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Married lawyer Tonya Linette Lewis in 1993 and has one son, Satchel. He started up his own production company 40 Acres and a Mule and directed first feature, She's Gotta Have It, 1986; also directs music videos and commercials for Nike/Air Jordan. Trustee of Morehouse College, 1992. Multitude of awards include: Student Directors Academy Award, for Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, 1980; U.S. Independent Spirit Award for First Film, New Generation Award, Los Angeles Film Critics…

Introduction: Growing up is not easy and sometimes young-adults feel alienated from their peers. Many authors empathize with youngsters by writing books that help them face their pressures and embrace their differences. Young-adult author Judy Blume, tries to connect with her audiences real life struggles in the book Blubber however, some critics thought her use of profanity might set bad examples for her readers. • Childhood: Judy Sussman (Blume) was born on February 12th,1938 in Elizabeth, New…

Maya Lin is an American designer, artist, and architect, most known for her historic memorials. One of her goals in design is to focus on elements and demonstrate naturally occurring phenomena’s in nature which can even be seen right here in Grand Rapids at Rosa Park Circle. Using water as her inspiration for the park, she demonstrates each form that it takes right here in Michigan. Her designs have an incredible ability to encourage people to gather together in open spaces while teaching them…

The naming of William, Zachariah 's first son is how Zachariah would honour the man who had been good to him as a slave and to the man who had set him free. Zachariah had only the best of intents and hopes in giving William the middle name Ernest. He would name the rest of his sons after himself (as a second name only as was the Watts tradition), Annabella 's father, her grandfather and John Patterson but most importantly after all (with one exception) of William Watts brothers, Zachariah 's…

The first half of the last decade of the century proceeded as the previous decade i.e. regular hard farm work, children at school, women providing the warmth of a home. Zachariah was still winning in the fall fair for colts and geldings, shearing rams and of course the best fat sheep. Occasionally, he would get lucky with his Holstein bull, a ram or sow and come in first or second. His potatoes usually ran into competition but he sometimes would still win and lucked out once winning the Hubbard…

The OPA 90 established citizens’ advisory councils to promote policy changes in relation to tankers, and established The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council in order to be a guide in the spending of a $900 million fine judged on Exxon. The Alaskan state legislature passed a law that requires captains of oil tankers to take a breathalyzer test within the hour prior to them boarding the tanker…

In a nationwide poll conducted by CNN and the Kaiser Family Foundation nearly half of Americans believe that racism is a huge problem in today’s society.(Shoichet, E. Catherine). Racial discrimination refers to the practice of treating people differently because of their ethnicity or skin color. Racism is a particular type of oppression that stems from the discrimination against an individual based on the concept that inherited characteristics, like darker skin, make them beneath their…

Cigar City Brewing’s Hunahpu’s Day is a craft beer festival held on the 2nd Saturday of March and built around the once a year release of Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout. The beer itself has an 11% abv (alcohol by volume) and is aged on cacao nibs, Madagascar vanilla beans, ancho chiles, pasilla chiles, and cinnamon while enjoying a top rating of 100 on both beeradvocate.com and ratebeer.com. Cigar City upped their game this year allowing for three different ticket options. There was the choice of a…

The Non-Voluntary Active Euthanasia “Is non-voluntary euthanasia morally permissible for any reason”? “Non-Voluntary Active Euthanasia” is a controversial subject (Jotkowitz, Glick, & Gesundheit, 2008). Arguments about euthanasia considerably hinge on the “rights to die” or “right to life.” The “right to life” is an extensively accepted basic moral value and human right founded on the fact that individuals want to live. But, the question arises what should be done to people who are seriously…

and asks readers to make five basic decisions so investors can have a more effective investment strategy. 3. A “unit investment trust” is a type of investment company. UITs do not have a board of directors and are normally minimally supervised by a trustee. UITs use the IPO process when shares are initially issued. Some characteristics of UITs are they typically issue redeemable securities, they have a termination date, and they do not actively trade its investment portfolio. 4. A value mutual…