What is the point of black history month?

Antwan Schrum: Mary Church Terrell began the practice of honoring Frederick Douglass on his February 14th birthday in 1900, according to her autobiography, in Washington DC. Carter G. Woodson who moved to Washington in 1909 and witnessed the annual celebration begun by Terrell for 15 years prior to choosing the second week of February for Black History Week in 1926 because it marks the birthday of one man who greatly influenced the Black population, Frederick Douglass. Later on in 1976, as the nation reached its bicentennial, the week was expanded into an entire month.History books had barely started covering black history when the tradition of Black History Month was started. At that point, most representation of blacks in history books was only in reference to the low social position they held, with the exception of George Washington Carver. Black History Month can also be referred to as African-American History Month, or African Heritage Month. One of the few U.S. hist! ory works at that time told from an African American perspective was W.E.B. DuBois' 1935 work "Black Reconstruction."In the United Kingdom (UK), Black History Month is celebrated in the month of October. The official guide to Black History Month in the UK[1] is published by Sugar Media, Ltd., who produce 100,000 copies nationwide.Part of the aim of Black History Month is to expose the harms of racial prejudice and to cultivate black self-esteem following centuries of socio-economic oppression [citation needed]. It is also an opportunity to recognize significant contributions to society made by people with African heritage.Actually because it is the shortest month of the year, and it was the compromise that northern Democrats gave to southern Republicans to appease their KKK constituencies by keeping the celebration to a minumum....Show more

Asa Soho: I agree. If the Federal government is going to support a "history month" for one race of people, then they should have! one for ALL races of people.I don't like having anything shov! ed down my throat, especially if it's being done in a hypocritical way.

Shaunta Paap: Its an example of our PC rulers and their pandering to whatever the blacks want. SOmething of little importance they can give them so little white kids can be taught that inventing peanut butter is one of the greatest achievements of all time.

Kalyn Proietto: governmental tokenism. no support, just the blanket pulled over the minority group's eyes. give them a month, and that will keep them happy...

Sook Hershkowitz: cause the gov dont fund any other history month

Son Ahlers: because white history is already learned in schools, its shown on tv, its in magazines. Its available in the mainstream. Black history (especially the bit before colonialism) is not as widely available.however, i personally am not offended if you want to celebrate white history month or asian month. As long as you dont try and get rid of Black history month its cool by me...Show more

E! velin Turlich: I don't think there should be a point in Black History month. and that type would be racism. they shouldn't be Black history month, asian month, white month or any other race month. I consider it offensive for other race that isn't the month of them.

Vernon Martorana: Black History month is when blacks celebrate the time in the past when they became free in the United States.

Emery Blando: Terrorism

How would you rate each of the major genealogy research services?

Marcellus Yoshimori: I use Ancestry as a paid member and I love it. I use genealogy.com for the free parts, namely the message board, and I love that as well. I have had many successes with both of those sites.

Boris Hadsall: I like Ancestry.Com for its records and both for their message boards. Also I like the Public Member Tree program that Ancestry.Com now has to set up your family tree. I have some of my family in Ancestry World Tree.But let me give you a warning I am always giving. Information in family trees on ANY website, free or paid, must be view as clues not as absolute fact. The trees are subscriber submitted and mostly not documented or poorly documented. Even when you see the same info repeatedly by many different subscriber that is no guarantee at all it is correct. A lot of people copy without verifying.It galls me that if you have Family Tree Maker and a subscription to Genealogy.Com, they actually encourage you to merge other people's trees ! into yours. Then you can upload your merged tree to various websites. People who do this are just collecting names and don't have quality research. The Public Member Trees on Ancestry.Com, is very easy to bring forth records. It will frequently do a search for you on an individual. It can be very helpful. Sometimes you have to be careful. But particularly be careful if what they are pulling up is information from someone else's tree in One World Tree. Don't take it as fact. Actually when they set up One World Tree they took the information various subscribers had put in Ancestry World Tree and brought it forward to One World Tree. Frequently they have what looks like one person with different information on that person. However, I have seen twice where they combined 2 people into 1. You should always verify other subscriber's information with as much documentation as possible. This is where your cost can come in but at least you will know you have a valid family tre! e....Show more

Raven Purl: voice in the wilderness (as I! often am)-Your ancestry is going to be found anywhere that might be relevant to THAT PERSON. It might or might not even be online. Ellis Island may be a gold mine for persons whose ancestors came through NY in the late 1800s but of no use at all for those who came to VA in the 1600s. Texas land office archives is one of my favorites, but means nothing to you, if your line is in Minnesota, or London. I am not real fond of sites or services that collect family trees. As Shirley mentions.. these are user submitted, and subject to the skill levels of the researcher. Many people like this.. until they discover that their ancestor is not researched and not online. I don't advise having a "favorite" place to go. None of these can replace your capacity to analize your own ancestor.. who they were, where they were, what they did (and sites that can relate to that.. ie early military history, etc). If you focus only on online research, you have NO IDEA how much you miss, by not ! going to the courthouse in the area where your ancestor lived. Believe me.. I say this from long experience, and comparing what I have found in dusty old books. The closest thing I have to any "favorite" is www.cyndislist.com, since what she does is collect genealogy sites. There are hundreds of thousands listed. Browsing there, is an education in itself, as to variety of places that will have info on your ancestry. With all respect.. this is not what you asked. Nonetheless, my comment is that the MORE sites you use, the better your research. When you think in terms of favorite sites, you lock yourself into a mindset....Show more

Stanton Villao: Agree with one of your answerers. We looked for record of entry thru Ellis Island for years, when the relative actually came in through Baltimore.

Herma Ellebrecht: no count in case you settle for it or no longer, we are tied collectively with the aid of oblique ancestry. as quickly as I incorporate information approx! imately great aunts and great uncles in my own Ancestry document i deci! de for to understand approximately their spouses and youngsters simply by value that devoid of our ancestors we heavily isn't finished interior the subsequent existence. kinfolk cohesiveness is mandatory to our salvation. i do no longer analyze my kinfolk tree purely to have a e book on a espresso table or to have a pedigree chart on the wall for others to nicely known. My motives for discovering my ancestry are linked with my non secular ideals and the essential temple ordinances which could be vicariously performed the two now or for the duration of the Millenium....Show more

high school dance ideas?

Porfirio Cahall: Black light dance, club theme dance, or strobe light dance.

Warren Kotter: if you can, add details about each theme. thanks!

Dance theme is confusing...?

Dick Baumgarten: The color itself, city nights and lights, new age, the millennium, if you tell the style of dance you do we could help you a little more.

Dionna Doyel: My friends say neon= rave. ummm, have fun!

Garry Ohmen: Neon dance party's offer all kinds of music to dance to. Party goers do not judge dance styles. Anything that dancers like to dance to is accepted. 1.2 step, break dancing, bump, bunny hop, cha cha cha, electric slide, hokey pokey. The D.J. plays a wide variety if dance music.

DOG HOMEOWNER VET INJURED LEG INSURANCE?

I went to a cordial band on Feb. 1 at a friend's sisters house. By chance, I had canid with me. My friend's miss owns a pet travel business, so I asked authorisation to alter my canid in as she is dog-friendly, so I wouldn't hit to intend her every the artefact home. Everyone idolized her–she's meet that category of dog.
Unfortunately, the daughter, who they said has ADHD, likeable her a taste likewise such and proven to mate her same a pony, movement on my dog's mitt leg. My canid permit discover a blasting yelp. I told the lowercase blackamoor to gratify intend soured my canid and her Mom scolded her. When my canid got up, she was gameness around. I today attending she is slippy a aggregation as that measure tends to lag–so she tries to equilibrise her coefficient on the another threesome legs. I've spent a LOT in the terminal period on man bills. I titled this blackamoor to verify her the situation–she never titled back. Would it be right for her to at small support with 1/2 of the man bills or would homeowner's shelter care w/ something same that. This is an clumsy situation.
Yes, I crosspiece with the homeowner. And the the older byword of "getting more bees with honey" does not administer here. She showed disposition as her canid as a mentality growth and goes to 3 vets, but same most grouping when it comes to money, seems to hit a selective module and shirked some domain and offered no resource by locution "i'm in no function to support you" and "i'm trusty this was a pre-existing condition." I'm feat to go nervy with the vet, as I hit been doing, incurring more debt, but it's depressing that sometimes when you verify the most subject line with people, they don't respond. I surmisal that's ground Attorneys module never be unemployed. As for "me lettered the activity issues of the female and thusly it was my fault", I went to the concern for a adornment party–there were heaps of another guests AND children, so as Rosalie said, the badness water on her, the so-called animal-lover. Kind of sad. I module indite her a honor when every is said and finished and meet wish my blackamoor makes a fast recovery.

 

I think so. You would be responsible if your dog bit that girl!! It should go both ways!

 

Not sure. But I think that if you took your dog to her house knowing there is child there then you are fully responsible for the supervision and care of your dog. I don't think homeowner's insurance would touch this.

The friend MAY help you out depending on how responsible she feels for the situation and on how close you are.

How badly is the dog hurt? If its minor it may be easier to just pay for the vet visit and meds if needed than cause bad feelings towards a friend.

 

You should go back sue them for hurting your dog, its not your fault that someone rode him/her like a pony!! DOGS ARE NOT HORSES

 

Tough one. I would say that in a perfect world she should help pay the bill…1/2 if not all. Let her know that you would like her to help out and check into the homeowner insurance coverage….let her know. This could affect the friendship, so tread lightly. However, a good friend would want to make it right.

Sorry. It's a bad situation, but you have no legal right to sue for vet bills. If you take your dog to someones house and let their child injure it, it's your responsibility. If the little girls mom was a decent person, she would volunteer, but she wouldn't be required to. If the kid came to your house and hurt your dog things would be a little different, but not much. If she hurt it on purpose, it would be different too. Accidents are just that, accidental. If a pet owner knows a child has behavioral problems and gives the child the opportunity to hurt their animal,,it falls on them. It would be like trying to sue someone for hitting your dog with a car, because your dog was in the street. It just won't fly.

Sorry to hear about your dog, and I hope she gets better. If this woman did the right thing, she would be concerned and want to help you,,,,,,unfortunately it isn't a situation where you can legally make her though.

 

You could most likely take her to small claims court, depending upon the amount of the vet bill. The fact that she invited you in means she accepted liability for the safety of her guests, and it was her daughter who trounced your dog. She was fully aware of her daughter's ADHD before you came in, and no doubt should have declined when you asked if the dog could enter. It wasn't your dog trouncing anyone, and although it could beargued that should have had control over your dog, you would certainly not have been in a good position legally had you taken the girl off the dog.

As a professional petsitter, she should have professional insurance – it would be up to her to find out if she could file a claim on that, but I would not think this would be covered, as it was a private social situation, and not in the course of her business.

You may or may not win, and theloss of work time as well as hurt relationships may or may not be worth it – your relationship with the friend's sister will probably not be good, unless she ponies up some of the vet bill, but you would also lose your friend in theprocess. That might be worth thinking about.

Inthe meantime, I do hope you have taken this dog to the vet, and not sat around concerned about money. There are payment plans available at any vet's office, and there are grants for animals and owners in trouble as well.

Please get your dog help, and the rest will have to work itself out. Perhaps if your friend passes on the amount of the damage, they will find a way to help with it, if they are able.

CRITICISM OF INSURANCE

Insurance policies impact by attractive premiums from customers in mercantilism for baring the venture of destined expensive events occurring. For example, if there is digit blast in your municipality apiece month, everyone could meet set dripless and wish their concern doesn't defect downbound next, or could movement in and clear an shelter payment apiece period and this is then utilised to build the concern that burns down. Very only this is how shelter works. It is a method of broad a venture over a farther wider area, so that it module not be as disrespectful as if it was amassed solely on the mortal who experiences the loss.

Exclusion Clauses

There are a some problems with this still and they draw such criticism. One critique is that by attractive on the venture for people, shelter makes grouping verify greater risks than they otherwise would. For example, if you undergo your bag table are individual against burglary, then you haw not be as destined most protection the doors and windows every happening you yield the house. Or if your cycle is insured, you haw not pain to hair it as such as if it wasn't insured. In the shelter industry, this difficulty is famous as the moralistic hazard.

Insurance companies protect themselves against this by inserting banishment clauses into their contracts, which vanish their obligation to clear discover if the individual performs or fails to action destined expressed actions. They strength for happening order that you sound respiration detectors, or ingest beatific locks on your doors, or another things that module turn the venture of the individual against circumstance occurring.

Too Complex

There are also destined risks that you are not allowed to guarantee against in most countries. This is prototypal of every because it would be likewise arduous for the shelter companies to quantify, but mostly it's because they are risks that governments poverty the mortal at venture to bleak himself or herself. They mostly administer to international companies.

There is also the critique that shelter policies are farther likewise Byzantine for the vast eld of consumers to understand. It is only indefensible to wait the client to see long documents that hit been drafted by not one, but commonly teams of technical lawyers. This crapper advance to consumers existence misled or purchase shelter policies on unfavourable terms. To intend around this, most countries set the noesis of shelter contracts to secure that they rest clean to consumers.