Child Poverty in the United States Tracy Crawford April 29‚ 2012 University of Phoenix When we think of children living in poverty‚ most might think it is mainly a problem in third world countries. We have all see the commercials asking for donations to help the children from countries in Africa but how often do we hear about the children in the United States? In the past decade child poverty has been on the rise in this country. Child poverty has long and short-term hardships
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Europeans only arrived to the shores of Western Africa‚ and would offer products to the Africans who would then go into villages‚ snatch some of their own people‚ and take them to the shores to trade with Europeans. Some of them were also captives of war between African tribes. These Africans had no idea where they were going and what was waiting for them there. The Africans were raped from their lives‚ and went through condemned separation from their
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Xuliang(Marshall) Guan English 310‚ Section 4 2013/12/18 Final Draft Research Essay I. Introduction In the current society of the United State‚ the rampage of gun violence is one of the most serious problems. We can see the plenty of shooting issues occur frequently on the front page of the newspaper. There were 8583 homicides by firearms in 2011‚ out of 12‚664 homicides total‚ according to the FBI. This means that more than two-thirds of homicides involve a firearm. Guns are also involved
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“ Each day in the United States‚ there are an average of 5400 Suicide attempts by young people grades 7-12.” The question is‚ what are parents doing to prevent it. Most parents don’t see the warning signs of suicide. When it happens the parents are left thinking what caused it‚ when sometimes is parents that cause suicide.Teen suicide is no joke and it needs be taken seriously. The causes and signs of teen suicide are mostly present in the teens ages 10-20 in the United States. According to jasonfoundation
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Cyber Wars After viewing his report‚ I am shocked to hear about the risk our country is in. This report stated various ways in which foreign countries and even our own U.S. Citizens can hack into our databases and steal our countries most vital information. I believe that the thought of our worlds information systems to be attacked is highly possible. They were discussing how people are hacking into banks and stealing thousands to millions of dollars everyday‚ into our oil and electricity plants
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unexplainable behavior issues‚ slurred speech‚ shaking and frequent tremors‚ and unstable relationships. Tobacco is a leading cause of death in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ smoking cigarettes results in over four hundred eighty thousand premature deaths in America per year. This is about one in every five deaths in the United States. For every death from smoking‚ thirty additional people suffer from at least one tobacco related disease. Even though
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The causes and effects of obesity in the United States Introduction Obesity‚ a medical condition where people are overweight in an unhealthy way‚ has become increasingly serious in recent decades. It has numerous destructive influences on people’s health. Thus‚ it is necessary to analyse the causes and effects of obesity. In the United States‚ one of the most obesity-epidemic nations‚ approximately 17 per cent of adolescents and 33.8 per cent of adults are obese (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
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Poverty and Inequality in the United States Capitalism demands that “wealth is on top and debt is on the bottom” (Salon.com) Income inequality rates are higher in the United States than any other developed democracy and the rates are growing. Large corporations and the top 1% get breaks that the middle and lower class do not. Such as tax breaks‚ bailouts‚ and bankruptcy laws being loosened. It can be argued that capitalism is the number one cause of poverty. In order for capitalism
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Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States affecting more than 40 million people. Anxiety is a small word used to describe a large set of emotions‚ such as worry‚ nervousness‚ fear‚ or a feeling of unease. Anxiety can also be a more permanent state of nervousness that is considered a mental illness usually accompanied by compulsive behavior and panic attacks. The impact of an anxiety disorder is very serious and while it is highly treatable more than one third of people
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Prominent in the 1930s until the beginning of World War II‚ the Great Depression was responsible for a mass unemployment. At the same time‚ the United States also encountered a much larger influx of people migrating from Asia; the biggest group being Chinese‚ Japanese‚ and Filipino. The second wave of this migration was in part due to the liberation of the Philippines from Spanish colonization and the start of a period when the Philippines became a part of U.S. territory. This then allowed Filipinos
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