United States communities with Hispanic majority populations

year’s presidential campaign immigration has become an important issue. The Department of Homeland Security indicates that there are 11.4 million illegal immigrants within the United States; however, only about 1 million immigrants are lawfully granted permanent residency each year (“Immigration Statistics Fast Facts”). The majority of the presidential candidates advocate for immigration reform, but no one’s idea of reform is as interesting as that of Donald Trump. Donald Trump entered the race…

and historians that collaborated under the direction of very well-known Chicana artist Judith Francisca Baca. Judith wanted to make sure that the young people understood the artwork they created. Therefore, historians, scholars, ethnologists and community members met with participants throughout the process. The objective was to paint over 1000 feet of California history from prehistoric times all the way to 1900’s in the Tujunga Wash drainage canal in the San Fernando Valley. The great wall…

Childhood obesity is defined as being at or above the 95th percentile on the 2000 body mass index for age and gender growth charts of the Center for Disease Control (CDC). There is an increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in the United States of America and worldwide as well. The incidence of childhood obesity has more than doubled in children 2-5 years of age and 12-19 years of age and more than tripled in children 6-11 years of age (Ogden et al., 2002). According to the International…

immigration is defined as foreign peoples entering the United States without the permission from the government. Government permission is given in the form of a visa. These visas are issued to individuals and are good for a certain amount of time. Immigration is also considered illegal when individuals with visas stay beyond the expiration of their visa. In 2008, the Center for Immigration studies estimated the number of illegal immigrants in the United States to be just over 10 million. This…

What is makes a family? The family unit across cultures is as diverse as the many landscapes of our world. While the view on the family seems to be set by Western ideals, the majority of the globe has a more complex family structure which includes not only the nuclear unit of a father, mother and children, but a more extended unit consisting of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. There has been much change in the family structure in the past few decades the nuclear family is becoming…

Unprecedented willingness to control the population’s actions and direction have been an invisible fundamental to the American government since the 1930s. Most specifically, the systematic attack that been in the effort of destroying the use of popular recreational herb has been classified and broadened its responsibility and tentacles of oppression. Oppression which has reached into most notably, several key minority groups. In this piece, I will argue that the War on Drugs has been a cruel…

Department for my Community Risk Reduction Action Plan. I will take a look at the Fire Department and community for W.41st St. Cleveland, OH and the obstacles that are faced internally and externally. For But to get the true understanding of the community risk reduction one must understand what the city of Cleveland has gone through in the past couple years and see it from Management and the street level aspect. Ohio has a diverse demographic throughout the state. The estimated population in…

conducted by David card showed that 50% of Cubans that immigrated during the Mariel boatlift decided to reside in Miami permanently ( quote). This resulted in a 7% increase and workers in the Miami market and a 20% increase in the Cuban working population ( Card). The study also showed that the employment rate rose from 5% in April 1987 .1% in July 1980. in 1990 looked at the bottom quarter of workers in Miami and concluded that the Mariel boatlift had had virtually no effect on the wages of low…

The United States is a prison society. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world – more than historically harsh societies such as Russia and China; we sentence people to longer sentences than other nations; and we are one of the only developed countries who still practice the death penalty. Our rate of incarceration increased a staggering 700% from 1970 to 2005 (banking on bondage pg 5, 11) and, as of 2013, 1 out of every 110 adults in the USA are in jail or prison, with a further 1 in…

It is often rare to apply one’s ability of observation. In countries such as the United States, many citizens have become oblivious to their surroundings, and consequently the people in them. Throughout the duration of this assignment, I was made aware of this social structure, and how I have become a part of it. Most of us do not intend to compose the masses, but are conditioned from birth to refrain from deviating. This process has integrated social norms into our lives, including standards…