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Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

African Americans in Rural Georgia, Diabetes, and Community Healthcare Planning

can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...

Effectiveness of Ebonics

(Fields, 1997; see also Heilbrunn, 1997). SEP, as it was called, was created to educate teachers who work with black children abou...

Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan

Ali or Jordan who bestows upon his admirers the importance of making positive contributions to self and society. II. FAMILY BACKG...

African-American Youth Public Speaking And Community Relations

may lead to African-Americans and others dropping out at even higher rates. We know that the high school graduation rates for many...

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...

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...

Culture and Diabetic Management in African Americans

diabetes under control. Theoretical Learning Foundations Diabetes mellitus...

African American Poet Langston Hughes

he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....

African Americans and Multicultural Communication

with the task of coping with whites who predominantly spoke English. The African peoples brought to the US adapted by creating a ...

Coexisting Disorders and Recommended Treatment

well, and is defined as a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience of witnessing a life-threatening event such...

African American Youth Stereotypes

more of art imitating life rather than the other way around. II. DISCUSSION The good old days of the colorful, romantic, s...

Native Americans and Africans Compared

members of particular racial and ethnic groups which are often compared in relation to the majority or dominant group within the p...

Portrayal of Blacks in the Media, 1960s-Present

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

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

Families Should Decide Own Health Goals

to individuals connected by a blood tie. However, to be a "family," members must "live in close contact, care for one another, an...

Cultural Considerations for a Home-Bound African American Patient

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

African American Music

in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...

Pontiac, Michigan and African Americans County Public Health Outreach Services

In ten pages this paper discusses a county public health outreach program for African Americans who have been consistently denied ...

Media Representation and Cultural Diversity

An article on African American actress Jada Pinkett is discussed in this tutorial essay of five pages in an exploration of the med...

Healthcare of African Americans After the Second World War

Hitler, especially during the Olympics, the United States may well have had to save face, and actively illustrate how they believe...

Slave Culture Euro American and African Style

This paper consisting of five pages discusses by way of Nathan Irvin Huggins' 'Black Odyssey' how the combination of African and E...

African American Cultural Perspectives in W.E.B. du Bois' Souls of Black Folks

African American cultural perspectives on Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. du Bois are considered in a paper consisting of 5 pages. ...

African American and Latino Leadership

In five pages this paper discusses community leadership, which is considered from the issue perspectives of African Americans and ...

African Americans and Substance Abuse

still come to black neighborhoods to buy drugs...Blacks were relegated to the lower rungs of the drug trade, and it exposed them o...

Young and Middle Aged African American Woman and Self Esteem

condition, physical well-being and illness, religious versus non-religious, even post-abortion self esteem. What is more valid and...

African American and the Sociological Aspects of Rock and Roll

the academics, he is attempting to communicate the truths to both sides of the issue. In addition, when we understand that, acc...

Florida's Dade County, HIV, and AIDS

the Miami/Dade HIV/AIDS Partnership are as follows: * Assess the communitys needs with regard to HIV/AIDS prevention, health and ...

Early American Working People and Soldiers

In eight pages Revolutionary War soldiers such as Joseph Plumb Martin are examined along with working men and women which include ...