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    and very thin. The ads always show the women in a sexual manner; she will be positioned in a very sexual way‚ for instance with her legs open or she will have the male gaze. Her face and body language will look seductive; she’s ready to be viewed by a man. These kinds of advertisements are affecting women self-esteem today. Many women look at these ads and they feel they are not up to their standards; some women do not feel beautiful enough. The women in the ads are beautiful‚ but many of the

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    In fact‚ the difference is clear between the status of women in the past and after the liberation from slavery. In the past‚ black women have used hideously as domestic servants‚ workers‚ slaves‚ sexual exploitation‚ etc. But all things have changed after liberation from the slavery system. Many talents have emerged as civic activists‚ writers‚ artists‚ and representatives of women. In addition‚ freedom from slavery opened wide spaces for all Negroes in various fields‚ including university professors

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    Kayla GrayName Professor Imbur English 1110 23 AprilFebruary 2014 Bringing Down the House: An Analysis of the Misrepresentation of the Underestimated In the movie Bringing Down the House‚ Queen Latifah portrays an African American woman named Charlene Morton. Charlene is an escaped wrongly convicted felon that seeks out the help of Peter Sanderson‚ played by Steve Martin‚ who is a divorced white tax attorney. During the movie Charlene is bombarded with racist comments by Peter’s ex-wife’s sister

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    Cheyenne Gaines Dione Sibley Freshman Comp 12:30- 1:50 Hip-Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women Analytical Summary In Hip-Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women published in Z Communications online magazine July 1‚ 2006‚ Jennifer Mclune responds to Kevin Powell’s Notes of a Hip Hop Head by vividly expressing to feminist and African American women that “Hip Hop owes its success to the ideology of woman hating. It creates‚ perpetuates‚ and reaps the rewards of objectification.” In Powell’s quote he begins

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    The Domestication of Women and Blacks for the Sake of Christianity in the 19th Century Introduction The prominence of America has always been setup on the foundations of abstract‚ utopian idealisms. “Land of the free‚” “equal opportunity‚” a place where one can achieve the “American dream‚” have all been parts of the driving force for the greatness of this nation and how the history of political thought and discourse has constantly promoted this notion of superiority and grandness. The mentality

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    Jasmine Howard 23 October 2013 Hip Hop’s Portrayal of Black Women Hip hop has changed drastically over the course of years. In the earlier ages‚ Hip hop artists valued plenty of originality by creatively expressing themselves in a positive way to their surroundings. Now it seems as if artists are preying on women as if they’re animals by lacking its true originality and being ran over by commercialism. Hip hop represents a tree gradually losing its leaves over time. Somehow‚ the hip hop

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    1301 2S3 08/03/14 How The Media Affect Teens And Young Adults? The media is inescapable given that everywhere we go. We are surrounded by magazines‚ newspapers‚ computers‚ and televisions. Being we are massively exposed to the media‚ it is sculpting our society as it controls the structure of our civilization. Granting everybody is being affected; teenagers are more vulnerable to the media and suffer the highest impact. This is because; they are exposed to the media eight hours a day typically

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    their own community. Iti Awosika joins the heated debate about how we can protect our children. There has been an alarming rate of deaths amongst teenage black boys. For the past decade Britain has had the largest rate of teenage deaths amongst teenagers both black and white‚ however this number has been much higher of amongst teens of Black decent‚ may have questioned the reason for this with statements like’ I blame the parents’‚ ‘I blame the education system’. But what are the main causes for

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    Today I’m going to talk about How to stop black on black crime. Black on black violence is an enormous problem in the African-American community. Living in a neighborhood that is mostly minority‚ many may have witnessed a lot of black on black violence. The black on black violence has continued to arise in many communities and continues to be a problem around the world. Black on black violence is ignorant‚ and many black Americans should be coming together instead of killing one another. African-Americans

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    Black women’s activism of the 1960s and early 1970s primarily stemmed from an awareness of intersectionality‚ which recognized the connections between oppression based on class‚ race‚ and gender. A number of issues were taken care of by this action‚ such as healthcare‚ inequality in education‚ poverty‚ racial violence‚ and police brutality. Leading individuals and groups stressed the importance of a more comprehensive social justice strategy that took gender and racial equality into account. In contrast

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