University of North Carolina at Greensboro

or no-exercise. The participants included 48 young adults recruited from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro campus. There were 15 men and 33 women with a mean age of 22.02 years. They were also relatively ethically diverse. The exercise consisted of 30 minutes on a cycle ergometer, which included 20 minutes at moderate intensity. To assess long-term memory, the researchers used the standard New York University Paragraphs for immediate and delayed recall, which is a subtest of the Guild…

other groups to confront segregation with “sit-in” at lunch counters, which later expanded to more than 60 lunch counters. Two of NAACP former officers, Ezell Blair and Joseph McNeill, were part of the four black students who sat at lunch counter in Greensboro. Through NAACP involvement, the sit-in movement spread all over the south. However, the NAACP faced many restrictions that prevented them from working in the South. But this restrictions were the ones who gave path to Southern Christian…

The poem “My ex-husband” is written by Gabriel Spera, who was born in Staten Island, and raised in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. Spera also earned a BA in English from Cornell University, as well as a MFA in poetry from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. “My ex-husband” is about an ex-wife talking about her now, ex-husband and their divorce, which was caused by an affair to her suggested new lover. This poem happens to be a re-vision of the original poem “My Last Duchess” by Robert…

effective resource for activism? In the article, Gladwell starts off by telling the story about four friends. Their names were David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, and Joseph McNeil. The four friends were freshmen of North Carolina A&T a black college located in Greensboro. February 1, 1960 at approximately 4:30pm the four college students went to lunch at Woolworths. Woolworth was located in…

in his life. Ayers first noticed this when he attended a Spanish trip for the first time with his community college class. Ayer had soon graduated and taught at community colleges for quite a while and is currently teaching at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He believed community college was an outreach to everyone to become successful and succeed in which ever they desired but he did not understand why many people did not take access to such a great opportunity. Over the past…

entered graduate school at the University of Iowa that she began to learn how to sign. Fernandes has overcome a lot of adversity in her professional life. Surprisingly enough, most of this animosity came from her peers within the Deaf community. Fernandes graduated from Trinity College with her Bachelor of Arts degree in French and comparative literature. She began to form quite the impressive resume after college. For her graduate schooling, she attended the University of Iowa, where she…

Leadership Conference, made up of African-American clergy, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, composed of younger activists, sought to reform through peaceful confrontation. Attempting to gain media attention, sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina, where blacks were refused service at a departmental store lunch counter, led to the eventual desegregation of selected stores. “Freedom Riders”, another informal organization formed to combat racial marginalization, banded African…

statement which is to “accelerate certain industry technology-based economic development through innovation, commercialization, education, and business growth”. Founded in 1984 by the general assembly of the state of North Carolina, the Center works to bring economic growth to North Carolina in a certain business…

full time. He moved to Atlanta to direct the activities of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. | 1960 | Becomes co-pastor with his father at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. Lunch counter sit-ins began in Greensboro, North Carolina. In Atlanta, King is arrested during a sit-in waiting to be served at a restaurant. He is sentenced to four months in jail, but after intervention by John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, he is…

General of United States. She was born May 21, 1959 in Greensboro to the parentage of Lorine and Lorenzo Lynch Sr. Her mother was a school librarian and her father was a Baptist pastor. Her father often shared stories of how her grandfather helped African Americans escape capture during the Jim Crow era. Lynch’s family was very much involved in the Civil Rights Movement. Hearing these stories and attending court procedures in Durham, North Carolina with her father sparked Lynch’s interest in law…