The Kinks

Sundiata Graham The Blithedale Romance “The Blithedale Romance” is one of many of Nathaniel Hawthorne's grand works. It speaks the story of a group of utopians who travel out to change their failing, empty existence. They set off to live amongst the Blithedale community that was overseen by the famed Zenobia. They began with moral targets but the story ended in disaster. Careful study of the novel would display that really happened and that what Miles was saying might be two different things.…

Prior to going into the room my nurse asked me to make sure I walked every single IV line and tube to make sure there were no kinks or obstructions. I began to do what she asked but I was a little overwhelmed from the amount of lines on the IV pole. Some lines were not running so I asked her if I could declutter the pole and we did this together. I realized that keeping an organized…

Dating back to slavery, kinky-haired naturals were viewed as second-class citizens. “slave masters privileged those with lighter skin, straighter features, and straighter hair over those that reflected more African features “ (Donaldson). African- American women so desperately wanted to fit the traditional standard of beauty they used blistering metal combs to straighten their kinky hair or lye to chemically straighten it. Women straightened their hair because ”white beauty standards” were the…

Paraphilic Disorders If someone is sexually aroused or fantasizes about abnormal things, people might talk about that person having a “kink” or a “fetish” although the psychological term for “fantasies or … sexual behaviors that involve objects or situations outside of the usual sexual norms,” is actually paraphilia (Comer,2015). I should point out that fetishes do exists under the paraphilia umbrella, and typically involve “sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviors that involve the use of a…

Philip’s She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks recounts the sexist and racists silencing of the colonized from colonizers. Throughout the book, the narrator struggles with regaining her native language, which has been stripped from her. She lost the ability to feel, think, and speak for herself, focuses on finding power through language. Or anguish presented by Philip in “Discourse on the Logic of Language”. Consequently, she finds strength in both English and Caribbean language, both…

My very first blog! Such an exciting and defining moment for me. Haha :-). Like most females, particularly black females, my hair has gone through many ups and downs through the years and it has been hard to handle at times. I’ve dealt with long hair, short hair, dyed hair, and all. But let me start from the very beginning so you can have a sense of where I’ve been as far as my hair goes and where I hope to go on my Healthy Hair Journey. Ever since I was a young girl I literally PRAYED for…

The central foundations of Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT) can be observed in early literature authored by a variety of scholars and philosophers who observed existing relationships between emotion and thought (Wright, Basco, and Thase, 2006). These earlier contributors include the Stoic philosopher Epictetus. Epictetus’ documented teachings exalted the need for personal responsibility in choosing one’s actions through self-control and logic (Wright, Basco, and Thase, 2006). Essentially,…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” (Thomas Jefferson) If this is true, why, no more than 11 years later did some of the same original people meet to revise this country? The men who worked on shaping this country were not the common people; these men were the highest intellectuals that the colonies had to offer at this…

market being discussed. One other thing that would have helped my group prepare would have been in class speech preparation. Although I felt we did good, presenting to the class or even the instructor individually would have worked some of my group’s kinks out. It would have been nice to get this critic before the actual presentation. At the end of the day, preparation is key to success in a group project such as…

I had never been so nervous. My hands were trembling and my breathing was sporadic. The lights were dimmed. The church pews were filled with shuffling feet and hushed voices. My choir director motioned me forward to the microphone. I peered over the crowd in front of me and then the manuscript in my hands. It had been four months in preparation for this night; four months wrestling with writer’s muse and competing with time’s arrow. As my choir director introduced me to the audience, I knew that…