Running head: HEALTH BELIEFS AND SCREENING IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN Health Beliefs and Breast Cancer Screening in African American Women Linda M. Frazier‚ RN‚ MSN‚ FNP-C Medical College of Georgia School of Graduate Studies Health Beliefs and Breast Cancer Screening in African American Women Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of death among women in the United States. More than 211‚ 000 U.S. women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005‚ and at least
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T: Th. 3:30p.m.-4:45p.m. D’Angelo‚ Raymond and Herbert Douglas‚ eds. Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Race and Ethnicity‚ 7th edition (Dubuque‚ IA: McGraw-Hill‚ 2009) “Issue #9: Is Racism a Permanent Feature of American Society?” Is Racism a Permanent feature of American Society? Derrick Bell argues in this issue that the prospects for achieving racial equality in the United States are “illusory for Blacks. Bell reminds us despite the fact of the progress of blacks in United States; the
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United States in 2010‚ I was teased for being African not by white students but by black Americans; they were always trying to play with my intelligence. Many African Americans are ignorant about African immigrants; they think we want to kill them so that we can eat them. I remember back in high school‚ a black student once asked me if I had seen a Lion or a Tiger. I told her‚ “Yes‚ we all lived together in our tree house.” In Africa‚ we admire the American struggle for civil rights‚ but when some of
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“Few groups in American history have suffered worse treatment than African Americans (Monroe p.152).” The only group of people that have arguably suffered worse treatment is the Native Americans and they receive reparations. This precedent is one of the main reason I believe African Americans that are descendants of slaves should receive reparations. This would not be the first time reparations would be paid for government mistreatment of their people‚ “Germany paid nearly $60 billion to survivors
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Overcoming African American Poverty and Suffering African Americans go through political‚ social‚ and economic struggle every day. They strive to have the same education‚ jobs‚ and pay other ethnic groups have. They are suffering. They are suffering from lack of a quality education‚ suffering from subpar housing‚ and suffering from unequal pay. They are suffering and it is time to put an end to it. In order to put an end to the suffering of African Americans‚ to overcome the stated hardships imposing
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in any social‚ political‚ and economic entities. A significant figure that advocated for women‚ specifically African-American women‚ is Mary McLeod Bethune. Although her central focus was earning recognition for black women‚ her concepts of equality spoke for women of all
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Friendship is a virtue or at least involves virtue. Friendship is always a special thing but people tend to forget about how much its value is. Friendship is not just necessary‚ but also noble.Friendship consists of goodwill between two people. You can only have a few friends being that its take some precious time to build a real friendship. Aristotle’s speaks about how there are three kinds of friendship. The first is friends of utility‚ where both people receive some benefit from each other. Aristotle
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well‚ to portray his thoughts on the subject. Obviously in a speech about racism given by an African American man‚ there are going to be mixed responses portrayed by the audience‚ and I think those mixed reactions are exactly what was occurring in the audience. As being part of that audience‚ I think Obama did an exceptional job of showing how racism is still present today‚ not only towards African Americans‚ but every other race as well. In “A More Perfect Union”‚ Obama not only talks about the
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Background Can you imagine getting a phone call from a family member in jail? This thought went through my head as I saw that one out ten of my classmates had or have a family member incarcerated. Being an African American female incarceration never really crossed my mind on how many people in my cultural are going to jail for crimes that they didn’t commit‚ minor crimes‚ and because of the way they look. For example‚ African American males are being imprisoned all over the United States for crack
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Hypertension Health Hazard in the African American Communities Hypertension (HTN) is a genetic disease which tends to run in families. Even though every race and ethnicity can be affected by HTN the highest prevalence is in the African American communities (Opara‚ Hawkins‚ Sundaram‚ Merchant‚ Rasmussen & Holmes‚ 2013). During my survey‚ I conversed with 50 people in my community‚ 48 had a mother or father with HTN‚ the other two were uncertain. Twenty-five of the 50 people I conversed with admitted
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