...through high school. Instead, children are taught how to say ‘a’ for ‘apple’, but not that apples are a healthy alternative compared to McDonald’s French fries. As time progresses, these same children grow older and carry their bad eating habits along with them and completely disregard healthy eating. The fact that food deserts are practically abundant in their neighborhoods does not make this any better. In Chicago alone, minorities make up the majority of low-income neighborhoods, and in these neighborhoods, grocery stores are miles away from homes where fast food restaurants are thriving. The city is purposely constructed this way as a scheme to keep the health of minorities down, especially African Americans. This way, the minorities become dependent upon the system. African Americans who are faced with poverty are not able to afford constant medical bills as well as treatment, or they have no transportation. When poverty strikes it is very hard to progress, making it easier for us to be killed off. To make something become a habit you drill it into someone’s head while they are young, prime example being elementary school. According to the State of Obesity, “From 1999 to 2012, 35.1 percent of...
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...1880s to the 1930s, the lives of African Americans had developed drastically. The Civil War, Reconstruction, and Great Migration happened during this time period. The development of civil rights did not come along easily. New laws were created for the improvement of civil rights such as the 13th and 14th Amendment. Unfortunately Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws were also apparent during this time period. This restricted many African Americans from gaining more equality and they had many struggles in their lives because White Americans generally did not accept them as equal and on the same level. These changes were seen through the perspectives of characters in the play, “The Piano Lesson”, written by August Wilson. Although there was...
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...Reconstruction was an attempt to reform and organize the Southern States in 1866. Congress introduced reconstruction as a way to bring the South into submission. They did this by passing the 14th amendment which recognized the free people, African-Americans who were formerly enslaved. They then passed the 15th amendment (1870) which upheld the rights of the newly freed people by allowing them the right to vote. It’s in my opinion that reconstruction is similar to slavery. The so-called freedom given to African Americans was very limited and overshadowed by the consistent mistreatment they faced. Reconstruction simply opened the doors to other forms of slavery. At this time, the South States were suffering because many believed they...
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...African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement Destiny McClenningham Anderson University Introduction: “Vulnerable Populations” are subgroups who possess specific characteristics that distinguish them from others in the population (Jansson, 2005).The group I choice to focus on was African Americans. African or black Americans are define is an ethnic group of citizens or residents of the United States with total or partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa(Foner & Garraty,1991). The time I choice to focus on with my group was the civil rights movement. This era play a key role in African American history. What is the African American history leading up to this time? What was going on during this era? What social policy was affected during this time? History: There was a lot of history leading up to the civil rights movement. In the late 1950s and 1960s there was an increase in racial violence and protests in the South(Jansson). A 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation African Americans in the South still inhabited a unequal world(Foner & Garraty). “Jim Crow” laws at the local state levels barred them from businesses, schools, public bathrooms, transportations, and theaters from juried and legislatures(Foner & Garraty). In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court shut down the “separate but equal” doctrine that formed the basis for state-sanctioned discrimination(Foner & Garraty). This event draw national and international...
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...Karmen Chavis MHA 610- Intro to Biostatistics “Obesity in African American & Other Minority Communities in the United States” Professor: Saran Tucker 11/21 /2011 Obesity in African American and Other Minority Communities in the United States” Obesity in the African American and other minority communities has increasingly and rapidly become an epidemic, affecting many people in the United States. During the past 20 years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity that plagues the United States of America (www.cdc/gov). Although there are many underlying factors, lack of nutrition and healthier food choices, lack of exercise, lack of knowledge, and emotional/ psychological problems are the most prevalent causes of obesity. According to research by Silja J.A. Talvi,: (2006) “In the United States, rates of obesity is highest in poor communities of color”; statistics and research has proved. What is Obesity? Obesity and overweight are both labels for ranges of weight that are greater than what is generally considered healthy for a given height (www.cdc.gov/obesity/defining.html). According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “For adults, overweight and obesity ranges are determined by using weight and height to calculate a number called the “body mass index” (BMI); BMI ranges for children and teens are defined so that they take into account normal differences in body fat between boys and girls and differences in body fat at various ages” (www...
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...this quote explains how they lived through the camps “army regulations called for washing one’s hands and face every day and taking complete bath once a week, many soldiers failed to do so. as result, body lice, dysentery, and diarrhea were common” and adding to that many starved, they didn’t have a proper meal or constant pays. they had to camp through extreme weather, they weren’t able to see their family and loved ones for months, sometimes a year too. On the other side civilians were mostly women, children, elderly, slaves and rich people in the in both states. women had to work in the place of the south men and it was like that in north they had simple jobs, a lower pay than men. most women in the civil war experienced the loss of father, son, husband cousin or friend. it wasn’t easy for anyone except rich people because they had the choices, not to go to army. in the south if you had more than 40 slaves than you didn’t have to go with army. in north...
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...where you move to or what town you decide to make your home, whether it is temporary or permanent, you will encounter some form of ethnic and racial issues. The meaning of ethnicity is a group set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns. On the other hand, race is described as a group that is socially set apart because of obvious physical differences. As an African American, I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, in an all-Black neighborhood, and lived there until around my mid 40’s. I moved to the South Suburbs of Chicago, first to Harvey, and lived there for about four years before moving to where I now currently reside in South Holland. I lived in Harvey, Illinois, for about three years. It is a town dominated mainly by African Americans. According to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau statistics, Harvey, Illinois, is home to 75.8% African Americans and 19.0% Hispanics. The White population of Harvey is only 10.0% (State and County Quick Facts, 2010). There is a lot of crime that goes on in Harvey within the African-American neighbordhoods, and I believe that it is partly due to the environment. Harvey has many poor and low-income areas. The poverty rate for Harvey is 31.9% compared to the overall poverty rate for the state of Illinois which is 12.4% (State and County Quick Facts, 2010). The downtown area has many vacant stores, and there are also many emtpy, boarded-up homes in the poorer neighborhoods which act as an invitation...
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...the south. In order to achieve this we must implement a reconstruction of the United States. Restoring the south to the way it was prior to the war is an important issue that we must address and it should take president over the other issues that will arise on the path to reconstruction. In order to rebuild the South to its pre war stature we will need to establish new states, establish new governments, and rejuvenate the economy of the south. The affect of the civil war on the south has been total devastation that includes economic devastation, land devastation and personal devastation. There has been a complete shutdown of all transportation of goods which means that the goods and materials can not be moved from one place to another. For example, the steel that was created in Alabama can not get to Georgia where it is needed to build factories. The main points of my reconstruction plan are that we need to punish the South for their acts of treason in not supporting the Union and we need to ensure that we protect the rights of the freed slaves. If we do not impose stricter polices the South will revert back to the same social and political way of thinking that started this war in the first place (Allard, 2006). What are the consequences of the reconstruction plan that I am proposing? One consequence is stricter federal intervention the South. Confederate officials will no longer be allowed to vote or hold office. All southern states will be required to allow African Americans...
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...in American history is generally considered to be the period before the civil war and after the War of 1812, although some historians expand it to all the years from the adoption of the Constitution in 1789 to the beginning of the Civil War. It was characterized by the rise of abolition and the gradual polarization of the country between abolitionists and supporters of slavery. During this same time, the country’s economy began shifting in the north to manufacturing as the Industrial Revolution began, while in the south, a cotton boom made plantations the center of the economy. The annexation of new territory and western expansion saw the reinforcement of American individualism and of Manifest...
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...cases of American history, Oliver Brown won the right for his daughter to attend school with her friends. Not only her, but African American children across the United States now had the right to attend any school of their choosing. Segregation in schools had finally been declared illegal. The obvious next step was a plan for desegregation. The Supreme Court announced a year later that desegregation in schools should be put into action ‘with all deliberate speed.’ Because of the particular wording used, schools which were unsupportive of integration had no specific timezone by which they needed to be integrated, and so they put no effort into making it happen anytime soon. Many went against...
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...The typical 18th-century American mob justices, the gruesome legacy of racial intimidation and lynching was characterized by conflicting social fears, blatant prejudices, and insensitivity where rioting incidences of burning buildings, increased black oppression and even brutal murder of police was rampant. This section explores lynching history, injustices, and racialization of African Americans in the US states, especially the south. Several theories have been instituted to provide an understanding of the underlying causes of lynching in the African American perspective. In addition, it explores how lynching research studies reconnect into understanding modern inequalities and racial injustices. African Americans became the most vulnerable group after the reconstruction era. Many cases of lynched black Americans were reported. According to research studies,...
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...and Pricing Strategies Morilyn Cornett, Lori Winteresteen MKT / 571 April 28, 2010 Lauren Gerichs Channel and Pricing Strategies Introduction Our company, LMA, Inc., introduced earlier for our home country and product offering, South Africa and organic black hair care products; launched to improve the totality of hair care among the citizens of the South African country. The company’s advent of hair care products in this country was based on the needs and wants of a country deprived of fully understanding the influence special hair aids would have on their particular hair types. In this paper, LMA will launch a modified section of our product that will include a wider audience, (located in a different country) and additional hair aids. This paper will also discuss channel and pricing strategies for our international and domestic product launch; justify our chose domestic market, its sustainability and the factors involved that influenced our selection. Next, LMA will select an appropriate channel strategy and justify the selection and will include a pricing strategy for entering both the domestic and international markets. Following, will be an evaluation of the implications of changing environmental factors on organizational choices for our selected country and international market, addressing government, economic, innovation and technology, and social and demographic functionalities. Country Selection and Justification For LMA’s second product offering, it has chosen...
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...Topic: “What crops were important to the English Colonies in the south of North America? How did the cultivation of these crops shape the colonies?” Cotton, corn, and tobacco were the most vital to the success of farmers in the south, and helped format the South, and its people into the way it is now. Cotton and corn required immense amounts of labor to pick, tend, and harvest the crops. Also, tobacco is favored, and popular here in the south still today; all these ways crops helped shape the southern colonies in the United States of America. Typically it was slaves and a few lower class whites that provided the large amounts of labor that are needed to efficiently harvest corn and tobacco, and pick cotton, and remove the seeds from the cotton. Obviously, labor was the key ingredient to making the South successful, and making the people who live there tough, worn out, and hard to break. Cotton, at the time, was one of the main resources for clothing. The low bales produced put cotton on high demand, at high prices. Southerners cut costs by using cheap, inexpensive slave labor. “Ample evidence indicates that slaves worked well below their capabilities. In several instances in Mississippi, when cotton picking was carefully supervised in local experiments, slaves picked two or three times their normal output. The records of the Barrow plantation in Louisiana revealed that inefficiency and negligence were the cause of two-thirds of the punishments inflicted on slaves…”(1)...
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...Selena Mann English 201B Professor Patchell 29 February 2024 Misunderstood In My Own Society Everyday life for African Americans in the 1940’s was far less than ideal. From poverty to racism, African Americans had to fight and struggle everyday for a less than even chance at surviving. The North, predominantly white, was worse than the South, predominantly black, however, the North was favored for its opportunity. Throughout Ralph Ellison's “King of The Bingo Game” we watch as the main protagonist of the story struggles to find his luck as a black man from the South, looking for an opportunity in the North. This was all in hopes of saving his terminally ill pregnant wife. Ellison expresses that humans can not change their destiny through the...
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...Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were transported on a Dutch boat toward the North American settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. After the slaves were transported to Virginia, slavery spread all through the American countryside. The first African Americans that arrived in Jamestown in 1619 on a Dutch trading ship were not slaves. They served time as indentured servants until they completed all of their duties. Indentured servants were the first to meet needs for labor. The servant worked for four to five years in the fields before being granted freedom. The Crown rewarded planters with 50 acres of land for every person they brought to the New World. Africans were the immigrants to the British New World that had no choice on where they were sent. Despite the lack of a slavery in England, slavery gradually replaced indentured slaves as the main income for plantation labor...
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