...The 20th century experienced many different appearance changes throughout the century. The century began with modesty and ended with a more risqué society. This change in morals changed the way humans presented ourselves in the last century. Women’s fashion, makeup, and hair changed throughout the century based on various factors. In the 1900’s to the 1920’s, women’s clothing changed. For the first time, women’s skirts came above the ankle (Fashion Forward). Less fabric was used than in previous centuries. Dresses gradually showed less of a woman’s bust and began to become a straight line (Fashion Forward). Trail, busts, corsets, and hoop skirts were removed from fashion and each year skirts became shorter (Fashion Forward). Women began to experiment with bold prints and colors as time went on (Fashion Forward). Makeup was not worn during this time. Hair was often worn in hats or in styles like Gibson’s Girl and buns (Adventures of the Reluctant Housewife: Popular Hairstyles of the 20th Century)....
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...after death. The African American family was cherished within the African American community due to their history of slavery, the family had bonded in a strong culture. These origins have these families tested family bonds throughout African American history, changing the family makeup by causing these families to become more Americanized and less Africanized following slavery abolishment. Family reunions and events are highly cherished to help maintain the African American culture. Elderly of African American families are celebrated, as they are passing on the African American legacy in this country. The elders provided great perception and common sense into the family and cultural history, also giving good guidance to the younger member into their families. The popularity of family reunions has grown over the past several years. After the civil rights movement, several aspects of the society started to become approachable to African American and...
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...Throughout history, events have been taken and interpreted in a multitude of ways. These interpretations vary depending on who documents them and who consumes that information. Societies are able to make interpretations based on information given to them by historians, textbooks, news sources and the Internet to form views that become based on the past and the present. A countless number of these interpretations exist in society today whether they involve art, fashion or racial tension. These interpretations influence how society views both the present time and the historical past whether they be good or bad. One topic of interpretation that had been studied during class was the Chauvet cave paintings in southeastern France. These paintings...
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...The history of various hair techniques came from many places. Some of those places are, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, Japan, Africa, and America. Egyptian hairstyles depend on wealth. Greece hairstyles were pulled back into a Chignon style and was longer than Egyptian hair . Rome had simple hairstyles, such as women wearing there hair down. In the Vedic period (1700-1100 BCE), Indians shave whole entire head. Chinese hairstyles depended on age. Japanese hairstyles were different than Chinese hair styles.They wore hair tight to head in a Sickle shape. In Africa, there were many tribes and most of the time there hair depended on their tribe. America was divided in hairstyles, like many African tribes, in the early 1700’s. Hair techniques varied from century to century. There sixteen centuries of hair history. The tenth century, regular people (all ages, men and women) used hair “gel” made from a fatty substance, to style hair. Curly, slicked down, short, long, and with hair extensions. The 1st century, Ancient Roman, and Greek women of popularity wore there long hair in ornate braids close to their heads, and powdered gold to add highlights to hair. The 1000 century, Lady Godiva made hair legendary. The 2000...
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...individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.” C. Wright Mills. Sociology allows one to recognize that their personal condition is an outcome of history and the society you live in. Once you step away from any situation and “think yourself away from the familiar routines of everyday life” you are using something known as the sociological imagination. The concept was coined by C. Wright Mills an American sociologist, it allowed people to look at routines from an entirely new outlook. To cultivate this skill, you need be able to rid yourself from one perspective and look at things from an alternative point of view. Mills leaves us with a couple of questions that can be discussed...
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...Throughout history, African American women have struggled with accepting the hair that grows from our very own scalp. But why? Why don’t African American women embrace their natural curls? I identify with this topic because at one point I did not believe my natural hair was beautiful, instead I desired for my tresses to be long and straight. This misconception that I had learned from those around me led me to getting a relaxer until I finally realized I did not need to have straight hair to be beautiful and the same for other African American women. I know that since our childhood years we have been influenced to believe that long, straight, and silky hair was beautiful and that if our hair wasn’t straight or naturally curly ,it was “nappy”. I also know that there is a notion that to have “good hair” is to have loose curls or wavy hair and “bad hair” is considered as coarse, less defined curls that are often called naps. At a young age, we are accustomed to sitting between our mother’s knees while she combs out every “nap” until it is semi straight and easier to braid or twist. As we got older, we would go to the same salon as our mothers to get our hair “hot combed” until we are old enough to get a texturizer and then a relaxer by the time we are in our mid-teens. Although, the...
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...In the video “Race Illusion” we learn about how throughout history people tend to differentiate between races. We are introduced with the obvious fact that individual human beings are different. Our eyes, skin color, body shape and hair form all confirm this. Daily we use our visual differences into 4 or 5 groups. Not only that, many have this belief that athletic ability, musical aptitude and intelligence plays a part biologically that race is a real thing. In this video we are introduced to a group of students who take part in a DNA workshop. In this DNA workshop, students are to compare their skin colors, type their blood and swab inside their mouth for cell extract for a small portion of their DNA. These group of students include all the races in the world or ethnicity. We have the blacks, the asians, the whites and although not a race, a hispanic too. Those who are of the same race believe that the results will reveal similar backgrounds. So if you’re white, you and the other white student will have very similar DNA. Quite a few of these kids that took part in this DNA workshop were left surprised. For example one kid traced his roots back to Ukraine but to his surprise his results showed ethnic backgrounds from the Balkan peoples and Africa. The world as we know it is much more complicated than we think and race is more than an idea that we prescribe to biology. We see color and we think if a person is a certain race they’ll automatically have different advantages than you...
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...routine care that a pregnant woman would expect to receive and study the common disorders that are seen in many pregnant women, at some point or throughout their pregnancy. The first antenatal visit is the most comprehensive. For some women, this is in the first few weeks of pregnancy and for others; it may be as late as 12-14 weeks. It is often the first contact that the pregnant woman has with her health providers and can be quite daunting and scary. As the visits continue, it is normal that they are shorter but no less thorough. Most women will have visits that roughly follow a basic plan, with variations that are customized to the patient, any conditions or complications that arise. The most important thing that needs to occur between a midwife and her client is the establishment of rapport. Having a good rapport with the midwife, allows the woman to open up about what is concerning her, whether it’s physical or emotional, but also allows the midwife to discuss things that may be quite confronting or awkward. For example, not every woman will have planned her pregnancy, and so therefore, there can be fear and apprehension about whether she wants to keep the pregnancy or not. Being able to relax means the woman may reveal more about herself than she realizes, such as her general appearance (Dressed appropriately? Does her hair look dull or dry?) or even for signs of skin changes such as chloasma, which is quite normal or dry chapped lips, indicating perhaps dehydration...
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...specify his birth date. The protagonist and narrator of the story is Saleem Sinia, born at the exact moment India became an independent country. Saleem was born with telepathic powers and had an enormous and constantly runny nose with an extremely sensitive sense of smell gifts Saleem did not ask for, as he states, ‘For the next three decades, there was to be no escape.’ (Rushdie, 1982) The way the writer plunges the reader into the situation without a contrived introduction and writing from personal experience could be referred to as a poetic technique. The metaphorical emotional connotations portray Saleem’s conflicting emotions towards his country - not really accepting his fate or his country. ‘I had mysteriously been hand-cuffed to history,’ (Rushdie, 1982) in lines four and five (are exaggerated emotion of irony),...
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...Adult Health History and Examination RN Health Assessment and Screening NRS 434-V Health History and Examinati Client/Patienton Initials: LH Sex: F Age: 47 Occupation: Registered Nurse Health History/Review of Systems Neurological System headaches, head injuries, dizziness, convulsions, tremors, weakness, numbness, tingling, difficulty speaking, and difficulty swallowing etc., medication): Neurologically JP is intact. Alert ox3 clear speech with no hesitations, c/o headaches and dizziness occasionally, upon arising in the am. She admits being “little stressed to family situations” and rotating shifts (DAYS/NIGHTS). Suggested to seek EAP (Employee Assistance Program) at work Head and Neck (pain, headaches, head/neck injury, neck pain, lumps/swelling, surgeries on head/neck, medications: LH has full ROM to neck and head, closes her eyes and able to hold her arms and hands out without swaying. LH takes Motrin 800mg for headaches. Motrin (ibuprofen) is a no steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). It works by reducing hormones that cause inflammation and pain in the body. This medicine may also cause serious effects on the stomach or intestines, including bleeding or perforation (forming of a hole). These conditions can be fatal and can occur without warning while you are taking Motrin, especially in older adults. Nursing Drug Handbook (2013) Eyes (eye pain, blurred vision, history of crossed eyes, redness/swelling in eyes, watering, tearing, injury/surgery to...
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...Modern Day Hipsters If you try to ask a hipster this question ‘”What is a Hipster?” he or she probably won’t have an answer and might not even consider themselves one” (Faulkner). Most hipsters do not consider themselves hipster because it has “quickly became a badge of shams” (Wise). Today, people largely see hipsters as “pretentious, fake and self-aggrandizing” and no one wants to be put under a label that has come to mean something negative (Wise). Modern day hipsters are extremely different from the 1940s hepsters, which was what they were called back then, but they have influenced the music that is listened to now and the fashion styles that are worn today. Hipsters all started out in the 1940s when jazz was just starting off. “Early jazz musicians used “hep” for anyone who was in the know” about the culture that was the beginning of something new (Faulkner). The fans of jazz were known as hepcats but Cab Calloway defined the word hepcats as “a guy who knows all the answers, understands jive” so he used the word hepsters instead to describe the people of jazz instead (McKay). This soon caught on and later turned into hipsters. In the 1940s, jazz was becoming more popular, and as swing was getting slowly replaced by jazz music, hep cats morphed into hipsters. Jazz grew and started attracting lots of people, especially “lower-class white youth” (Faulkner). They were all in search of something new, and jazz was just that. Even though it was mainly performed by African-Americans...
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...Hair is an accessory that defines who we are. Hair tools make it easier to make our hair unique and different. While we think an invention like the curling iron or the straightening iron are modern inventions they can be traced all the way back to 1194 BCE. Hair tools have been important throughout history as they have helped people express themselves. All these ideas, concepts, and humans should not be possible if not for the big bang. The big bang is responsible for many things like human hair. Human hair is made up of, keratin proteins, natural oils, and hydrogen bonds. Hydrogen bonds are found in the hair's cortex. These bonds make hair curly or wavy. Keratin is made of long chains of amino acids that contain sulfur, keratin is not only found in hair, but nails, and teeth. The electric hair straightener allows us to style our hair regardless of the hydrogen bonds. The straightener consists of two metal plates that are usually heated to 300 and 500 degrees Fahrenheit. The two metal plates are held by a plastic handle that is resistant to heat. The metal plates pass through the hair. The heat from the iron makes it easier to break disulfide bonds. The breaking of disulfide bonds allows keratin chains to move around when the hair cools down the disulfide bonds the keratin are reformed. Since the keratin molecules cooled in a straight position the hair...
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...Adult Health History and Examination ND Health Assessment and Screening NRS 434-V Health History and Examination LH Client/Patient Initials: LH Sex: F Age: 47 Occupation: Registered Nurse Health History/Review of Systems Neurological System headaches, head injuries, dizziness, convulsions, tremors, weakness, numbness, tingling, difficulty speaking, and difficulty swallowing etc., medication): Neurologically JP is intact. Alert ox3 clear speech with no hesitations, c/o headaches and dizziness occasionally, upon arising in the am. She admits being “little stressed to family situations” and rotating shifts (DAYS/NIGHTS). Suggested to seek EAP (Employee Assistance Program) at work Head and Neck (pain, headaches, head/neck injury, neck pain, lumps/swelling, surgeries on head/neck, medications: LH has full ROM to neck and head, closes her eyes and able to hold her arms and hands out without swaying. LH takes Motrin 800mg for headaches. Motrin (ibuprofen) is a no steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). It works by reducing hormones that cause inflammation and pain in the body. This medicine may also cause serious effects on the stomach or intestines, including bleeding or perforation (forming of a hole). These conditions can be fatal and can occur without warning while you are taking Motrin, especially in older adults. Nursing Drug Handbook (2013) Eyes (eye pain, blurred vision, history of crossed eyes, redness/swelling in eyes, watering, tearing, injury/surgery...
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...“I wish I were white.” I was merely seven years old when I abruptly spoke those words into existence. It was around late evening, which was about that time that my mother would wrestle around with my hair for over an hour while I complained over each piece of lint she removed from my kinky mane. Being tender-headed with a head full of hair was a feature that I was so unpleased with, and it was all the more reason why I felt the way I did. At school, I would examine my white friends and their long, flowy hair. I felt like a sore thumb and felt as though there was an aura of jealously looming around me in every given moment. For my 8th birthday, my parents gave me an unsightly pink wig that I willfully wore every day after school. I’m not certain...
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...innocent victim. A Norse God with long blonde hair, a winged metal helmet, and a bright red cape with blue leggings is probably not an ordinary image being pictured in one's head. Superheroes come in all varieties, shapes, and forms, but behind each superhero lies a secret to why they were created. The reasons for creation range from events that previously occurred in history to recent changes in today's society. Comic book superheroes were indeed influenced by history, but the comic book superheroes also continually influence history itself. This reciprocal influence continues to affect the generations of comic book fans for years on end. Comic book creators have been known for using a strategy to create characters which tend to resemble infamous gods to separate the common ideal mortal heroes from the indestructible immortals. By using this strategy, comic book creators are able to give their characters a fierce outer shell with a scholarly uplift (Reynolds 53). With the creation of the Mighty Thor comic book character in 1962, Lee and Thomas used this strategy perfectly (54). Asgardian characters were just ready-made superheroes waiting to be transformed into the comic-book world (57). Being named one of the most unusual creations in comic book history, Thor truly defined “…the first successful attempt to harness existing mythology on a large scale to construct the mise en scene of a superhero” (54). In relation to history, Thor was the son of Odin, the universal father...
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