African-American Women’s Mate Criteria: A Contributing Factor to the Decline in African American Marriages Eric P. Martin Social Science 101 Professor Lynnel Kiely November 2009       Abstract                 The research for this paper was to test the hypothesis: If the mate selection criteria among African-American women for education and income level was at parity or higher for their potential marriage partner, then this maybe a contributing factor to the decline in the rate for African-American marriages. The results of the questionnaire strongly suggest that the hypothesis could be correct for a particular age group of college educated, African-American women between the ages of 25-35.               Introduction                 Over the last several decades, the marriage rate for African-Americans has declined dramatically. The percentage of black women getting married dropped from sixty-two percent to thirty-one percent between 1950 and 2002 (Ebony, Nov. … Read entire article »

It’s 4:12 a.m. And I haven’t been able to sleep for the last five hours. While I’ve been up, I’ve been jotting down ideas, listening to my thoughts race around my head as I think of ideas to implement when school lets out in two weeks. One of the ideas that I thought I would do is take one idea and implement it daily to see the results. However, I want to implement several ideas each day. Stacking ideas, one on top of another to see the result in launching my new business. This web 2.0 isn’t going anywhere. And there is just a number of companies, and careers launching because of it. It’s time to adapt to a wave of new technology and change. I learned this from my … Read entire article »

The plan is quite clear, save, save, save. I’m confident that I can earn a living trading after this week. I just need to not overleverage my trades. I was able to get back my loss over the course of several days which brought me back to zero again. And the week isn’t over. … Read entire article »

Today I felt like writing. School is three weeks away from being over. It’s been a long and hard journey. I’ve decided to take a break to focus on making money. This is the same predicament I found myself in when I went to guitar school in my twenties. I was unprepared financially to just study in school. This makes all the difference in whether a student succeeds in school. Achieving an education has always been tough for African Americans. Especially males.  Only twenty-three percent of African-Americans have a bachelor’s degree. Without the help of caring parents who know the value of education, black children (like myself) go into the world ill prepared. I’ll be taking at least a year off to save up to I can really focus on my studies … Read entire article »

Rather than think about how much I made (or loss) I thought it would be good to write down my + or – points per trade. 11- 19 -09 – 7:35 – 8:08 am.  + 7.1 pips. … Read entire article »