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Resistance and Stereotypes in the Poems of Grace Nichols

In five pages Grace Nichol's poetry is examined in terms of the images of resistance and stereotypes they employ with a discussion...

Modification of the Body

In a paper consisting of 20 pages body modification is examined in terms of psychology and history with elective amputation, scari...

Black Folk Tradition and Black Middle Class Tension

In ten pages this paper examines the conflict between African cultural traditions and the contemporary African American middle cla...

Bioidentical Hormones

are grand variances in price throughout the country, the standard scale is between $250 and $395 and half that much for subsequent...

Effect of Childhood Experience of Sex Abuse on Marriage

a history of child abuse has an effect on their marriages. Literature review While it is generally accepted by the vast majority...

The Pros and Cons of Women in the Military

of things from a military perspective. There is not only the integrity of the individual and the integrity of the military but al...

Overview of the Crack Babies Problem

why they cost the state so much money. If mothers have the babies, and continue to use drugs, these babies who need additional att...

Girls, Women, and the Impact of the Media

more than provide a reflection of the times, or to subconsciously inform women and girls about their roles. In many cases, the med...

African American Women and Anorexia Nervosa

& Estes; 1996). Also, it was found that ethnically diverse individuals who do end up with eating disorders do so because they ha...

Sandra Brown's Mirror Image

the daughter who has lost a mother and does not know it: "She was growing too attached to the child and wanted desperately to help...

Arguing That for Women Pornography is Damaging

obviously submissive, if not threatened, position. She uses the words of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography to define por...

New York and the Presence of African Americans

Railroad Station (Soul of America, 2002). The Abyssinian Baptist Church was founded in 1808 as a result of segregation in a white...

Legality vs. Morality in the Abortion Debate

that fetus. The intrinsic value of life is a question which is constantly being considered in our courtrooms and in the...

Post Revolutionary American and the Roles Played by Native Americans and African Americans

extent of freedom. With more and more populations becoming indigenous by virtue of their longevity in America, a blending of cult...

Does PMS Actually Exist?

and those that are will suffer in varying degrees (What is Premenstrual Syndrome? 2003). Among the many typical symptoms...

Black Religion as Formed by Racism

individuals were members of St. Georges Methodist Episcopal Church but, because of the fact they were African American, found them...

Changing Meanings - Reconsidering Advertising Texts Regarding Beauty

The writer looks at two advertisements supplied by the student, designed to appeal to men with a dating agency providing contacts ...

U.S. and Acupuncture Effectiveness

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between the body and mind in this consideration of U.S. introduction to acupunc...

Career of The Body Shop Creator Anita Roddick

divide between rich and poor in developed and under-developed countries, but also of the possibilities which a western commercial ...

Yellow Wallpaper & Female Marginalization

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

Abbreviated Paper on Research Techniques

Genital Mutilation : A Guide to Laws and Policies Worldwide chronicles forty different cases of female genital mutilation, the ove...

Emecheta/2nd Class Citizen

brother. As with all female orphans, she becomes a "servant" in her uncles household (Emecheta, 1983, p. 17). Her uncles family co...

African and African American Heritage by Oscar Brown Jr.

This paper examines this work, also referred to as Drum Street, by Oscar Brown Jr. There are no other sources listed....

Gender Roles and African Women in African and French Literature

This paper examines the depiction of African Women in Camara Laye's The Dark Child and Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood in fiv...

African Culture and Ideology and Its Impact Upon African Americans Past and Present

In this paper consisting of six pages the 'Africanness' thread that continues to link contemporary African Americans to their past...

Television Depictions of Gender and Ethnicity in the Workplace

researcher that suggests that these differences relate as much to socioeconomics as they do to biology. She emphasizes that the i...

Hollywood Depiction: Cultural Consequences Of Negative Imagery

it offers little appeal to what Hollywood filmmakers perceive their audiences want to see: cookie-cutter molds. Bach points out h...

Media and Body Image

the self-perception and health care of young girls. Hogan notes, with some validity, that media education is important: if the med...

Body Scan Imaging Technical Advances

scan to determine whether an emergency room patient has suffered a heart attack. Existing technologies do not necessarily compete...

Advertising and Women's Images

in which the female form is used and presented a theoretical paradigm of female may be ascertained and then used as a tool by whic...