Bachelor of Fine Arts

“The Pride of Paulding” Marching Band. After graduation from high school, I attended Jacksonville State University, Alabama, and marched with JSU Marching Southerners. In 1993, I transferred to the University of West Georgia where I earned my Bachelor of Music in Music Education Degree in 1997. While at West Georgia, I was President of the Collegiate Music Educators National Conference West Georgia Chapter and held the executive offices of Vice President and Secretary in Phi Mu Alpha…

Background The purpose of this assignment is to gain a deeper understanding of students with disabilities, the individuals who interact with them, and different processes/aspects of special education. For this assignment, an individual who frequently interacts with children with some form of disability was asked a series of questions. Amy Edwards - a special education teacher at McKinley Elementary located in Xenia, Ohio was interviewed. Ms. Edwards first became interested in special education…

In the first stanza, he states: “The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don’t mind happiness…if you don’t mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine because even in heaven they don’t sing all the time…” (LitChatte.Com.2018). This stanza “makes strong use of irony, purporting to state that the world is happy, but only if you live in heaven and don’t mind a little hell now and then.” (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)…

older sister Pipsan, and his parents lived in Finland, his parents would regularly entertain artists, musicians, sculptors, professional architects, and several other intellectuals including names such as composers Jean Sibelius, and Gustav Mahler, art critic Juius Meier-Graefe, writer Maxim Gorki, and sculptor Carl Milles. In 1923, he and his family, moved to the United States, following…

Introduction Timothy David Olyphant is a dynamic American actor who’s left an indelible mark on both stage and screen. He burst onto the theatrical scene in 1995 with his captivating performance in the off-Broadway hit “The Monogamist,” snagging the prestigious Theatre World Award. The following year, he wowed audiences as the original star of David Sedaris’ “The Santaland Diaries.” Transitioning to film, Olyphant carved a niche for himself with his compelling portrayal of villainous characters…

filled with lies, games and murder. The Lying Game is written by American author Sara Shepard. Sara is 39 years old and she has been writing for as long as she can remember. In 1999 she got her bachelor of science degree from New York University and 5 years later in 2004 she received her master of fine arts degree from Brooklyn College. Sara's first job was publishing and producing magazines for clients at Time, Inc. In 2005 she began writing books of her own. Her first two adult novels were The…

Ryan Erik Adamsons,based in Chicago, is an active composer, performer, and educator. He received a Bachelor of Science Degrees in Jazz Studies and Brass Performance from the University of Akron (OH), and a Masters of Music concentrating in Jazz Composition from DePaul University in Chicago (IL). He currently works as an Artist Advisor at the Denis Wick/Vandoren Musician’s Advisory Studio in downtown Chicago, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Jazz Orchestra as their Director of…

imagery to give vast, inspiring meaning to their works, which usually encompassed topics such as love, life and belonging. To describe the beauty of this time period, French poet Charles Baudelaire stated, "to say the word Romanticism is to say modern art -- that is, intimacy, spirituality,…

Love is unique, it’s an emotion that we suppress. We bury it deep inside ourselves till we find that special someone, then we set it free. It takes control of our bodies, our mind, our way of thinking, and our actions. For the purpose of believing we love someone. What if the person that you loved, didn’t love you back, or if it was misguided by lust instead or they were using you? In the short story “Aurora” by Junot Díaz, Lucero believes that he is love with his on-and-off again girlfriend…

college job card. After all, many of LIFE’s college graduates have twice the income of their degreeless competitors. But do college graduates actually perform better than their less educated peers? Do bachelor degree holders from big name schools actually earn more money than…