Brady v. Maryland

For my presentation, I chose the song ‘Dear Mr. President’ by the American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress Alecia Beth Moore, widely known by her stage name Pink. Pink’s career started in 1995, and the singer has since released seven studio albums, five compilation albums, three live albums, 34 singles, and lastly 33 music videos. Additionally, she has won numerous awards, including three Grammys and one Emmy Award. Furthermore, the singer is not only an animal rights activist and…

In Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author uses a myriad of memories to paint the story of his life in a letter to his son. He brings memories from all periods from his life, and meshes them together into an interlocking web of situations and circumstances that define who he is as an African-American male in the United States of America. He is writing this memoir in the form of a letter to his son, the message he is trying to communicate is for an African-American, you must be…

In the early nineteenth century the United States started to expand. Many areas in the expansion wanted to become territories to later become states. Arkansas was no different. As part of the Missouri territory, Arkansas wanted to break off and become its own territory. Being in the southern part of the United States, Arkansas was great for agriculture and slavery. Slavery and its legality in the United States was an issue that started when the country was being formed. It became an even larger…

Location of the Facility The Albin O. Kuhn Library (AOK) and Gallery can be found on the campus of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). UMBC, an honors college, is located at 1000 Hilltop Circle in Baltimore County, mostly in the community of Catonsville. Spanning across over 500 acres of land, UMBC is three miles outside the Baltimore City limits and is surrounded by BWI Airport, Amtrak train station, bus lines, business, restaurants and other conveniences. The library is…

With three GMO labeling bills in the last two years, Maryland is making progress in the ultimate goal to work directly with legislation in DC and Annapolis to show the support for passing GMO labeling laws in this state. GMO free Maryland is a 501c4 grass roots movement in the state of Maryland in which it aims to publish the newest research and educational materials regarding the health risks, environmental impacts and social…

south lost hundreds and thousands of slaves causing them to have a decline economically. Slaves in the North were more loyal than the slaves that were in the south. “The Union was further aided by the fact that four slave states – Delaware, Missouri, Maryland and Kentucky – remained loyal to the Union.” (Farmer). The south was well aware of that “Slavery, which might seem to be a Confederate weakness, enabled the South to enlist more of its white manpower than the North.” (Farmer). The…

Poster 1: Saving Our Country The poster displays Abraham Lincoln on the left and Robert E. Lee on the right, representing the North and the South. On the top middle you will see the words “We The People” which we all know it is from the Declaration of Independence, in the middle between Lincoln and Lee you will see a slave bearing the scars obtained from his brutal bondage as a slave. The images of the poster are intentionally laid out in such a way to tell this story: President Lincoln is…

Altina L. Waller exposes the old myths about the two families at war, the Hatfield’s and the McCoy’s, in the book, Feud Hatfield’s, McCoy’s, and social change in Appalachia, 1860-1900. Waller shows us that this was not only a feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families, it also included many people who were not in those families. Waller has a different perspective of the feud, and no one else has ever looked at it in the same way before. She dug up crucial facts that brought fuel to the feud.…

student confided the information to a friend. The friend told the teacher about the abuse and the teacher informed the school counselor. After a verbal counseling session and play therapy, the student showed signs of sexual abuse. The State of Maryland requires an official report of sexual abuse to be reported in forty-eight hours to Child Protective Services, the school principal made an official report of the abuse to CPS. Keywords: sexual abuse, CPS, ethics METHOD Using the case study…

B. The Decision to Reduce the Frequency of the JIA’s Yearly Meetings to One Annual Meeting Will Not Expose the JIA to Any Significantly Liability Risks In Maryland, the JIA was established by means of the Maryland Property Insurance Availability Act, which is found in Md. Code (1957, 2001 repl. vol., 2016 suppl.) § 25-401 et seq. of the Insurance Article (“INS”). Similar to the DCPIF, the JIA is also an unincorporated association. INS § 25-403(a)(2). Contrary to the DCPIF, however, the JIA does…