Melanin

chance to justify their continuous brutality against black women. The disturbing reality in the past and present is that individuals within modern society believe black women do not deserve to be treated with human decency just because they have more melanin in their genetic makeup.…

UVB’s 1. The sun shines on the skin. 2. The UVB light interfaces with a form of cholesterol in the skin called 97-dehydrocholesterol. 3. This is synthesized into pre-vitamin D3, which is immediately converted into vitamin D3. 30 minutes of midday sun in a bathing suit, and you’ve absorbed up to 20,000 IU of vitamin D. Whether you spend half an hour in the midday sun or take 2 10,000 IU of vitamin D3 in tablets, it’s then transported to the liver where it’s turned into D25 for storage. These…

racism towards the black community, most notably the mockery of their culture. African-American females, I find, are most oppressed in society today because they are shamed for having braids. They are shamed for having big lips, and big butts, and the melanin in their skin. We see little girls are choosing to not go outside because she 's afraid of getting too dark. Being called "ratchet" or "ghetto" for having braids. We live in a society where Eurocentric ideals of beauty make little black…

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more, have had an impact on the way humans are interacting with each other. These social icons are not just a medium for communication, but they offer more to it, than that. Social networks have attracted many individuals worldwide because of their potential to address millions of users and possible future customers (Krombholz, Merkl, Weippl, 2012). These platforms are becoming a norm in today’s world that are difficult to…

and can be cured easily, but there is one type of skin cancer that is considered to be most life threatening and that is melanoma. The reason why this disease is called ‘melanoma’ is because a tumor develops made of the melanocyte cells which are melanin producing cells (Skin Cancer 2016). Over the past few years’ melanoma cases have grown exponentially which proves that there should be an immediate concern toward this disease (Skin Cancer 2016). Skin cancer specifically melanoma has a variety…

waterproof cells with keratin and pain receptors to alarm the nervous system of damages. 3. Bacterial damaged - Bacteria can get into the hidden tissues, and damage them if the integumentary system does not protect them. 4. Ultraviolet radiation - Melanin protects the deeper tissues that can cause UV damage. 5. Thermal damaged - Thermal damaged has heat, cold, and pain receptors to protect the lowest tissues from any damages. 6. From becoming dehydrated - The body can become dehydrated if it is…

determine how sensitive one is to the sun. It gives the probability of a certain complexion’s risk of melanoma over anothers. It is reliable and valid in whites, however not in other ethnic groups. (Lewis, Dirksen, Heitkemper, Bucher, 2014). Increased melanin found in darker skinned persons, is a natural sunscreen. Which makes darker skinned persons less susceptible to skin cancers. Even though people with a darker complexion have a lower chance of getting skin cancer, they can still get it and…

the people. Though he wanted peace and nonviolence, it was ultimately those whom fought against him were the ones to cause harm. Beliefs extended into believing that everyone is equal no matter what. Not mattering about the person or he amount of melanin in their skin. Abolitionists are known to be the people who take physical actions in fighting and speaking aloud. Garrison fought with words on paper creating a newspaper that would affect many lives. Many fought against him in that time. Even…

The media is extremely omnipresent in our society. Nowadays, it is plausible that the media is one of the most powerful sources of information. In fact it maybe be arguable that the media is the best medium for coercion-persuading individuals to adopt certain doctrines on what may be accepted and desirable in society. “Film-makers, novelists, advertisers, modeling agencies, matchmaking websites - all demonstrate how much the power of a fair complexion, along with straight hair and Eurocentric…

supports the hypothesis that latitude and location relative to the equator is correlated with skin pigmentation. As people migrated out of the tropics the depigmentation became advantageous for producing vitamin D by the skin as the concentration of melanin allows the UVB to be absorbed. There is one exception to this rule however which Loomis (1967) explains is the Eskimos. They are located out of the tropics and would be expected to possess depigmentation however this is not the case, it is…