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Discover the surprising history of "Ole Miss" School of Pharmacy

To mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the "Ole Miss" School of Pharmacy, noted contributors have gathered to spotlight its unique background. Pharmacy Education at the University of Mississippi: Sketches, Highlights, and Memories reviews the trials and triumphs in the fascinating history of the school, exploring a tumultuous century that included wars, social upheaval, curricular revolution, and amazing successes. This surprising—and engagingly written—book details the school’s transformation from a second-rate institution to an internationally recognized program.

Beyond being the first public university chartered in the state, the University of Mississippi has a long history of innovative thinking. Near the beginning of the twentieth century, the Mississippi State legislature recognized the need to adequately oversee those individuals who would dispense medicines. So, in 1908, the University of Mississippi established its pharmaceutical department and set on a course of improving educational standards for students of pharmacy. Pharmacy Education at the University of Mississippi presents the highlights of events, challenges, and successes from the visionary founding of the school by a man not yet 30 years old on to its becoming a leading school of pharmacy in the United States. The book includes nearly three dozen photographs.

Pharmacy Education at the University of Mississippi tells stories and personal insights of:

the founding of the school by a young pharmacy clerk

the school’s struggles for funding—and respect

transformation from a second-rate institution to an internationally recognized program

honors, awards, and recognition of students, faculty, and alumni

pharmacy education in the twenty-first century

program development through the years

women in pharmacy and at the university

much more!

Pharmacy Education at the University of Mississippi is a revealing view of history for pharmacy school libraries, alumni of "Ole Miss", pharmacy school faculty and students, and historians of all types. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on August 8, 2005. The length of the article is 813 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: MCEF plays key role in finding industry's future talent.(Construction Mississippi)(Mississippi Construction Education Foundation)
Author: Wally Northway
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 8, 2005
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 27Issue: 32Page: S11(1)

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A journey down the Mississippi River is a voyage through one of the largest countries in the world, the United States of America. For centuries, the Mississippi has been used for trade, communication and warfare. It is still one of the busiest cargo routes in America. It has inspired poets, writers and singers, and its beauty attracts many tourists. We travel the entire 3780 kilometres, from the glacial lakes in the north to the vast delta in the south. The river is divided into five sections and each section begins with a map showing the area that will be covered. Map references are highlighted within the text to show the reader where they are on their journey. The text has been written in themes - economic, social, nature, people and history - to enable the reader to study particular aspects of the river along its course. ... Read more

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Discusses the importance of the Mississippi River, its role in the agricultural and industrial development of the United States, floods and their impact, and various threats to the river. ... Read more

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In this book, Thomas Adams Upchurch presents the true story of a white youths experiences with race relations in the early years of integration in Mississippi. Upchurch, a first-generation product of the integrated public schools in Mississippi, describes what it was like to be white in a public school that wasblack. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Raymond Ames Spruance (July 3, 1886 ? December 13, 1969) was a United States Navy admiral in World War II. Spruance commanded US naval forces during two of the most significant naval battles in the Pacific theater, the Battle of Midway and the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The Battle of Midway was the first major victory for the United States over Japan and is seen by many as the turning point of the Pacific war. The Battle of the Philippine Sea was also a significant victory for the US. Spruance was known for his keen intellect and his ability to remain calm under pressure. He was also criticized by some for being too cautious at times. ... Read more

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School Slaughter

At 8 a.m. on Wednesday, October 1, 1997, nerdy, overweight outcast Luke Woodham, 16, entered his Pearl, Mississippi high school to settle some scores. Armed with a .30-30 hunting rifle, he opened fire and then calmly walked out of the school door, leaving two teenage girls dead and another seven students seriously wounded. Police soon discovered that Woodham’s 11-minute rampage had actually begun hours before at home, where they found his mother, Mary Anne, brutally beaten with a baseball bat and then stabbed to death.

Evil Cult

Luke Woodham may have been the assassin, but behind his horrifying act lay the shadowy hand of a twisted mastermind. Grant Boyette, 18, Bible student-turned-Hitler-lover and devil-worshipper, was a diabolical Pied Piper who used a fantasy role-playing game to program six high school students with hate, Satanism, and animal torture.

“Murder Is Gutsy And Daring.”

Customer Reviews (5)

SHOCKING,SAD,ANDEYE-OPENING
This book is insightful in all aspects: Luke's relationships between his mother, Christy, classmates and friends. It also shows how pushed and fed-up he had felt by those around him, and how he snapped. The passages of everyone's deaths (students, his mother, the dog) were absolutely sickening and heartbreaking.The photos in the book (as in many of these books) are disturbing, and they promote book sales as well as show people up close the heinousness that human beings are truly capable of. That can be very hard for those who knew someone involved in the case.
The book makes you feel deep sympathy for all of the victims. It can even make you feel some understanding about Luke Woodham. What he did was horrible. But his behavior also helped to shed some light on a real problem that's growing in America: Teenagers who snap because they lack that crocodile skin necessary to survive being ridiculed by goofy jocks. They also snap when they cannot handle feeling ignored, misunderstood, unwanted by loved ones. Luke Woodham was WRONG to do what he did, but he also must have had real untreated mental problems that made him resort to murder.
There are many, many more young people like him out there who can relate to him, and they need to be helped before they do something terrible. America connot continue to place all of the blame on the video games, music and movies. These things do not create bad feelings or thoughts! They may sometimes fuel them, (which IS bad) but they're not the root of where it's coming from! I'd love to see more teenagers turn out to be okay.
Luke Woodham seemed to be a ticking time bomb, resulting from feeling unwanted, ridiculed, combined with whatever chemical imbalance his mind may have had. Some people snap where others handle problems better and move on. I felt this book showed it.
I would suggest this book to anyone interested in why teens kill. But a lot of it is disturbing, and keep in mind that the media does NOT get all the facts!

Interesting Case
I liked the book for the most part.There is a chapter about animal violence so I did skip the chapter.But other then that it was interesting.I would recommend a book called, 'Slow Death' it is also a true story very well written.

The Worst Book I Have Ever Seen
I thought that it was all a joke when my friend called me crying from work one day (she works at a local bookstore) and told me that there has a book in the store about Pearl High School Shooting.I am from Pearl and my friends were some of the ones shot and I also lost two of my friends that horriable day.First, some of the facts were not even right.Next, Pearl was not the first school shooting in America.There were others that the stupid media did not tell about.Third, people in Pearl want to be able to live their lives without always being reminded of that.How can we ever get a chance to move on if people are always throwing it up in our faces?What about showing the good things for once? Fourth, the pictures were horriable.You don't go around showing dead people's bodies.They are dead so LET THEM REST IN PEACE!!!!!The pictures were not even allowed in the paper or anything like that so why should they be in a book.The pictures made me sick and all I could do is sit there and cry.I hate this book and I think that it should be taken off the shelves.Words really can not even discribe how mad and upset this book made me.

Before Littleton, there was Pearl.
Before Littleton, Colorado, there was Pearl, Mississippi--this is the high school murder rampage that started it all.

This book is amazing.It's hard to believe kids can even think like this.It's hard to believe parents don't see this.It's hard to believe that it could have be any one of us or any one of our kids.A shocking wake-up call.

Animal Lovers Do Not Buy This Book!
You must have a strong stomach to read this book it is very Graphic! Warning! Animal Lovers should Skip this one. The part where the Family Dog is Murdered breaks my heart and will Forever Haunt me. ... Read more

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At a time when popular solutions to the educational plight of poor children of color are imposed from the outside-national standards, high-stakes tests, charismatic individual saviors-the acclaimed Algebra Project and its founder, Robert Moses, offer a vision of school reform based in the power of communities.

Begun in 1982, the Algebra Project is transforming math education in twenty-five cities. Founded on the belief that math-science literacy is a prerequisite for full citizenship in society, the Project works with entire communities-parents, teachers, and especially students-to create a culture of literacy around algebra, a crucial stepping-stone to college math and opportunity.

Telling the story of this remarkable program, Robert Moses draws on lessons from the 1960s Southern voter registration he famously helped organize: "Everyone said sharecroppers didn't want to vote. It wasn't until we got them demanding to vote that we got attention. Today, when kids are falling wholesale through the cracks, people say they don't want to learn. We have to get the kids themselves to demand what everyone says they don't want."

We see the Algebra Project organizing community by community. Older kids serve as coaches for younger students and build a self-sustained tradition of leadership. Teachers use innovative techniques. And we see the remarkable success stories of schools like the predominately poor Hart School in Bessemer, Alabama, which outscored the city's middle-class flagship school in just three years.

Radical Equations provides a model for anyone looking for a community-based solution to the problems of our disadvantaged schools. ... Read more

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Great Idea - Excellent Book
As part of a Master's program, I was given the option to read several books for a project and selected this one.I was not disappointed, and this book was probably the best one I read all summer.Robert Moses explains his role in the Civil Rights movement of the 60s and the Algebra Project movement of today with vivid detail.He makes his points clearly, and instead of simply describing the problems he presents solutions that are so logical you will want to get involved.For any educator or advocate, this book is a must read.

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A Radical Voice Speaks Up
"That's what we learned in Mississippi, that it is getting people at the bottom to make demands, on themselves first, then on the system, that leads to some of the most important changes.They have to find their voice."

Robert Moses is a brilliant mathematician, and a little bit of a seer, who sets himself the task of defining his life in terms that constitute a radical equation.

Moses relates his personal history in the movement that broke the back of segregation and Jim Crow in the South.He connects the young SNCC field secretaries, who, with guidance from the older local organizers like Amzie Moore and Fannie Lou Hamer helped black communities take charge of their own destinies.And, he demonstrates how economic factors have made math illiteracy the functional equivalent of political disenfranchisement that threatens future generations of black youth with a bondage no less frightening.

Moses' vision is profound rather than simple.Charles Cobb, Jr. does an artful job of helping Moses find a voice capable of uttering the insights of a lifetime of formidable accomplishment.Particularly since, as Moses admits, " reaching out to probe into really personal things isn't a particularly strong point of mine."

Caveat emptor: this is not just a ripping memoir of the Southern civil rights movement. It is that, but Moses is a demanding teacher.He makes his audience come to grips with and think about the dehumanizing legacies of the "isms" he's spent a lifetime combating in Africa as well as America. This may put off some readers, as it clearly did some reviewers. Too bad. Those who do the math with Bob Moses will learn from their struggle -- and be thankful for his.

An Important Civil Right - Math Literacy
Robert P. Moses, a leader of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, has (correctly) reached the conclusion that Math literacy is, in these times and for the predictable future, a prerequisite for first-class citizenship, and since he still wants everyone to be a first-class citizen (and rightly so) he has embarked on a campaign to enable every child to be mathematically literate, and he has enjoyed a considerable degree of success.There is still a long way to go; his program (or more accurately, the program developed by Moses and his associates and the children, parents, and teachers they have worked with) has so far been adopted only by a small minority of the schools, but in those schools where it is in place, math achievement has increased significantly, and (SURPRISE!) reading scores have also improved significantly.

THIS IS A RESULT THAT EVERY TEACHER AND EVERY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR SHOULD KNOW ABOUT!THIS BOOK SHOULD BE IN EVERY SCHOOL LIBRARY!

I have only one small carp with this book.On page 7 is the statement: "The result was the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the world's first programmable computer.I asked three Afro-American students, ages 15-21, what was the world's first programmable computer, and not one of them mentioned ENIAC.Rather, they all replied that the first programmable computer was the Zuse Z3.They were all correct. The Z3, disigned and built by Konrad Zuse in Germany, and operational in 1939, approximately 2 years before ENIAC, was the world's first programmable computer.Fortunately, the German High Command didn't take Zuse and his computer seriously.

However, the error is understandable.Most textbooks on the subject in America incorrectly credit ENIAC with being first (I would expect that few if any German texts fail to give credit where it belongs.)Moses was probably innocently repeating what he had been taught at Harvard.And in any case, this one minor error is but a very minor blemish on a very relevant and valuable book.If you are a parent of school-age children, you should get this book, and then get together with other parents and with your children to demand that your school adopt the Algebra Project curriculum.Your children deserve the best education possible, and that means using the Algebra Project curriculum.Also, buy and read Victory in Our Schools: We Can Give Our Children Excellent Public Education, by John Stanford.The two books complement each other.

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Good argument that math literacy is the next civil right
This is a very good book on how math literacy is the next civil right. The book discusses the Algebra Project, an organization founded by 1960's civil rights leader Bob Moses, to teach algebra to kids in inner-cities and rural communities.

The beginning of the book reads like Moses' autobiography about his years organizing in Mississippi. He then discusses how groups like the Jews, Koreans, and Chinese relied on math as the basis for their upward mobility. Moses' theory is that as the world becomes more and more focused on technology and innovation, math will have an even greater importance.

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ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Scene:The Mississippi Valley Time:Forty to fifty years ago



CHAPTER I.

YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.That book was made
by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.There was things which
he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.That is nothing.I never
seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or
the widow, or maybe Mary.Aunt Polly--Tom's Aunt Polly, she is--and
Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is
mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

Now the way that the book winds up is this:Tom and me found the money
that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich.We got six
thousand dollars apiece--all gold.It was an awful sight of money when
it was piled up.Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at
interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round
--more than a body could tell what to do with.The Widow Douglas she took
me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough
living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and
decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no
longer I lit out.I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again,
and was free and satisfied.But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he
was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back
to the widow and be respectable.So I went back.

The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she
called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.
She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat
and sweat, and feel all cramped up.Well, then, the old thing commenced
again.The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time.
When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to
wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the
victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them,--that
is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself.In a barrel of odds
and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of
swaps around, and the things go better.

After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the
Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by
she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then
I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead
people.

Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me.But she
wouldn't.She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must
try to not do it any more.That is just the way with some people.They
get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.Here she was
a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody,
being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a
thing that had some good in it.And she took snuff, too; of course that
was all right, because she done it herself.

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on December 10, 2005. The length of the article is 933 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cape-clad teens head out to help hurricane victims.(Schools)(A Eugene school's "superheroes" will search for volunteer opportunities in Mississippi)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: December 10, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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University of Mississippi 101 is required reading for every futrure Rebel! From the inspiring knowledge of the Lyceum to the fun of Tailgating in The Grove, you'll share all the excitement and memories with the next generation!This sturdy board book features loads of high quality photos and content for young and old alike. Perfect for fans and alumni to share with kids and grandchildren. The book makes a great baby shower gift, birthday gift and holiday gift! Make sure the little ones grow up supporting the RIGHT school and team!!!! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Thomson Gale on July 31, 2006. The length of the article is 886 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: CREATE Foundation aims to boost region's GED rates.(Focus Economic Development)(general education diplomas)(regional organization promoting children's welfare and economic improvement initiatives)
Author: Lynne Jeter
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 31, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 28Issue: 31Page: 23(2)

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Norumbega Harmony is a Boston-area musical community that has been a leading force in the revival of the American singing-school tradition. The Norumbega Harmony, a songbook of the community, collects 135 early American tunes and 30 new tunes. Represented are works by America's earliest composers, the itinerant New England singing masters whose schools were the principal form of music education in the Early Republic.

This music is vigorous and strikingly original. From four-part hymns called "plain tunes" and lively "fuging tunes" with independent lines for each part, it ranges to complex and inventive anthems that achieve the highest expression of the New England singing-school style. These historic compositions, written for worship and for educational purposes, provided musical settings for Biblical texts and for the metrical psalms and hymns of the great Evangelical poets Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley.

The Norumbega Harmony includes 51 plain tunes, 49 fuging tunes, and 5 anthems, in addition to 30 new tunes written by members and friends of Norumbega Harmony. The community has reclaimed the historic tunes as part of the current renewal of the singing-school heritage, especially the traditional singing of The Sacred Harp of the Deep South.

The Sacred Harp was one of the last great singing-school books. Compiled in Georgia in 1844, it included a large core of early New England tunes. The Norumbega Harmony, compiled from the same sources, may be considered a companion or supplement to The Sacred Harp as well as a historic collection in its own right. The book follows The Sacred Harp in using shape-notes, a system of musical notation developed by singing masters around 1800 to facilitate music literacy and used since then as a hallmark of the singing-school tradition.

Designed for church musicians and music educators as well as for traditional singers, this collection has been prepared entirely from original scores and textual sources. It is divided into seven geographical and chronological sections and includes an introduction, instructions for shape-notes and performance, and detailed text and tune commentaries.

Stephen A. Marini, Elizabeth Luce Moore Professor of Religion at Wellesley College, is the author of Radical Sects of Revolutionary New England and Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture. ... Read more

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Wonderful!
This is great! A new book of both newly-published old songs AND new songs in the same style! Anyone who sings from the Sacred Harp needs this book. If you buy only one shape-note book besides the Sacred Harp, this is the one!
There are multiple compositions by some of the "greats" - Billings, Belcher, Shumway, Ingalls, all the others. Jacob French's tunes are outstanding!
Some of the old songs are VERY moving - try Mechias or Crucifixion, for examples. And with 2 exceptions, the modern songs are great also. Albemarle and Ten Thousand Charms are my favorites. We sang these when the book first arrived, and we've sung them every time since!
I thought "Come thou fount" was embarrasingly inept and I don't know why it was included. Also the title tune, "Norumbega" was too scholastic and isn't singable in traditional style. But these are the only 2 clunkers in the book! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 296 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 329 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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Twain's novel remains one of America's greatest and most well read works. This volume offers more than fifteen critical selections that discuss themes and characters as well as the controversies the work continues to generate. (20020501) ... Read more

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Huckleberry Finn Under a Contemporary Microscope
The Greenhaven Press book: "Readings on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Katie de Koster, editor, is a compilation of 18 essays by very competent writers/analysts evaluating most of the literary, moral, historical and social aspects of Mark Twain's signature masterpiece.Ernest Hemingway once said that Huckleberry Finn was the finest piece of American writing to that time and the foundation of American fiction to follow it, or words to that effect."Readings" presents dissections of Huck Finn and exposes the book from the personal viewpoints of literary scholars, social activists, classroom educators and other authors."Readings" is sine qua non for those who want to understand the seminal significance of Huck Finn, as a book, and for insight and intelligent discussion.How we interpret "Readings" may tell us readers more about ourselves than about the real motives of Samuel Clemens in writing the book.Some of us may be somewhat surprised at the "self" that might be revealed. ... Read more