Word: scholarshipped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Williamson was an eagle scout and student-body president in high school and won a scholarship to U.N.C. After graduation he spent an aimless year in New Orleans, where he played guitar in a rock band, smoked marijuana and drank too much. He returned to U.N.C. for law school in 1992 but had trouble concentrating. He also began talking, his mother recalls, "about how he could read people's minds, and they could read his." One day, walking near the law school, he started screaming and slapping himself...
Since the first broadcast of the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries Roots, Hollywood, in such films as Glory, Amistad and Beloved, has helped depict a more complex picture of race relations in early America. Combined with new literature and scholarship on the African American experience such as John Hope Franklin's Runaway Slaves, the companion to the four-part, six-hour PBS series Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery, and Microsoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia, the Encarta Africana, there is respect and understanding for the lives of African ancestors...
...also agreed to develop a leadership and scholarship program for students that would serve as an alternative to ROTC. Administrators are planning on soliciting alumni contributions to fund the project...
...also agreed to develop a leadership and scholarship program for students that would serve as an alternative to ROTC. Administrators are planning on soliciting alumni contributions to fund the project...
...tells the story of an MIT student who was in her company in ROTC for a semester. When the student came out to his unit commander at the beginning of his senior year, the Navy demanded he pay back the first three years of his full scholarship...