Texas seems to be a big states based on its population compared to the USA’s a whole with the difference of 28, 785, 484. The population listed as white only is 44.5% over USA 63.0% which makes Texas a diverse place when it comes race. The number of person per square miles in Texas (96.3) is higher than USA as a whole (87.4) with a difference 8.7. Maryland Vs. Texas. Texas is a bigger state than Maryland with a population difference of 20,174, 640.
The overall prevalence of self-reported hypertension was 24.4%, with lower prevalence amongst Hispanics than among non-Hispanics. In general, although Blacks had the highest prevalence of hypertension, the prevalence estimates were also higher in non-Hispanic Blacks. Hispanic Blacks who had a college degree or more and those with less than a high school diploma had similar prevalence of hypertension. Also Blacks with an income of $55 000 or more had a higher prevalence of hypertension than Whites regardless of their
Having said this, the study was still well controlled and systematic. An issue with this study is that there are gender differences. Only male students were used in the sample so there is little generalisablility. It was found that women are generally more compliant than men in a meta-analysis. However, materials used were more familiar to males than females and therefore the role of confidence may have had an effect on the conformity levels of females.
Society in our world is used to seeing people take legal drugs (like cigarettes or alcohol) because they are allowed to be taken in public places. Illegal drugs, on the other hand, make you an outsider of society (except to drug junkies, who will see you as their best friend).The people in the New World get soma for free because it is, as already mentioned, all ordered and offered by the government. In comparison to that you have to pay for drugs in our world, and most of them have expensive prices that are only affordable to people with enough money. Legal drugs, however, aren’t as expensive as the illegal ones. This has the consequence that many people have to commit crimes and go into prostitution to buy the drugs they depend on.
In fact, alcohol consumption reached an all time high during the Prohibition. Between the years 1919 and 1922 there was a small decrease in consumption, but by 1925 arrests for public drunkenness and other alcohol related offenses surpassed those of Pre-prohibition records. It is hard to quantify just how much alcoholism worsened during the Prohibition, but it is evident that it engendered a culture of defiance that was increasingly geared around the consumption of alcohol. Because alcohol that was consumed during the time was not industrially distilled, there were many more health risks involved in its consumption that there had been prior to Prohibition. There were two main ways alcohol was illegally distilled: from “scratch” or by distilling denatured industrial alcohol.
In the United States some statistics have been gathered on crystal methamphetamine use broken down by ethnicity. Huff (2005) indicates crystal meth use is relatively low in African American community compared to Caucasian and Native American communitie which are significantly higher and relatively the same. Other observations note that people who use most are Caucasian, blue collar (20-30), unemployed, in c are reporting large increases in meth usage (The Anti-Meth Site, n.d.). In Canada, based on data collected from mental health workers, police and research scientists, profiles of meth use point to: young ravers from dance club crowds; large numbers of rural and small town poor in North America; peop w parties (Mental
Although the intention was good prohibition actually negatively affected the populations’ health because they turned to hard liquor instead of beer. While the supply of alcohol drastically decreased the demand remained the same. Due to the ban on importing or manufacturing of alcoholic beverages in the U.S, it became more difficult to get beverages containing lower amounts of alcohol (e.g. Beer and wine) while getting hard liquor became easier because it was easier to manufacture and smuggle across borders into the country. The higher alcohol content in hard liquor was more effective for getting drunk yet it also took its toll on the population’s health.
The arguments for and against the restriction of the sale of gin during 18th century England where generally based on health and moral issues in society. The underlying issues about the restriction of the sale of gin in the 18th century were not either health or moral issues, but rather economic issues in society. The economic issues concerning the sale of gin had a majority of individuals argue against the restriction of gin because the profits of businesses would decrease if gin weren’t allowed to be sold. Though, some would argue for the restriction of gin with economics being an issue by stating that restricting gin would increase profits in other products like beer. All the individuals that argued for the restriction of gin with a morality issue was for the restriction in the sale
As mentioned earlier, race is a problem that exists within societies. However, the invisibility of race within individuals happens because of various reasons. Among them is that most do not suffer from race
Unlike soma, the drugs produce numerous negative aftereffects. Furthermore, the use of drugs is not regulated. As a result many accidental overdoses do occur. Although drug use is not mandatory as it is in Brave New World, many people choose to take drugs. In both societies, people use drugs for the euphoric feeling to escape from their worries and problems, instead of dealing with their emotions.