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This makes Randolph-Macon a great college to go to in order to have exceptional internship opportunities. The town surrounding the college also has locally owned businesses as well as arts fairs and bike routes (“Academics,” n.d.). The University of Delaware is a public…

would make a great BEAR. Over the past years I have had to the honor to work with Macon Area of Habitat for Humanity and in the process I’ve worked with Mercer students on a Lynmore Blight Survey and a Canine census. I love to volunteer and go the extra mile to get a step closer to my dreams and goals. I’ve organized and ran food drives with an organization called “Feeding Macon”; in which I founded and partnered with Macon Area Habitat for Humanity. I enjoy reading but mostly science books like…

Uncle Dave Macon Career In 1920, at the age of fifty, Uncle Dave chose to close the Macon Midway Mule and Wagon Transportation Company because motorized vehicles made wagons obsolete (Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy 12-14). The next year, Uncle Dave played for a fundraiser in Morrison, which not only reached its goal, but had sufficient funds to also result in him being paid (A Photo Tribute 11), helping to confirm his hopes to make a living with his music. “For the next two years, Dave Macon…

son of Pamela Sherman and Leroy Sherman and the brother to Chelsea Sherman. I was in Macon, Georgia at The Medical Center of Central Georgia at 4:20am on December 20, 1996. I was also grow up in Macon, Georgia and I attend elementary school at Rosa Taylor elementary school from Kindergarten to fifth grade. At Rosa Taylor is where I learned to play chess and after a couple of year I was good enough to try out for Macon chess club. The first two times I tried out I didn’t make the team because I…

your age but there has always been this idea that if someone is a certain age they should act their age. This idea that as you grow older you become mature. In the novel Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, Macon Dead III, is an example of this idea that some people have not always being true. Macon Dead III personally and socially “came of age” as he finds his way through different life experiences. The novel begins with the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Agent, Robert Smith, who promises to…

Inequality and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study In today’s world, it is often said that the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. Inequality is apparent in economic, social, and political realms. Classifications according to gender, race, and religion among many other factors continue to subject people to certain types of treatment. Due to the idea of America as a melting pot that allows people from many various backgrounds to succeed, the struggles placed by the system of inequality on…

greed and misgony. Any knowledge of family history is passed on through the family values; “Macon Dead’s ability to dominate an impoverished black community in economic terms is mirrored in his overwhelming patriarchial authority within his household”(Murray, 128”). After Ruth tells a story of her embarrassing behaior at a wedding, Macon slaps her. Milkman first defends his mother until later when Macon discloses the story of the estranged relationship Ruth had with her father. Milkman then…

What happens to a dream deferred? This is the question that Langston Hughes posed in his widely-praised poem entitled “Harlem.” As a whole, Hughes’ poem begs the question of what happens to the American Dream when it is postponed. He offers many outcomes of a dream deferred as it can become irrelevant, all-consuming, bittersweet, burdensome, or even cause for the dreamer to explode. This poem has been the source of much attention and credited as the source of inspiration for Lorraine Hansberry’s…

The video, The Deadly Deception, is a well-produced documentary on unethical behavior in government sponsored scientific research. The piece chronicles the forty year study of untreated syphilis in approximately 400 African-American men from Macon County, Alabama which began in 1932. The utilization of interviews with two survivors of the experiment, Herman Shaw and Charles Pollard, and experts in the fields of research, medicine, and civil rights, along with original film taken during the…

The video, The Deadly Deception, is an all around made story on degenerate conduct in government maintained steady examination. The piece records the forty year examination of untreated syphilis in around 400 African-American men from Macon County, Alabama which started in 1932. The use of get-togethers with two survivors of the examination, Herman Shaw and Charles Pollard, and bosses in the fields of examination, game plan, and social flexibilities, near to extraordinary film taken amidst the…