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The Individual and Societal Impacts of the Civil War

One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...

Culture and Diabetic Management in African Americans

diabetes under control. Theoretical Learning Foundations Diabetes mellitus...

How Race Shapes Fashion Design in New York City

a "handful" of real designers as opposed to entrepreneurs who launch a clothing line as part of a sort of media empire; Sean Combs...

Cultural Considerations for a Home-Bound African American Patient

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

African American Music

in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...

Ecocriticism and Post-Colonialism

2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

'Black English' in an English Dialect Study

fricatives (three pronounced as tree and the pronounced as do), and the monophthongalization of /ay/ and /aw/ dipthongs find an...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man and Identity

go in terms of his adherence to one race or another. He admires both African and white cultures and people in different ways. For ...

Issues Pertaining to the African American Experience

for acceptance and to fight for their own dignity and pride. In terms of why they approached literature and life in this way, w...

Voices of the Self A Study of Language Competence by Keith Gilyard

dialect and Black English depending on the social situation. Because the authors mother patterned this, by the time Gilyard was ol...

Betty's Case and Cognitive Therapy

individuals like Betty would not be able to properly function within their world. The practice of psychology has proven to be mor...

Dakota and Uptown Brands of R.J. Reynolds and Ethics

of those who have been more materially successful. When news leaked of the Dakota brand intended for poor women, the outcry was s...

African American Student Retention: Strategies for Improvement

of 800 four-year public, four-year private, and community colleges conducted by Noel-Levitz revealed that "African American studen...

American Foreign Policy/Cohen and Walt

of marginal communities" have altered, "at least publicly," so that they now focus on "inclusion and legitimization" of those memb...

Overview of a Criminal Justice Study on Marijuana Use

This research paper consists of an analysis of Green, et al's 2010 study, "Does heavy adolescent marijuana use lead to criminal in...

Hate Crimes Against African Americans

a "universal human emotion," which consists of "extreme rejection of another person" (Broyles, 2009, p. 4). A hate crime refers to...

Constitutional Amendments Affect on African Americans

No constitution is perfect, but the beauty of it is that it is always changing as the countrys needs change. Instead of scrapping ...

A Proposed Program on Hypertension

and gender groups between 1999 and 2004, in African American women this incidence of hypertension increased by 14 percent (Taylor,...

Essay on The African American Museum in Philadelphia

The African American Museum in Philadelphia Research Compiled for The Paper Store, Enterprises Inc. by Janice Vincent, 4/18...

Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison and the Use of Linguistics

under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...

Counseling, Psychology And Cultural Concerns

basis upon which positive psychology operates. Indeed, there will always be a place for the type of therapy that purges psycholog...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Its Contradictions

In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...

Theories in Sociological Studies

interact with each other, and tend to ignore larger structures such as national governments and economies ("Theoretical Perspectiv...

Methodology of Anna Julia Cooper

(May 2007: 106). Cooper felt that the struggle of black women for social justice was an inherent element in the "wider struggle fo...

Child with E/BD

headed" when faced with stress, while people with a "poorly differentiated self" are largely dependent on what others think of the...

Rice and Kings and All That Jazz

The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...

The Impact of Race and Gender on Adolescent Violence

to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...

The Need for Cultural Competency Care

African-American culture tends to eat more fat than is recommended. Socioeconomic status as well as education play a role in meal ...

Works of Angelina Grimke and Garland Anderson Compared and Contrasted

up and begins to see how hard life is for an African American in society, she decides to never bring a child into the world. This ...