Nashville

showing potential, she taught herself to read at the young age of two, and even practiced public speaking at the age of five in front of her family. A turning point showed itself at age twelve… Oprah was sent to Nashville, where she began to feel safe and at home. As she resided in Nashville Oprah began to speak in-front of actual crowds at different churches, and public gatherings, she was…

“From country to pop” One of my favorite artist, Taylor Swift, has paved the way from original country music to country with a touch of pop. This young artist has achieved so much in her years as an artist, than some can’t even dream about accomplishing. I like Taylor Swift because even though she is known for writing break up songs and making them into top chart records, her many awards show how truly talented she is. I first discovered her in the radio back in 2008 when I heard “Our…

Congressman John Lewis dedicated his life to fighting racial injustice. He is a well known civil rights icon and his decided to share his story through a graphic novel titled March. This novel is about John Lewis' life and the perils he faced during the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins. This book is a comic that allows you to place yourself within this Southern setting and visualize the events that takes place. March opens on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama during the first march…

It was a year ago today that my husband, Fred, decided that we should leave for Oregon. But I am not ready to leave until it is Julia's first birthday. Julia is our baby girl that died of malaria many months ago and I don't want to leave her quite yet. I feel that is right to leave this place full of diseases that had already done enough damage. After all I don't want Fred or any of our three kids, Jeremiah, Caroline, and Benjamin getting this. I feel so guilty leaving Julia but we need to at…

Pearl-Cohn Magnet High School ranked the lowest of the Metro Nashville Schools in average ACT scores, but ranked the highest for percentage of students that need free and reduced priced lunches (Obrahta and Grey). On the other hand, Hume-Fogg ranked the highest in average ACT scores, but the lowest in free and reduced…

bought my first pair of hearing aids in 2007 from a Starkey dealer in Nashville, TN. A few years later, my wife and I relocated to Raleigh to retire. Soon after, I wasn’t hearing as well as I thought I should, so my physician referred me to Now Hear This®. He had heard they had specialized equipment that could readjust existing hearing aids. Unfortunately, when I went to Now Hear This® in April…

The New Interpreter’s Bible: The First Letter to the Thessalonians. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2000. Footnote: Abraham Smith, The New Interpreter’s Bible: The First Letter to the Thessalonians (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2000), 671-737. Bibliography: Bruce, F. F. World Biblical Commentary: 1 and 2 Thessalonians. Colombia: Nelson Reference & Electronic, 1982. Footnote: F. F. Bruce, World…

Today marked the last meeting before its wheels up for Nashville. We all convened at a West Contra Costa Unified School District Board meeting to thank the Board members for their support of the ILC and let them know just how excited we are. The meeting also gave us an opportunity to stand up before our community and represent not only ourselves but the Ivy League Connection as a whole. In the weeks leading up to the meeting, Don let us know that one representative from each cohort would be…

Moreover, the carpetbaggers, together with the Scalawags and the society of freedmen, which collectively formed the republican union that came to rule over the south, cut them from some of their main source of wealth, such as the selling of cash crops like cotton. This made the southerners poor and incapable of effectively running their KKK operations. Scalawags, on the other hand were native southerners, but who were also greedy for power and wealth. When things were bad in the south,…

In Nashville alone, 26,236 domestic violence incidents were recorded in 2013, amounting to one every twenty minutes and one every nine seconds. In one year, this comes out to ten million men and women. One in seven women and one in eighteen men have been1 stalked…