Valdosta, Georgia

New Year’s Goals This is a start of a new beginning, that’s what I think of when New Year’s comes around. I believe that when the New Year’s comes, it gives me and others around me new possibilities that they could not or failed to achieve in previous years. I take advantage of this opportunity not to change who I am, but to improve in area’s that could possibly ruin my life in the future. January is just as a chapter in a new book, and that is where the journey begins. I primarily want to focus…

camera and also to store all of the footage from the cameras. An Atlanta, Georgia police agency is expected to spend about 2 million dollars to equip about 1500 police officers with a camera. And also with cameras come storage for all the footage to be stored from police on a everyday basis. Storage is estimated to be around 300,000 dollars a year. But while costs rise to give a cameras to every uniformed officer Valdosta Police Chief Brian Childress, who started providing his officers with…

The struggle of African Americans in America did not begin in the twenty-first century. It started long before the Mayflower ever landed at Plymouth Rock. A struggle can resemble a mountain which appears to be difficult to climb, but with time and perseverance, be that as it may, the outlandish possibility can turn into a sensible undertaking. African American history has its origins in West Africa and travels through a transatlantic journey to America. After arriving in a new land, the men,…

But before I do I think it is funny how best friends work. Out of all the people, you could be best friend you choose that one and you 're like this one is cooler than the rest. My first true best friend was a boy named Clint back in Ellaville Georgia. We moved there from Americus and we bought his parents house. It 's like all best friends have something that they both love to do. Clint and my addictive hobby was star wars. Yes, we were fifth-grade nerds, but we were highly skilled with are…

Globalization has changed the face of the world as we know it; not simply technologically or economically, but socially and politically. Contact with people around the world has brought new clothing, languages, and people across the globe. Along with these people come new cultures and norms; one of the most important of these being food. Food plays such a large part in a person’s identity and how other people perceive them. While slurping and burping during a meal shows signs of enjoyment for…

With my return to the Peach State, Georgia, returned all of my concerns about my race. Being an only child had deleterious effect on me while I lived in Nashville. I was so keenly aware of my race again that it started to affect my socializing. All of my friends in High School were White after I returned. They were the only ones that I could get along with socially, but they noticed that I did not behave like other Black people. One of my friends, Derek, told me that he liked hanging around me…