Prince George's County, Maryland

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 director, Judith Freidenberg. These same analyses led to my honors thesis, “Cultural Perceptions of the Maryland DREAM Act in Prince George’s County”, in which I drew on the concept of enculturation, and theories from human development to identify social factors and dimensions of identity that influenced perceptions of the Maryland DREAM Act on residents of Prince George’s county. Dr. Freidenberg also acted as my advisor and committee chair in this honors program. Through this program I assembled a committee, defended a thesis proposal, conducted interviews and archival analysis, and defended my thesis. I presented preliminary results at Society for Applied Anthropology, “Enculturation of Perceptions of the…

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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…

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…

District of Columbia. It is a diverse group of youth from various social, racial, and economic backgrounds, united to improve the quality of life for DC youth” (District of Columbia, 2016). More specific information on the 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…

As fair as the fabulous asphodels; And flow 'rets which, drooping as day drooped too, Fell into pavilions, white, purple, and blue, To roof the glow-worm from the evening dew. – From The Sensitive Plant by Percy Shelly, March 1820 The Township of Asphodel, named by the Deputy Land Surveyor Richard Birdsall in 1820 from the recently penned poem of Shelly, was full of Irish Immigrants, the so called Peter Robinson Settlers. Like the Harrisons some had been bankrupt and others became unemployed or…

Just a few lots to the west of the two Jennings’ farm was the Pelham branch of the Quaker’s the oldest such branch in Canada. The Friends, as they call their members settled in the Niagara region in 1786 many from New Jersey in Sussex County, the same county in which Hannah was born. As Quaker’s they disavowed anything to do with violence and hence took no active part in the Revolutionary War. This stance of neutrality had members suffer double taxation and the loss of some civil rights – and…

Partnership between the Prince George’s County Health Department and CVS on Smoking The Prince George’s health department in a bid to reduce the rate at which people die from tobacco-related diseases got into a partnership with CVS to further enlarge what has been in place in the community. This type of partnership can be classified under strategic orientation, with a focus on stakeholder partnership and also to a certain extent, resource dependency partnership. The Prince George’s health…