Ames

My family moved to Meridian, MS from California when I was around six or seven years old. Since then, all the way up to the ninth grade, my mother took my sister and me to Saint James A.M.E. Church for Sunday services. One Sunday, a cousin of mine brought me along to the service of her new church, and ever since then I have been attending New Freedom Tabernacle. I have found that NFT has certain qualities about it that have always attracted my attention in ways that St. James could not; so, I…

The ‘spin doctors’, Brean, Motss and Ames fabricate the Albanian war through a mise en scene with images of them in front of large screens manipulating the footage to suit the president’s lubricous demands about a calico cat. The low angle shot of Brean with the American flag superimposed…

and behaviors, which isn't always a good thing, from intimdation, Research has shown links between "parental alcoholism, drug use, and verbal or physical abuse and the same destructive behavior cropping up in their children" [source: Stephens]. The ame was established with smolking cigarettes. The University of Washington's Seattle Social Development Project published in 2005 found that "Kids are twice as likely to pick up a tobacco habit if their parents smoked."…

8). The framework's six types of involvement overlap. "It is now time to...move toward studying the interactive nature of these overlapping 'spheres of influence' (Ames, 1993, p. 11). "As children's first teachers, family members have a profound and continuing effect on growth and development" (Dianda & McLaren, 1996, p. 11). Parenting skills must be taught, they are not inherent. Workshops, support programs, and…

It would be difficult to read the preface of Jim Collin’s book, How the Mighty Fall, without associating it with the principles of truth and grace. Without truth, acts that are meant to be gracious produce serious negative consequences by ignoring underlying problem. Regrettably, these consequences are more severe than the would-be consequences of veracity. When truth and grace are used in conjunction with each other, difficult problems are resolved, enabling the reformed party to flourish and…

The grant supported the Youth Leading Youth project which enhanced the organization’s mission, “to cultivate young leaders through the discipline of music training. The project included weekly leadership sessions, music training, and performance at two major concerts sponsored by the organization and various concerts invitations. Participants applied leadership through teaching beginner students and were given various leadership opportunities. The project was completed in two phases with the…

rights by using James Wilson’s “‘reserved powers theory’” and that the “no bill of rights would be needed because the government has power to act only where power has been expressly granted powers and powers not given were retained by the people” (Ame. Gov., 7th Edition, pg 76-78). However, the Bill of Rights was ratified by the states in 1791. Moreover, Thomas Jefferson and Madison founded the Democratic-Republican Party, a party that believed in an agrarian-based, decentralized, and democratic…

Ernest J. Gaines, the author of a number of novels and stories such as The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Lesson before Dying, Catherine Carmier, Bloodline, In My Father’s House, A Gathering of Old Men, The Sky Is Gray… is a well-known African American writer. Not only is he a writer, Ernest J. Gaines has also gained his fame in the educational field while he worked for several universities and colleges. Louisianan Ernest J. Gaines was born in 1933. He is the oldest of the twelve siblings…

School in Minnesota. He studied geology for two years at the Colorado School of Mines before enlisting in the Marines. Deloria Jr. served in the Marines from 1954 to 1956. (Bellini, 2008) Upon leaving the Marines, he attended Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa and obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1958. That same year he married Barbara Jeanne Nystrom and together they had three children. Vine Deloria Jr. found no career in natural science and decided to follow his family’s…

One of which is the Ames Performing Arts Center. The center has two theatres, a 1000 seat Proscenium Stage, and 150 seat Black Box. The 2,000 square-foot art gallery currently holds eight gallery exhibits every calendar year. Presentations range from classical music, to comedy…