Miles Davis

In the United States for every car there are 1.3 people.(Tencer 1) Just a fraction of those cars are electric and don’t pollute the air like gas cars do. Tesla, How will electric cars revolutionize the transportation industry. Tesla Motors first started in June of 2003. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning were the ones who started the business and played a big role in the company before Elon Musk stepped in. They financed the company until the Series A round of Funding and soon after Elon…

Why I want to become a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity Incorporated Hello brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity Inc. I am Justin Davis, a student at Miles College and a native from Birmingham, Al. From the beginning of my college tenure I didn't know nothing about Alpha until I enrolled in college. I was interested since freshmen year for the simple fact the men of Alpha Phi Alpha carried themselves differently from any other greek organizations. Also they were one of the only…

Dear, Principle Davis I would like to bring to your attention the 8th-grade field trip to Lava beds national monument. The monument is on the California and Oregon state border. There are about seven hundred caves in the monument. There are a couple safety concerns that you should be aware of. There are many flat-footed caves, but some raged caves that could cause some problems. Most of the caves are flat with high roofs. It's a historical and geographical landmark. Although there are some…

In “Waiting for Superman” by Davis Guggenheim was very astonished to see how good teacher and bad teacher has a tremendous impact on student’s life and their education. This film was well made and charismatic where I learned a lot of new things. One of the things I learned from this film is how parents were always there to help and encourage their kids not to give up even though they have to face some obstacles and work hard to have the bright future. Therefore, parents were motivated that they…

Underground Railroad with Harriet, preferring to stay in Maryland with a new wife.they later divorced and Harriet did indeed leave without john going. In 1869, Harriet married a Civil War veteran named Nelson Davis. In 1874, the couple adopted a baby girl named…

Brendan Schiltz 24 February 2015 Professor Sweetin MUS-109 Home Assignment 1 African American work songs were originally developed during slavery, between the 1700’s and 1900's. Because they were part of a culture where they couldn’t write, they decided to record the songs orally when the era of slavery came to an end after 1865. Many of their origins in African song traditions may have been sung to remind the Africans of home, while others were forced to sing these songs by their owners to…

The term white collar came about from Edwin Sutherland and has risen in notoriety recently. White collar crime has been more spotlighted in the last decade due to the magnitude of money that was stolen from countless innocent people. When the general public thinks about white collar crimes like Ponzi schemes, most of them bring up Bernie Madoff. Madoff was able to steal $50 billion from a myriad of individuals. Madoff is not the only criminal who preys on people and their trust. Allen…

country. Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America from 1861-1865. The Confederate Congress elected Davis as the president of the Confederate States but “he did not seek that position (Rees 37). He wanted to expand slavery throughout the nation. Davis did not want the South to secede, but he was loyal to his home state of Mississippi. After the Civil War, Davis was put in prison for two years for treason against his country. Even though Lincoln and Davis were on…

the right to protect themselves from bodily harm, without any form of repercussion. Kaduce and Davis explained the difference between the traditional law and the Stand Your Ground law. “The common law approach had erected an expectation that a party to a threatening interaction occurring outside the home (or castle) leave or retreat from the situation when it was reasonable to do so.” (Kaduce and Davis, 2013) They also included the Florida law, “A person who is not engaged in an unlawful…

Music has truly evolved as the times have changed. Not just in the music itself, but the way it is performed and whom it is performed by. Jazz specifically has changed quite a lot throughout the years. Jazz has spread in popularity throughout the world through many famous musicians, through this diffusion of a popular culture, new branches of jazz were born, and it is the result of a mixture of african slave music that originated from western Africa, and American and European classical music.…