Feeling that you are not good enough is just a chain that needs to be broken!! I personally believe Jesus can break each and every one of those chains and this song tells it too!! If you are a Christian or don't get offended by things that are religious affiliated please listen to this song! Not loving yourself and hating who God made you is one of those chains that you will hear falling!! Be blessed!!
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Annotated Bibliography
Tre’Dessa Smalls
19 April 2013
English 2
Ms. McKoy
Annotated Bibliography
Mary Jane Ojie, et al. "Gold Diggers, Video Vixens, And Jezebels: Stereotype Images And Substance Use Among Urban African American Girls." Journal Of Women's Health (15409996) 20.9 (2011): 1315-1324. Academic Search Complete. Web. 22 Mar. 2013.
Mary Jane Ojie gave great insight on how stereotypes affect the images of African-American young ladies. The website had lots of information and the article I used was an academic summary so it was credible. The author had lots of knowledge on this topic because she is African- American and also is very well educated. She has a Doctorate degree in physiology and understands what affects the brain. This article helped me very much in my research. When I started reading the summary I was shocked, but yet pleased because it supported my topic. This academic summary would be great for anyone needing to gain information about how society affects a race.
Sardin, Thelma. "Caught Up On Color: Black Women Share their Experiences with Colorism." Chicago Citizen - South End Edition 18 Apr. 2012: 2. MasterFILE Complete. Web. 10 Apr. 2013.
Thelma Sardin is a Black business pioneer who has a well-respected reputation in the African- American community. In this article she talks about “colorism” and how it is a big problem in the black community. This article gave me a whole new view to my research topic, it gave me a new understanding. This article was aimed at the middle age and younger females in the black community. This article was of great help to my research process.
Brooks, Wanda, Susan Browne, and Gregory Hampton. "There Ain't No Accounting For What Folks See In Their Own Mirrors": Considering Colorism Within A Sharon Flake Narrative." Journal Of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 51.8 (2008): 660-669. Academic Search Complete. Web. 10 Apr. 2013.
The authors of this source were a good help because they used real life observations to help promote their viewpoint. They talked about how colorism is becoming a bigger problem than it should be. It shows how darker black girls have less of opportunity to get good things in life. It saddens me to read this article because I am a darker black girl. This article hit a soft spot in me. This article seems like it was intended for everyone to see and especially treat black girls different ways based on their skin tones. The authors work around young black girls so they have enough knowledge on the topic to write about it. This article was extremely helpful.
Hines, Paulette, and Linda Berg-Cross. "Racial Differences In Global Self-Esteem." Journal Of Social Psychology 113.2 (1981): 271. Academic Search Complete. Web. 10 Apr. 2013.
This article was great and really helpful because it gave great support to my blog topic. The authors had tested and different firsthand experiences to support all of their claims. This was a credible source because they had all the sources to the information they used. I used this article to support all of my claims I had made during pervious assignments. This article was intended for anyone who wants to understand how racial differences play a role in self- esteem. This source was very valuable.
Great Song!! (PG-13) NOT TO BE WATCHED AT SCHOOL
Inspirational Song (Religious)
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Academic Summary
Tre’Dessa
Smalls
Ms.McKoy
English
2
11
April 2013
What’s the difference?
Authors Paulette Hines and Linda Berg-
Cross argue that people have different levels of viewpoints on global
self-esteem, self-esteem, and racial differences when it comes to them. They
claim that self-esteem in African- American adolescents tend to be lower than
self-esteems of white adolescent in both boys and girls. Hines and Berg- Cross
developed this claim gathering information from the many conducted studies that
took place for this research. The authors reasoning for lower self- esteems are
because blacks are exposed to many negative appraisals from larger society. The
researchers who conducted this experiment picked 2625 of Maryland star students
that are all on an even playing field intellectually speaking. Since the
students are all similar in a normal way the results varied and showed a great
representation of self-esteems which helped support his claim by showing such a
range. Some people do not perceive themselves as others do, as if someone was
perceived worthless they may feel different about themselves. Hines and Berg-
Cross developed this claim by looking at how society perceives certain groups
then studying the results of the self- esteem analysis of those same groups. It
was said that females are more self- critical than their male counterpart. The
authors’ supports the claim with the results of both races of females having
lower self-esteem but African American females had lower self- esteem all
together. Lastly, Authors Paulette Hines and Linda Berg- Cross purpose is to
show that racial differences have an effect on people’s self-esteem. In order
to link answer the question of way black adolescents have lower self- esteems
than of those who are white. This work is significant because it supports my
research topic in many ways and gives facts to back it up with.
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