Essays on African American Women

Introduction and summary

Equal access to healthcare is essential to the sustainability of any nation. In fact, lack thereof compromises the survival rates of any population as it heightens the mortality rates. In the article, of disparities and diversity: Where are we? Gloria Sarto seeks to provide a rationale for the high levels of differences in the medical sector. She compares the minority population’s accessibility to healthcare facilities as opposed to the largely white community in the United States. Through this comparison, she establishes a credible argument on the need to eliminate health disparities among people around the globe. For instance, ...

Project Plan

The Ace Star Model of Knowledge Transformation will be used to help guide the planned change process. The ACE Star Model will describe the project and help recognize the process of knowledge discovery and transformation (Stevens, 2012). This model focuses on knowledge transformation for organizational or individual use, but this DNP project will base on organizational change. The ACE Star Model addresses factors that influence adoption of innovation and composed of five major stages. The first step in the ACE Star Model is discovery – search for knowledge. The second step is evidence summary - conduction a rigorous systematic review ...

Diabetes in its generality is a condition that is associated with elevated blood sugar levels. When these elevations persist, the patient may experience cases of disturbance of other body systems and leading to poor functionality and ultimately a chronic condition that affects their quality of life. Type-2 diabetes (T2DM) is the most common type of diabetes whose impact on the health of populations has significantly been documented (Murrock, Taylor & Marino, 2013). Apparently, among the documented aspects of health disparities, T2DM is noted as one of the biggest health challenges for African Americans. The prevalence is even higher among women ...

Employee Motivation Theory: Females in the U.S. Problem Leading To This Study: Many female individuals within the U.S. struggle with a sense of motivation. Merely getting up every morning to go to work can be an exhaustion and a burden. It shouldn’t have to be. Hypothesis: This problem can be changed over time.perhaps even reversed completely, with an increase in widespread awareness. What is my rationale for this hypothesis, based on the provided literature? First of all, the case study memo (pg. 2) makes it clear that repetitive changes are always going on in the workplace, and that ...

Novel adaptations into a film are quite a common practice seen these days. Cardwell (11) defines the term adaption as the process of adapting one text into another text. It is a process of modifying a thing so as to suit new condition. Many beautiful and award winning novels have been adapted in the films periodically by the Hollywood directors. It is a question of debate whether the original one is better or the adapted version is better. Among these several novels, one famous novel and the film adaptation is The Color Purple. A comparative analysis is done between ...

Introduction

Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted disease that has adverse effects on the health of the patient if not diagnosed and treated at early stages of development. Human bodies are designed to develop resistance to pathogens that cause such infections despite the availability of medicinal cure for the infection. This paper seeks to answer various questions about the infection by first describing the disease and how it is contracted. The symptoms and problems associated with the disease are also discussed while providing a detailed explanation for the high recurrence rate of the disease among the African American urban women. Besides, ...

Family is a social institution that consists of two parents and their children in the European tradition, as well as all ancestors who share the same line of descent as the parents and their children. The European Americans continued the same traditions upon settling in America and attempted to enforce their organization of family and gender roles on Native Americans. However, various factors throughout history have shaped families, and the changes in American families illustrate how legal, economic, political, cultural, religious, and social factors can affect the organization and gender roles in the family. Before the 19th century, marriage ...

The introduction of the reality show genre, it was meant to present the real people during dating, survival skills, and succeeding in the music business. However, in the modern day, the genre has presented some falsity and extravagance that is far from the relatable realism of the program. Feminism is one of the key aspects portrayed in reality shows such as Real Housewives of Atlanta, Bad Girls Club, among many others. These reality shows portray the African American women using certain characteristics that would be considered as stereotypes. The collection of evidence from reality shows. The project that deals ...

Article Summary

First, Perry explores what is noted as "the visual image of black women in hip-hop [over the last 20 years and] how this has rapidly deteriorated" (p.296). It seems as though at the turn of the 20th century, hip-hop started down a path that it has not been able to proverbially recover from. This is due in part to the fact that misogynist perspectives have been on the rise for a number of years, and the genre has only served to highlight the disturbing dynamics associated with this conception. Perry notes that "this use of black women in the ...

Introduction

Over the time, society, and the United States citizens have blamed the media as portraying black women in a negative light. However, the roles that the black American women play are a result of their willingness, and as such, they are indeed the cause of the negative portrayal that they receive. Apparently, several black American women in the United States are willing to take up any role and undertake in with the intention of earning some dollars and improving their living standards. Readiness to take up roles, which encompass violence, mismanagement of money, poor etiquette, and rowdy behavior, are ...

Miss Representation is an American documentary motion picture. It was released in 2011 by Girl’s Club Entertainment, to a limited theater release. It was shown at the Sundance film festival and several other film festivals, while also signing a deal to run on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The screenplay for the film was written by Jennifer Newson, Jessica Congdon, Claire Dietrich, and Jenny Raskin. Jessica Newsom also directed, and shared production duties with Julie Costanzano. With a running time of 85 minutes, the documentary had a shooting budget of $750,000, and box office earnings were not reported ...

Introduction

Perinatal depression is increasingly becoming a worldwide mental illness that affects expectant mothers. Although depression has always been categorized by world Health Organization (WHO) as a silent killer disease, perinatal depression continue to attract more attention due to its adverse effect on an entire family support system. It puts both the health of the mother, unborn baby, and the newly born at risk, and this risk is gradually transmitted to other family members who are taking care of them. More disheartening is the fact that this disease is more prevalence among the low-income mothers and those in the underserved ...

English - The research paper

Even after decades, racial tensions and discriminations have not been erased completely. Racial injustices to African-Americans continue to pervade even today and compel President Obama to speak on the issue. With more than a third of the US population belonging to ethnic minority groups, it would be a mistake to ignore issues related to racism. Can racism spread its roots in the health care industry and if it has, is racism is a significant barrier to accessing healthcare? Those are tough questions and need some studies. The essay explores the disparities in health care systems experienced by the racial ...

Notably, the numbers of African American women reported to have hypertension in several genetic studies have been high. However, there have not been any efforts targeted at examining the attitudes of these women towards genetic testing for the condition (Taylor, et al., 2013). From he foregoing therefore, this study was aimed at examining the attitudes of these women towards the probable benefits and barriers concerning genetic testing for the condition through the application of triads that focus on different generations. This study was done to determine if indeed, there are differences in terms of their levels of education, their ...

America in the 1920s: Radical Social Change as a Result of Technological Innovation

Important periods in American history are remembered with nostalgia and awe by the subsequent generations. The 1920s are mainly remembered in American culture for the changing attitudes of the youth, who embraced modern ideas and embraced the technological and ideological changes at the level of the society. Thus, America faced changes of an unprecedented scale in the 1920s (Palmer, 2006). The nation’s economic social and cultural identity underwent profound transformations during this time (Palmer, 2006). Americans enjoyed economic growth, political stability, and an unprecedented transformation due to the technological advancements. Novel technologies and inventions allowed people to spend ...

There are several causes of breast cancer. Cancer is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system of the body affects its organs (Lietzen, et al.,7). Breast cancer can recur even after treatment because of several factors, namely, age, medication administrated, other diseases that may compromise the immune system and the age of the individual. Ethnicity also plays a big part in whether or not an individual is more likely to get breast cancer. White women are more than likely to get breast cancer because they have a higher incidence of getting it. Ethnic minority groups such as ...

ABSTRACT

The abstract does not provide a brief description of the problem under study but rather gives the objective of the study which is to summarize longitudinal research regarding physical health and health behaviors on women’s subsequent alcohol use. The research does not conduct experiments with participants but rather uses databases from Medline/PsycINFO to yield its results. The database yielded 29 relevant articles that were used in this study. In the abstract, the researcher should have included more details about the methods that were used to select the 29 out of over 5000 articles that were reviewed.

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Abstract

Obesity and breast cancer are key health issues for American women. Obesity has approximately reached epidemic percentages in the United States and is more widespread among American women. The breast cancer mortality rate persists to mount in Americans. A review of the recent literature was conducted to bring into focus the relationship of these two health problems as they relate to American women. The review is separated into three subjects, obesity prevalence and incidence, breast cancer incidence and mortality and the relationship between obesity and breast cancer. The two studies reviewed are facts of a connection between obesity and breast ...