Rita Dove was born in Akron Ohio on August 28‚ 1952. Although she has African American descent‚ she has lived in America the majority of her life. Dove has been writing poetry and other works of writing since 1980‚ making her a contemporary poet. She has attended Tubingen University in West Germany. There she met her husband‚ Fred Viebahn. Dove has also won many prestigious awards and “fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts‚ the Guggenheim Foundation‚ and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation”
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Hair has historically been a crucial part of a Black Woman’s identity. Hair has always been the chosen medium to “display culture‚ beauty and spirituality” (Chapman‚ 2007). This pride was no more identifiable than in the 1960’s and 1970’s during a new movement Black hair movement. Black Women began wearing their hair in its natural state as a symbol of “political change‚ Black self-love‚ intellectual historical knowledge‚ and Black Power” (Johnson‚ Bankhead‚ 2013). “Natural hair” for the purposes
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Being a teenager‚ all you care about is fitting in. Do I fit in with the right group? Does my clothing and hair meet standards? Will I be socially accepted? Well for me being a teen‚ this was my issue. I would have to wake up early to make sure i picked the right outfit for the day or that my hair was did according to how society believes how it should look. One day‚ my outfit caught the attention of others and I got accepted into what one might call the cool group. I soon became one of them
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According to Ayana D. Byrd and Lori L. Tharps book‚ Black hair‚ what motivated African Americans to attempt to straighten their hair stems from their desire to “emulate European standards of beauty‚ dress‚ and behavior” (26). This was because their importance were not their education and training‚ but the way they presented themselves that mattered to society. Due to this‚ businesses started exploited their eagerness to counter the main stream stigma- even black entrepreneurs. In the early 1900s
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Hair Care Icon Madame CJ Walker Sarah Breedlove Walker‚ better known as Madame CJ Walker revolutionized hair care and cosmetics for African American women early in the twentieth century. Madame CJ Walker was born in 1867. During the 1890s‚ Sarah began to suffer from a scalp ailment that caused some hair loss issues. She began experimenting with a variety of hair care treatments. Changing her name to Madame CJ Walker‚ Sarah founded her own business and began selling her own product and method.
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18th century is an era peculiarly identified with hair and makeup‚ these became such traits throughout the French Revolution. France and England were the fashion chiefs. In the 18th century only the courtesan or actress wore white powder and painted cheeks. The apothecary chemists would supply cosmetics and wigs beneath the counter. Men and women continued to lighten their faces and applied glaring pink rouge. This was applied heavily in circular or triangular shapes to the cheeks. The lips were
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CARE SKIN TIP | | Facial cleanser Instead of soap clean face with one spoon milk‚ mixed with a pinch of turmeric. | | Lotion night nourishing Mix few drops of glycerin‚ olive oil & rosewater in one big spoon milk. Apply it regularly on face‚ neck & hands before sleeping at night. Wipe it with tissue paper‚ with light hands in morning. Bath with lukewarm water. | | Body lotion Apply glycerin‚ mixed with rosewater & limejuice on face‚ neck & hands every night. | |
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uniformity and cleanliness. When you don’t shave you begin to expire that idea. Shaving in early armies as a preventative measure. They shaved the hair to prevent the spread and outbreak of lice. According to the American Academy of Dermatology‚ "Many military organizations also require males to maintain clean-shaven faces because facial hair can prevent an air-tight seal between the face and breathing or safety equipment‚ such as a pilot’s oxygen mask‚ a diver’s mask‚ or a soldier’s gas mask"
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lesions include: strong direct lighting (natural daylight preferred)‚ ruler‚ pen light‚ magnifier‚ gloves‚ filtered ultraviolet light‚ glass slide‚ and KOH. A furuncle is best described as a suppurative‚ inflammatory skin lesion due to an infected hair follicle. annular shape of a lesion as being
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1. Introduction In the present thesis‚ I am going to discuss the generation gap between the parent and son culture as well as the characteristics of the ’hippie movement’ with the aid of Hair movie in one of the most tumultuous decade in the American history which is unquestionably the Sixties. The counterculture encompasses a period from the 50s through the mid-70s. It is one of the most revolutionary and riotous trend in the American history which came into being in a wide range of social and
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