Hot comb

“I can’t believe we finally get to see him!” I said as I walked quickly towards the huge airport. It was a hot Thursday afternoon in San Antonio, the date exactly was November 21, 1963. “The New York International airport is amazing isn’t it?” my husband John Connally asked as he led me into one of the giant open doors. Both me and my husband had to get our bags checked, including the presents I had brought with me. I had to quickly fix my husband’s suit while we were waiting for the men to…

Since the dawn of humanity, women have been trying to achieve their personal idea of beauty. In the book, “Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women”, author Blaine Roberts, shows the racial division between white women and black women and the role perceptions of beauty also played. Women of different colors, sizes, attitudes, mindsets, and dreams all concurred that beauty was an important aspect for the Civil Rights movement. Roberts’ thesis, black and white perceptions of beauty, both played a…

back as the late 19th century but has not been called CCD until more recently. Robyn M. Underwood, of Pennsylvania State University, states that the earliest recorded account of this is in 1869. The report blames “lack of pollen, poisonous honey, or a hot summer” to be the cause of the mysterious deaths (Underwood). One must be aware that colony loss is a normal annual occurrence in the industry. It is only when these losses are extremely high, as they were 2006-2011, that action must be taken.…

different villages are married, it is customary for a man to bring his wife to his village, or it will be bad for his reputation (Bradt and Austin 20). Furthermore, it is easy to tell when a young man is looking for a wife if he walks around with a comb in his hair (Bradt and Austin 20). It is rare to see a man married to more than one wife, however, it has happened before. In Malagasy society, there are two main rules: remember your place and respecting everyone (Bradt and Austin 21). In most…

The imperial dominance of economic impetus on global capital has propagated a contemporary gravitation towards English as a common global language. As the United States has been the country primarily responsible for the global proliferation of capital as well as home to the largest native English speaking population in the world, it would be a natural assumption to think that English would be mandated as the official language of the country. It is not. Although the supremacy of the English…

Concussions in the World of Sports Maxx Hotton Wake Forest University Head trauma and concussions, the media talks about, physicians talk about it, coaches talk about it, and players can hear enough about it, but what really is a concussion? This is a topic that billions of dollars are being spent on research, and the National Football League just gave out a $765 million settlement concerning former and current NFL players with repercussions from previous head trauma. This is clearly an…

and wanted things [she] could not get.” (Hughes 1). This connection lead to Mrs. Higgins feeling empathy for Rogers, and again, making her more inclined to offer Roger to “set down, while [she fixes them] something to eat,” (Hughes 1) and to run a “comb through [his] hair so [he] will look presentable.” (Hughes 2). These instances are a product of Mrs. Higgins and Roger not being biologically related, which is a factor into why Mrs. Higgins was so nice to Roger. In contrary, Mrs. Bates has a far…

Introduction The ability to dress and cleanse is a significant and paramount need and includes much more than the act of physical cleansing of the skin to minimize the potential for injury and infection. Personal dressing and cleansing is also important in enhancing the social, cultural, psychological and general well-being of the individual. It is one of the many essential activities of daily living performed by the patients(Summers et al. 2008). The inability to carry out personal cleansing…

The ending of slavery during the 19th century was only the beginning of another major battle for Black Americans. Although the captivity of the black body took place over a century ago, it has shaped the way Black people, Black women in particular, are treated in American society. White supremacist and racist ideology that began during slavery have evolved from explicit racial cues such as the lynching and beating of the black body to more implicit ones that have made their way into mainstream…

Jill Nelson wrote, “The apparently neverending popularity of a variety of straightening devices, from the hot comb to chemical straighteners-now euphemistically called “relaxers,” as if the problem is that sister’s hair is uptight and all we need to do is to get it to cool out-attests to this”(2009). In other words, Nelson is saying that black beauty is based…