Running Head: POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES by Stephanie S. Greathouse CST5990– Counseling Studies Integrative Project Stephanie S. Greathouse October‚ 2009 213 Krisken Court | | Warner Robins‚ GA 31093 | | 478-225-0721 | | mnsabina@ cox.com | | Dr. Catherine Waugh | | | | Abstract Poor people did not create poverty but are its victims in an imperfect system that wanted to feel good about itself (Björn Söderfeldt‚ 1996). This paper
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Spanish in the United States The United States is home to a large and rapidly growing population of Spanish speakers. With over 35 million speakers‚ Spanish is the second most commonly-spoken language in the United States. According to data from the US Census Bureau‚ it is spoken in about 12 per cent of all U.S. households. Hispanic citizens constitute about 16% of the U.S. population now and this figure will rise to 30% by 2050. By 2050‚ the U.S. will become the largest Spanish-speaking country
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The United States in one of the richest‚ most populous and most powerful countries in the world and plays a central leadership role in the world. On the world stage‚ the U.S. often challenges other countries about their records regarding human rights. Yet the United States is failing its own citizens by not granting every citizen access to basic health care. Many citizens in the United States needlessly suffer and die each day due to the inequities of the health care system in the U.S. This is a
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Today I will be talking about how farming has changed in the United States of America from 1990 to 2010. Farming has changed a lot in the United States from what it used to be. Two hundred years ago 90% of the people in the United States lived on farms. If you compare that to today you can see a big difference not only in farming but how people moved. From 1990 to 2010 the number of farms has been dropped by 63% in the United States. In 1970 more than half the farm had off-farm but in 2010 93% of
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Alvina Lai Honours American History OL V1 Ms. Alison Jones March 31st‚ 2015 Slavery in the United States The United States has had a horrible and shameful history of slavery‚ and although many movements had been made to abolish the worst of it‚ so many deaths and torture had been caused in the time that it took for blacks to get the same rights as whites. Even now‚ we can see the horror that it wrought on the country. Black people are still being killed in their own homes‚ they are still being
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1 By: Murat S. Aruta To: Prof. Cyndy Handerson Hum 127‚ Critical Thinking United States Foreign Aid One of the most controversial subjects in todays United States is Foreign Aid‚ which is the aid given to other countries by the United States from the U.S. revenue‚ that is based on the tax dollars of American citizens. Most foreign aid goes through the United States Agency for International Development. There are three main kinds of foreign aid: military aid‚ food aid‚ and financial aid.
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Schooling in the United States Schooling systems are a very significant factor in determining a country’s success and acknowledging the structures at a young age could support our country’s progress into becoming more civilized. Education plays a vital role in developing young individuals into extraordinary adults and its purpose is to assist our future generations in expanding their curiosity and knowledge‚ behaving accordingly based on the different environments in our societies and learning
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Every minority group in the United States has faced discrimination and prejudice in their own form. Asian Americans are one of many minority groups that have a history of discrimination that isn’t discussed in America. Asian Americans are very unique in the united states due to the fact that as a minority group they are very small and have been alienated in the United States making it difficult for them to practice their culture. Women face discrimination in every aspect of life making it difficult
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Industrialization and Urbanization During the second half of the nineteenth century the United States went through an urban revolution. This urban revolution and the things that were happening were unseen by the world until this point. Factories‚ mines‚ and mills sprouted all across the country‚ and thus cities began to grow up around them. In 1889 the nineteenth century was declared "not just the age of cities‚ but the age of great cities." The economy was booming and there were plenty of jobs
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Industrialization had a great impact on the United States. The Industrialization in the United States helped to attract many more immigrants to the country. The west made it possible to have more farming land. Urbanization created new technology. The United States was considered a new start and had many opportunities for anyone. This attracted immigrants to move to the United States. One of the most persuasive things for the immigrants to move to the United States was that the many different jobs. Immigrants
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