multi economical background that we felt would be educational to study as a whole. Thailand is located in the south-eastern part of Asia with a population of 67.01 million. Approximately 65.7% of its population resides in rural areas (World Bank, 2014). It is considered an upper middle class income…
The United States has always been the land of immigrants. Immigration in the United States has an extensive history old immigrants have gone, and new immigrants have appeared. Ever since the establishment of the United States, immigration laws have been put in place, reformed, and dismantled. To immigrate to the land of freedom and opportunities has become a dream for millions of immigrants every year from all walks of life. The staggering numbers of immigrants migrating into the U.S every year…
Immigration is a hot topic in the news almost every day. They talk mostly about how bad immigration is horrible for the country and how many problems it is causing for the country and needs to be controlled. Most people hear this one side of the immigration debate and tend to agree with these ideas without seeing all sides of the arguments and seeing all of the facts. There are two different but very important sides on how immigration should be dealt with; should the United States allow…