Africana studies

of questions that asked what accomplishments I wanted to fulfill and what jobs I would consider doing. As I wrote down my responses it was clear to me that I have a passion involving my culture and the history behind it. I soon discovered that there was a career specifically designed for what I was interested in and I wanted to learn more about it. For my paper I decided to research an Africana professor as my career. The Africana studies is a class or a program (depending on if you want to major or minor in that study) that can be taken at many universities across the United States with the intent on teaching about the…

To answer this question of how to undertake the study of the African experience it is important to gain a proper understanding of how Africana studies works. To gain a better understanding of how it works it is important to look all the way back into Pre-History. One can have a clear and accurate picture of two things. The first, is how little is covered in many African American Studies or Black Studies courses and textbooks in the United States. The second is that the focus primarily on the…

The discipline of studies sometime takes courses because of how effective it has in the community and because history has allowed scholars to reconstruct the concept of Africana World Studies. According to John Clarke, he describes through Saunders Redding, theory on how history has played a major part in the academic perspective on Black Studies. A history first distorted when the Europeans first travel and kidnapped thousands of African for enslavement. The study was to revamp the studies for…

In the Limitations and Future Research section of the paper, the authors acknowledge this issue. Their sample consisted of predominantly European and African-American boys from an urban community, identified at risk of developing behavioural problems. Furthermore, the fact that all the participants were male, means the findings of this study cannot be generalised to the population at large (Supplee et al., 2011). But as the authors state, this study provides a platform for future research,…

the influences. In conclusion, acknowledging the motivation of employees is the key for an organization to success. Key words: organization behavior, employee motivation, organizational effectiveness Employee Motivation What is Employee Motivation What wakes you up in the morning, your alarm or your dream? The motivation separates the people at work into two kinds: those people who cannot wait to work everyday and those people who wish the day will be done as soon as possible. Besides…

essay will consist of identifying the research question of the article, confirming that the research design matches the research question, examining how the study was and selecting the dual explanations for the study (Lauer, 2006). The study of this article includes conducted Participants and Selection, Definition, Description, and Implementation of Treatment, Definition, Description, and Implementation of Treatment, The Data and How They Are Collected, and Data Analysis (Lauer, 2006). This…

you spent whole life studied, you cannot be that person who knows everything; however, we still need to study and research and teach to develop this world where we are living in. Study abroad that students learn from other country by travel, and you can learn from other country without travel as study online, but we cannot called that study abroad. Nowadays, most of students prefer to study abroad than study in their country or study online, it is not because their country poor education or…

Culture is complex and dynamic and it is often easier to ignore culture than to deal with its complexity (Connerly & Pederson, 2005). However acknowledgement of ones own cultural heritage contributes to gaining awareness of culture (Connerly & Pederson, 2005). This is particularly important in counselling as cultural sensitivity facilitates therapy, resulting in better outcomes for clients with diverse backgrounds (Ridley, Mendoza, Kanitz, Andgermeier & Zenk, 1994). In contrast, cultural…

and class disparities are significant, with Hispanic and Black teens in the United States have nearly one-and-a-half-times higher rates than average and about twice as high as White teens . Clearly this issue remains relevant and important. A rich literature on the teen-child bearing addresses, among other things, the economic and social costs of early-life child-bearing, however, much less is known about other early life pregnancy outcomes such as abortions or miscarriages -. The sparse…

Historians using gender as a categorical tool of historical analysis have won prizes from Organization of American Historians and American Historical Association such as Joan Scott and Kathleen Brown. In 1986, Joan Wallach Scott published her groundbreaking article, Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.” In this article, Scott asserts that gender had not been previously used a conceptual framework like race and class and should be used by historians to examine their subjects. Scott’s…