American epidemic

African Americans with HIV HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is viral infection that weakens the immune system of the body and eventually causes AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) the last stage of the disease where a person can die. The virus has plagued the African American communities and continues to disproportionately impact the black race more than any other racial or ethnical group. The brunt of the impact of HIV has taken over the African American population due to complex set of

touches a scab, crumbling it into a powder, and sneezes, breathing in the smallpox particles. After emailing several experts and posting on a variety of online message boards asking what he should do, he decided to commit suicide to prevent a smallpox epidemic. But just before the deed is done, a woman who claims to be FBI kidnaps him, revealing she and her crew’s real intention: bioterrorism. Mitty, like so many people in

“Gone too soon” are the words often used following the tragedy of death. Within the past few years, black Americans have been specifically targeted as victims of racial hate crimes. In 2016, more than 250 black Americans were killed by police (Huffington Post). The deaths of black Americans have become an epidemic, one that will have lasting effects on society. One effect is that of the “Black Lives Matter” movement which was birthed after the murder of an unarmed black teen in Sanford, FL.

“The African American community is not making this up. It’s not something that’s being politicized. It’s real” - President Barack Obama, speaking about police brutality to law enforcement officials at a White House Panel. Police brutality is the deliberate use by police of more than necessary force, used to accomplish legitimate police missions of subduing violent people, catch criminals and suspects or protecting life and public order. In the year 2014, 1108 people were killed in cases of

Drug use has become an even larger epidemic and continues to become a larger issue. I am hoping this can become a social change that will help families and communities and bring a better outcome for all involved.

Our government has redesigned slavery as mass incarceration, creating an epidemic in our society. Examining Rios’s accounts in his ethnographic work Punished and the documentary 13 we see how the government has used racial coding and moral theater to restructure slavery into our everyday lives and how this new system affects the everyday lives of these marginalized people. After the 13th amendment, the abolishment of slavery, change came to our great nation, but not in the way that many hoped

The epidemic of hypersensitivity in the United States is spreading like wildfire. From the riot issues in this country to choosing your own gender, people have become oversensitive. Human beings, especially in the USA it seems, will argue about anything, even if it doesn’t pertain to them. Although my topic may not be as serious as some of the previously listed issues, it is of the same context: a case of a highly sensitive society that will argue with anyone about anything. Sports team should be

triumphs, Lamar was able to rise above the expectations of failure through his music, a product of the ghetto where his heroes are the musicians who escaped. Thoughtful details about Compton childhood baby born in poverty, gang war, and the crack epidemic where there can be a different path. Lamar's music reaching out, narratives on how he didn't give up. His work demonstrates the struggles black people faced in the past as well as today in regards to racism, discrimination, and police violence.

Michael Brown, was a young African American male from Ferguson, Missouri who was shot and killed by a white police officer in 2014. Since then, Americans started to focus their attention on the numerous encounters of police brutality involving black Americans throughout America, and with the help of social media the encounters became more real and evident to the public. A large number of blacks have been killed due to incidents with police, in the years since Mike Brown's death and in the years

violent, than presented in the film. Africans Americans (the colored) endured harsher treatment, and the things they were limited to was like an everlasting list. They didn’t have as many rights once not evening being able to vote, most had to work for white people to have a paying job to provide for their families. Most of the time African American women would work cleaning, cooking, or being the caretaker of her employer’s children. Most of the African American men worked for white men doing heavy-duty