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The Evolution of the Rifle

from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

Odessa, TX/Race Relations

the movie and book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, which describes Odessas fascination with high school football and was pu...

Hypertension Education for African American Patients

in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...

Diabetes Mellitis and Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans

social factors that influence access to care and the application of preventative strategies in African American populations. Th...

Hypertension in African American Populations

other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...

Martin Luther King Jr.: Helping the White as Well as Black

and take notice of the horrible injustices around them. Making a society take note of their oppressive nature and the injus...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

Culturally Competent Care/African Americans

beliefs and lifestyles cannot be easily summarized (Sadler and Huff, 2007). However, it is also true that many African Americans d...

The Influence of Stax Records

making records, and the arrival of Al Bell, who was hired to make Stax a national brand and succeeded so well he ended up the trag...

Elder Abuse Among African Americans

verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...

Canada's Independent Streak

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

African American Leader Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois

In five pages Dr. Du Bois' career and his outstanding leadership in the black community is floowed from his Harvard Ph.D. to his r...

African American Diabetes and Inner City

This paper suggests educational and community outreach projects that would help improve nutrition and level of activity among this...

Three African American Novels, Recurrent Themes

This essay pertains to common themes found within "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston and "The Color Purple" and ...

African Americans, Poverty, and the War on Drugs

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the criminal justice system in regards to multicultural problems. This paper includes the s...

African American Author, Historian, and Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois

In five pages this paper discusses how being a black man influenced the perspectives of W.E.B. Du Bois with his text The Souls of ...

Major League Baseball and Influence of African Americans

In a paper consisting of twenty pages the racial integration that has come through professional baseball is explored in the contri...

African American Literary Movements

as used in Sojourner Truths Aint I a Woman, becomes a persuasive technique which unites all women regardless of their color (also ...

Inner City African American Boys in Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here

Soon after meeting Kotlowitz, Lafayette told him that "if" he grows up, he wants to be a bus driver. Kotlowitz notes that the adol...

African American General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.

In ten pages the many achievements of this celebrated U.S. general are discussed with his black military contributions also examin...

African American Leader Lani Guinier

This paper consists of five pages and discusses Lani Guinier's beliefs and contributions. Seven sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Speeches of Great African Americans

In six pages the speeches and writings of Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington are discussed and reacted t...

Urban Hispanic and African American Marketing

In sixteen pages this paper examines how marketing can target these two extremely important consumer groups. Fifteen sources are ...

Health Issues of African Americans in Modern Times

In this paper consisting of 5 pages, belief systems, specific health-care issues/problems and work hazards are discussed. There i...

Autobiographies of African Olaudah Equiano and American Benjamin Franklin

the letter pulls the reader into the familiar structure of the book, and creates the continued expectation of familiar concepts, n...

African American Lecturer Frances E.W. Harper's Life and Works

In nine pages Frances E.W. Harper's amazing life as a reformer and lecturer are considered within the context of her recently surf...

Comparing American and African Children

In six pages children in America and children in Africa are examined in this comparative analysis. Five sources are cited in the ...

A Revies of Church Burning in African American Communities by Carolyn S. Carter

A 3 page essau reviewing the 1999 article by Carolyn S. Carter. This essay emphasizes the importance of the church to the black co...