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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...

1960s' African American Political Activism

as H. Rap Brown in his political Autobiography "Die Nigger Die!", the speeches and writings of Malcolm X which included his 1964 s...

African American Slaves and Their Cultural Dislocation

the initial feeling which overcame the slaves which was that "at some moment, all ones imprecations, all ones pleas to ancestors, ...

African Americans and WWI

generally limited, as mentioned, to very menial positions such as messmen, firemen, stewards, and passers (Gibbs, 2001). At the ...

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...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

Elder Abuse Among African Americans

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

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...

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...

Booker T. Washington’s Up From Slavery

was not really prepared to deal with this influx of people who needed to be paid for work. They were suddenly in a society that di...

RAP MUSIC AND PERPETUATION OF MISOGYNY

couple of studies dealing with gansta rap and its impact on adolescents most likely to be affected by it. Well then move to the ot...

Criminal Justice Issues

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...

African American Culture and Child Rearing

community. Case workers admitted that they sometimes believe that African-American men in general are absent, peripheral or abusiv...

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Lewis, Marshall and Tolliver: African American Artists

photographs and extensively explaining them" Women in History, 2007). Her subjects of sculpting were often individuals she felt we...

Phillis Wheatley

the women in her African American tribal group" ("Phillis Wheatley"). The "elegiac poetry style" is a stanza written in iambic pen...

Nan Goldin Exhibit At The Matthew Marks Gallery: General Review

the subjects soul in order answer the call of meaning so critical to the postmodern movement. The photography unarguably becomes ...

Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: Proposal 2

of public employment, public education, or public contracting" (LaBash, 2006). Another author indicates that it essentially refle...

Efficacy of Tutoring Programs & Math

education students within inclusive classrooms are peer tutoring and content mastery labs. The purpose of the following proposed r...

Critique of William Loren Katz’s The Black West

recognize the black women of the Western frontier including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colo...

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...

How Ralph Ellison’s Life Affected His Writing

that I was strong enough and violent enough to kill somebody in a fit of anger" (Allen 24). There is an unsettling undercurrent o...

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...

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...

Health Beliefs of African Americans

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...

Prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the African-American Population of Houston, Texas

state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...

Black Boy by Richard Wright and History

society, this history, into which he was born, stating "This was the culture from which i sprang. This was the terror from which I...

Legacy and Impact of Earl G. Graves

In five pages the Black Enterprise Magazine founder Earl G. Graves is celebrated in terms of his life, legacy, and profound busine...

1962's Commonwealth Immigrants Act of England

understand all sides of this debate in order to clearly understand the impact of this policy on the lives of both those in Britain...