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Website for prison population, stats on federal and state.

"The illegal immigrant population in the United States has fallen below 11 million, continuing a nearly decade-long decline that has the potential to reshape the debate over reforming the nation's immigration system, according to a study released Wednesday."

This article introduces the Occupy Phoenix movement as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The occupiers are standing up against corporate greed and politics. They consider themselves to be within the "lower ninety nine percent" of the population. They are partaking in nonviolent protest.

About 4.7 million Americans, more than 2 percent of the adult population, are barred from voting because of a felony conviction. Also talks about how felons can apply for the right to become apart of society again and have the right to vote.

About 2 percent of the adult population can not vote. Why is this? It is because they are felons. The right to vote should not be taken away from you if you have paid your debt to society. The rules vary from state to state. Is this law right? Shouldn't we all be able to voice our opinion?

Table showing crime rates, population, etc.

Article written by Terence Clark. The following quote is an example of the lack of discussion reference premarital sex. According to Clark, apparently the only choice is safe sex or unsafe sex; no sex is not an option. Add to that the last phrase about taking care of them and you have an example of entitlement: "Women's rights and the alarming speed with which the world's population is growing make access to birth control a necessity, not a sin. The Church -- and its supporters in some government circles in Washington -- would have all those children be born willy nilly, yet seem to care very little about supporting them once they are born."

Growth and decline of illegal immigration over the past years. Here shown are some statistics on things like, percentage of k-12 students whose parents are illegal immigrants, what percentage of immigrants are Mexican, and how the population levels differ with each passing year. This article also gives charts to help better understand the curve of illegal immigration in the U.S.

Simple data for making state-by-state comparisons of age, race, income, businesses, etc.

this article explains all of the tragic things that happened in china in 1989. this inccident is an example of how bad an oppressive government can be to a population and its personal freedoms, which in this case was the rights to publically protest.

In order for a scientist in genetic engineering to end sufferings from children and adults they would have to continuously breed out the non-desired trait. Meaning this would take many years of a long and tedious process. In other words if you wanted the odds at 0.01 you would need to breed the trait out through 90 generations. To have a one in one million chance it would take 900 generations. That is not the desired time the scientist were hoping for as well as the population. This book is 136 pages so i did only give an exert from a paragraph that really stuck out to me.

The issue of pit bull bans, breed specific legislation, animal abuse, and the over population problem in animal shelters.

An article by the Wall Street Journal on how social media can and has effected peoples abilities to get jobs.

Psychologically it is said that we have many social scripts, in other words we do not act the same exact way around our parents as we do our boss or our friends. Companies that use social media are attempting to view how you live your life outside of work, how you act out that social script. But why should that matter? Regardless if you put pictures of Saturday night drinking it does not mean that this who you are in the office, they are two completely different script and for the general population they are unrelated.

I think employers should look at social media networks, people should always present themselves in a professional look, because there behaviors affect the company, on the clock or off

The debate over killing a love one to ease the pain has segregated many of the population. In this article it talks about nations who have passed laws allowing euthanasia and those who have not. Stances are taken by love ones who are in pain and scholars who are against it.

This article shows the way Americans over the years have changed their opinions on gay marraige, in the swing towards approving it nationally. It correlates stats from the 1990 to present day and shows an upward swing in the gay populations fight for equality.

If Bill AB2019 is enacted into law, it will become mandatory to vaccinate children even when if the mom or dad says otherwise.

I think agree with destini, if we have talking about personal freedoms in all of these assignment then the individual should get to choose what they want to do. If a parent does it for them, then it was never a choice in the first place.

Young children can not make the decision themselves. That right is the given the parents that conceived them.

The nation's accident statistics on elderly drivers is almost as high or as high, depending on the age, as teenage drivers. Some states require more thorough driving tests to determine if an elderly person is capable of driving. The fear of having their "independence" taken from them is the biggest fear among the senior population when dealing with stricter restrictions for obtaining a driver's license.

Hunting allows individuals bring dinner to their table, helps keep the population at a reasonable number so the environment is not over ran. Hunting also bring s in a large profit for the wild land service.

Argues for a person's right to hunt animals. Uses several examples of how hunting generates revenue to keep national forests and protect nature.

Now this article is a bit old but all the information in it still pertains to today's day and age since nothing has been fixed with the prison system's healthcare. More and more costs upon a rising budget for prisons due to overcrowding.

This article discusses the controversy over breast-feeding in public. Although breast-feeding is healthy for both mother and child over half the American population is still uncomfortable with it. The author discusses the health benefits to babies that are breast fed and the barriers that mothers face.

Arizona passes an anti-immigration law which allows police to questions people that are suspected of being in this country illegally. 70% of the Los Angeles Latino population is in favor of sanctions against AZ, which include restricting future contracts with AZ companies.