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Howard University: A Case Study

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What aspects of this environment indicate a potential health risk?

The natural environment is the parameters of Howard University, which begins at Florida Avenue and Georgia Avenue in Washington, D.C. Howard University is a historically Black university established in 1867 with 500 acres of land (History, 2014). A lot of the buildings appears to have been built in the mid-1800’s to early 1900's leaving historical landmark in remembrance of some of the civil rights movements (History, 2014). Howard University in an urban community surrounded by neglected members of society in an African American neighborhood, with little to almost no grocery stores at the heart of the community. Howard University main campus is entirely urban with no fence …show more content…

As I found them to be so fascinating even wondering as a West Indian African-Caribbean, Deaf / Hard of Hearing, Woman it is hard to believe that people can be so broken down in their conditions given respect to the natural environment up bring that impacts their social and cognitive behaviors. Creswell (2009), propose that qualitative requires a prior review of the audience nature to understand people way of life that that gives a better ability to interpret what one sees and knows. Therefore, it is important to obtain a theoretical lens of the culture that makes up the environment that can be in high regard to their gender, race, and social economic class (Creswell, 2009). Howard University environment have undergone a lot of transformation over the centuries with a shift in civil war era to modern day social economic class disparities with the predominating African American community (History, 2014). I can not stop wondering why is the community of African American so different from those who are African Caribbean, African Native, and African- European. In gaining a snapshot of what I observed several bulleted paragraphs shown below highlighted the possible conditions associated with the unraveled

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