The officer had to purchase his own uniform. The state furnished two (2) badges, for the cap and coat; the salary was $150.00 per month. The headquarters was in the Masonic Lodge Building on 7th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee. On Monday, December 2, 1929, at 12 noon, an extraordinary session of the 66th General Assembly was called into session. Item 17 of the agenda called for: the creation of a State Highway Patrol for the purpose of better…
two strategies. This type of thinking I want to encourage in my class because it has a role in educational assessment and instruction. David Glenn Hogdon explains, “critical thinking fully employs the imagination to generate a variety of possible avenues for our thinking and our conclusions, evokes emotions held in creative tension with reason, envisages a conclusion (or conclusions) to one 's thought process and the means to reach those conclusions, and allows for creativity during the…
they were scum, to be completely exterminated, they would corrupt your children, they were in essence a “hereditary criminals”. So intense and imperative to the Nazi regime was this stage, that this negative image was broadcast through an array of avenues, schools, workplaces, films, radio, posters speeches. It was a constant onslaught of manipulation. The Nazis described Jews as Untermenschen i.e. literally sub humans. In 1943 Hitler declared "Today, international Jewry is the ferment of…
eligibility, veterans should have the option to take their earned health care funds and use them to access care at the VA or in the voluntary (civilian) health care system. Sixth, the budget should not drive VHA reform. More efficient health care for our veterans may reduce the cost of their care, but reform should not be viewed as an avenue to reduce federal spending. Seventh, addressing demographic inevitabilities. Eight, break the cycle of “reform and failure.” The CVA believes that small…
Prisons were designed to work as an avenue where criminals can carry out their rehabilitation process away from law-abiding citizens. To act as a guide in that process, wardens and guards were introduced. In theory, prisoners and guards should have no conflict. However, each of their respective work descriptions are encumbered by certain stereotypical aspects that portray them as being either inherently good or bad. In 1971, Stanford University created a simulation of prison life. The experiment…
Rosa Louise McCauley is a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white passenger, this action spurred the Montgomery boycott and multiple other efforts to end segregation. The woman was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. As a child, her early years brought her early experiences with racial discrimination and activism, these of which most likely influenced her decision to refuse to give up her seat. As family problems arose and her parents then…
“Ewwww… she looks gross. So not natural.” “Her feet are only 3 inches long! How can she walk?” “Her head is way too big for her neck. She looks freaky.” These and many other comments could be heard as students put the finishing touches on their life-sized Barbie. As part of a Project-Based Social Justice Mathematics (PB-SJM) pedagogy, students investigated body image as portrayed by childhood toys by scaling Barbie dolls to their height (Mukhopadhyay, 2014). Students used the concept of…
us some defining features of what man is. The Bibles role is to show man away from it’s sinful ways and lead man on a different path, the right path. The Bible starts with the Old Testiment with the creation of man. The creation of man was on the sixth day of creation and God made man with the soil of the ground, and his name was Adam. In Genesis chapter 1, it says that God produced man as in his image, which was perfect. After God Produced Adam from the…
Reading can be the portal for new and enlightening experiences. Due to an abundance of material at our fingertips, how do we make a wise choice? Does grouping by age make the library a more user friendly place? An age group stands to be defined as a number of people that happen to be the same age. The notion of an age group assists librarians around the world by lending them a hand in identifying books or movies that are appropriate for a certain age group. Common Sense Media is a website…
percent negative ads. This illustrates something the television is doing to our culture that is not easily seen. Our culture is becoming more cut off from each other. In other words our culture is becoming more individualistic. The television is an avenue to attack others about something that bothers the individual. No individual is physically hurt in the attack, right? The attacks are to the point where the amount of negativity poisons the individuals doing the attacking and the underlying…