The Endangered

This writing project is a culmination of essays based on my personal experiences as an educator, and an environmentalist. The work illustrates a mindset of abuse and neglect that harms nature, and mistreats children. It offers hope through those who will nurture and not turn their back on the problems of society. The endangered list no longer singles out animals in the wild. It now includes what is left of the open land, the healthy waterways, and many of the kids I teach. St. Francis of Assisi said, Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it If you have men who will exclude any of God\u27s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. Recognizing the commonality between how nature and children are treated becomes necessary to instill change. When society is allowed an open season on wildlife and the natural settings, it ultimately seeks the children for its next victims. Signs of improvement are showing up all around us. Acknowledging what works is a necessity in the process of changing things. As a teacher and an environmentalist, I am concerned with the kind of mindset that has evolved in society, where nature and children have become equally expendable. Wealth and status seem to be more important than preservation, and individualism became a higher priority than making sure our kids are protected. I write to connect the problems that come with overlooking any forms of life that are being mistreated. There is a movement for positive change, and it offers the hope I still have for the future. If society is unwilling to get on board, it will endanger us all

Review of \u3cem\u3eFaces of Poverty: Portraits of Women and Children on Welfare.\u3c/em\u3e Jill Duerr Berrick. Reviewed by Tracey Mabrey, Western Michigan University.

Jill Duerr Berrick, Face of Poverty: Portraits of Women and Children on Welfare. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. $25.00 hardcover

Technical Bulletins: Public Hearing and Reporting Regulations for Revenue Sharing

This Technical Bulletin provides a list of the public participation notices and hearings which were required to be held for the 1981-82 budget process, as well as a list of key dates indicating time of submission of entitlement check and time of submission of the Statement of Assurances and Data Improvement (per capita income, population, adjusted taxes) for Entitlement Period 13

Review of \u3cem\u3eBlack Working Wives: Pioneers of the American Family Revolution.\u3c/em\u3e Bart Landry. Review by Tracey Mabrey

Bart Landry, Black Working Wives: Pioneers of the American Family Revolution. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000

From single mom to supermom : a transformative journey to heroine.

Research tells us that poverty rates are higher for female-headed households compared to other household makeups. Furthermore, women with children are more likely to live in extreme poverty, and over half of all poor children live in families headed by women. The impact of poverty housing is detrimental to the physiological and psychological well-being of children and their caretakers. As wages stagnate and housing costs continue to soar, unaffordable housing is prevalent throughout the U.S. This lack of affordable housing contributes to a transient and unstable population, directly impacting the lives of women and children and the communities in which they reside. Through a series of semi-structured interviews, this study tells the transformative journey of eleven single mothers who live in Affordable College Apartments, located in central Appalachia. This housing and education initiative enables heads-of-households to reach self-sufficiency. Prioritizing single-parent families, participants receive counseling, workshops, and support from neighbors and staff, while fulfilling academic or vocational training coursework as full-time students. The data consist of narratives of each participant interviewed. Their stories were used for a narrative analysis where several themes emerged and were used to answer the research questions. Each narrative was evaluated under Mezirow’s transformative learning theory, with critical attention given as to whether women uniquely learn and transform based on their experiences. The findings also focused on the idea of intersectionality and how women have multiple identities in which they use to navigate and interpret their experiences. Participants’ narratives were used to explain what they felt it means to be a woman based on their experiences growing up, throughout their education, and becoming and being a mother, or better said, a supermom.Thesis (D. Ed.)Department of Educational Studie

Geological reconnaissance of the Coldwater River, Mississippi

This report was the result of an assigment [sic] to make a geologic reconnaissance of the headwaters of Coldwater River in northwest Mississippi, on which a site for a flood control dam had been made. At the time of the last field work in November, 1940, the boring program for borrow areas and for foundation had been completed. The Sardis dam on the Little Tallahatchie River, some 35 miles southeast of site for the Arkabutla dam had been recently completed, it being the first of several designed for flood control purposes in the Yazoo basin, Mississippi. This was a hydraulic fill dam, having available nearby sufficient quantities of fine clay materials for relatively impervious core, naturally plastic; but with coarse material forming shell of dam for stability. This type of construction, with impervious core and coarser shell would have been preferred at the Arkabutla site, but the ranges of soil types would not permit such choice, all material being nearly of same grain size. At this time, I was working with the U. S. Engineer Office, Vicksburg, Mississippi, (Soil Section), under the direction of Mr. William H. Jervis, Engineer. It was at his suggestion that report was briefly summarized and details given in an appendix, due to the fact that he had found at times, engineers had not read or studied his reports on foundations, but would digest a summary. Hence the arrangement of the material. Through official channels, this report reached the District Engineer, Vicksburg, District; the President of the Mississippi River Commission, (Brig. General Max C. Tyler and the Chief of the Engineers, Washington, D. C., and was in part responsible for the beginning of a geologic investigation of the Lower Mississippi Valley, July, 1, 1941 --Preface, page ii

Student Success & Enrollment Analytics November 2023 update

Student Success & Enrollment Analytics update to Student Affairs leadership November 28, 2023

Hurricane Katrina and the Third World: A Cluster Analysis of the Third World Label in the Mass Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and the United States in August of 2005. While an emerging literature base details the consequences and lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina, a critical missing piece for understanding Hurricane Katrina American landfall is a rhetorical perspective. I argue a rhetorical perspective can significantly contribute to a better understanding of Hurricane Katrina’s implications for creating policy, community and identity. As a case study, I employ Kenneth Burke’s cluster analysis to examine the use of the label “Third World” to describe New Orleans, the Gulf Coast and the United States in the mass media coverage of Hurricane Katrina