Prince County

ideas, and their own way of voicing their thoughts. The poets venture into the truth, speaking on facts, and keeping their own works pure and unbridled. The poets introduce Coates to the Prince George’s County police, they refer to the area as PG County. To them PG County policeman are not men and women of justice, they were gangsters and gunmen just disguised in a uniform; the uniform had given them all the power to insight their own agenda on the population (Coates, 53). Coates then begins talking about the women that started to flow in and out of his life, all leaving a mark on Coates, a lasting impression. With his first love he reminisces on his ignorance, “What I remember is my ignorance. I remember watching her with her hands and feeling uncivilized with my fork. I remember wondering why she wore so many scares. I remember her going to India for spring break and returning with a bindi on her head and photos her smiling Indian cousins. I told her ‘Nigga, you black,’ because that’s all I had back then.” (Coates, 57-58). This memory comes to the front, it is the idea that black is not the defining label. Just because she was black does not mean she did not have other cultures. He speaks about other women that wander in and out of his life, and of a man named Prince Jones. Coates speaks about Prince Jones in an admiring fashion, describing the features and actions of him in a way that made him live up to his namesake (Coates 64). His last love at Howard is his son’s…

While studying Anthropology at University of Maryland, College Park, I worked with the Anthropology of the Immigrant Life Course Program. I learned essential skills in qualitative analysis, such as interviewing, case studies, and participant-observation. I transcribed, coded and analyzed interviews that I helped conduct. These efforts contributed to the publication of Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States: The View from Prince George 's County, Maryland by the program’s…

Kristen Green’s book Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County tells the story of the white resistance in Prince Edward County to the 1964 landmark Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruling that declared segregation in schools unconstitutional. The author, Kristen Green, is a white woman who grew up in Prince Edward County and was not aware of her hometown’s shameful past or her family’s involvement. Prince Edward County demographically was split almost equally with…

These three boys beat the odds! The Authors Drs. George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt, and Sampson Davis with Sharon M. Draper wrote the memoir called We Beat The Streets. George, Rameck, and Sampson did things that their surroundings weren’t “capable” of doing or didn’t have the willingness to do it. They all became doctors. They faced many challenges and heard many sides and thoughts on life and they put it together to have their own lives. This memoir was created to show that any black or African…

Howard County to evaluate the overall ecological status of the region. Howard County has a variety of…

A teenager in this society sees the hurt and drama that goes on every day in this world. There is a lot of tension between Blacks and Whites as we know of today. Before in the olden days, blacks had less rights than whites yes, but they were still devoted to their culture and traditions. Today, people are stereotyped to African Americans. Bill Cosby, a comedian, writer and producer argues how african americans today are not how they were when he was a little kid. His purpose is to show examples…

because I had no clue what he was talking about especially being that this isn’t my history. Reading the stories of those people who were denied an education for five years was heartbreaking, not that education is cheap or anything but in this day and time everybody has access to it but not many actually want to pursue it. The author really brought these people's stories to life. Following the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, America’s public schools were…

model used by the District of Columbia Youth Advisory Council can be found at http://dcyac.dc.gov/page/history. • The Maryland Youth Advisory Council was established “in order to ensure that Maryland youth are given the opportunity to provide feedback and recommendations regarding public policies and programs that affect their future and to take a leadership role in creating meaningful council” (State of Maryland, 2016). More specific information on the model used by the Maryland Youth Advisory…

City-states of the ancient world were one of the first political entities with democratic governance. Part of the democratic process is authorizing individuals to make decisions, holding these individuals accountable, and for these individual to be responsive to the needs of the community (Pitkin, 1957). Today, cities have low levels of democratic participation that hold elected officials accountable and authorize them to have the power to make a decision. At the same time, a majority of the…

the User-Friendly Budget may not create further citizen engagement based upon the research. Research has shown that by studying the budget process in all 50 states, we ended up with a wide variety of requirements. The only similarity that appears through this study was that state governments are primarily only concerned with the first step of informing the public. There is no requirement or mandate beyond this to narrow the gap between government's creation of the budget document and citizen…