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and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...

headed" when faced with stress, while people with a "poorly differentiated self" are largely dependent on what others think of the...

American vernacular, the diet is one that has characterized the South and its inhabitants for generations. With a few extraordina...

to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...

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...

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 ...

because when I was growing up, my mothers limited English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed t...

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

remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...

2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...

a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...

continue to rise" (Hanke, 1993, pp. 22). Baltimore set an unenviable record for the number of homicides in 1992 of 331, which...

Troy and his son Cory. August Wilson establishes an impression of the 53-year-old Troy Maxson early in Act I, writing that he ...

In six pages this comparative analysis explores the Revolutionary War perspectives of Gordon Wood in The Radicalism of the America...

In nine pages this paper compares the incidence rates between Caucasian and African American men regarding prostate cancer. Five ...

percent, while rates among black women increase 1 percent, says the National Cancer Institute). Although White women are more li...

In five pages environmental factors such as carcinogens exposure are discussed as they relate to the high breast cancer mortality ...

In five pages this paper examines how the African American community is affected by teenage pregnancy in a consideration of associ...

This paper examines the relevance of the film, Sankosa, and others like it that focus on African-Americans holding onto their heri...

In five pages this research paper considers how music and artistic influences of African Americans have been significant since the...

In five pages this research paper assesses the artistic and musical contributions of African Americans throughout history in the m...

society (Nogueira; Bours). The considerable creativity of these people was channeled solely into outlets such as the chant, danc...

172). But while modernism was a reaction to the modern age and the disassociation that came with it, there also seems to have been...

In five pages 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Dream Deferred' poems of Langston Hughes are compared in a discussion of brutal re...

In six pages this paper examines Langston Hughes' African American poetry and the common theme that is interwoven in poems like 'H...

In six pages this paper examines how the African American experience manifests itself in Langston Hughes' plays Mulatto and Don't ...