Factories became automated. Machines and other improved manufacturing techniques meant that huge amounts of goods could be made at a fraction of the cost. The age of mass production had arrived. In the decade of the 1920s economic output increased by a staggering 50%. Communications revolution – number of telephone doubled/ number of radios increased from 60,000 to 10 million.
Today’s economic and political events define the types of trend(s) measured in modern society and how it affects human services (Thompson, 2000). According to the projections of the U.S. population, the population of persons age 65 and older is expected to more than double between 2012 and 2060, from 43.1 million to 92.0 million. The increase in the number of the "oldest old" - those 85 and older are projected to more than triple from 5.9 million to 18.2 million, reaching 4.3 percent of the total population. (Census Bureau 2012). This demographic will continually increase due to baby boomers entering their retirement years as well as the number of elderly living past the age of 85.
Charlie Doran 11/7/13 U.S. History 1 Recent Discoveries at Jamestown History serves to provide us with connections and memories of how life has been in the past. Our mistakes, our triumphs and what we can take from these things. Like many other parts of american history we can re-connect to the time when our countries first town was settled because of historic discoveries. We use the resources created for this endeavor to connect ourselves with historic events, specifically in this case, Jamestown. We can confirm our connections with Jamestown through ties between the humble beginnings of the nations first slave, to supposedly our nations most powerful person in current times, our President.
Every one minute Australia's population increases by a new person, currently making Australia the gold medallist of growth! Our population is rising at a faster rate than any European nation, and faster than China, India and Indonesia. In 2009 record levels of overseas migration and childbirth increased our population by 480,000 people and by 2050 it's predicted Australia's population will reach 36 million. According to Dick Smith, that's a recipe for disaster. Taking into account the serious challenges of lack of water, poor soil and urban congestion, Dick believes we need to stabilise our population, not increase it.
Ambitious targets of an annual 1% per capita immigration rate were hindered by financial limits. The Liberals made a commitment to raising actual immigration levels higher in 2005. Many of the political parties are now nervous about criticizing the high level of immigration. Canada still gets more immigrants per capita than any other major country in the world. The per capita immigration rate in Canada has been pretty constant since the 1950s, and recent years have seen a gradual increase in the skill level and education of immigrants to Canada.
Interracial marriage is common in today’s society. Most American’s do not even think twice when they see an interracial couple. They are viewed the same as any other married couple with children. It is also very common to see mixed- raced children in America today. However before the 1960s this was not common at all.
By 2020—the first presidential election in which all Millennial will have reached voting age—this generation will be 103 million strong, and about 90 million of them will be eligible voters. Those 90 million millennial eligible voters will represent just fewer than 40 percent of America’s total eligible voters. Professionals are now the most Democratic and fastest-growing occupational group in the United States, and they are a huge chunk of the burgeoning white college graduate
In essence, it revolutionized American culture and society to what it is today, perhaps one could argue forcefully that, had it not been for the Renaissance, America would not have a Black President today. This leads me to examine Langston Hughes posit that the common folk blacks held their own individuality within America’s standards even though there were those who doubted where they actually belong. Within the multiple readings we have been provided with relating to the topic of the Harlem Renaissance I found it necessary to mention first, ‘The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes’ who became legendary in the literary world, for possessing a passion for music and functioned as a medium by showcasing the importance of traditional black folk music. This text discusses the existence of the black artist, who wishes to be white, or at least wishes to be not considered black or wishes to be considered more American. However, by Langston Hughes, this notion was met with distain.
While there is still more work to be done to have true equality, a lot of work has already been done to start this movement. The end of slavery by Abraham Lincoln marked a new beginning of an era in which African Americans were free people, and were able to become U.S. citizens. The Civil Rights movement in the 1950’s and 60’s sparked an era of equality for African Americans with the help of the NAACP. The NAACP has supported African American rights since 1909, when it was first founded. With the help of the NAACP, African Americans will continue the fight for equal rights as American people.
There were a lot of things that made traveling up north sound interesting. There was chance for freedom, jobs, united with loved one. These were some reason that African Americans where leaving the south to come up north. Even though African American did migrate up north this migration changed the country as whole. Even though there were dramatic