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    because of a situation and that cannot be changed. Some real life instances where this could be true are the African American society‚ children raised in a single-parent family‚ and Hispanics. African Americans are a group who can be treated very differently than the average American citizen. Many African Americans live in unsafe urban cities. For many generations the majority of African Americans haven’t been shown how to be good citizens and behave rightly towards others‚ those are some of the reasons

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    African American Civil Rights: The Sixties‚ Obama‚ and the Road Ahead When you think of the United States‚ you think of the phrase "land of the free." Americans should all have equal rights‚ no matter what their race. Whether Americans are Black‚ White‚ Asian‚ or Hispanic‚ race should not determine the amount of rights you receive. Although America has evolved and made progress‚ most of the African Americans living in this country are still being treated poorly. Today‚ African Americans are

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    hindsight‚ it is easy to reflect on the treatment and portrayal of African-Americans in the contextual fruition of live entertainment in the United States. Dating back to the later half to the nineteenth and into the early twentieth century‚ ethnic representation in musical theater underwent a gradual change paralleling a shift in societal opinion toward racial equality. Though by today’s standards‚ its depiction of African-Americans may seem archaic at best‚ Show Boat changed the way audiences viewed

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    United States went through social changes that changed the life of many African-Americans‚ immigrants‚ and women. These changes included more rights and jobs to many different men and women in America that would help change America into what it is today. At the time of World War I‚ Many whites were recruited in the military and sent to Europe. The result was a demand for workers in all types of jobs. Many African-Americans facing a plight in the south because of drought‚ loss of jobs‚ and racial

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    world. A paranoia of a change in power that caused violence in the 18th century and how it carried over into the early 19th century will be emphasized in this paper. The white folk of the United States were threatened by the potential of black Americans exercising their freedom. They feared the possibilities of a black man’s

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    African Americans of all ages are more likely to be the victims of serious violent crime than non-Hispanic whites (“African American Communities and Mental Health”). Frequent violence is a direct cause of PTSD‚ one of the most prevalent mental illnesses in the black community‚ second only to depression (“African American Communities and Mental Health”). Due to the lack of understanding of mental illness and a similarly destitute lack of treatment options‚ African Americans are left to

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    the freedom of African Americans. Today‚ even though African American men only make up a little over 6% of the population‚ they make up over 40% of the people that are incarcerated. Part of the reason this stat is so disproportional is because of history. Historically African Americans have been oppressed first through slavery‚ and then through the Jim Crow laws and segregation‚ and now through the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system today targets African Americans through movements

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    Breast Cancer Is Most Aggressive in African American Women Breast cancer is the second leading cause of deaths in American women‚ with lung cancer being the first. It is the most common cancer in women not including non-melanoma skin cancers. Breast cancer is a group of related diseases in which cells in the breast‚ most commonly in the lining of the milk ducts or milk producing glands become abnormal and divide without control or order as a normal cell would. When cancer cells break away from the

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    For many African Americans‚ the war offered an opportunity to get out of the cycle of crushing rural poverty. Black joined the military in large numbers‚ escaping a decade of Depression and tenant farming in the South and Midwest. Yet‚ like the rest of America in the 1940s‚ the armed forces were segregated. The Army accepted black enlistees but created separate black infantry regiments and assigned white commanders to them. Of the more than 2.5 million African Americans who registered for the draft

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    consequence of African-Americans seeking after vocations in expressions of the human experience taking after the United States common war. As slaves African-Americans has learned couple of European social conventions. With more opportunity to seek after vocations in expressions of the human experience and conveying African imaginative customs to their work‚ African-Americans changed music and move‚ in the U.S.‚ as well as everywhere throughout the world. For after the war‚ African American artists and

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