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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Melvin R Cooks

Money, Power, and Betrayal

Money, Power, and Betrayal

Melvin T. Luster Jr

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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Dealing drugs is definitely a shady illegal business. Even though it's illegal, for some odd reason it's very profitable. In low-income communities, "Some" not all African-American teens dream of achieving the "American Dream" by becoming successful in the dope game. They allow there negative surrounding to determine their future; dropping out of school to hustle and make that fast money. Milton Lusser "Dre" isn't your typical dealer. He was an honor student who faced some tough challenges going to a predominately white high school. His mother is a single-parent doing the best she can to raise him and his younger brother Lee to be respectable and hardworking young black men. She was determined to protect them from the trend taking place in their low-income neighborhood; selling drugs. With the help of his high school guidance-counselor, Milton received a four year scholarship to a college up in Fairbanks, Alaska, and this news gave his mother so much joy. He decided to major in Business Marketing with dreams of one day owning his own business. Starting off everything was going great. He was focused and stayed on top of his studies. He maintained a perfect GPA his first year, and a very promising college career seemed destined for his future. Permious Jackson, his party loving roommate, for some reason always teased him about his "Focus on school first attitude". So Milton, who's easily influenced as you'll read, and who always wanted to be a part of the in-crowd decided to change his name and personality. He went from being focus, to partying all night. He went from having good habits, to forming bad ones, and when he done this; he got sucked into a world that his mother tried so hard to keep him away from; the drug world.
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Come Fly with Us

Come Fly with Us

Melvin Croft; John Youskauskas; Don Thomas

University of Nebraska Press
2024
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Winner of the 2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space HistoryCome Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as “payload specialists” came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were chosen for an equally wide variety of scientific, political, and national security reasons. Melvin Croft and John Youskauskas focus on this special fraternity of spacefarers and their individual reflections on living and working in space. Relatively unknown to the public and often flying only single missions, these payload specialists give the reader an unusual perspective on the experience of human spaceflight. The authors also bring to light NASA’s struggle to integrate the wide-ranging personalities and professions of these men and women into the professional astronaut ranks. While Come Fly with Us relates the experiences of the payload specialists up to and including the Challenger tragedy, the authors also detail the later high-profile flights of a select few, including Barbara Morgan, John Glenn (who returned to space at the age of seventy-seven), and Ilan Ramon of Israel aboard Columbia on its final, fatal flight, STS-107.
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