HOW EVACUEES RESPOND WHILE EXPERIENCING TRAUMA (Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1854990/) Trauma and Stress Response Among Hurricane Katrina Evacuees Mary Alice Mills‚ BA‚ Donald Edmondson‚ MA‚ and Crystal L. Park‚ PhD Additional article information Abstract Objectives. Hurricane Katrina’s impact on public health has been significant and multifaceted‚ with trauma-related psychological sequelae likely to result in a sizable burden of disease. Data were collected that assessed
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Long way to Freedom. Because of the international pressure the South African government was forced to release Mandela in February 1990. He won the Nobel prize for peace in 1993 and became the first black president of South Africa after the first multiracial elections took place in the country. Mandelas acts and changes he has done can be related to our discussion in class and studies in different ways. The first thing is the type of system Mandela chose for his country and that is a federal system
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Obama’s speech on race In the 2008 speech titled ‘A More Perfect Union‚’ then-senator Barack Obama speaks about the current issues affecting the country. In this forum‚ Obama discusses the many challenges that were facing the nation heading into the upcoming election. This famous speech would later go on to be called ‘Obama’s speech on Race.’ In a political forum telling stories of racially charged situations‚ Obama speaks on the need for unity in the nation. While explaining the effects of the
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Heywood‚ Leslie‚ and Jennifer Drake. Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist‚ Doing Feminism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press‚ 1997. Print. The edited volume Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist‚ Doing Feminism aims to answer the question‚ “What is the third wave?” in order to establish a theoretical framework to define third wave feminism (13). The editors Leslie Heywood and Jennifer Drake collected works from writers‚ who work as cultural critics‚ activists‚ and teachers‚ that combine research
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Definition of Race Race is a social construction which involves putting people into categories to determine which group of people were to be considered privileged or otherwise superior to others. This categorization of people has been a concept not always understood. Therefore‚ to gain greater insight regarding this concept‚ one must fully examine the motivating factors that led Americans to construct racial categories and learn how race relations affect society as a whole. How Social Construction
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institution that would later play a very important part in the student uprisings against racial segregation. This is a book that transverses the early years history of the American society through the eyes of the University students learning in a multiracial society characterized by inequalities in the provision of Government services. Slavery was practiced in the Southern states while the Northern states did not harbor a strong opinion against the practice. However‚ runaway slaves would find asylum
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who exactly who they are and how special they are because of that. Parents say that it is essential that a child have a positive idea of identity for the child’s success in growing up in a world that we live in today. Children of multiracial backgrounds have to deal with racism in a different way. Many people with racist views have troubles with interracial children because they are neither one race or another‚ so they cannot group these children into one group.Because of the
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practically-possessed dummies (Davis 136) featured in popular culture. Khoo‚ however‚ with his mullet and shoulder-padded jacket‚ seems unbelievably cheesy. Could it be true that Singaporean children really love the duo so much? The shouts and cheers at the Multiracial Children’s Lantern Festival Party seem genuine enough and director Tan herself says‚ on her website‚ that on the way to film the event‚ she “felt excited‚ unsure what it would be like to meet after all these years” (Singapore GaGa‚ website) … almost
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Dr. Hortencia Jimenez Ethnic Studies: 1 17 December 2013 Final Exam Immigration trends of recent decades have dramatically altered the statistical composition and popular understanding of who is an Asian American. This transformation of Asian America‚ and of America itself‚ is the result of legislation such as the McCarran–Walter Act of 1952 and the Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments of 1965. The McCarran–Walter Act repealed the remnants of "free white persons" restriction of the
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that sailor‚ slave and labor revolts set the stage for the American Revolution. Throughout this chapter of the book “The Many-Headed Hydra” the authors listed and cited historical facts to support their claim that a ”Motley Crew” (multiethnic‚ multiracial and organized group of people with a common goal) not just inspired America Revolution but would later transport revolutionary ideas across the Atlantic and influence revolts in England‚ France‚ Africa and Caribbean islands. The authors contend
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