24 Oct. 2008 Monica 1980- Singer Vocalist Actress.

24 Oct. 2008

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Monica• Monica Denise Arnold (born October 24, 1980), professionally known as Monica, is an American

R&B singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. She debuted in 1995 under the guidance of Rowdy Records head Dallas Austin and became the youngest recording act to ever have two consecutive chart-topping hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Following a major success with "The Boy Is Mine," a duet with singer Brandy, in 1998, a series of hit records established her position as one of the most successful of the new breed of urban R&B female vocalists to emerge in the mid-to late 1990s.

• Her popularity was in decline between the early 2000s, during which time she dealt with more personal tribulations including the suicide of her boyfriend Jarvis "Knot" Weems, an up-and-down relationship with former fiancé Corey "C-Murder" Miller and the delay of her heavily-bootlegged third album, All Eyez on Me. In 2003 Monica eventually released After the Storm, and after an unsuccessful period, she returned to the forefront of R&B music with her sixth number-one hit "So Gone."

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Drummer Breaks Into Church To Rock Out

Police Catch Man In Spirited, Illegal Solo

• BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Police in Bridgeport, Connecticut, said they snared a 47-year-old man this week when he broke into a local church to play its drum set.

• Police said Michael Smith, of Weston, Conn., was driving by the Holy Ghost Deliverance Church on Monday afternoon when he spotted a drum set through its window.

• He was charged with criminal trespass and breach of peace after allegedly breaking into the church, where officers found him in a spirited solo after the church's alarm system went off.

• Smith is scheduled for arraignment Nov. 5 in Bridgeport Superior Court.



Kids less likely to graduate than parentsMost states doing little to hold schools accountable, says advocacy group

• Your child is less likely to graduate from high school than you were, and most states are doing little to hold schools accountable, according to a study by a children's advocacy group.

• More than half the states have graduation goals that don't make schools get better, the Education Trust says in a report released Thursday.

• And dropout rates haven't budged: One in four kids is dropping out of high school.



• "The U.S. is stagnating while other industrialized countries are surpassing us," said Anna Habash, author of the report by Education Trust, which advocates on behalf of minority and poor children. "And that is going to have a dramatic impact on our ability to compete," she said.

• In fact, the United States is now the only industrialized country where young people are less likely than their parents to earn a diploma, the report said.

• High schools are required to meet graduation targets every year as part of the 2002 federal No Child Left Behind law.

• But those targets are set by states, not by the federal government. And most states allow schools to graduate low percentages of students by saying that any progress, or even the status quo in some cases, is acceptable



• Dropout crisis• The U.S. was slow to realize it was

facing a dropout crisis. For years, researchers reported dropouts as the number of kids who quit school in 12th grade, failing to capture those who left high school earlier.

• States and schools clouded the picture by using a mishmash of different methods to keep track of students who graduated, transferred or dropped out.

• Then came the 2002 No Child Left Behind law, with its requirement that states meet graduation goals. In 2005, the nation's governors made a pact to adopt a common system of tracking graduation rates.

• Now the federal government is poised to raise the bar on graduation rates. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is expected to issue new rules next week that will force states to use the common tracking system and will judge schools not only on graduation rates but on the percentage of black and Hispanic students who graduate, too.



• Among minority students, more than one in three students drops out of school.

• Spellings proposed the new rules earlier this year. Final rules may differ somewhat, but Spellings said earlier that states would be required in most cases to count graduates as kids who leave high school on time and with a regular diploma.

• Critics have worried that by judging test scores more heavily and graduation less so, No Child Left Behind encouraged schools to push weak students out.

• Balfanz, the Johns Hopkins researcher, said the dropout problem is driven by "dropout factories," schools in poor communities where kids face challenges inside and outside the classroom.

• He argued the government could make a big dent in the dropout problem by plowing more money, and firm guidance on how to spend it, into those schools.

• More resources are desperately needed, said Mel Riddle, who retired in July as principle of T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va.

• "The world's changed; we have to change to meet those demands," said Riddle, now an official of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. "To think we can do it in the same way, with the same resources, is not realistic.



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Are you planning on graduating high school? What is your plan to graduate, what will you do to make yourself successful in high school?

Are you planning on graduating high school? What is your plan to graduate, what will you do to make yourself successful in high school?

Why did Northern colonies decline to use slaves?

Why did Northern colonies decline to use slaves?

The Northern coloniesHad small farms and no needFor slaves.



Today

The Middle Colonies Great Awakening

Middle Colonies

• The middle colonies-Delaware, Penn, NJ, and NY-combined qualities of the New England and southern colonies. With a good growing season and rich land, farmers there could grow large amounts of food.

• The middle colonies grew staple crops, or crops that are always needed. They grew wheat, barley, and oats.

• Farmers also raised and sold livestock.



Trouble in Paradise

• In the early 1700s many church leaders worried that colonists were losing their religious faith.

• These leaders wanted to bring back the sense of religious duty held by previous generations.

• Several of the colonies began holding revivals, emotional gatherings where people came together to hear sermons and declare their faith.



Great Awakening

• Because of the church’s work many colonists experienced “a great awakening” in their lives.

• This Great Awakening reached its height in the 1730s and 1740s. It was a widespread Christian movement involving sermons and revivals that emphasized faith in God.



Jonathan Edwards

• Jonathan Edwards was one of the most important leaders of the Great Awakening. He was a pastor of the Congregational Church in Northampton, Mass.

• His dramatic sermons urged sinners to seek forgiveness for their sins or face punishment in Hell forever.



George Whitefield

• British minister George Whitefield came to America and held revival from Georgia to NE.

• Whitefield became the most popular minister of the time.

• He inspired many to find their faith in Christianity.



Old and New Lights

• Not everyone believed in these new religious ideas.

• Eventually many congregations divided because of disagreements.

• New England traditionalists were called the “Old Lights” and the followers of the Great Awakening were called the “New Lights.”



Frontier and the Awakening

• The Great Awakening increased church memberships, particularly among Baptist and Methodists.

• The Great Awakening was also influential on the frontier, where traveling preachers held revivals in small towns. There were few churches on the frontier. Therefore, these ministers were important to settlers.



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