the text Chemical Dependency by McNeece and DiNitto states that ethnicity and culture have been called the strongest determinants of drinking pattern in a society. The two ethnicities or cultures I chose to write about are Native Indian and African Americans. Native Indians: Native Indians have a very permissive attitude towards substance use. They have been accused of enabling alcoholics by paying for their bills‚ bailing them out of jail‚ and placing blame on others rather than the alcohol abuser
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Prostate Cancer in African American Men Prostate Cancer is the gland below a man ’s bladder that produces fluid for semen. Prostate cancer is common among older men. Prostate cancer is a silent killer‚ and because it grows slowly‚ many men have no idea it ’s there It is rare in men younger than forty. Risk factors for developing prostate cancer include being over sixty five years of age‚ family history‚ being African American‚ and some genetic changes. There is an estimated of 241‚740
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The racial discrimination I am focusing on is police encounters with citizens and police arrest. African Americans are treated differently when it comes to police encounters. There were many facts presented when reading this part of the article proving that dark skinned people are treated differently. 65% of the police population are white while the rest of the 35% are black. Police seem to focus more on the mixed racial drug market compared to the white. Black people typically deliver crack cocaine
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African-American Civil Rights Movement Your Name Course/Number Due Date Instructor Name Abstract An exploration of the Civil Rights Movement‚ as perceived by Fannie Lou Hammer‚ Lyndon B. Johnson‚ Rosa Parks‚ and Martin Luther King‚ Jr. African-American Civil Rights Movement In the early 1960s‚ leaders of the African-American political movement traveled to areas of high oppression. Their intent was to secure equal opportunities for African-Americans. These political leaders were called “African-American
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American poet and social activist Langston Hughes is renowned for his unique depictions of African American life in the United States throughout the 1900s. Through his work he portrays the sadness‚ happiness‚ and love in their culture. Hughes once said‚ “We Negro writers‚ just by being black‚ have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.” In other words‚ his and other African American writers’ work was criticized simply because of their ethnicity‚ so they
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The African-American Civil Rights Movement During the frail moments in history there are times to be seen as a great movement. One of those moments in the history of America was the African-American Civil Rights Movement. This movement came by storm with different views on how civil rights should be fought. With the extremism of Malcolm X or the prolific voice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. There were key court cases Brown v. Board of Education and the world wide known Rosa Parks. This action by
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The Phonology of African American Vernacular English Table of contents 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………….………...…….1 2. African American Vernacular English (AAVE)……………………….………...….…2 3.1. Vowel phonemes of AAVE……………………………………………………...……2 3.2. Consonant phonemes of AAVE…………………………………………………...…..3 3.3. Syllable structure…………………………………………………….…………….......6 3.4. Prosodic features……………………………………………………….…………...…7 3. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………
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because of a situation and that cannot be changed. Some real life instances where this could be true are the African American society‚ children raised in a single-parent family‚ and Hispanics. African Americans are a group who can be treated very differently than the average American citizen. Many African Americans live in unsafe urban cities. For many generations the majority of African Americans haven’t been shown how to be good citizens and behave rightly towards others‚ those are some of the reasons
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the freedom of African Americans. Today‚ even though African American men only make up a little over 6% of the population‚ they make up over 40% of the people that are incarcerated. Part of the reason this stat is so disproportional is because of history. Historically African Americans have been oppressed first through slavery‚ and then through the Jim Crow laws and segregation‚ and now through the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system today targets African Americans through movements
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Imagine being famous living the American dream. Imagine being famous for the wrong reason. Imagine starting an organization to help the good of the African- American people‚ but then that organization becomes one of the biggest target in the eyes of police‚ and white America. Imagine having to take on the hatred of millions‚ with havoc and disaster being sparked out of the organization created for the good of the people. What was asked to be imagined has already happened right here in America. The
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