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Growing up in Jamaica, Queens, NY, I had a small voice and I still do. I was insecure about talking and speaking, especially in public. However, when I danced, I felt heard. Dance helps me express myself and instills love and confidence in my personal and professional life. It’s where I found my sense of place and power in this racially and socioeconomically charged world. I am honored and humbled everyday to live my life as a creative Black woman and to have the agency to contemplate,…

Thus far, how to study in college has been one grand experiment. I have only had one exam, so I am not sure how well my strategies will serve me in the long term. I would say that I had good study skills in high school, but these skills were very limited in scope: they allowed me to memorize a lot of content for a short time, and then allowed the content disappear from my brain not long after the exam or the AP test. My main method for history, vocabulary, and math concepts was flashcards. I did…

James Hall Professor Elizabeth Harris & April Carlisle Shopper Marketing 490 October 29th, 2014 Inside the Mind of a Shopper: A look into Peapod In the book Inside the Mind of Shopper: The Science of Retailing, Doctor Herb Sorensen answers the question “What do you really do when you shop?” Dr. Sorenson stresses that retailers are “leaving” millions in sales by simply not watching and understanding the customer’s behaviors. Dr. Herb Sorensen has some important takeaways from his research…

Reflections on White Oleander: Understanding Adolescent Artistic Development Although I had seen the film, White Oleander, several times during my early adolescence, it took on a completely new meaning since beginning the study of Lifespan Development. I went into the film with the understanding that it depicted the life of a teenager, Astrid Magnussen, after admittance into foster care due to the incarceration of her mother. While bouncing from one foster situation to another, Astrid…

Teaching college students can be challenging. But for those who love what they do the challenge is what keeps us going. Every year new students come in and out of my lecture hall. Some you will never talk to, some you somehow can’t get them to stop talking, and then others leave a lasting imprint on their fellow peers, faculty and staff. Our students are relentlessly challenging what we thought we knew about a subject and class that we have been teaching for numerous years. But as a college…

the same effort into a birthday party for me. Finally, after years of begging, I got permission to have a graduation party, a huge party, not just the typical graduation open house. My graduation open house and after-party would be held at a bingo hall, a nice gigantic building. Unfortunately, it cost $1,500 to rent, so to help cover the cost, we decided to charge five dollars for a ticket to the after-party. After the plans were made, I looked forward to my day of partying. The open house was…

It manufactures markets and sells a comprehensive range of cigarettes, tobaccos, rolling papers and cigars. It achieves sales in over one hundred and thirty (130) countries; employs approximately fifteen thousand (15,000) employees; and has thirty three (32) factories worldwide. 2.1 Strategy The strategy of Imperial Tobacco is "to create sustainable shareholder value by growing our international operations, both organically and through acquisition.' (www.Imperial Tobacco.com) Since its…

This year the Annual Literacy Festival was titled Strange Bedfellows and was mainly about Politics and Literature.This title was chosen to be the theme this year because of the new upcoming president that will be elected and all of the politics that are taking place right now. All of the participants this year were chosen based off of the fact that they all connect to “poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and have attempted to make sense and art out of political actualities” (Old Dominion University…

Introduction There are many situations where maps come in handy because there are many forms of maps. There are maps that express ideas, maps that explain how to complete a task and maps that are small-scale representations of a large area or location that is difficult to navigate. This small representation is to help the user find their way around the area or location. This document proposes a reevaluation of the usefulness and accessibility of the maps that are on the University of Houston…

Diversity and Exclusion, Anti-Black Racism and the Challenges of Diversity Work presentation addressed many issues involving racism through the guest speaker of Christopher Stuart Taylor. Christopher is a diversity and inclusion coordinator at the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General along with a stake hold member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee in the city of Mississauga. Christopher has a lot of experience in dealing with issues of exclusion and racism through his line of work.…