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Domestic Abuse: Federal and Illinois Law

This paper describes the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which is a federal law, and also the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (I...

Increase in Domestic Violence

In fifteen pages domestic violence is examined in terms of abuse types, statistical data, myths surrounding it, cycle of violence ...

Domestic Violence and Gender Stereotyping

husband. In many physical abuse situations, no one person controls all aspects of the home other than the male, including all pro...

Why Employers Should Pay Attention to Domestic Violence

to violence are absenteeism, lateness, inability to focus, nervousness, poor performance, unexplained injuries and inappropriate c...

Social Violence

serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...

African American Women: Impact of Violence on their Health

This research paper is presented in two sections. The first section consists of an annotated bibliography and an outline of the pa...

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...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

The Theme of the Violent African American Patriarchy in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In five pages the focus of this paper is on how women of the African American community must come together and form a unified sist...

Issues of Social Justice from a Historical Perspective

quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...

The Condition of Education for Black Americans

know, were first brought over to the United States as slaves. At that point in time the African American had a different language ...

Black American Feminism

7 pages. This paper provides an overview of the authorship of four significant African American authors, Maria Stewart, Anna Juli...

The Strengths of African American Families

7 pages ad 4 sources. This paper outlines the basic principles presented in Robert Bernard Hill's The Strengths of African Americ...

Culture and Personality, African Americans

a significant subculture in American society as a whole, as it accounts for 41.1 million American or roughly 13.5 percent of the p...

A Look at Civil War Black Soldiers and Sailors

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

Culture and Child Abuse

In five pages the African American community is considered in terms of the incidences of child abuse in other cultural comparisons...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

The Resiliency and Pathology of Black American Families

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates two different perspectives on the African American family in the modern era, one based ...

The Constant Discord Between African Americans and Arabs

In five pages the reasons behind the discord between African Americans and Arabs is linked to the Islam religion that has been emb...

Black Americans in the Construction Industry

Kingdom - is still predominantly that of white male, with a low representation of ethnic minorities, including African Americans i...

African Americans and the Lack of Mental Health Resources In African-American Communities Has Created A Mental Health Crisis, Especially The Incarceration Of African-American Males

for decades to be a disease of the insane, mental conditions like depression that intensify juvenile delinquency have finally been...

Movies and African American Males Bad Guys and Buddies

Fifteen films are discussed in this report of fifteen pages to consider how African American males are depicted and how they are t...

African American Women and Body Image

In five pages this research paper compares perceptions of African American women regarding their body size with the perceptions of...

Continuity in the Culture of African Americans

5 pages and 5 sources. This paper relates the concept of cultural continuity as it can be applied to a view of the African Americ...

Marva Collins Model for Discipline

She also advocates the use of proverbs and poetry, as students to copy and memorize them, as these inspirational tools deliver "cu...

Critical Assessment of the Article "African American University Students"

Steward and Neil, p. 88). They continue: "... findings suggest that todays African American students are somewhat consistent in be...

Economic Self Sufficiency and the Role of the African American Church

This author notes that, "The church fought against the social injustices that African Americans faced in America," which is clearl...

American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

Civil Rights' Struggles of African American Women

Rights Movement would emerge. From a sociological standpoint, Robnett recognized that dangers inherent in applying feminist stan...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...