There is a thin line between what a professional relationship with a student is, and what’s not. Teachers are expected to form relationships (platonic) with their students in order to gain their trust, build self confidence in students and the provide a sense of security for their students. But seems here recently a many [...]
March 29, 2007
Categories: Journalism, News, Rants/Opinions . . Author: Latisha . Comments: Leave a Comment
Start here. For up to date information on the case involving the missing student from Texas A&M University.
Read the entire news clip and then draw your conclusion. Fail not to re-read other news clips on previous information pertaining to Miss Stewart.
Sheriff Thomas’ Letter on Stewart Case
Late Thursday evening (March 22, 2007), I found myself [...]
March 29, 2007
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Just released.
Sheriff’s investigators had decided against launching a costly and time-consuming search for Stewart’s remains, angering her family and friends. Complaints from activists and lawmakers prompted Thomas to get emergency approval to spend up to $500,000 for a search.
Thomas said he knew, but could not disclose, that there were no body parts to find. He [...]
March 25, 2007
Categories: Journalism, News, Politics, Rants/Opinions . . Author: Latisha . Comments: 10 Comments
(also found in comment section)
In the instance of how families raised money and whatnot, please don’t mistake the fact that Miss Stewart’s family too, just wanted permission to search so that they too could search for her body.
My whole point of this article is that the county officials were so quick to make a judgment [...]
March 25, 2007
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Unless you live in the Houston area you probably haven’t heard of the young lady Miss Tynesha Stewart a student at nearby Texas A&M University. Miss Stewart went missing during spring break (march 15) and was last seen with her ex-boyfriend Mr. Timothy Wayne Shepherd.
Mr. Shepherd confessed to killing Miss Stewart and putting her [...]
March 24, 2007
Categories: Journalism, News, Politics . . Author: Latisha . Comments: 36 Comments
I actually thought last year (06′) would be my last “official” spring break. Turns out I’ve actually chosen the path of education and will be seeing many more “spring breaks”. This week on Tuesday my cousin (Devin 13) and my little brother (Darrien 10) visited me for their spring break. I must [...]
March 17, 2007
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For President.
March 14, 2007
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At first I thought they were debutante balls (for the younger crowd) just with a new politically correct name. Wrong.
These “Purity Balls” are balls where your father pledges to do his best to help keep you a virgin until marriage. What tha doozey?
Read it and weep.
As sure as my name is YNWIA they [...]
March 12, 2007
Categories: News, Relationships . . Author: Latisha . Comments: 2 Comments
Kasai and I have long ago Boycotted American Idol. I don’t believe we’ve watched the show in the last two seasons. This season we decided we would give it another go around. But quickly after the auditions and group rounds we realized that nothing had changed.
American Idol is still what it [...]
March 9, 2007
Categories: Music, News, Rants/Opinions, Television . . Author: Latisha . Comments: 1 Comment
Scale of 1-10 (10 being the highest)
The Departed = 2 **
Babel = 8 ********
The Illusionist = 4 ****
The Departed
I started this movie as a skeptic on how good it may be. Kasai who had seen it prior had already expressed how disappointed she was in the film. But since I’d obtained a rain [...]
March 4, 2007
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