Baltimore

“A heritage beyond St. Louis”, a line from the sentimental recollection of memories of Colleen McElroy’s poem “For My Children”. Fascinatingly, McElroy was born just right across the river/40 minute drive from our very own house, on October 30, 1935 (Reid). Although born in St. Louis, Missouri she took up the studies and writing with a distinct African tone in her work. Colleen McElroy’s poem “For My Children” incorporates her African American heritage as well as African language and dialect,…

Area needed for improvement NorthLake Family Practice sees on a daily basis a significant amount of African American newly diagnosis or patients with uncontrolled hypertension. I feel that education on hypertension, importance of medication and medication compliance, complication seen with uncontrolled hypertension, importance of exercising, and the DASH diet plan is needed to decrease hospitalizations and occurring of complications. African Americans are at a higher risk for hypertension…

Reflect on how African Americans get treated Both letter were very hard to read. Both letters hit some main and broad statements on race, equality, and love. Reading these letters made me realize how much trouble this would is in. we are in trouble because everything in the letters still happen today, we still deal with people being racist, even though we don’t think we do we go through it all day, it 's apart of life. In his letter he talked about how it 's really hard to live as an African…

The mid 1900’s consisted of ideas revolving around discrimination and women in the house. The Help depicts many of these by showing its antagonist’s, Hilly Holbrook, opinions. Her most dominant opinions are that women should be in charge of the house while the men work, everyone must see eye to eye with her, and she is against African Americans. With the expression of all her opinions throughout the story, Hilly gets led down numerous destructive paths while bringing the other characters with…

2015. A majority of the suspects were unarmed” (Vicens). The videos would make anyone cringe about the police force that is being overused in the United States. The worst thing is about the effects that is changing America and dividing us. The Baltimore Riots can be a way society responded to the tragic deaths. However, there are times when police officers are misunderstood and acted correctly. “As he and his partner approached the park they were fired upon by a subject. Officer Hofer was shot…

Final Essay The three stories I will be writing about are Devil in a Blue Dress, A Lesson Before Dying, and Fences. Devil in a Blue Dress and A Lesson Before Dying are told from the perspective of an African American male. Although fences is not told from the perspective of an African American, due to it being a play, its story is centered around an African American family. All these stories focus on segregation and hatred towards African Americans in different ways. The main characters in…

“How much do you make?” This was the first question that guest speaker Dan Glassman proposed to the class before taking us on a journey through his life. In the traditional sense this question would have been in reference to one’s salary or wages, but on that day the speaker was heading in a different direction. Dan Glassman, an accidental lawyer and recent widower, had walked into our classroom with one purpose, and that was to instill in a group of college seniors a value that he had gained…

In this paper, I am writing about two norm violations I witnessed along with one norm violation I committed myself. In order for myself to understand the different types of norm violations I had to watch videos as well as identify what a norm was. For example, a norm that is not strictly enforced is called folkways. Other norms however are taken much more seriously in which we insist on conformity and these are called mores (Henslin pg.51). “Norms are expectations of ‘right’ behavior” (Henslin…

Throughout history there has been discrimination to those who are different. It has been the culprit behind many organized and unorganized hate crimes. Just as there are many people that feel the need to judge and put others down, there are others willing to fight for the rights of those that can’t defend themselves. Sadly this is not just a thing of the past. I can remember how growing up I was discriminated and looked down upon for speaking English with a Cuban accent and how my teachers at…

Residential context is vital; the inconsistency of one's environment can generate insecurity and stress, as a result, introduce behavioral and psychological repercussions on a developing individual. Researchers Goldner et al. (2009) three-year longitudinal study found when low-income African American adolescents in urban neighborhoods, spend their recreational time in public and with older peers, both boys and girls linked with increased risk. Additionally, reported rates of exposure, through…