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    Understanding Pulmonary Hypertension The human body is a very complex organism composed of different types of systems and functions. All the functions that each system has‚ is what makes possible for the body to obtain life. One of the most important systems in one’s body is the circulatory system‚ where the heart‚ the lungs‚ and the blood vessels work together to form the circle part of the circulatory system. The pumping of the heart forces the blood on its journey. The body’s circulatory system

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    1. The work of this brilliant African American chemist changed the entire meat packing industry.  Ans. It is the work of this brilliant African American chemist  named Lloyd Augustus Hall that         changed the entire meat packing industry.                   Lloyd Augustus Hall was born in Elgin‚ Illinois on June 20‚ 1894. He was an African  American chemist first known for his work in food chemistry. Both of his parents‚ Augustus and  Isabel were graduate in high school. Hall moved to Aurora Illinois and raised there by his parents

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    ‘Explain the impacts of segregation on the African American community.’ Brown vs. Board and Emmett Till case Segregation between the White Americans and African Americans as a result of the Jim Crow Laws from 1876 to 1965 had great effect on the African American community both physically and psychologically. Despite this‚ inequality between the races sparked many cases of rebellion and civil disobedience as African Americans stood up not only to defend themselves but also their people. Their aim

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    Public Health Problem Hypertension is when there is an elevated force of blood in the human body. High blood pressure virtually exists everywhere in the world and in almost every community. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2016)‚ 75 million people are inflicted with increased blood pressure levels in the United States. Unfortunately‚ there is no root cause or definite explanation to hypertension. In most cases‚ it generally develops over time and often it is common in

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    has been a major concern of African and African American authors from the beginning. In fact African American identity underwent drastic transformations between the eighteenth century and twentieth century. As Amistad‚ "Federalist No. 54"‚ The New Negro and The Souls of Black Folks shows‚ African American identity has shifted from an early tribal identity‚ to a dehumanized identity based in slavery‚ and finally to a ‘new’ type of Negro identity based in art and African origins. These transformations

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    Running Head: Analysis of African American Culture Analysis of African American Culture Abstract The African American society is filled with many negative attributes which make it unsuitable for one to desire to be a part of it. These negative attributes are as follows: decades of unwed mothers‚ poor educational background‚ violence‚ gang activity‚ drug abuse‚ poor work ethic‚ high numbers of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases‚ lower morals and standards

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    African American “Freedom” " I think it is better to see integration as the inclusion of all citizens into the same sphere of rights‚ the same range of opportunities and possibilities that our Founding Fathers themselves enjoyed. Integration is not social engineering or group entitlements: it is a fundamental absence of arbitrary barriers to freedom” (Cozic 206-207). Cozic states this in his book‚ Civil Liberties: Opposing Viewpoints‚ this quote means that rights should be given to anyone because

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    the clause required states and other public facilities to treat both racially separate buildings to be operated and services be kept equal‚ the reality showed otherwise‚ and many African-American facilities became rundown‚ were underfunded and sometimes were limited. Segregation‚ forcefully put two perspectives on American society for both white and black populations. Much of the segregation lead to lower education rates for blacks because many of them who were former slaves were not allowed to receive

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    Slavery obviously had no small affect on the lives of millions of African-Americans in America. Both the North and South had strict rules on how the race was placed in society‚ rules that placed them far beneath any social class in America. It could be said that even free slaves‚ could never actually be "free" due to a complete lack of social equality granted by the American Government. Blacks were treated as something less than a human being‚ something like a product; this product was sold and traded

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    Effects of Reconstruction on African Americans Reconstruction generally refers to the period in United States history immediately following the Civil War in which the federal government set the conditions that would allow the rebellious Southern states back into the Union. In 1862‚ Abraham Lincoln had appointed provisional military governors to re-establish governments in Southern states that were recaptured by the Union Army. The main condition for re-admittance was that at least ten percent

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