Only 2 percent of the voting public does anything beyond simply voting in each election cycle. So only 2 percent of the voters are the real political activists – do the block walking, attend town halls or rallies, make phone calls for candidates or even make any attempt to influence their...
In fact, Patrick Sharkey, a sociologist at NYU, conducted a study of children born from 1955-1970 and found that 4 percent of white people had been raised in poor neighborhoods compared to 62 percent of black people (Coates). This is no coincidence seeing as black people were essentially ...
However, the reality is not quite as rosy as the Declarations suggest because here "people" only refer to "citizens." The relevant expressions of the Declaration of Independence applied merely to white men who owned certain property, while slaves, women, colored people, and white people who did...
“As far as I know, here, you’re in trouble. It says you’ve got about 30 percent unemployment. That’s why I’m working hard to get this surplus food here. Some of you say to me, ‘well, I’m not like you. I’m not a congressman. I haven’t got education. I haven’t ...
might imply some wage inequality but say less perhaps to a non-technical audience, whereas an equivalent Palma ratio (of 5.0) more readily translates into a top-bottom focused statement - that the richest 10 percent earn five times the income of the lowest waged 40 percent of the organization...
I think first of all, China has a big problem on aging because in the year 2050, somewhere between 20 and 25 percent of Chinese will be over 60 years of age. So you’re going to have a lot of elderly people, and with a one-child family, you’re going to have inadequate support ...
A report(报道) on 3,375 students aged between 10118 says that about 38 percent of them use the Internet often. Most of them get useful information and use the Internet to help their studies. But some are not using it in good ways. Many are2on-line games too much. A few even visit...
Seventy percent of the merchant ships were sunk or damaged. As a result, Britain lost the sea supremacy (霸权). Though victorious, Britain came out of the war with a huge national debt. Business was slack (萧条的),many factories were closed down and taxes soared. The Great Depression from...
The Lakota, also known as the Teton Sioux, are one of these subsets of the Sioux tribe. The Lakota speak the language called Lakhotiyapi. This language is part of the Siouan language family. People who spoke Lakhotiyapi are originally from the area surrounding the Mississippi River b...
With an Arab population of ten million, Ahwaz is among the most resource-rich territories occupied by Iran, holding more than 80 percent of the country’s oil and gas resources. The region has three major rivers, the Karoon, Jarrahi and Karkheh, which play a vital role in the lives of ...