74 almost extinct (handful of elderly speakers) (45%). 58 with fewer than 1,000 speakers (35%). 25 with 1,000-10,000 speakers (15%). 8 with 10,000+ speakers (5%).”4 The numbers don’t lie, there aren’t many more Native languages being spoken today. If this keeps up, less than 100 native languages will be spoken by the end of the century.
The Hispanic population in the district is a slight bit higher at five percent. The Caucasian population makes up 48% of the schools while the African American population makes up a near 45% of schools. There is almost a fifty/fifty split when it comes to the Caucasian and African American population not only in the schools, but also in the county. Looking on Somerset County’s’ Wikepidia.org site it shows that 20.1 % of the population of Somerset County is below the poverty line. This is much lower then the students they send to our schools because the percentage of FARM students in elementary are 61%, middle 60%, and high school 48 %( Somerset 2009).
The new national dropout rates states that 40% of Black and Hispanic kids fail to graduate high school. Georgia’s average graduation rate was 65.4 percent. In 2007-2008, Georgia had 20,135 dropouts and the dropout rate was higher among males than females. Low parental involvement is a major concern and the fact that we have over 70% of our students being 18 years of age or older. In addition, students being able to drop classes which in turn prolong graduation.
LOST LANGUAGE In “Tribal Talk” by Michelle Nijhuis and “speaking in Tongues” by James Geary, both writers talked about how the hundreds and thousands of different tribal languages spoken in the past by millions have been cut down in half. Languages that are less known or spoken have been endangered today or nearly extinct just like some wild life going into extinction. But losing a language is more than the way of communicating; losing a language means the loss of its culture. The best argument I found in reading these two articles was in Nijhuis’s “Tribal Talk.” Nijhuis talked about what’s at stake in losing one’s own language which in this case was the Blackfoot language, called otherwise Piegan. Nijhui mentioned “What’s at stake is more than words.” (4) I would totally agree with that quote because I think one language contains a culture’s unique mysteries and their heritage for kids and other to learn about them.
However, the 1999 estimate was adjusted upward to 60,000 with a suggestion that this number should be considered the “upper limit.” The Census counted 45,443 (this number represents Hmong alone or in combination with another race). The 1999 estimate was based on an incorrect assumption that Hmong fertility rates would decline as second generation Hmong began to form families. Nonetheless, births to women born in Laos (most Hmong were born in Laos, although not all Laotian-born people are Hmong) range from 1,286 in 1995 to 1,008 in 2002, and showed only a slight decline from the mid-1990s. These numbers do not include births to Hmong mothers born in the U.S. Hmong family size, according to the 2000 Census remains very large, averaging 6.4 persons per family. The 1999 estimate assumed that the proportion of Hmong who are school-aged children, as enumerated by the Minnesota Department of Education, would become smaller as Hmong fertility began to approach that of the white native-born population.
The status and role of the elderly in the future will increase because the birthrate has dropped to an all-time low. b. There will be an elderly revolution, termed the “silver-haired rebellion,” which will place much of the lost power and status back into the hands of the older segment of society. c. As the rate of technological change accelerates, knowledge quickly becomes obsolete, and this decreases the status and role of the elderly (they are no longer the storage houses of technological knowledge; libraries and databanks have taken over this role). d. In the future, there will be a major reorganization of kinship and the family, which will restore power to the elderly.
(True or False) (3.) Which of the following are not types of probability?1) Marginal probability2) Union probability3) Joint probability4) Conditional probability | (4.) In December of 1999, a research team at Ohio State University reported that the median allowance for U.S. teenagers is $50 per week, with a coefficient of skewness (as calculated in class) of 0.762. While some teenagers received no allowance, others reported receiving $200 per week. Based on this information, the mean allowance for U.S. teenagers is most likely.
As we can see on this image, Kansas is quite frumpy: Most of the people would vote for Mitt Romney now. And, Kansas is one of the States which still has the death penalty. About Holcomb In Holcomb live about 2‘100 people. The racial makeup of the city in 2000 was 80.80% White, 1.09% African American, 0.89% Native American, 0.30% Asian, 13.28% from other races, and 3.65% from mixed race. The population is very young: in 2000, the average age was 25
An estimated 100,000 Americans have a neurofibromatosis disorder, which occurs in both sexes and in all races. Neurofibromatosis is an autosomal disorder, which means that only one copy of the affected gene is needed for the disorder to develop. Which means if only one parent has neurofibromatosis, his or her children would have a fifty percent chance of developing the condition as well. The severity in affected individuals can vary; this may be due to variable expressed. About half of the cases are due to de novo mutations and no other affected family members are seen.
He states that before 1994, only five percent of all childhood diabetes cases were obesity related, or Type 2 diabetes. Now in today’s world, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all childhood diabetes cases in America. Many of these obesity related cases, Zinczenko claims, have a lot to do with the limited