African studies

or a combination of the two. Nature can be an important factor in the intelligence of a person. A study was done that showed evidence of 20 to 40 percent of a person 's intelligence is based on genetics. This data strongly supports…

When you go back and look at the components of the pilot program of the new National Professional Qualification for Headship in England, the program focused on personalized training to meet the needs of the individual. It states, “meet the needs of the individual” and not one mention in the research regarding race and it’s impact on leaders and/or coaches. Kendall(2001) also discusses how many people who are white believe they do not have to be serious about the issue of racism. It is…

Equality For All Introduction The North Carolina controversy that erupted on March 23, 2016, shown the unequal treatment of transgenders in the United States. Pat McCrory, Governor of North Carolina, has denied and fought against the new anti-discrimination bathroom bill, that gives transgenders the right to use the bathroom the person identifies with. People do not understand that there is a difference between sex and gender. Sex is the biological characteristics with which we are born..…

based approach to the study of the psychology of men and boys. What might be an alternative? Use at least three online references to support your position. Include relevant facts and assumptions before describing your own position and conclude by identifying useful research that might be undertaken to clarify or address the issue. A major risk in taking the problem based approach to the study of psychology of men and boys is that it can backfire as not being a needed field of study, since many…

should be used by historians to examine their subjects. Scott’s article is a part of a larger study of gender published in her book, Gender and the Politics of History. This book rallies historians to break away from biologically constructed notions of what it means to be male and female and what their sex-roles…

By engaging with the historical knowledge of such disempowered women, Spivak expands the original definition of the subaltern given by Guha and others to include the struggles and experiences of women also. According to her, “Both as object of colonialist historiography and as subject of insurgency, the ideological construction of gender keeps the male dominant. If in the context of colonial production, the subaltern has no history and cannot speak, the subaltern as female is even more deeply in…

health. These goals, adopted by the international community, recognize specific targets required to develop as a country. The third most pressing issue, gender equality and female empowerment, is especially important to scholars in the field of gender studies. The financial aspects of a woman’s life, productively, theoretically,…

Being African American and able to go to a diverse school like Pace University is a big deal for me. I take pride in being diverse. All through my school career I have learned about diversity and how it is so important especially in schools. It is a way to learn…

host cultures proficiently. Case in point, W.E.D Du Bois (1903/1989) asserted that African Americans frequently toggled between, “two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings, two warring ideals” (as cited in Heine, 2012, p. 409). Du Bois further noted that the differences between mainstream American cultural and that of urban African-American culture were so distinctly different that it required for African-Americans to learn and become skillful in the cultural norms of both settings in…

In the first study, the researchers focused on whether age differences in agentic and communal values shower the same patters across a wide spectrum of countries individualism and collectivism. At the end of the first study, they found that age was generally positively associated with communal personal values and was either not associated or negatively associated with agentic values. In the second study, the researchers tested whether people in different cultures…