Explain why the Hispanic vote is becoming more important in US elections (10 marks) Hispanics are a growing group in the USA in terms of politics, this can be seen through demographics, according to the 2000 census, they did form 12% of the population, but by the 2010 census this figure has increased over 16% (51 million people) this was due to immigration and birth rates, therefore over the years they have become more influential as they are now a larger proportion or the electorate. Furthermore
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studies reviewed…found that African Americans and Hispanics were more likely than Whites to be sentenced to prison, even after taking crime seriousness and prior criminal records into account” (as cited in Hartney & Vuong, 2009, p.10). In 2010, racially the United States population identified as being comprised of 196.8 million Whites who identified as White alone (69.1%), 38.9 million Blacks or African Americans (12.6%), and 50.5 million Hispanics (16.3%) (2010 Census Brief, 2011). However, Of those
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My goals in both of these areas have always been shaped by my love of language, English and otherwise. As a child, I would pride myself on looking up new words to pepper throughout my everyday speech, as well as in drawing upon my Hispanic heritage to come up with new, childish insults to tell my few friends about at the lunchroom table. As I grew older, my affinity for both English and Spanish often attracted the attention of my instructors, who, often specializing in one or the other
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Di Wu 2010–06–04 Chapter 6 native Americans In this chapter, we learn about history and development of Native American. This chapter consist of three parts , history of native; how federal polices effect on native American ; what situation the native American in today. After reading this chapter, I think racism is a very painful problem in the United States. of the first acts of racism in American was against the Native Americans. At first, the Native Americans were the Europeans’ friends. The
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Exploring Parental Factors, Adjustment, and Academic Achievement Among White and Hispanic College Students Ani Yazedjian Michelle L. Toews Alice Navarro The purpose of this study was to examine whether college adjustment mediated the relationship between parental factors, such as parental attachment, parental education, and parental expectations, and academic achievement among White and Hispanic first-year college students. We found that adjustment mediated the relationship between parental
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relationship or when working with people from a Hispanic culture there are many things that one should consider in order to have a successful relationship. Over the last several weeks we have studied many topics to enhance our ability to work with other cultures. In the first topic we chose a culture to learn about that would benefit our organization in learning how to enhance our communication skills in with. My chosen culture was the Hispanic culture as we have many suppliers and co-workers
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paper, the reader would be taking through a roller coaster that will give a brief history of racism, how it grew, how it was supposedly said to have ended. A number of races have suffered racism in America, some of which are African-Americans, Hispanics, Latinos and Indians. However, my focus will be on African
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Consideration of Heritage Carolyn E. Armstrong Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family Centered Health Promotion October 5, 2014 Consideration of Heritage Many different cultural backgrounds have integrated into our society, as we know it today. Cultural diversity is growing by record numbers in the United States, and providing healthcare to this growing population becomes more complicated due to the diverse needs of individuals. As our population diversifies our healthcare delivery systems
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Rebekah Nhim Dr. Rodriguez CHLS 350 Latinos in Sentencing Decisions and Strategies to Reduce Sentencing Rates Throughout the United States, there has been Racial Disparity that has led Latinos to be marginalized. Racial Disparity mainly exists in the criminal justice system and results from “differential treatment by the criminal justice system of similarly situated people based on race.” Many Latinos has experienced Racial Disparity in the criminal justice system when it comes to sentencing and
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Benefits of Diversity in Law Enforcement Author Note This paper was prepared for Managing Diversity, MAJ 6603, taught by Professor Wilson. Abstract In this paper we will discuss the advantages of diversity within law enforcement, its community and recruitment programs. We will review the benefits of implementing theories, concepts, and leadership skills throughout law enforcement to ensure that all personnel are treated with respect and dignity. Exploration of barriers could be broken
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