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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...

African-American and African Cultural Beliefs on Masculinity

This paper examines the differences in how the concept of masculinity is viewed among African-American and African men. This elev...

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...

An Article Critique of 'Protection Against Ischemic Heart Disease In The Belgian Physical Fitness Study: Physical Fitness Rather Than Physical Activity?'

which takes place during ones leisure time. Noting that it is not easy to establish a method for controlling self-selection into ...

Community Health Project/Diabetes Among Hispanics

in the US. Likewise, diabetes-associated nephropathy, a progressive disorder of the kidney, is the leading cause of end stage rena...

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....

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...

Nursing, Diabetes, and 3 Research Articles

with a study sample of six female diabetes nurse specialists, who worked with a multidisciplinary team offering comprehensive diab...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...

Overview of Diabetes Mellitus and Its Implications

In six pages diabetes mellitus is discussed in an overview of Type I and Type II and the implications these forms have in the long...

Diabetes Control: A Review of Literature

noted as statistically significant (Strine et al, 2005). The outcomes of this study are presented in a in a table broken do...

Patient Treatment Plan

She surveyed all of the independent living facilities in the local area and chose one; her grown children arranged and conducted t...

Pancreas and Diabetes

an autoimmune reaction to the antigens that are found in the islet cells located in the pancreas (King, 2005). What happens is th...

A Diabetes Overview

In nine pages diabetes and its various aspects are considered regarding illness management including medication alternatives, non ...

Black Lifestyle Choices and Diabetes

self care that is needed to keep diabetes under control and, in actuality, to even prevent is occurrence. While that may seem a c...

Primary Prevention in Diabetic Care

can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...

An Overview of Existing Research on Stroke and Diabetes

In a three page paper, the author reflects on a range of studies on diabetes, stroke, and skin impairment in patients with comorbi...

Type One Diabetes Screening Tool

This research paper reports on the development of a revised, validated screen tool for disorder eating among type one diabetes mel...

Teaching Patients and Students About Disease

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, including an increase in the number of ...

Teen Obesity

This research paper pertains to data on the prevalence of obesity among American adolescents. This information reveals that it is ...

Colonialism

This essay/research paper, first of all, defines colonialism and discusses how it can be differentiated from imperialism. Then, t...

Pidgins and Creoles, Origins, Features

This research paper/essay discusses how pidgin and Creole languages develop, emphasizing the influence that African Americans have...

Theme of Lynching in Black Boy

life as a background that makes it possible to discuss the personal characteristics that enabled African Americans growing up in t...

African Americans in Early America

(Laughter Genealogy, 2008). Another region, Pennsylvania, saw an African American history that was essentially one of slav...

The Accuracy of American History Books

faced. Foner explains that by the time the Savannah Colloquy would come around, slavery was already an institution3. He explains t...

The Power of Persuasion: No Magic Bullet for the Continuing Problems in Darfur

that this earlier time in history bears little comparison to contemporary times in regard to what it takes to inspire individuals ...

Overview of African American and Native American Ideologies and Globalization

took a vicious Civil War to legally end the "peculiar institution," although the South continued to pass such things as the Jim Cr...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...