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the United States, but does it connect to sentencing procedures? An excellent example is in the Woodson v. North Carolina case finding James Tyrone Woodson guilty, but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the North Carolina ruling as automatic death sentences were unconstitutional and juries have the right to decide the fate of the defendant record and crime (Larkin, 2016). The significance of the Woodson case is that he was a black man and as the U.S Supreme Court noted it is all about the crime committed

Paulo Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Carter G. Woodson’s The Mis-Education of the Negro, and Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow all have arguments that coincide with one another and are very similar. They focus on oppression and how the oppressed must contribute to the change that must happen in order for them to evolve from being oppressed, the contribution of African Americans in changing the way that society views their cultural roles in the past, as well as the rebirth of the caste-like

Before Reading My first impression of “Brown Girl Dreaming” was that it was going to be a story about a girl that always seems to be dreaming. The silhouette on the cover made me question if the girl was going to be alive at all, or die somewhere along the way. Within the first few pages there of this novel there is a rather extensive family tree. One of the first indications that this book took place a few decades ago was the size of the families. An average sized family, now a days is about 2-3

the triumph of African Americans. This whole month grew from “Negro History Week” which was created by Carter G. Woodson and other eminent African Americans in 1926. However, the United States only started to actually acknowledge Black History in 1976 by President Gerald Ford. 26 years after Carter G. Woodson’s death, “Negro History Week” turned in “Black History Month”. Carter G. Woodson started Negro History Week when he noticed that black history was overlooked by historians and the public. As a

them were written by Jacqueline Woodson. I enjoyed the challenge of finding books on the various types of families. After researching, I did not find books for living with a mother and father. It seems like that is the status quo so it is not necessary to present it as a family type. Also, I did not find a book about a family with a mother and grandmother. I am not sure that all of my choices regarding the other family types are authentic. The books by Jacqueline Woodson are authentic and I appreciate

Every day there are new advancements in three-dimensional printing technology. Development started in the mid-seventies but was abandoned because many scientists and engineers thought three-dimensional printing was not a good investment. Since scientists and researchers have begun exploring this technology again, three-dimensional printing has varied in applications from prostheses to food and is used in the construction of some buildings. Versions of the printer have even been made now so anyone

Judge, 2014, p. 246). There is a clear understanding of how to perform the required duties. The final stage of adjourning focuses on temporary teams where they are completing their tasks, celebrating their success and disbanding Examining the Woodson Foundation, this team is at the forming stage of group development as it is establishing its purpose, goals, roles and responsibilities, and creating process. If the team were familiar with Tuckman’s Model, the process would have been efficient and

News, MSNBC, NBC and CNN as a Political Commentator. I was very lucky to listen to her speech last Wednesday as she lectured NCCU students about how Black History Month came about. Symone explained that it was all thanks to a man named Dr. Carter G Woodson. He was the one an American historian, author, journalist. He was one of the first scholars to study African-American history and because of this he felt that African-Americans were not commemorating Black history to their full potential. He wanted

Growing up I was infatuated with art, I love the creativity that a person could bring to any piece of work. While looking through many paintings, I came across one that caught not only my eye, but many others. The name of this Painting is Boy with a Pipe, created by one of the greatest artist in the world, Pablo Picasso. This representational painting was created in the year of 1905 when Picasso was 24 years old (Daluwatta). This Painting is representational because, the oil that is on the canvas

In the article, Education and Schooling: You Can Have One Without the Other, Mwalimu J. Shujaa of the State University of New York discusses the importance of learning that there is a difference between schooling and education. Can education exist without schooling or vice versa? Shujaa’s article gives an insight into the conjunction of schooling and education and how they impact the culture of African Americans. Shujaa introduces his article with reference to African-American folk language stating