Health Disparities: Focus on the Filipino-American Population in the USA As a Filipino-American nurse living in Los Angeles‚ California‚ this writer has been a witness and an active participant in the multifactorial influences/aspects that affect the Filipino-Americans‚ in health and illness. Being a grandmother of wonderful grandkids has brought me further exposure to the plight of elderly Filipino-Americans in the United States of America. The Institute of Medicine’s Report on Unequal Treatment:
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Article Rebuttal: Are we dealing with Stereotype & Racial Profiling in America? LaQuita Washington BCom 275 April 11‚ 2012 Ms. Richmond Are we dealing with Stereotype & Racial Profiling in America? In America we deal with a lot of diversity. Stereotyping is one of the biggest problems we deal with particularly in law enforcement. There have been different situations where as police officers accused of going after individuals and accusing them on crime based a person background
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Running Head: Gender Disparities Towards Female Workers in El Paso Gender Disparities Towards Female Workers in El Paso Abstract Women have struggled to have their voice heard and recognized for many century’s. All though we have come a long way from 200 years ago women in the work force still have obstacles of gender inequality that may need to be attended to at this time. Our research proposal aims to study the disparities‚ between several quantitative factors of the working
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Stages in Preparing an Effective Outline for a Presentation Giving a presentation can be a daunting task‚ especially for those not inclined toward public speaking. Still‚ even people with poor speaking skills have the potential to give an effective presentation‚ no matter how large the audience. The key to delivering a compelling presentation is to prepare an effective outline. You will need to follow several guidelines to construct an organized and effective outline. Rhetorical Purpose • Identify
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Disparity vs. Discrimination (Name) (School or Course) March 2013 (Name) (Course) March 2013 Disparity vs. Discrimination In the thesaurus the phrase disparity is defined as being different‚ a lack of equality. Disparity refers to a difference in treatment or outcome‚ but one that does not necessarily result from intentional bias or prejudice. So in that we could conclude that one person’s skin and complexion is a disparity to another. The texture
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The Disparity Between Intellect and Character How do you explain the fact that morally evil people can be highly educated in terms of ethics and religion? In other words‚ how do you account for the gap that sometimes occurs between knowledge of ethics and being an ethical person? I think that people who are evil people and are educated in ethics and religion are people that may have been taught what ethics are as a child but have chosen to be non-ethical people in a sense. Just because you are
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Mandatory sentencing: judges are too soft on criminals. Their entire focus should be on punishment and retribution‚ and if they keep wasting their time with other considerations then we should introduce mandatory sentencing. To what extent do you agree and why? The sentencing system should not be altered‚ for decreasing the focus and increasing the frequency of sentencing would do more harm than good. An emphasis on merely punishment and retribution in criminal sentencing would prevent the right
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It is no doubt that Racial Profiling fully exist today. Society has been doing this for years‚ and will continue to do this for the rest of their lives. People have been targeting others based on their race. Knowing the effect it has on them‚ and just doing it to harm them. Racial profiling is everywhere. Most specifically‚ Law Enforcement. Officers of the law have been known to use racial profiling when it comes to African Americans. There has been several reportings of officers using excessive
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Racial and socioeconomic factors‚ however‚ are not independent of each other‚ as we have seen. Minorities‚ and in this paper I discuss African Americans mostly‚ have less access to jobs and education‚ thereby reducing their access to adequate or good health insurance‚ which then limits the type and amount of health care they can receive. Additionally‚ as we discussed in class‚ individuals classified as minorities have less opportunities than the White majority in part‚ at the very least‚ due to racial
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morning/ afternoon Introduction: Within recent years‚ a variety of issues have been proven to be associated with mandatory minimum sentencing laws. With the laws affecting a significant demographic of minorities‚ issues such as prison overpopulation‚ unfair judgement and extensive costs involved with prisons and the court have arisen. The concept of mandatory sentencing was originally implemented to ensure that certain criminals served long prison sentences‚ which would simultaneously punish the criminal
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