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recommendations is that, as student affair professionals, we should find ways to “hook” students to spend more time and energy in collegiate life. For example, we can help students build closer relationship with faculty, and help them find NEW peer groups. Since Mudd is a small, residential liberal art college, programs designed to create a living-learning community are suggested. Hiring more student-workers, creating meet-ups for students of similar interests, hosting cross-residence-hall…

1. Introduction The disparities in hypertension prevalence in various racial or ethnic groups exist since 1960, being highest in the non-Hispanic African-American adults . Apart from having higher prevalence of hypertension, this group reportedly has poor blood pressure control as compared to non-Hispanic whites , and poor adherence . One of the theories used to explain medication adherence behavior in patients with hypertension is Bandura’s Self-efficacy theory. Self-efficacy is the person’s…

Female university students attitudes towards physical exercise and their exercise habits. (1. Survey to assess what forms if any of physical exercise they are completing, how often? 2. focus groups to assess why they do or do not exercise and their attitudes in general to physical exercise.) In recent years the rate of female participation in exercise has increased as health issues have been raised (Park Sang et al, 2012: 99). Physical exercise has is an essential lifestyle element and has been…

Heather Dande Professor Ruget POL 379: Final Exam Section 1 1. Elections & democracy reduce the risk of violence (chap. 1) Answer: True and False Explanation: Collier found that the effect of elections and democracy on violence in poor and rich countries had radically different outcomes (Collier, 20). On one hand, this is true because the data collected confirmed that in middle-income level countries, democracy reduced the risk of political violence. On the other hand, this is false because in…

The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald first published in 1925 focuses on the issue of the American dream and its effects on social groups in American society. The novel focuses on the affluence of the east egg and the west egg and comments on the false egalitarian nature of society that restricts specific social groups from achieving the American dream. The text shows a dramatic contrast between the rich and the poor and it is through this that we see the impact of the materialistic…

17th century when police officials were allowed to stop and detain Negroes. The practice has continued since that time despite the abolishment of slavery and American ideology of liberty and equal rights. In the modern age, several ethnic minority groups are victims of racial profiling including African Americans and Latinos. However, the latest and currently the biggest victims of racial profiling are the Middle-Easterners/Muslims. In the post 9/11 era, the word Muslim has become synonymous…

levels of democratic inclusion. Inclusion is defined by a “full access to participation, representation in important decision-making processes and institutions, influence in/power over government decisions, adoption of public policies that address group concerns or interests, and socioeconomic parity” (Hero, Wolbrecht, 2005, p. 4). Full access to participation is the first in illustrating the meaning of inclusion. A system of democracy that does not offer all of its citizens the means to…

Introduction Race and ethnicity are integral part of our world. As time has evolved race in our society has become very complicated. Since the 1600s through 1800s racial categories have developed and they keep developing. (Peek, Lori) As Golash Boza said, “In the United States, one of the first things we notice about someone we meet is race.” (Golash-Boza) As time has passed and I have gotten older I’ve understood the importance of my racial and ethnicity background. I have gotten a sense of my…

Police Hostility Towards Aboriginal People In the case of an emergency, police forces are the first to receive a call – as it is a lesson we are taught since childhood. They are our protectors from any type of malicious harm without regard to our ethnic background or our genders. In retrospect, has equality been the major focal point of police forces or does your ethnicity really come into question when in a life or death situation? This essay shall look at police hostility towards Aboriginal…

Berry discussed acculturation on the individual level and stated that even despite there being overall changes within a group, individuals’ changes might vary significantly as a part of these collective changes. The theory emphasizes factors prior and during the process of acculturation (pre-arrival and post-arrival) as well as highlights group and cultural (i.e. political context) and social/psychological (social factors, language proficiency) variables that influence the acculturation…