This makes Vietnamese Americans the fifth largest immigrant group in the United States , right after the Mexican, Filipino, Chinese, and Indian foreign-born (Lehman, 2000). This paper will focus on the push and pull factors that forced the Vietnamese to leave their homeland, and where did they settled and why. There were many factors that led the Vietnamese to immigrate to the US. Some were push factors and some were pull factors. According to the text, a push factor can include reasons such as housing costs, rising crime rates, high tax rates, poor climates, or lack of satisfying or well paying jobs.
The price of destructive fire is estimated at over $11 billion a year in the U.S. Loss of businesses leads to loss of jobs, which is a price that is beyond calculation. It is sobering to come to the realization that the richest and most technologically advanced nation in the world led all major industrialized countries in per capita deaths and property loss from fire during that time. Chapter 2 Living Victims Of The Tragedy. The Commission outlines the struggles of victims who are maimed and disfigured by burn injuries. The reader is made aware that half of these victims are children, who must live out the rest of their lives with physical, as well as
African Americans A Vulnerable Population Sherry Saunders NUR 440 February 19, 2012 Sue DeMeulenaere, RN, MSN, GNP/FNP- BC African Americans A Vulnerable Population African Americans are a vulnerable population because of income, lifestyle choices, and a lack of health insurance coverage. In reviewing the facts supplies by the US Census Bureau on April 1, 2010 African American represents 13 percent of the U.S. population with 55 percent of this population living in the south. Eighty-two percent of African Americans 25 years and older have received a high school diploma (United States Department of Labor, 2010). Forty-two percent of the black households are married couples (United States Census Bureau, 2010). 1.3 million African American households are composed of a grandparent and a grandchild younger than 18 (United States Census Bureau, 2010).
African-American Plight and Fight for Freedom and Equality [Student Name] [School] [Course/Number] August 24, 2012 [Instructor Name] African-American Plight and Fight for Freedom and Equality African-Americans have undergone much turmoil in the desire to overcome the pain and thrust of segregation, discrimination, and isolation all rolled into one bundle of hate and discord. Through the course of history, there have been a myriad of conflicts involved where African-Americans were pushed to the social corner of insignificance, therefore provoking them to the extent of unrest. Much historical evidence has presented the desire of African-Americans to overcome the many thorns that struck their
Crystal Sherriff The formation of families will always be a topic worthy of discussion as it is one the most important systems in our society. Family is a very important factor in the development of an individual so one must start from the beginning and cross examines the influencers of family formation. In our society we are plagued with low marriage rates and high divorce rates, especially within the African American community. In even worse shape are African American women, who have the lowest marriage rates out of all their white counterparts and African American men (Hattery-Smith, p.39). It leaves researchers with the question why the institution of marriage isn’t going as well as it once was and what factors are attributing to the
"The State's university system, once the envy of the nation, has fallen in quality combined with increased demands for admission by an ever-growing number of applicants," says the CAPS report. In the schools, from kindergarten through twelfth grade, enrollments rose from 4.8 million in 1990-91 to almost 6 million ten years later. By 2000, "there were more Hispanics than other children enrolled in the State's schools." California is currently spending $6,837 per student, "so more than $16 billion was spent last year on students whose native language was other than English." California has been so mismanaged by its governors and legislature that it is billions in debt.
For Native Americans to be subjected to racism in their own land is even harder to believe. Statistics show us that Native Americans have twice the rate of violence against them as the average American citizen. They are the victim of violence by other races more than 70 percent of the time. Why is it that we as a nation do not realize that this is true? Why is it that crimes against Native Americans go unpunished?
In this research this is operationalized as the percent of African American families in the United States in the last five years that had a higher than average percentage of single parent homes as compared to the other races in the United States. The rationale is that the African American family structure in the strongest factor in understanding why major crime rates are so high. A 1988 study published in the Journal of Research on Crime and Delinquencies found that the rates of violent crime in a community correlated directly with the proportion of single-parent households in the community. The disintegration of the African American family may account for the higher major crime rate among African Americans but there are other factors that have an impact as well. Poverty (H2) – In this research this variable is operationalized as the percent of African American citizens in the United States in the last five years that had an average income of less than
Racial hate crimes are a problem we face in America and something that is getting worse every year. Being at Temple University, it is easy to see a lot of racial tension and there is always a fear of a hate crime happening. Hate crimes are a problem because they are being committed across our country and they are very hard to determine, as shown with the brick incident at Temple. Almost any crime could be seen as
Homelessness is a global issue that is widely spread in all countries and can particularly effect more poverty stricken countries. An Australian census that was conducted in 2011 recorded the statistics that on any given night in Australia 1 in 200 people were living homeless on the streets. As of 2011 the number of homeless people in Australia was at a hefty 105,237, 56% who were males and 44% that were females, 25% that were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and 30% that were born overseas. This figure was predicted to increase in the coming years. That’s over 105,000 people that weren’t given the same opportunities as us.