Bowie State Army ROTC Drill and Ceremony Old Guard Training In the past two years the Bowie State University Army R.O.T.C. program has played a host role for Drill competitions and training expertise from professionals within the United States Military. Drill and ceremony is a tradition within the United States Military profession, it’s a way of combining tradition to create unit cohesion. How it is done is basically “a correctly delivered command will be understood by everyone in the unit.…
I am currently a senior honors student at Bowie State University and have been a part of its honors program since August 2014. As an honor student, I am held to the curriculum of sustaining above a 3.3 grade point average and obtaining over 200 hours community service. I also had the privilege of partaking in events related to the program and attend monthly meetings. This year I was granted the opportunity of partaking in research to discover new cancer inhibiting macromolecules under the…
that involves stomping, clapping and chanting. An initiated member’s first show is called a probate show “Coming Out” ceremony where hey put on a performance in front of the whole school about their fraternity or sorority. As a transfer student from Bowie State University to the University of Maryland, College Park I have gotten the experience of how different they are from being at an HBCU and PWI. In this essay I will talk about the difference between probates at HBCU’s and PWI’s and then…
four years have finally paid off. So now it’s time to put on your cap and gown, walk across that stage, and grab that degree. Congratulations! You are all officially graduates. What made this day the most spectacular for the 2013 graduating class at Bowie State University, one of the top ten historic colleges…
I disagree with Bowie in the sense that we as consumers accept the harm done to society. The problem that lies here with consumers is that their purchasing decisions don’t always directly correlate with their emotions. I certainly don’t agree with corporations polluting…
Zakariya Daham, NA14 Song Analysis 2016-02-12 (Is there) Life on Mars? ’’Life on Mars’’ is a song with the text and music written by the British musician David Bowie. It was first released as a single in the 22th of June, 1971, and was later featured in his album Hunky Dory. David Bowie is notoriously famous for his critique of society, and this song of his is a metaphorical masterpiece that takes the crown. This song is all about how our own entertainment, movies, music and TV have become too…
On September 1, 2017, Governor Greg Abbott signed the HB 1935 bill into law. The HB 1935 allows Texans 18 and older to openly carry Bowie and double-edged knives, daggers, swords dirk, spears and or knives 5 ½ inches or longer. An attorney named Stephen Halbrook, noted that the history of the Bowie knives was practically used by hunters for cutting small trees and to skin and process animals. The HB 1935 law came into effect, because of events that occurred 150 years ago, after the civil war;…
David Bowie, the musician, has been an icon in these groups for decades; therefore, the song was an ideal choice for this scene. In the same way Bowie was attempting to portray in his songs, the whole purpose behind this film is to demonstrate to others that while some people may be unlike them, they are equally as important. Charlie…
liberation army, however, as the time passes, the incident escalated to a bigger scale; it became the conflicts between the Tibetan government and the Chinese government. David Bowie, the singer of Seven Years in Tibet, was personally influence by the Buddhism a lot in his life. According to the article “Seven Years in Tibet”, Bowie discovered Buddhism in his early teens. As a result, when he heard about the Tibet incident, he was furious, and this incident triggered him to compose the song…
The movie Tell Them We Are Rising was very inspiring. I enjoyed the way it depicted African American education over time. Throughout the movie it made me ponder on a discussion my cohort and I had in our Culture Diversity in Education class. We were discussing the academic achievement gap amongst Minorities and White/Asian Americans. One of my classmates believed that the achievement gap between the cultures was due to parental involvement, and Asian students performed at a higher rate than…