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High Rates of Dropouts Among Hispanics Addressed by Social Workers

given that they did so before they ever entered the U.S., an address of the factors that cause Hispanic students in the U.S. schoo...

Reality and Hispanic Cinema

brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...

Group Labeling and an Investigation of Differences VI

reveals that "70% of Cuban Americans, 64% of Puerto Ricans, and 50% of Mexican Americans 25 years-of-age and over have graduated f...

New York City Politics and the Effects of Religious and Ethnic Groups

in New York, regardless of numbers. This is because New York City is "home to the nations largest community of American Jews" ("N...

Treating a Hispanic Alcohol Abuser

are distinctive patterns of drug and alcohol abuse within the Hispanic population. Overall, Hispanics use alcohol at rates simila...

From Ellis Island to JFK by Nancy Foner, Asians, and Hispanics

from South America and Mexico are not the same. They possess different traditions, religions, social practices and are in essence,...

Minority Police Officers - Are More of Them Needed?

diversity in the police department in a town with a combined minority rate close to 50 percent continues to plague city officials,...

Math Classrooms and Cultural Sensitivity

walls (Books, 1998). Different constructs determine children who are useful and those who are not as well as those who are used (B...

A Jury Selection Experiment and Prejudice

A paper that contains eight pages considers a student submitted case study in which a white man is found not guilty and an Hispani...

Prejudice and a Jury Experiment

the control and experimental groups and what exactly was accomplished. A student will want to point out that an attempt to explain...

Community Colleges, Hispanic Students, and the Impacts of Financial Aid During the First Year

is accentuate by the way in which students are admitted to college. Higher level institutions rate high schools and so they will l...

Southwest U.S. and Assimilation Pressures Placed Upon Hispanics and Native Americans

historic plight of Hispanics and Native Americans in the Southwest. Even today, in fact, these cultures are too often penalized f...

American Southwest and the Severing of Hispanic Regional Control

common practice for the Spanish crown to grant land to individuals, communities and parishes. With the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidal...

Practice of Culturally Competency

homosexual community should also be considered. While psychologists and other practitioners of psychology do want to have a cultur...

Social Behavior from a Structural Perspective

bitterness in reporting that she took care of her mother and her entire family even as a young girl. Given that "the mention of h...

Hispanic Heritage

in an after-school program that aids non-English speaking students with the requirements of their academic studies. This program h...

Diabetes Education w/Adult Hispanic Learners

well as aid those Latinos/Hispanics who have been diagnosed with diabetes, nurses have to confront the problems involved with poor...

Hispanic Cultures in the United States

Mexican Americans living in various states, such as California and Texas, that have likely been living in that state since it beca...

Hispanics in the United States

that there are bilingual pamphlets created by government and in fact many products contain both English and Spanish, but in viewin...

Illness and Culture in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez

differences between cultures consist of variation in their main pattern in terms of these five dimensions and that these differenc...

Pediatric Obesity/Overweight

for "population, intervention, comparison intervention and outcome" and therefore offers nurses a structure that prompts nurses t...

Spanish Language as Cultural Expression

in a particular cultural and language community-that is, language allows us to be able to communicate in a culturally appropriate ...

Hispanics and Drug Use

the problem. B. Reluctance to seek treatment. C. Less belief in positive outcome of treatment. D. Direct confrontation can be coun...

Transcultural Nursing

such as communication, space, and time are relevant to these cultural issues. Communication and culture are interrelated, and many...

Hispanics, Black, Substance Abuse, and Multicultural Counseling

of African American counseling psychologists. 6. Barriers to access to mental health services. C. Latinos/Hispanic Americans 1. De...

Nursing Assistants and Multicultural Education

several problems with recent immigrants, however. These include language barriers, not having completed a GED, limited healthcare...

Hispanic and Caucasian Interracial Marriage

of psychology at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and who has studied interracial relationships extensively, said: "We no longe...

Modern Hispanic Family in the United States

as well. For example, we assume that African Americans largely live in the inner city and that the children are raised by single m...

Crosscultural Counseling Issues

which helps people with problem-solving (Doherty, 2002). In the case of the Hispanic population, there are many problems which ar...

Hispanic Community, Health Care, and Government

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...