YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :History and Contemporary Issues of African Americans
Essays 331 - 360
under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...
(May 2007: 106). Cooper felt that the struggle of black women for social justice was an inherent element in the "wider struggle fo...
The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...
basis upon which positive psychology operates. Indeed, there will always be a place for the type of therapy that purges psycholog...
interact with each other, and tend to ignore larger structures such as national governments and economies ("Theoretical Perspectiv...
African-American culture tends to eat more fat than is recommended. Socioeconomic status as well as education play a role in meal ...
to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...
headed" when faced with stress, while people with a "poorly differentiated self" are largely dependent on what others think of the...
One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...
a "handful" of real designers as opposed to entrepreneurs who launch a clothing line as part of a sort of media empire; Sean Combs...
In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...
diabetes under control. Theoretical Learning Foundations Diabetes mellitus...
his motivation for stealing Jean and Ricks car. However, in committing grand theft auto, Anthony objectifies Jean and Rick just as...
American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...
in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...
a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...
2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...
and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...
remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...
can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...
future and freedom for African Americans but there were many racial tensions during this period of Reconstruction with federal arm...
to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...
may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...
that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...
being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...
state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...
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...
verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...
other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...
social factors that influence access to care and the application of preventative strategies in African American populations. Th...