Dothan

On September 8, 2009 I stood in front of a class of 24 excited sixth graders and in a moment 's time it was as if everything I had learned in the four years of college prior to that instant suddenly escaped my mind. Today, with 6 years of teaching behind me I am now beginning to feel as though I am getting an understanding of what it means to be an art teacher and how much more I still have to learn about education as a whole. Educators have the unique opportunity of a new beginning and an…

Freshman year in college is where you are supposed to figure your life out so you can prepare for the “real world.” When most of my peers are changing their majors and trying to figure out what they are supposed to do with their lives, I was blessed to have a family and high school that provided me with experiences that made my decision obvious after exploring many options ranging from business to engineering. With already knowing what I would like to do with my life once I receive my…

The Hagood and McGee families were brought together on October 31, 1992. The two lineages come from a long line of Scotts-Irish descent. With family in Kentucky and Alabama, I have grown up with great adventures and experiences. Amongst my family ethnography are multiple memories, heirlooms, and locations that are close to my heart. My immediate family includes my parents, John and Jenny McGee Hagood, my grandparents Molly Hicks Hagood and John Hagood, my aunt and uncle Lanier and Kristi…

I was born in Dothan Alabama I have four brothers and a sister. My parents are divorced and sometimes I think I know what I want to do with my life other times i 'm not so sure. I would say that I am an optimistic person and I am always looking for the next best thing in life. I feel like I can make a different in an individual’s life. When I was 12 years old I moved to West Virginia I lived there until I graduated high school. I loved that I finally had a study home environment although I…

For example, as Lewis travels to Dothan on a greyhound bus, he witnesses more violence. White teenagers on the street celebrate the bombing of the church, as more African-Americans are killed and harassed on the suspicion on being civil rights activists. Several white teenagers, while throwing…

Daniel R. Marburger writes in his essay, “Does Mandatory Attendance Improve Student Performance,” that from an economic standpoint, the issue becomes one of time allocation, as the students choose between competing academic and nonacademic uses of their time. With online courses, the added benefit is that material is then accessible 24 hours a day 7 days a week. If attendance policies are designed to weed out slackers, one of the biggest assets to online courses is that there can’t be any…