...Hairs My families hair is very diverse. Joe, my dad has very thick and curly hair..Nappy with the ability to be a afro. In the morning his hair will tell you which side of the bed he slept on. My sister sonya has blonde curly hair that resembles cavatappi noodles. She gets the curls from Joe. Bridgets hair is straight and brown. Pretty normal except the fact that she never needs to brush or straighten it, it makes her co-workers jealous. My hair is much different than everyone else's in my family. Mainly because I am not biologically related to anyone, but also that my hair was as red as a angry sunset. It flows like the high tide. Curly in some places like honey barbecue fritos. Papa Who Wakes Up Tired In The...
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...My mother never wants me to get perm. It was a struggle loving something that I didn’t know how to take care of. My hair Play a major part for me growing up. I was bully, I felt outcast, and I didn’t feel beautiful. Why us black women scared to embrace our natural hair? Is it because we want to avoid the shame, pain, and discomfort of our beautiful locs. In the Apogee Journal, there is a short story called “When they ask about my hair” by Charnell Peters. The author uses flashback and Dialogue to describe her hair journey throughout her childhood and adult years. Not every woman is strong enough to embrace their natural roots. Peters argues that some of us are just scared of what others think of how we look. The short story prescribes that...
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...With the sound of hair dryers and women gossiping and laughing, I felt like a fish out of water. Unlike most eleven-year-old girls, I did not like being at the hair salon. Mainly because I didn’t like having my hair touched by other people, I was relieved when the stylist finished my hair. She had used a curling iron, which only slightly changed the look of my hair because it was already curly. Overall, I was underwhelmed by the way my hair turned out given all of the effort the stylist put in. However, when I saw my sister, who had gotten the same style, my jaw dropped to the ground. Her thin long blonde hair looked so much better than my darker and thicker hair. “Wow, your hair looks amazing!” I said to my sister. “Thanks! I think it will look even better with my dress. Today is going to be so much fun!” My sister exclaimed. We followed the two other junior bridesmaids to the car and excitedly headed to the wedding. As we walked into the church that summer morning, the sun reflected off of my sister’s perfectly curled blonde hair. We finished getting ready in the basement of the church. My sister was right; when she put on that light pink dress, her hair looked...
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...examples of the physical and cognitive changes people go through when they enter late adult hood? a) Being that I am only 26 years old I have not experienced any of those life changing experience yet how ever what I can do is explain and describe that I have observed with my fellow co-wokers since I am the youngest person there. Like any person I do get curious what really qualifies you as a senior citizen, some of my fellow co-workers say when you hit 60 to 63 because that is when it all starts to go. When they stopped laughing I did notice a change of apperence in the sence of when they were telling me the things they use to do two, to three years ago and know they can not or even do it a bit slower, also in body weight. One of the things that I have noticed in my observation was that most men had complaints about hair loss and the further they get into there later adult hood the color there hair changes now some change to a whte color and some tuen to this violet white color it is what I have noticed. Unfortunatly my dad is one of those who lose there hair as they get older, at this point I fear for my hair and try to take care of it as best aas I can by not wearing hats and but shampoo that is pro hair growth.(Witt&Mossler,2010, health and Physical Development, page6. As observe other drivers I hear compolaints about things getting old meaning there internal organs are deteriorating and there not as they were when they were thirty or twenty years old, but they find...
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...Laid out on the countertop, feeling the unbearable strain on my neck from resting on cold metal of the sink, towel thrown haphazardly onto my head to shield my eyes from the water, the water itself moves in temperature varying from too hot to too cold, and the burning sensation on my scalp all too familiar. “Ciara, didn’t I tell you not to scratch your head? That’s why it’s burning.” Said my mother. For the average black woman, hair is a daily obstacle that needs to be conquered. From birth, the ideas of straight hair are thrust upon us. Every Pantene or Tresemme commercial is of thick, long, straight hair. The girls in my class bonded at sleepovers over braiding each other’s hair. I, however, could not. As a child, I remember looking at...
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...Five Ways to Increase Hair Growth Naturally To increase hair growth from the root, you must look at the root cause! Hair Loss, what’s it good for? I know the struggles of loosing your hair. As a teen, arguably the when hair is most important I experienced the struggle, because of my lifestyle and nutrition. I was also on medication. When I decided to make changes to these three, I was able to feel “normal” again as I got new hair growth. We all have our own recipes to healthy hair growth. This is my five-step recipe. It has been essential in my journey of hair growth. Try it, and may it help you too. 1. Adequate stomach acid equals hair growth. You are what you eat, more importantly your hair is what you eat. Nutrition is exceptionally...
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...youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom.” ― Gabriel Garcí¬a Márquez. One day I got up and as a mechanical act I went to the bathroom to wash my face, I saw myself in the mirror and… WHAAAT?! What’s that hair buried in the front of my head? Hidden among the others! It looks different, it looks… WHITE!! It feels frustrating. I’m too young to be old already! I started searching with close attention at every corner of my head and I discovered that the rebellious hair was not alone, he had made some friends of his kind, and to make things worse… on my face I also had crow’s feet!! Those wrinkles my mother has!! Let’s face it, I’m only 25, couldn’t those elderly symptoms appear later on? It’s hard to see in the mirror an image you don’t feel identified with, I think I’m still 18 years old, in fact I still do the things I did when I was that age, but with new residents in my head and face which show that time has passed for me too, that I’m not that teenager I once was, that every candle I blow on each of my birthdays marks an year more in my life, marks the flow life is, which never gets rest. However, I still think that every hour, every minute and every second that we go through is an instance of learning. Time helps us not only grow up physically, but also mentally and spiritually. Those wrinkles and white hairs only show that we have experienced more things than younger generations, that we have different stories to provide the world with; who doesn’t love listening...
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...No Name Woman – by Maxine Hong Kingston "You must not tell anyone," my mother said, "what I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born. "In 1924 just a few days after our village celebrated seventeen hurry-up weddings-to make sure that every young man who went 'out on the road' would responsibly come home-your father and his brothers and your grandfather and his brothers and your aunt's new husband sailed for America, the Gold Mountain. It was your grandfather's last trip. Those lucky enough to get contracts waved goodbye from the decks. They fed and guarded the stowaways and helped them ofT in Cuba, New York, Bali, Hawaii. 'We'll meet in California next year,' they said. All of them sent money home. "I remember looking at your aunt one day when she and I were dressing; 1 had not noticed before that she had such a protruding melon of a stomach. But I did not think, 'She's pregnant,' until she began to look like other pregnant women, her shirt pulling and the white tops of her black pants showing. She could not have been pregnant, you see, because her husband had been gone for years. No one said anything. We did not discuss it. In early summer she was ready to have the child, long after the time when it could have been possible. "The village had also been counting. On the night the baby was to be born the villagers raided...
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...and physical appearance, I identify as a man. I wear suits and ties on special occasions or at work, I do not wear dresses or high heels or makeup. I have facial hair and keep the hair on my head short (although I did have hair almost down to the middle of my chest at one point). I also often identify as a stereotypical man in that I suppress emotions, particularly those that have to do with love, and am unwilling to share them with others at times—a trait I am actively trying to minimize. But when considering the types of activities I enjoy, I identify as a more androgynous person. I enjoy writing poetry, crocheting huge blankets in the winter, I am not particularly interested in sports; all things that can be attributed to a stereotypical feminine role. Acute social awareness, to the point of anxiety, is also a prominent and typically feminine trait I possess. As a believer in the idea that these roles we assume as humans are fluid, always changing with time, social context, our desires, and that such labels are more often than not used to negatively discriminate, I am reluctant to declare my allegiance to a named role in any sort of permanent way. My preference toward masculine clothing was shaped largely by my parents. As a child with no money or sense of fashion, what I wore was completely subject to what my parents bought for me. Although children's clothing is often unisex at young ages, there was an instance in which I wanted to wear something that girls wear. I had...
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...desire and passion to have straighter, shinier and more efficient hair that they could be proud of. So, I explored and put my knowledge to the test to come up with an experimental study of comparing mayonnaise-sprite solution and certain product and determine which one could show satisfaction among woman. Then, I simply conducted a comparative study of Cream Silk and Mayonnaise-Sprite solution. Conclusion: Therefore I conclude Mayonnaise-Sprite solution is better hair conditioner than cream silk because it is made out of eggs and causes fair to produce natural keratin. It gives us a brilliant-looking hair that is bouncy, full of life, smooth and healthy hair. Title: A comparative study between mayonnaise-Sprite solution and Cream Silk as better conditioner. MAYONNAISE TABLESPOON CREAM SILK SPRITE Problem: Can mayonnaise-Sprite solution be better hair conditioner than cream silk? Hypothesis: Mayonnaise-Sprite solution can be better hair conditioner than a commercial conditioner called Cream Silk. ...
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...Hair and Rent are two well-known musicals that perfectly display the power of art in the world. Rent is a rock musical that tells the story about a group of poor, young artists and musicians who are struggling to survive and make it in New York’s Lower East Side during the AIDS epidemic. Hair is another rock musical, but this musical deals with the hippie counter-culture and the sexual revolution of the 1960s. In the musical Hair, the setting also takes place in New York, but the plot in Hair differs a little from the storyline in the Rent. Instead of struggling to survive as musicians, the people in Hair are fighting against conscription into the Vietnam War. Each character in the musicals Hair and Rent have to deal with the everyday issues of their time while still trying to deal with their own individual dilemmas. In the musical Rent, the people tend to live a bohemian lifestyle. The American College Dictionary defines the term bohemian as "a person with artistic or intellectual tendencies, who lives and acts with no regard for conventional rules of behavior." The characters in Rent are each trying to reach their dreams of making it in show business, but they have to overcome many obstacles such as living expenses, the AIDS epidemic, love, sexuality, drugs, friendship, and much more. One character, Mimi Marquez, is a club dancer, and that is how she pays for her living. Many people of that time would be club dancers because that was a quick way of earning money. Due to the...
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...English 122-022 Gender & Sexuality The Sit Down My legs are torn and eaten by mosquitos, because I’m allergic to mosquitos, my skin blisters and swells up with every mosquito bite; puss even comes out if it swells up to much. It’s a hot summer evening in the middle of July the sun is blazing down on everybody in its path. Family is over to have a cook out; it’s a special occasion because we only see all of us three times a year which is: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the family cook out in mid July. I’m the only girl in my family out of five boys in the grandchildren on my dad side of the family. Difficult growing up, because I was a huge tom boy reason being the only girl and my sibling was a boy and 11 years older than me in fact; it was difficult growing up without a girl to look upon on.. My brother the oldest grandson, 20, was still a huge kid who loved to pick on us. His name is Raul but we call him Omar because of his middle name. He was wearing his favorite, black and silver Raiders jersey. Back in time when jean shorts for males were cool he would wear those with some Nike tennis shoes. Then came my cousin who was 2 years older than me, he was 11 at the time, I was still taller than him by an inch; he was stronger and picked on me a lot because I was a girl and taller than he was. His name is Abraham but called him Abe for short. Abe’s brother was only 2 months younger than I am and had long hair, smelled bad because he would never take a shower. He...
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...STRANGE IS UNIQUE I’m Damian, a simple guy with brown eyes, brown hair, white skin and tall but just a little strange. I didn’t ask for too much I just needed someone to care but no one did, I started doing sport to keep my mind out of it but nothing work, then I started doing music and writing songs but she keep getting into my head. I still remember how we started, we started just like best friends, her name was Emma she was beautiful, she had brown and really long hair, brown eyes with glasses and a clean white smile. Every friend that I had started saying that is better to never get involved with her because she wasn’t “OKAY” but I don’t listen and fall in love with Emma.at first everything was nice and romantic but after 3 months I started seeing what everybody told edema started acting weird, I ask her but she said that nothing was wrong but I don’t know what to think so when Emma was taking a shower I started searching for weird stuff around the apartment, to my surprise I found 3 blades covered In blood, a picture of a women with a big “X” on the middle and behind everything else was a colt Wiley clapp.at first I have to admit I was scared but then I was fascinated with everything I found, when Emma got out of the shower I confronted her and she told me what was happening she told me that she was cutting herself and then told me who the women in the picture was, she told me that the women of the picture was her mother but suddenly she got angry and sad started...
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...Lipogaine Review – Will this Achieve Results? Read Review! We have reviewed some Lipogaine products in the past, but men's ones. This time, the review will cover the Lipogaine formulas for women. The fact that hair loss is a universal issue (men and women sufferers) makes it important we always take a look at the hair loss treatment products for men as well as for women. The manufacturer of Lipogaine for women claims that the products will offer unrivaled benefits as regards hair loss treatment and enhancement. Are there unique substances in this formula that makes it this effective? Or could it be amongst the conventional fake products marketed here and there? This review is designed to gather as much information as possible about the...
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...RUNNING HEAD: EQUITY ISSUES Shorter University Rachelle Bell Dr. Janet Grier Light-Skin Women v Dark-Skin Women In today world some people will only hired women who is light-skinned. Why? They want someone who is pretty and can bring more people to the company. The company thinks women who is light-skinned are pretty. A light-skinned woman have nice long hair, make-up is flawless, nails is well kept, clothes are the latest business suits. The woman might not have all of the qualifications but she will learn the ropes of the business. So they hired her and to top if off her salary is the highest and comes with a nice package. In back in the bosses mind he hopes that she can catch on quick, but he will show her off to all his business partners. Now will a dark-skinned woman, who have all the qualifications they will not hired her, because the company does not see her pretty enough. They see a dark-skinned woman as greasy, nappy hair, and ghetto, and that’s to get to the point. This beautiful lady that the company will not hired, will have been a great asset to the company. The lady would have given 110% of her time, and even had ideas on how to make the company grow, she wouldn’t be concern about when is pay day and how long is her lunch so she could go the nail shop. Some women have a hard time dating, because some men will not date a woman who is dark-skinned. I think some men...
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