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The Growing Hispanic Population in the United States, 2001.
This paper studies the phenomenon of the ever growing Hispanic population in the United States.
1,760 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 8 sources, MLA, AU$ 82.95
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This paper looks at the underlying trends of each population growth factor separately, particularly the immigration factor. It includes several graphs and in-depth data of the population in the United States as a whole as well as divided into sectors. It gives an historical overview of the Hispanic immigration from its origin until the present day. Finally, it concludes that the Hispanic population will continue to grow rapidly into the largest minority group due to their immigration and birth rate.
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"Researchers in demographics have persistently foretold that the rapidly growing Hispanic population would inevitably develop into the leading minority group in the United States. Updated data released from the 2000 census reveal that this belief is fast approaching actualisation. The data indicates that America?s Hispanic population grew by 58% during the 1990s, putting Hispanics practically equal with African Americans as the country?s biggest minority group. Most demographers predicted that the Hispanic population would equal or exceed African Americans by 2005. But that may occur sooner than initially anticipated. (Travierso, Maria. 2001, 1) How has this approaching dominance among minorities occurred and what does this mean to the U.S. population at large?"
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A Growing Population, 2001.
A look at demographic trends of the growing Hispanic population in the United States.
1,700 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 80.95
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This paper examines and analyzes demographic trends and indicators of the ever increasing Hispanic community in the United States. The assessment is that the community will be as large as the African-American community in the near future.
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"Researchers in demographics have persistently foretold that the rapidly growing Hispanic population would inevitably develop into the leading minority group in the United States. Updated data released from the 2000 census reveal that this belief is fast approaching actualisation. The data indicates that America?s Hispanic population grew by 58% during the 1990s, putting Hispanics practically equal with African Americans as the country?s biggest minority group. Most demographers predicted that the Hispanic population would equal or exceed African Americans by 2005. But that may occur sooner than initially anticipated. (Travierso, Maria., 2001, 1) How has this approaching dominance among minorities occurred and what does this mean to the U.S. population at large?"
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World Food Supply Verses World Population, 2002.
A look at the growing population and what this means for world food supply.
2,010 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 92.95
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This paper analyzes the food supply available in the world and compares it to the rapidly growing world population. The author examines world food distribution and how it effects world hunger arguing that distribution is unequal. Includes arguments by various critics.
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"The increase in food production over the past 200 years has been greater than the increase in population. So we ask, Why do nearly twelve million children per year die of hunger? That number is more than the number of people who died each year in World War II, and these are children, not soldiers, we are talking about. (Lappe 2). It has been proven that there is enough food in the world for everybody to be sufficiently healthy. The problem is that this food has not been distributed equally among countries. With the world?s population expected to grow fifty percent by the year 2050 to 9.37 billion, What are the odds we can feed everybody then when we can?t even do it now? This is a question that has been studied, pondered, and written about extensively for years. Many people have different thoughts and opinions about it. Something definitely will have to be done in the future. The question is what."
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Chinese Population Policy, 2002.
This paper addresses China's ever growing problem of over population. China's policies used to curb this problem are discussed.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 129.95
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This paper addresses China's ever growing problem of over population. China's policies used to curb this problem are discussed. Another issue brought to light is China's overaging population and the negative effects that could result from this population instability.
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European Population Growth, 2003.
A study of the growing population during the eighteenth century in Europe.
2,510 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 111.95
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This paper looks at the reasons for European population growth in the eighteenth century with a focus on Britian and the industrial revolution. The paper shows how the development of new technology and the establishment of more efficient production methods and a higher standard of living, resulted in a decrease in the mortality rate. The paper also shows how the might, success and growth of the industrial economy was able to continue fueling the process of population growth throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while new capitalist orientated theories put forward by Adam Smith advanced and galvanized the process.
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"Through the development of new technology and the establishment of more efficient production methods, a higher standard of living was achieved resulting in a decrease in the mortality rate. It is arguable that the increasing industrialization of Europe led to a new social order whereby younger marriage became an advantage and therefore birth rates were able to increase. Furthermore the new economy of an industrializing Europe lent itself to supporting the massive increases in population, while at the same time keeping living conditions stable in the short-term and improving them in long-term. Changes in economic, political and social theory developed by Adam Smith allowed firstly Britain and then other countries in Europe to embrace the Industrial Revolution and appreciate the economic value that an increased population could give a nation."
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"Growing Up Palestinian", 2008.
This paper critically reviews Laetitia Bucaille's book "Growing Up Palestinian", which focuses on the complexity of social change among the Palestinian population.
1,115 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 56.95
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The paper critically analyzes Bucaille's text "Growing Up Palestinian", which explores the social fault lines within Palestinian society. Using Bucaille's book as a basis, the paper argues that these fault lines have not only been exacerbated but, to a great extent, created by the instrumentality of the Israeli occupation; a process that has been reinforced by the inadequacies of the emerging Palestinian governance since the 1990s. The paper shows how these fault lines have not only fragmented Palestinian society, but critically weakened it in the face of a range of challenges over the past decade.
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"In her book Growing Up Palestinian, French journalist and academic Laetitia Bucaille describes the impact of the Israeli Occupation, the two Intifadas, and the emerging Palestinian governance structures in the 1990s upon a generation of young Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Given the nature of her subject, this text cannot truly be considered a general analysis of Palestinian society as a whole. For example, one significant gap in her text is its lack of direct treatment of young Islamists and members of Hamas; an increasingly influential portion of the Palestinian population. This being said, even with the text's focus upon more secular young Palestinians we can understand the complexity of social change among the Palestinian population over the past two decades."
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Demographics in the Chicano Population, 2007.
This paper examines statistics regarding the Chicano population in the United States.
788 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 41.95
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This paper considers several aspects of the growing Chicano population in America. The author presents numerous statistics about the growth of this population and the various causes for this growth. Additionally, the paper includes information regarding education and employment. The paper also considers policy-making regarding the welfare of the Mexican-American population. The author sees this as a primary concern in policy-making for the 21st century.
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" Public education and welfare are the other major issues for policy-making in the 21st century (Baker). Realistic allocations can be made only when based on true population composition. This is illustrated by a recent decision not to adjust the 1990 US Census Bureau statistics, which disproportionately omit US Latino-residents and, as a result, understate the population bases on which congressional representation and decisions on program funding are made. This kind of resistance has repeatedly resulted in an incomplete policy agenda and the formation of the appropriate and responsive management of demographic change. The fast-aging character of the American population places the burden of caring for the elderly on minorities and immigrants. Current and projected demographic patterns indicate that the economic success of the nation depends more and more on the fate of the growing Chicano population. Their education and welfare can, therefore, not be ignored by policymakers (Baker)."
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The Prison Population, 2005.
Examines why the prisoner population in the United States is increasing rapidly.
1,330 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 64.95
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The prison system in the United States is not able to meet the growing demand for mandatory minimum sentences. In order to alleviate overcrowding in prisons, the private industry has been called upon to build and operate new prisons. Consequently, the population in private prisons is growing at four times the rate of the general prisoner population. The government is now renovating closed military bases and turning them into prisons, yet overcrowding still exists. The paper examines four reasons why this dynamic is occurring and is likely to continue if present conditions remain the same. The four reasons discussed are the climate of fear in the US population; the misdirection of funds from education to prison building; the "three-strikes" law; and the entry of private enterprises into the picture.
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"If trends continue, more personal income will be spent on corrections than on higher education, while the burden on families to finance higher education will increase. In addition, teachers' salaries are taking a back seat to increased payroll for prison staffing. As states continue to lay off teachers to pay for corrections officers, citizens are becoming less educated and, consequently, less employable. This individual is precisely the most at-risk for criminal activity, and is most likely to find himself a member of the prison population."
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Benign Wilderness and Malign Civilization, 2006.
A new look at the concept of wilderness in the face of Canada's growing population and increasing urbanization and what this means for the relationship between civilization and the wilderness.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, AU$ 77.95
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The rhetoric of wilderness is a site of conflict in modern Canada as the traditional concept of wilderness is challenged by the country's growing population and expansion of its urban areas. This essay examines this process in terms of contemporary critical revision of the concept of wilderness as a human construct and the consequent reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between people and the wilderness.
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Growing Agricultural Hemp, 2004.
This paper discusses the growing of industrial hemp, which is different from its distant cousin, marijuana, as a viable cash crop alternative.
975 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 64 sources, MLA, AU$ 50.95
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This paper explains that Americans had been cultivating the hemp plant for hundreds of years, but, in 1937, the Marijuana Prohibitive Tax Act outlawed the growing of any kind of hemp. The author points out that there are as many as 25,000 industrial uses of hemp, including rope, clothing, diapers, car parts, and carpet; oil from the seeds is used in shampoo, beer, vitamins, and lip balm. The paper stresses that hemp production is a growth industry around the world, and American farmers are losing revenue to foreign nations that allow the growing of hemp, such as Great Britain, France, and Spain.
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"Contrary to popular misconception, the hemp plant is not marijuana. Known by the botanical name "cannabis sativa," hemp does not contain the narcotic qualities of marijuana, and so its growth is not dangerous to the community. While many people believe growing hemp is just like growing marijuana, there are numerous differences. Hemp grows taller than marijuana, and they are spaced quite close together in the fields, unlike marijuana, which is spaced out for optimum leaf growth. In addition, hemp produces more flowers and seeds, while marijuana cultivation is mainly concerned with unfertilized female plants, which create more leaves."
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Russell Baker's "Growing Up", 2005.
This paper relates the story of journalist Russell Baker's memoir "Growing Up".
1,420 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 69.95
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This paper explains that Russell Baker's memoir "Growing Up" begins with his mother's deteriorating health in old age and then flashes back to the times when he was growing up with a widowed, strong-willed mother and a little sister, all struggling to survive during the Great Depression. The author points out that Baker details the strong familial love he grew up with as everyone in the country scrambled to make ends meet and how his family first lived in a rural area in Virginia, then Bellville, New Jersey and later in Baltimore, Maryland. The paper reveals that not until his mother remarried was he able to return to the happiness that large rooms and green vistas seemed to grant him.
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"Luckily, Baker's uncle moved all of them out to Belleville, New Jersey, and out of the urban grit that so characterized Newark. Belleville was a town of "big grassy lawns and streets canopied with trees" (90). Here, his mother focused her considerable energies on giving her son the best education possibly, making him ahead in school and giving him straight A's. It was also here that he met a group of friends, learned roller-skating and took banjo lessons. But, sadly, his time in Belleville came to an end when his mother moved them all to Baltimore to fund his uncle's lumber company, the lumber company that quickly went out of business."
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Growing and Enumerating E.coli Colonies, 2007.
This paper concerns experiments within the field of microbiology and discusses growing and enumerating E.coli colonies.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 53.95
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The writer points out that the purpose of this laboratory was to acquire fundamental knowledge and experience in microbiological procedures, specifically in growing bacterial colonies on a nutrient medium under controlled conditions. In this case, Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria were grown on nutrient agar, contamination was minimized by keeping the surroundings sterile, and all agar plates were incubated. The writer notes that the first part involved making five serial dilutions from a bacterial suspension in order to pinpoint colony numbers. The second experiment compared two methods of spreading bacteria across agar plates using streaks. The goal was to isolate single colonies. Lastly, the third portion of the laboratory involved replicating plates from a master plate in order to isolate strains of mutant bacteria onto different nutrient mediums and determine bacterial auxotrophy to these nutrients.
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Introduction
Materials and Methods
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"In the streaking experiment, method B proved to be much more effective for isolating single colonies. The different streaking methods may have contributed to the morphological differences between the E. coli on the two plates. There were evident differences in the size and colour. Since method B was dominated by spaced out single colonies, the darker colour and larger size can be attributed to more nutrients being available to each colony, and more room (surface area) for growth. For the same reason, the more crowded groups of bacteria on the method A plate were a lighter colour and generally smaller. Aside from these two differences, the E. coli shared great resemblance, and based on morphology alone, should not be classified as different species. Nonetheless, the only way to determine whether or not two sets of visibly different bacteria are genetically different is to actually observe their DNA."
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Aubrey Malphurs' "Planting Growing Churches", 2008.
Reviews Aubrey Malphurs' book "Planting Growing Churches" by investigating the metaphor presented in this title.
1,115 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 56.95
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This paper explains that the metaphor infusing the book "Planting Growing Churches" by Aubrey Malphurs is one showing the church to be organic and Christians in the role of putative horticulturists. The author points out that this organic metaphor is in keeping with the millennia-old view of the church and of God as creating the natural world and then asking His followers to tend it. The paper states that the argument offered by Malphurs applies most directly to evangelicals, as might be assumed given the emphasis they place on spreading the Word and creating new churches.
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"The process of planting a church does not end with that one church but then extends to evangelizing further to grow more churches. In analyzing this process, Malphurs begins with definitions and a general view of the process and then considers the personnel needed to plant a church, and those involved in the process have to understand themselves and their relationship to God and to the tenets of the faith. Not everyone can be as church planter, and Malphurs offers a way to measure who is able to carry out this task effectively."
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Population Growth and Economic Development, 2005.
Discusses some of the relationships between population growth and economic development.
1,671 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 9 sources, APA, AU$ 79.95
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This paper points out that, while economic growth is an objective of every country and that each country tries to achieve this growth by growing their own gross domestic product (GDP), growth of GDP does not guarantee that all of the citizens of the country will benefit and, in fact, some will suffer adversely. Appended to the paper is a global table of GDPs for the years 2000 to 2003.
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"The world has gradually and consistently become more of a 'have / have not' scenario as new welfare states emerge in the midst of new emerging economies, new technological expansion opportunities and all new approaches to economic distribution. "The period of modern economic growth gave rise to a phenomenon never before experienced in human history, namely, a sustained, positive rate of growth in real per capita income. Moreover, although income distribution remains unequal to varying degrees in both low- and high-income countries, this income growth was enjoyed by all segments of the societies that experienced it." (Antle, 1999) The problem for these countries and economic blocks such as the European Union is that economic indicators do not always take into consideration the true tie between a population's well being and the economic wealth in the sense of the nation's coffers."
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?Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media?, 2002.
A look at the portrayal of women in the media today compared to the time when Susan J. Douglas' book on the topic, ?Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media?, was written.
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, AU$ 44.95
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An essay discussing how the portrayal of women has changed in one segment of the media (music, TV, film, advertising) from the early 1990?s when the book "Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media" by Susan J. Douglas was completed. Discussed are the commonalities between women currently important to American pop culture and the women examined in the book, the differences or changes that have occurred, whether conditions have improved for women, and whether there has been a continued backlash against feminism in American popular culture over the last decade.
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"?Murphy Brown? was a powerful intelligent female character who had great clothes, however, she did not look like a waif and her clothes were not skimpy. ?Roseanne? was an over-weight working wife and mother who dealt with family problems that had never before been portrayed on a television sitcom. And ?Ellen? came out of the closet on one episode to tell the world that she was a lesbian (Timson 1995). This would certainly have not been witnessed on a sitcom television program twenty years ago."
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"Growing Up in the Crossfire", 2008.
An analysis and review of "Growing Up in the Crossfire," by Modris Eksteins.
988 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 51.95
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This paper examines the essay entitled "Growing Up in the Crossfire," by Modris Eksteins, a Latvian expatriate who moved to Canada as a child following World War II. The paper discusses the historical, emotional and intellectual points of view that are presented in the article. It also discusses Eksteins' writing style and reviews the accuracy of the historical content of the article.
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"After being spirited away to Berlin, the Eksteins family, we are told, are then placed in a situation of lessened mortal threat but unbelievable poverty: a refugee camp where young Eksteins is to spend the next four years of his life. Eksteins evokes the end of the war in a unique fashion: not with silencing of gunfire or with friendly handshakes but with "a forest floor swept absolutely clean", which "is hard for Canadians to imagine" (356). This very statement sums up the essence of the overwhelming strengths of Eksteins' article: personalization of a phenomenon so foreign to us that we can only fully and emotionally comprehend it through excellent story-telling; little details that fill us with both horror and wonder."
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