Essays on Social Issues

Abstract This brief was prepared for the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) hearing on rural health. It serves as an analysis of the health issues affecting the Delta Region (DR) of Arkansas; also known as the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. This…

Access to quality healthcare services is important in promoting and maintaining health, preventing and managing the disease, reducing disability and premature death, and achieving health equity for all Americans (Access to health services, 2019). Though oral healthcare is necessary for everyone yet, there are several…

There is history of bias and discrimination against African Americans that is deeply rooted in colorism. Such prejudice exists both outside and within the African American/Black community. Discrimination based on skin tone within a racial group, known as colorism, is one of the many byproducts…

In our world today, the second most leading cause of death is cancer which was recorded in 2015 (Zuber, 2019). The two health disparities that are associated with this cause of death is socioeconomic status and underserved populations (“Examples of Cancer Health Disparities”, n.d.). Socioeconomic…

It was a crowded coffee shop and I was nervous to make an appearance. I had just started taking a course in American Sign Language (ASL) and one of my very first homework assignments was to attend a Deaf event- a social gathering where you…

Is colorism involving dark skin models and fashion companies when casting models in the fashion industry? Today, diversity is affecting in the fashion Industry but are these improvements enough? Do lighter skin models have a privilege in the industry? Is there enough representation of dark…

Is colorism about black people’s self–hatred or white people’s racism? Colorism began back in slavery when the lighter complexion was given more of a fair treatment than the darker complexion. To this present day, the lighter toned are portrayed as superior and viewed as the…

The effects of colorism have been bizarre. In the article “Why the Effects of Colorism Are So Damaging” by Nadra Kareem Nittle, mentions that colorism is consequence of racism, colorism is separation dependent on skin tone in which lighter skin is better than dark skin…

There are four phases to enforce translational research. However, there is a hidden phase. The preliminary phase (T0) involves all activities prior to clinical research (Gannon, 2014). Typically, T0 could be combined with T1 phase (Gannon, 2014). Phase one (T1) research involves groundwork and pre-clinical…

Colorsim is discrimination against darker-tone individuals. Where the light-skinned individuals are praised for being lighter and the darker-toned individuals are criticized. Colorism is an issue in today’s society people need to be more educated on it. The people of the society need to know what…

As Anne Frank said in her diary, “people can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion” (Tscherry, 2015). The courageous girl Anne Frank who wrote in her diary during the Holocaust tries to convey is…

Throughout the Second Gilded age, this term defines the wealth distribution of modern day and comparing it to the decades before 1928, originating in the United States history. Economist Robert Reich believes there is a connection between the increasing wealth of the top 1% and…

As an introduction, I would like to define the meaning of rhetoric, it is “the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.” In other words, rhetoric is a technique of using language effectively…

The Freedom of Speech, a promise so promising that ensures “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech,” unless, of course, it is proven to be a harm to others. So where exactly is the line drawn, and who decides which speech does or…

The political idea of justice and how a government should govern a society would be by dominating human history with literature. The theory of a peaceful resistance to laws given and enforced by the governing will be first represented in the world of the Ancient…