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Culture and Diabetic Management in African Americans

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

Actual Innocence

wrongly jailed" (Boyer). The first case they discuss is that of Marion Coakley, who "served more than two years in prison becaus...

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...

Forensic Pathology Of Sudden Unexplained Death

and process evidence with the intent of catching the perpetrator. While not all sudden unexpected death is of a criminal nature, ...

The Juvenile Justice System, Pro and Con

of the problems with the system is that it is not standardized; each state has its own version. Funding mechanisms are different i...

Stooping to Their Level: the FBI in “Mississippi Burning”

goes black as two more shots are heard. The reaction of the audience at this point is sheer disbelief as well as anger. The disb...

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...

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FIRINGS: A BREACH OF ETHICS?

is another matter. The Merit Systems Protection Board has a whole list of reasons for dismissal; and not performing on the job is ...

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...

Theories in Sociological Studies

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

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 ...

The African American Dream of Equality

and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...

Westerners And Bushmen Exchange Systems

relations. Bushmen feel a great need to give and receive food, perhaps to cement relationships with each other, perhaps to proved...

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...

Understanding and Addressing Juvenile Crime

accepting the fact that juvenile crime is increasing not decreasing and the seriousness of the types of crimes that are being comm...

Tan's First Novel

all sorts of unsettling events. This is a fictional account but it brings into play very real issues faced by todays population. ...

Carrie Allen McCray's Freedom's Child

mans baby. So, in this there is no unique condition. But, the unique element comes into play when we note that the household posse...

Effects of Negro League Baseball

Frank Thompson in Long Island, who organized a group of Argyle Hotel waiters in the 1880s and ultimately merged with a Philadelphi...

Post Civil War African Americans

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

Phillis Wheatley's Poetry

the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...

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...

The Black Experience Captured in the Plays of August Wilson

Black experience in Chicago in the 1920s we see realistic dialogue and we see how the black musician is clearly being exploited by...

Proposal Regarding Young Pregnant African American Females and Crack Cocaine

must be addressed is how to ensure that the children of these pregnancies are not the victims of one of the most dangerous drugs i...

African Americans and the Impact of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

that because of the civil rights movement, no black woman will ever again be forced to sit in the back of the bus....

Spirituality as a Concept in Black American Literature

the first black writer of consequence in America (A Brief Biography of Phillis Wheatley, 2002). Phillis poetry is a clea...

Prejudice and Crime

optimism, there exists an invisible boundary line that, even though race relations seem to be improving, keeps the races separated...

Rehabilitation Setting and Collaborative Nursing

others, often in an intellectual focus. Cultural collaboration raises the value of this effort to that of individuals of one cult...

The African American Student Population and Urban Educational Policy

this country. The Problem With African American Education in America First, it is important to recognize that in fact th...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man, Nella Larsen's Passing, and Lynching

married to a very successful doctor who wishes to leave the country and find a place where they are not oppressed. Irene, however,...

Power in the Pulpit How America's Most Effective Black Preachers Prepare Their Sermons by Cleophus James Larue

illustrate the points they make. Larue himself is a preacher and scholar who is an associate professor of homiletics at Princeton ...