Tennessee State University

Braid College is stressful. I’m in my sophomore year. I actually didn’t want to go to college before I started. And, I still don’t like going. To me, most of my classes are boring and uninteresting. I get so bored learning about religion and what makes a cell a cell in Biology 120. I can still hear the clock ticking on the blue wall as the hours go by slowly. And the Professor’s monotone voice as I stare blankly at my computer screen. These classes aren’t going to help me with a degree in…

The day has come to discuss what is the most free civic stance. At the start of this class I would not be able to answer this however. For the first essay I had to write for this class I used the quiz website to find my civic stance, it was Libertarianism. However as the class has gone by my opinion on what is a more free stance has shifted towards Anarchy. Although there are many stances out there, compared to all, I feel as though Anarchy lines up with what I can classify as genuine freedom…

Ways to Treat Neglect A Controlled Evaluation of Family Behavior Therapy in Concurrent Child Neglect and Drug Abuse is a study where they selected 72 mothers who had been reported for child neglect and drug abuse by the Department of Family Services (Donohue, Azrin, Bradshaw, Van Hasselt, Cross, Urgelles, & ... Allen, (2014). Family Behavior Therapy (FBT) uses a family support system and therapy assignments as its foundation. The belief behind this therapy is that the parent’s drug abuse is the…

Military, a person who is serving for their country in some way, is a career I wish to pursue because, Military will pay for my college so I will be getting a good education, I will get to travel places I have never been to, and I will obtain a good salary. I have family members that are serving for our country. When one of my family comes home, he knows that I have been interested in going into the service since he started coming home and talking about it. In the military I want to be a…

Martin Luther King Jr. was a famous and respectable man when he was alive. He was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He gave many sermons and speeches in his day. On one very important day, 4 February 1968, he gave a sermon called “The Drum Major Instinct;” it was based off an adaptation of J. Wallace Hamilton’s “Drum-Major Instinct.” In King’s sermon, he explains what the drum major instinct is and why you need to be cautious with it. King believed that you shouldn’t use…

The author’s purpose in A Being So Gentle is to provide and accurate and true account of Rachel and Andrews love story. Patricia Brady wanted to allow the reader to understand all the events and different situations within the romance of Rachel and Andrew Jackson. The author, Patricia Brady, had complete ability to write this book because she is long working historian and worked many years to develop the correct and reliable information. A Being So Gentle is a wonderfully written book that has…

Society is Nurturing In society today, everyone is taught to be yourself and others should not judge one another. This is true throughout the country, people will be who they are, but the problem is that people are still judging others and that is a natural occurrence. Everybody just wants to be themselves and that’s who they are going to be. This is a case of nurturing because everybody is born and the way they are raised and developed impacts their future. This action starts at a young age…

by James Earl Ray supposedly. James Earl Ray was a petty thief that had an arrest record stemming from 1949 until 1968. James Earl Ray was sentenced to the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1960 to serve a twenty year sentence. He had a rap sheet for petty crimes but was he capable of murdering someone? James escaped from the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1967 and was on the loose for over eleven months. The story was told that James Earl Ray traveled to Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 and checked…

free. How does that make you feel? Happy right? Essentially people think about different objects or activities that make each of them happy. "The ‘‘pursuit of happiness’’ is an American cultural obsession..."(Sheldon & Lyubomirsky ) .Being happy is a state that everyone of us want to be in but no one really knows what makes people genuinely happy. I like to believe that to be truly happy being around family and friends, living with a set of mind to achieve goals experiencing personal freedom and…

The Life of Dorothy Lavinia Brown Dorothy Lavinia Brown was a woman with many names. She was an educator towards the youth, a legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives, a community leader, and an inspiration towards children and adults in all situations. I personally picked Brown because of her accomplishments towards her dream career. (http://www.blackpast.org/aah/brown-dorothy-lavinia-1919-2004) Brown was born on January 7, 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After a couple of…