Elizabeth Montgomery

The role of a leader is an incredibly vital and often challenging job. With leadership comes the responsibility to set an example for followers, provide direction for the masses, and work with fellow leaders improve current situations. However, with the task of leadership also comes the unfortunate matter involving the misuse of power. Too often in history individuals have used said power to turn against those they were meant to protect. While there is a substantial time gap between the two,…

Over the last couple of years, headlines about schools have become more and more prevalent. Whether it was about school lunches (and how bad they are) or how schools are helping their students for the better, stories about schools have been and will always be in the headlines. However, there is one story that has shown up plenty of times and has no definite solution: underfunded public schools. Public schools all over the nation, from Chicago to Philadelphia, have been declining for a while.…

Anthropology of Sport is the culturally diverse and natural comprehension of game in ancient times, history, and the contemporary world (Blanchard 1995). It examines the financial, political and social measurements of game and how wear impacts the lives of people and groups far and wide. Sports has as of late pulled in close ethnographic enthusiasm as a protest of teach, a domain of pop culture through spectatorship, and through the contemporary rage for wellbeing and wellness. Sports has been…

filled out the online application, immediately paid the $25 fee and travelled 1 hour on the F4 bus to take the Accuplacer test. Not only did I spend an hour on the bus, I had to transfer to the white and purple Montgomery college shuttle to visit the Rockville campus. After exiting the Montgomery College shuttle at the Science Center, I was greeted by a large four story building displaying green roof, large solar panels and grassy areas used as class rooms. I was extremely impressed by the…

As General Bernard Law Montgomery once said, “Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.” It is the make or break skill factor in a multitude of scenarios. In regard to his conduct in leadership, he was not short of critics, for he was a widely contested person of interest. Despite his critics, Montgomery deserved his praise, because of his extraordinary impact due to his leadership during the Battle of El Alamein,…

How Does Investigation Lead to Discovery? Most people don’t think of exploring the moon when talking about Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery. Sure, they both are explorations, but one was on Earth, and the other was on the moon. But they are both capable of answering the question: How does investigation lead to discovery? Investigating, or searching, studying, testing, questioning, experimenting, and finding every possible answer is key to finding new things, but how? The Captain’s Dog…

world’s smartest invertebrate, which is one of the reasons that sparked Sy Montgomery’s interest in the animals. As a naturalist and author, she decided to explore the world of the octopus and describe her journey in her book “Soul of an Octopus”. Montgomery describes her journey from the beginning, giving readers facts and information about these interesting invertebrates, and describing how she developed a strong bond to these animals that are seem so unlike to herself. She started at the New…

What’s the attraction of surgical interns turn surgical residents running around a hospital in the middle of downtown Seattle? Ask the 8.96 million people a week that turn the channel to ABC every Thursday night at 7/8c. Grey’s Anatomy, a creation of Shonda Rhimes, is that very attraction sometimes addiction of many people throughout the country. With thirteen seasons under its wing, they keep the audience and fandom coming back every single week and even in the offseason, with sources like…

“Our Auntie Rosa” is a non-fiction biography written by Sheila McCauley Keys with Eddie B. Allen Jr.. Our Auntie Rosa is the remembrance of Rosa Parks and her accomplishments throughout her lifetime not only as the mother of the civil rights movements, but also the mother figure she had towards her loved ones. Keys who is Parks seven of the thirteen nieces and nephews took the initiative to document the family’s history and the most memorable memories of her aunt. While refusing her seat in the…

On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, AL, Rosa Parks was arrested for “disorderly conduct,” because she wouldn’t give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger. Following her arrest African-Americans – who made up two-thirds of the bus riders in Montgomery – boycotted public transportation. The boycott lasted 381 days, until the Supreme Court deemed the segregated bus service in Montgomery unconstitutional. As Elizabeth Eckford enters Little Rock Central High School, students yell insults. On…