Hampton University

At Hampton University I have responsibility as the recently elected Vice President of our National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) chapter our chapter has been inactive for the past couple of years, but this coming year we hope to revitalize it and run for Chapter of the Year Award. There are several ideas that we have either completed or are extremely close to completing. The most major of which is an event named STEM week which is comprised of several days of networking, mentorship and workshops for new engineering students and interviews with local STEM companies for upperclassmen. In a working environment there’s an extremely high value for someone that can effectively communicate and organize groups of people, and for STEM week the skills…

a slave. He was even beaten sometimes for not performing the tasks adequately. The Civil War had ended just when Washington was nine years old, and his family decided to move to Malden, West Virginia. This is where his mother, Jane, met Washington Ferguson. Every morning, Booker and Washington got up and went to work nearby salt furnaces. In 1866, Washington got a job as a houseboy, and was allowed to attend school for an hour a day. This is how Booker learned to read and write! Later in his…

That traveled to seven art museums across the United States; including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Cincinnati Art Museum; Hampton University Museum; North Carolina Museum of Art; Wadsworth Athenaeum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and The California Afro-American Museum. Which including 120 paintings, drawings, murals, and sculptors. Some of his work included was The Upper Room, Dying Solider, and Jubilee: Ghana Harvest Festival. Before his retirement in 1983, Biggers left a fifty-foot…

It has been proven that for age’s, individuals have had a tendency to form groups or to communicate with those who share the same views, abilities, and language as them. A discourse community is typically described as a group of people with similar goals, customs, and experiences. A person may belong to multiple communities and may very well overlap. I belong to four main discourse communities: Hampton University Student body, McDonald’s crew member, Social media, and Family. Each one of these…

Howard Dully was born to parents Rodney Lloyd Dully and June Louise Pierce. Rodney Dully, originally from Centralia, Washington, grew up with very little money. Rodney’s relatives, consisted of lumberjacks and railroad workers, where Rodney himself spent his younger years helping out. Rodney’s father, August Tulle, born in 1899, in Revel Estonia, today known as the Soviet Union, was an immigrant. With his brothers, in the United States, August decided to move there after changing his name to…

to come to class. When Booking heard about Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, he had determine to get there no matter how it cost. This detail points out that for Booker, to secure a good education is the most important thing in an individual’s life. He describe Hampton as a new life, a promised land where he could put the highest effort to accomplish the best in the world. However, his journey to the “promised land” was never easy when he had nothing but a little money for…

At Hampton University, I have been developing the skills I started developing in school over the years. During my time at Hampton, I have grown a lot and even learned the important of truth in leadership. I have really started to understand the importance of truth in leadership, when I joined the Leadership institute. I have learned through leadership institute that it is very important for a leader to be truthful. As George Berkeley says “Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few”. This…

different at the beginning of the influx of second homeowners to the town in the early 1900s. Second, Rangeley is markedly isolated. It is not a place you happen upon, nor is it incredibly convenient to get to like many of the other vacation communities that are close to nearby cities—Cape Cod and the Hamptons, for example. Because of this, there is perhaps a selection effect that is at play—i.e., it is not at all convenient, so one must actively choose Rangeley as their second home—and…

SYNOPSIS: On the 6th of November, 2015, I, CPL. Lessane, along with Deputy Green, Deputy Griffin, and Deputy Jordan, with the Hampton County Sheriff 's Office, responded to 320 Thorn Circle, in the county of Hampton, regarding a disturbance incident. Upon arrival, Deputies made contact with all parties involve and gathered the pertinent information needed to complete this report. INTERVIEW WITH COMPLAINANT: (KRISTINA BARNES) Mrs. Barnes stated she came to the incident location in an attempt…

Kevin and Marcus, who are on the verge of losing their jobs due to a mistake they made letting a drug lord escape. Consequently, they are placed on a seemingly low-risk escort mission for two heiresses: Brittany and Tiffany Wilson. However, they get into a minor accident on the way to the Hamptons, and to prevent the loss of their jobs, Kevin and Marcus must impersonate as Brittany and Tiffany, respectively. At the Hamptons, Kevin and Marcus struggle to keep their double identities in check sine…