Alonzo Martinez is an African American reporter, hired by the Boston Globe to report on the minority community of Roxbury. He believes he was hired only because he is black with an Hispanic name and not because of his talent and ability. He intends to prove himself by writing a breakout story through his visits to Roxbury but is uncomfortable being there because he grew up in a safer, rural environment. By a strange set of circumstances, Alonzo secretly films the murder of black businessman, Miles Parker, who is running to unseat Congressman Vincent Moffit. The unidentified assailant is dressed as a policeman, and civil rioting quickly ensues. The next day Moffit and his colleague, the Reverend Moses Le Treau, publicly accuse the police for the killing and the rioting continues. The Police Chief, of course, denies that any of his officers was the murderer. Not convinced it was the police, Alonzo is determined to find out who the shooter is in order to obtain the professional respect he believes he is due. Investigating the crime, Alonzo walks the tightrope between the gangs, the police, his informants, and his coworkers—all of which want a piece of Alonzo Martinez. Along the way, Alonzo runs into all kinds of characters, ranging from a savvy bartender, gang members who mark where he lives and follow him around, two dark figures associated with the Moffit campaign, a shady bar owner, a helpful police contact, a determined campaign manager, a grieving widow, a mysterious voice guiding his search, and a beautiful but distant woman who captures Alonzo's love. Find out if Alonzo Martinez solves the mystery and completes his quest for respect and love or ends up the same way Miles Parker did.
Jealousy and hate took away Joy's family and violence and blood shed is the only thing that will heal her painJoy's son Alonzo and husband Wayne fall victim to murder, because of jealousy and hate. Joy's anger rages, and her thirst for revenge fuels her. She puts faces to the voices of the kidnappers who murdered her husband and son. Joy hunts down everyone involved in the death of her husband and son and sheds their blood.A car pulled into the entrance of the alley and stopped. A tall dark silhouette got out of the car and walked towards them with a duffel bag in his hand, Joy knew it was Wayne. Wayne walked up to them. One of the masked men stopped Wayne and checked him. “Give me the money!” Brandon ordered. “Let my family go first.” Wayne replied, then opened the bag and showed the money. Brandon took off his mask and had a big smile on his face. Brandon snatched the bag out of Wayne's hand. “Go!” Wayne told Joy. Wayne already knew what was about to happen next. He knew he came to trade his life for his family's life. Joy picked up Alonzo and ran towards the car. That is when she heard two gunshots. She stopped, turned around, and saw Wayne hit the ground hard. She was about to help Wayne until she saw one of the men with his gun aimed at her. Then the gunshots started. The masked men ran towards Joy and Alonzo as their guns blazed. The sparks from the guns light up the alley. She ran quick towards the car with Alonzo in her arms, and felt the heat of the bullets that flew past her. The driver's side door was open and the car was already started. She laid Alonzo on the passenger seat that is when she saw all of the blood on his shirt. She lifted up his shirt and looked at a big hole in his chest as blood oozed out of the wound. She put the car in reverse and backed out of the alley as two bullets flew through the windshield. She whipped the car out of the alley, smelling the burning tires. A bullet flew through the driver side window and entered her jaw. The sight of her bloody son motivated her past the pain of the bullet embed in her mouth and she sped off. She never drove so fast in her life or dodged through traffic so swiftly, before she ran the car into the entrance of the University of Maryland Hospital's emergency room. She pulled Alonzo out of the car and carried him into the emergency room. Her mouth was so swollen from the bullet that she could not tell the receptionist what was wrong. She just laid Alonzo's bloody body on top of the receptionist's counter. Everybody scrambled fast and got Alonzo medical attention. She was so worried about her son that she did not care about the bullet in her mouth. She cried herself into dehydration. If it were not for the tranquilizers, she probably would have lost control of herself. She felt deflated after losing Alonzo and Wayne. Her life meant nothing, because her family had just been taken from her. Her demeanor became demented. She said nothing to the detectives. Even though she wanted justice, she never told the detectives who the kidnappers were. She told them that she was in shock and could not remember anything at the moment.
Alonzo Martinez is an African American reporter, hired by the Boston Globe to report on the minority community of Roxbury. He believes he was hired only because he is black with an Hispanic name and not because of his talent and ability. He intends to prove himself by writing a breakout story through his visits to Roxbury but is uncomfortable being there because he grew up in a safer, rural environment. By a strange set of circumstances, Alonzo secretly films the murder of black businessman, Miles Parker, who is running to unseat Congressman Vincent Moffit. The unidentified assailant is dressed as a policeman, and civil rioting quickly ensues. The next day Moffit and his colleague, the Reverend Moses Le Treau, publicly accuse the police for the killing and the rioting continues. The Police Chief, of course, denies that any of his officers was the murderer. Not convinced it was the police, Alonzo is determined to find out who the shooter is in order to obtain the professional respect he believes he is due. Investigating the crime, Alonzo walks the tightrope between the gangs, the police, his informants, and his coworkers—all of which want a piece of Alonzo Martinez. Along the way, Alonzo runs into all kinds of characters, ranging from a savvy bartender, gang members who mark where he lives and follow him around, two dark figures associated with the Moffit campaign, a shady bar owner, a helpful police contact, a determined campaign manager, a grieving widow, a mysterious voice guiding his search, and a beautiful but distant woman who captures Alonzo's love. Find out if Alonzo Martinez solves the mystery and completes his quest for respect and love or ends up the same way Miles Parker did.
This book outlines the key problems associated with the intersections of assessment, learning and teaching, and presents guiding principles to effective assessment that schools can follow in order to optimise student outcomes. Addressing challenges such as competing conceptualisations of assessment, the burden of responsibility on teachers and conflicting views of what effective assessment actually is, this book provides an in-depth analysis of these problems, how they are explored, what factors influence them and their implications for learning and teaching. It proposes practical solutions to address these challenges, supported by 29 case studies that capture examples of practice from Asia, Europe, the USA and Australia. The book concludes with the key features of the effective implementation of assessment reform, based on findings from a variety of scenarios, across different contexts and levels of education. Providing critical insights and practical guidance, this book is an essential reference for teachers, school leaders and postgraduate students of education.
State's Attorney Steven Peterson falls in love with a woman named Joy who is on a murderous rampage to get revenge. He finds himself making the biggest decision of his life to have her. Joy is a lion-heart with the mind of a genius. An advanced mind goes crazy when trapped in an 8x12 cell. Being between cement and iron bars give the mind too much time to think and plot about the return to society to get her revenge. Anger and evilness comes out when rage runs rapid in one's brain, and nothing can tame the wild beast inside of her. The car was already started. Joy put the car in reverse and backed out of the alley as two bullets flew through the windshield. She whipped the car out of the alley. A bullet flew through the driver side window and entered her jaw. The sight of her bloody son motivated her past the pain and she sped off. She never drove so fast, or dodged through traffic so swiftly before she ran the car into the entrance of Maryland General Hospital. She pulled Alonzo out of the car and carried him into the emergency room. Her mouth was so numb from the bullet that she could not tell the receptionist what was wrong. She just laid Alonzo's bloody body on top of the receptionist's counter. Everybody scrambled fast and got Alonzo some medical attention. She was so worried about her son that she did not care about the bullet in her jaw. Joy had fire in her eyes and a trail of destruction behind her and Steven could not let her go to jail, when she ended up in Steven's courtroom. CJ moved to North Carolina on the witness protection program. The state never give people protection like the FBI. CJ left town, on his own, and hid in Durham. His uncle Freddie lives there and sells a little cocaine on the side. If Freddie would have known that CJ was an informant, he would have took CJ out back and shot CJ himself. However, CJ had Freddie fooled. Sandra found CJ, because the DEA tracked him to 89 Birchchest Road, Durham, NC. The DEA watched CJ for a couple of days, in search of a new informant/fuck-boy, until Sandra called the agents off. Freddie's house is deep in the woods. Everybody has land so the houses are spread out, separated by deep woods. CJ felt that he really found a safe spot to hide. Donald Mack sends two of his best workers, K and G, to deal with CJ. A Yukon truck drives down a narrow gravel road with thick woods on both sides of the road. The truck stops in front of the mailbox with the number 89 on it. K and G get out of the truck then the truck drives off. K and G walks down the long gravel road. K carries a .12 gauge pistol-grip shotgun, with a silencer attached. G carries two Desert Eagles equipped with silencers. They take soft steps creeping through the night. After fifteen minutes of walking, K and G approach Freddie's house. They check their guns to make sure that everything is functional. All of the lights are on in the house. K peeks in the house through an open window to find their victim. CJ and Freddie sit on the couch drinking beers and watching TV. That is when K's foot kicks the front door open. K's shotgun sounds like a constant sneeze as lead shots and slugs swarm from out of the silencer. CJ and Freddie almost jump out of their skin as lead shots and slug rip the room apart. They crawl on their hands and knees praying that they can get away. Freddie crawls to the closet and grabs his rifle. G jumps over the couch and put two bullets in Freddie's head, before Freddie can load the rifle. CJ rises to his feet, ready to take off running, but K appears and put two bullets in CJ's head. CJ's head splits open, causing his brains to fly everywhere. The truck pulls up to the house. K walks to the truck and pulls out a gas can then returns to the house. K soaks everything in the living room with gasoline. As K and G walks out of the house, K throws a flaming newspaper into the living room. The house engulfs in flames.
During the turbulent 1960s, civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. devised a new and effective strategy to achieve equality for African Americans. Young blended interracial mediation with direct protest, demonstrating that these methods pursued together were the best tactics for achieving social, economic, and political change. Militant Mediator is a powerful reassessment of this key and controversial figure in the civil rights movement. It is the first biography to explore in depth the influence Young's father, a civil rights leader in Kentucky, had on his son. Dickerson traces Young's swift rise to national prominence as a leader who could bridge the concerns of deprived blacks and powerful whites and mobilize the resources of the white America to battle the poverty and discrimination at the core of racial inequality. Alone among his civil rights colleagues -- Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, James Farmer, John Lewis, and James Forman -- Young built support from black and white constituencies. As a National Urban League official in the Midwest and as a dean of the School of Social Work at Atlanta University during the 1940s and 1950s, Young developed a strategy of mediation and put it to work on a national level upon becoming the executive director of the League in 1961. Though he worked with powerful whites, Young also drew support from middle-and working-class blacks from religious, fraternal, civil rights, and educational organizations. As he navigated this middle ground, though, Young came under fire from both black nationalists and white conservatives.
Running with the Wind is a chronicle of the many and varied adventures of famed executive producer, Dennis Kane, as he circled the globe in search of exotic and informative subjects for the world of the National Geographic Society TV Specials. Kane's enviable 40 year career as a documentary film producer led him from the cradle of mankind in Tanzania to the far-flung reaches of communist Siberia.His films captured natural history and scientific discoveries in the making. Kane documented some of the world's most renowned scientists including Dr. Louis Leakey and his early anthropological finds in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, Dr. Robert Ballard's discovery of the passenger liner Titanic, and Mel Fisher's hunt for the Spanish treasure galleon, Atocha. One of his primary goals was blending natural history and action adventure in the same production using a wide and varied palette. Follow in his footsteps as he compiles a treasure trove of unique experiences on location.
Introduction to Research and Medical Literature for Health Professionals, Fourth Edition is an essential resource to help students, faculty, and practitioners understand the research process, interpret data, comprehend results, and incorporate findings into practice. From choosing a research project and developing the research process design, to systematically gathering information, analyzing, interpreting data, differentiating among conflicting results, and finally understanding the overall evaluation, Introduction to Research and Medical Literature for Health Professionals, Fourth Edition will help students and practitioners develop research skills to acquire and contribute knowledge that benefits their patients.
The significance of foundational debate in mathematics that took place in the 1920s seems to have been recognized only in circles of mathematicians and philosophers. A period in the history of mathematics when mathematics and philosophy, usually so far away from each other, seemed to meet. The foundational debate is presented with all its brilliant contributions and its shortcomings, its new ideas and its misunderstandings.
An inspiring an powerful success guide." ESSENCE Author and entrepreneur Dennis Kimbro combines bestseeling author Napolean Hilll's law of success with his own vast knowledge of business, contemporary affairs, and the vibrant culture of Black America to teach you the secrets to success used by scores of black Americans, including: Spike Lee, Jesse Jackson, Dr. Selma Burke, Oprah Winfrey, and many others. The result is inspiring, practical, clearly written, and totally workable. Use it to unlock the treasure you have always dreamed of--the treasure that at last is within your reach.
This enormous and exhaustive reference book has entries on every major and minor director of science fiction films from the inception of cinema (circa 1895) through 1998. For each director there is a complete filmography including television work, a career summary, a critical assessment, and behind-the-scenes production information. Seventy-nine directors are covered in especially lengthy entries and a short history of the science fiction film genre is also included.
How two of America's greatest authors took on the Central Railroad monopoly The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. In The Great American Railroad War, Dennis Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen. The Central Pacific Railroad accepted US Government loans; but, when the loans fell due, the last surviving founder of the railroad avoided repayment. Bierce, at the behest of his boss William Randolph Hearst, swung into action writing over sixty stinging articles that became a signal achievement in American journalism. Later, Norris focused the first volume of his trilogy, The Octopus, on the freight cars of a thinly disguised version of the Central Pacific. The Great American Railroad War is a lively chapter of US history pitting two of America's greatest writers against one of America's most powerful corporations. "Readers with interests in western American history or the origins of today’s political quagmires will find much to relish. " - Publishers Weekly
Established in 1833 as the judicial seat of Champaign County, Urbana is a city of majestic old trees, pleasant parks, and stately historic residences. Today it is home to more than 40,000 people and counts nationally known film critic Roger Ebert and several Nobel Prize laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners among its former residents. The citys urbanization began in 1854 with the arrival of the Illinois Central Railroad. In the 1850s, Abraham Lincoln was a frequent visitor as a young lawyer on the Eighth Judicial Circuit. Today the city is best known as home of the University of Illinois, a world-class educational and research institute and the states first land grant university. Originally a small agricultural town on the prairie, Urbana is proud bearer of the title Tree City USA, and in 2007, West Urbana was named one of the nations 10 Great Neighborhoods.
Featured in Wall Street Journal's 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide 2021 Marfield Prize Finalist Wallace Stegner called national parks "the best idea we ever had." As Americans celebrate the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone, the world's first national park, a question naturally arises: where did the idea for a national park originate? The answer starts with a look at pre-Yellowstone America. With nothing to put up against Europe's cultural pearls--its cathedrals, castles, and museums--Americans came to realize that their plentitude of natural wonders might compensate for the dearth of manmade attractions. That insight guided the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted as he organized his thoughts on how to manage the wilderness park centered on Yosemite Valley, a state-owned predecessor to the national park model of Yellowstone. Haunting those thoughts were the cluttered and carnival-like banks of Niagara Falls, which served as an oft-cited example of what should not happen to a spectacular natural phenomenon. Olmsted saw city parks as vital to the pursuit of happiness and wanted them to be established for all to enjoy. When he wrote down his philosophy for managing Yosemite, a new and different kind of park, one that preserves a great natural site in the wilds, he had no idea that he was creating a visionary blueprint for national parks to come. Dennis Drabelle provides a history of the national park concept, adding to our understanding of American environmental thought and linking Olmsted with three of the country's national treasures. Published in time to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone National Park on March 1, 2022, and the 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted on April 26, 2022, The Power of Scenery tells the fascinating story of how the national park movement arose, evolved, and has spread around the world.
At the outset of the Civil War, the cavalry of the Army of the Ohio (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tennessee) was a fledgling force beginning an arduous journey that would make it the best cavalry in the world. In late 1862, most of this cavalry was transferred to the Army of the Cumberland and a second cavalry force emerged in the second Army of the Ohio. Throughout the war, these regiments fought in some of the most important military operations of the war, including Camp Wildcat; Mill Springs; the siege of Corinth; raids into East Tennessee; the capture of Morgan during his Great Raid; and the campaigns of Middle Tennessee, Perryville, Knoxville, Atlanta, and Nashville. This is their complete history.
Through conversations held with fifteen of the most accomplished contemporary cinematographers, the authors explore the working world of the person who controls the visual look and style of a film. This reissue includes a new foreword by cinematographer John Bailey and a new preface by the authors, which bring this classic guide to cinematography, in print for more than twenty-five years, into the twenty-first century.
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