Description: A lion is a large, muscular cat characterized by its tawny-yellow coat, strong body, and distinctive mane on adult males. Males have a shaggy mane around their head, neck, and shoulders that varies in color and can signal dominance. Females (lionesses) are more slender and lack manes. Both sexes have a short, rounded head, strong jaws and teeth for hunting, and a dark tuft at the end of their…
Description: Don Argo develops the idea of definitions as the foundation of mathematical thinking, humorously illustrating this with his “Male Chauvinist Pig Club” example. He reviews commutative and associative properties, introduces identity elements, and distinguishes between additive and multiplicative inverses, showing how inverses produce identity elements. The lesson concludes with absolute value,…
Description: Don Argo develops the idea of definitions as the foundation of mathematical thinking, humorously illustrating this with his “Male Chauvinist Pig Club” example. He reviews commutative and associative properties, introduces identity elements, and distinguishes between additive and multiplicative inverses, showing how inverses produce identity elements. The lesson concludes with absolute value,…
Abstract: From the Introduction: The purpose of this book is twofold, viz., to encourage the colored people generally to adopt a higher plane of living and thinking by setting before them for imitation the lives and heroic accomplishments of a number of eminently successful members of their race and, at the same time, to let people of other nationalities behold for themselves the truth that all Negroes are… more
Abstract: From the Foreward: From close contact with children we are conscious of the fact that they are facing many problems, and not least among them are those problems which have to do with relationships and adjustments between social and racial groups. One among the many of these situations is the relationship which exists between the Negro and the white.
Abstract: <p>An Egyptian prince has lost his beloved wife and he has sought a dervish who dwells at the base of the sphinx. The prince promises him a vast fortune if the dervish will only give him the opportunity of gazing once more upon the features of his wife. The dervish accepts the offer. He brings in from a neighboring tomb the receptacle containing the remains of the princess. He opens it and… more
Description: The Observer is the college wide student newspaper of Broward College. The Observer offers student editors and reporters the opportunity to learn about writing, editing, photography, graphic design, and desktop publishing. In addition, The Observer is widely recognized for its excellence and has won numerous state and individual awards.
Abstract: From the Introduction: In publishing this volume setting forth The Possibilities of the American Negro, it is not without a profound knowledge of my inability to treat so important a subject with the thoroughness that the present condition of :he Negro race demand. In the light of modern achievements of colored men and women in the sciences, arts and industrial accomplishments a volume of more… more