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    Distance To Crime

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    Article 1: Age and the distance to crime. 1) In the Age and the distance to crime study, research is conducted to examine if the distance to crime varies by age, and if the distance to crime varies across different crime classifications. According to the authors, three proposals are made that suggest young offenders travel a short distance to crime that increases during adolescence; the distance to crime peaks in early adulthood and decreases as age continues to increase; and strength of…

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    Class Impact On Health

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    affluent Americans say they are in at “very good” or “excellent” health compared to poorer Americans. This dilemma is particularly worse in the United States since the income inequality gap is large and continues to rise, so those in the bottom quartiles have less access to health care. The statistics are shocking and show that an individuals’ financial status will affect a variety of different aspects of his or her life. One of the main reasons that class has an impact on health is based on…

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    Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and metals group that focuses on finding, mining, processing and marketing the Earth’s mineral resources. (Anon., 2016) Rio Tinto plc/ Rio Tinto limited are listed in London and New York Exchange list as well as in Australian Security Exchange. Rio Tinto operates in more than 40 countries and employs more than 55000 employees across all operations -open pits, underground mines, mills, refineries, smelters, power stations, and various research and service…

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    SHRB ED Data Analysis

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    of ambulances, admits, and acuity than the national benchmarks. However, the length-of-stay and left without being seen data for SHRB ED exceeds the Premier average, quartile, or median, supporting the requirement for change. Limitations of this data comparison: the SHRB ED data is an average measure versus the Premier data quartile and median statistics, Premier did not provide averages for many of the data points utilized for comparison (Premier, 2014). Evidence (5 pages) Review a minimum of…

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    Happiness Report—ranked one hundred thirty-six out of one hundred fifty-seven—is Haiti. Although this ranking is from the 2016 version of the World Happiness Report, Haiti, since the first published report, has always maintained a spot in the lower quartile—ranked one hundred fifty in 2012, one hundred twenty-six in 2013, and one hundred nineteen in 2015. Are these numbers due to Haiti’s past and socioeconomic disadvantage,…

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    part of a peer-reviewed journal called “Public Health Nutrition” which appears to be a well-respected and credible journal. According to Journal Citation Reports, the Public Health Nutrition has a 2015 impact factor of 2.433 and ranked in the second quartile within the category of Nutrition & Dietetics. The journal was also published by the Cambridge University Press, a well-known and first-rate university…

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    or where the people in the middle quintile end up. This can me measured over a person's life, or from passing on through generations. In both cases, though the numbers are different, they tend to lead to the same thing. The people in the middle quartile have an almost equal chance of going either direction, whereas the bottom tend to stay more in the bottom, and the top tend to stay more in the top. This seems contradictory from my statement earlier about how america is a meritocracy, but it…

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    Trying to find the answer to the title question found in the summary, “Is College the Best Option? chapter 16, They Say / I Say written by Cathy Birkenstein and Russell Durst, is one that has many different answers. Answers that vary, from each essay author found in chapter 16. It seems that there is no right or wrong answer. It all depends on the individual, go to college or not. We are told in junior high or in high school that we should go to college. But is it for everyone? One thing…

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    of those Americans born in the bottom quintile remain stuck there as adults”. The selectivity of who makes it up the social ladder is a prevalent aspect of our American economy. And while less than half of Americans in general stay in the bottom quartile, according to an article written by Richard Reeves: “51% of the black Americans born into the lowest fifth of the earnings distribution remain there at age 40”. This widens the gap of black americans in poverty compared to whites. So although…

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    Ratios That Matter It was the mid-nineteen hundreds when a good amount of the American families enjoyed a comfortable amount of income. Of course there was still lots of inequality in other realms aside from money like race, but the middle class at that time was living calmly. It was in this time period that televisions upgraded to color, and nearly ninety percent of the population owned one. The society was moving to a more egalitarian community with the illegalization of segregation in…

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