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Health & Fitness > Health Risks Should post-menopausal women take estrogen?

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Menopause, from the Greek "meno", meaning "month or menses" and "pausis", meaning "to pause", has been an increasingly popular subject for the past decade, largely due to the arrival of the female baby-boomers, or the post World War II generation, at what is considered to be the age of perimenopause and menopause. The subjec... More..

Arts & Humanities > French Language How French lost its stature as the international language

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In order to understand how French began to lose its status as the language of the elite, we must go back and examine our English history. When, in 1066, William the Conqueror of Normandy invaded England, that country was in a state of turmoil. Edward the Confessor had died childless and England was divided into large distric... More..

Arts & Humanities > American Authors Author assessment: Jean Toomer

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Prophet, poet, spiritual seeker, and artist: in literary circles, Jean Toomer is known primarily for Cane, a haunting work of fiction, which depicts the life of African-Americans in the South, specifically in Georgia. Robert Bone, Professor Emeritus of English at Columbia University from 1965-1990 and author of The Negro Nov... More..

Religion & Spirituality > Christian Beliefs & Culture Brief history of African American theology

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Humankind has a tendency to create religions and theologies which conform to their needs, whether those needs are to justify a situation, to explain the unexplainable, to establish control other others, or to assuage guilt. Early enslaved Africans in America, finding themselves within a culture which was, in large measure, u... More..

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: In honor of black history

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In the history of influential African-American women in the United States, two foremothers stand out, both from their experiences as African-Americans, and for their experiences as women. In both experiences, they fought to overcome prejudice: one, in relation to their race and two, in relation to their gender. These women w... More..

Education > Education (Other) Do we need multicultural education?

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From Plessy v. Ferguson to Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, from the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to Lau v. Nichols, from the Equal Educational Opportunity Act of 1974 to Oakland, the issue of multicultural education in America has been argued, defined, re-defined, and legislated. Teaching colleges receive (or do not receive... More..

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