Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous
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Known as a Significant Voice in Modern Literature, a Poet of the Year, 2020 Black Author Matters Winner, 2025 Black Authors Matter Children Book Awards Nominee for his books, and International Impact Awards' Author of the Year Nominee
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The Sins of Money
Money can do a lot of good but it is the evil done with the money that causes the most troubled. Money is a concept and it goes beyond race, class, age, and gender. Oppression is a common tool of money. Some people with money believed that they can walk on whoever they please because they have not found anything equal to the weight of money. This is why we had so many rebellions against the law and order. The law covers an offense for the price of money. Money has no limit because our society empowers money as an influence. If you can influence the right people then you can win any case. We have equated money to above the law. We must move steps toward controlling the influence of money in politics and society as a whole. Money degrades race, class, age, and gender even though it can avail it. It sets a standard and takes away all humanity making everything able to buy at a price even life. When one life is above the other life because of money in the eyes of the law, then justice is detoured.
By Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous6 years ago in Motivation
The Data Science Revolution
It was a paper airplane made by my Second Grade Teacher that inspired me as an inventor to think outside the box and build Integrity Intrigue Innovation Inc. and my mother's budgeting genius that made it possible.
By Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous6 years ago in 01
Healthcare in America
We are at a crossroads in healthcare. We have to face devastating cuts. Our very way of life is at stake. It is gonna take some preventative thinking and innovative way to deliver effective healthcare for a reasonable price. We know in research when we cut around the corner, the whole research becomes invalid. We have to start from the beginning. It is the same way in healthcare. All professionals must be involved in the process for the process to work. Nurses and doctors and even secretaries have to be involved so that healthcare becomes effective in doing their job to make sure all patients have a long enduring fighting chance for their health. This may importantly include their families. We need the support of families and close friends to help interpret the risks and benefits and help in decision-making. America is divided into healthcare along three lines, the poor ineffective system costing billions of dollars, the temporary system that lasts as long as there is money, and the wealthy system where there are security and possibility.
By Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous6 years ago in The Swamp
Modern Epidemics
Every doctor takes The Hippocratic Oath to not harm and ensuring that the medicine used is lifesaving. Whatever happens to our health professionals staying true to this oath that begin in Ancient Greece. It was what you could hold your doctor to and if any harm happened then they would have to explain themselves and the steps that they took to ensure the health and safety of their patient. We must end the money disruption in the health system because it overlooks and undermined the value health can bring to society, We must create a society that can trust its health professionals and listen to their evident-based answer. In this epidemic, it grows ever so imperative that we make healthcare a right and other necessities that cause poverty a right. We have the knowledge and the proven facts that these necessities lead to meager ends and we must acknowledge that. Again, we see in this epidemic that those bound by poverty suffering the most along with minorities. This is unacceptable and the government can balance out the effects and minimize them by researching and providing adequate support. We are met with one universal point of direction choosing either longevity or death. We can no longer ignore the consequences of not only diverse leadership but also ignoramus wants. Our needs must come before our wants, what we need to do right now is more important than a want for greater freedom.
By Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous6 years ago in The Swamp
Lincoln the Unifier
The war was raging yet Lincoln kept his light on the good of the union and the good of his countrymen and countrywomen. With every twist and every turn, he did not waver in his ability to negotiate. He remembered from his mother's last words, to never change and never compromise character to stay the same honest. He felt that his position gave him the greatest opportunity to use eloquence and diplomacy to get the right earning from the intense labor like a farmer, he was ever patient even with little time. This is how he educated himself, a little at a time until the heart desired more. Lincoln worked for everything he had in life and was too poor for privilege until he found himself. As president, he knew that the due season harvested will come on time. Lincoln secretly wanted to save his three living predecessors who were tortured and trapped by the Confederates. Even though he did not agree with his predecessors' stance, he believed that serving the highest office is a privilege that requires careful and dignified actions. With all-partisan set-aside, he knew that he had to act and to act quickly. Who knows what they might say about the union and who knows what they've been put through? Good, Old Lincoln answered the call because he believed that they can help him negotiate the future of America. He always thought about building America again and better including every issue that has been left out to restore the justice needed to last forever. This climax his decision to make sure that he makes the South yield to a truce because he saw how brutal their ambition was and how they dreaded the union. Lincoln had no other choice but to advance the war and keep the peace of the North, he saw that the South wanted to utterly destroy the Union and he was not going to let that happen. He remembered the belief of Van Buren who entrusted the presidency to him before he died winning his vote and support. Lincoln reminded Van Buren of the son who went to the Navy and served his country proudly. Van Buren had a son named Abraham and Lincoln had relatives in New York and it is believed that he came to New York, his relative Andrew Lincoln had a clothing company in East Rochester, New York like Washington came to Pittsford in the 16th Century. Lincoln's resolve was " That we remained one country and united but with no divisions." He knew this task would seem impossible but he did not waver in doing so making it known to his closest allies. And he knew his death would be on the line for taking the side of the liberation and using peaceful devices but also he was prepared and he prepared the union with leaders who were like him to win the nation over. He did not want to die a death in vain but a death that will bring the Union back together remembering that we need each other and that we need to be united for the good of all. That we have a mission to this land and this world to not tarry in ourselves but to avail ourselves as equal and no maltreatment or division has enough strength to divided us when too much blood united us. Lincoln kept the Radical Republicans at bay and always seeing the light manage to edge victory. For he felt each day that he is living and standing for something, it is not in vain. Lincoln believed this despite losing children and not having much of his birth family behind him but through faith and friendship enlightened the world. He was never afraid to defend friends and allies, something he learned all the time with Susan B. Anthony introducing him to supporters to win the presidency, Sojourner Truth as his personal minister who taught him about the struggles of everyday Americans. Frederick Douglass as his loyal friend who visited his house not too long after being freed, and Ulysses Grant, the general he renamed, his most faithful successor. Abraham Lincoln found friends and allies in all walks of life.
By Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous6 years ago in The Swamp
United Against All Forms of Terror
As we looked back on this infamous day, a day of dread, and a day of terror, we must be united against all forms of terror in the world. Wherever there is terror, that should be the target of America and its allies to ending that threat. As a superpower, we must recognize our strength and influence. There is no country like America and America was forged to lead the world. Our founders wanted us to show the world how to govern and to mend our destiny with nations and peoples who need us and respect us. We can no longer be blinded to our influences and we must be careful about who we allied ourselves to. With our alliances, we can free people and with our alliance, we can bound people.
By Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous6 years ago in Serve
The Unknown FDR
This book is fascinating about the 32nd President of the United States. FDR at a young age overcame so many obstacles. At a young age, he was judged on his looks and skin complexion. He had many fights at the boarding school yet he survived. In politics, FDR had been a bit divisive as a young politician. He used to work for President Theodore Roosevelt but change his direction due to a conflict of interest supporting President Woodrow Wilson. And when he staked out his political destiny, he was successful however he met defeat with dignity. It was Rochester, NY that gave FDR a fighting chance for his political future, and he thanks them in this book, which made him a powerful governor. He knew what it was like to be judge and undermined. He believed that character and faith and hope can overcome any obstacle. As President, he hesitated to recognize America's slaveholders' past, he believed in the good of America's Second President and chose him over America's Seventh President to celebrate at the White House and among his supporters. FDR knew the implications that race and political division can have on a presidency. FDR's book describes how he had to fight the supporters of Hitler before World War 2. He saw Hitler's movement persuading America and he took every measure to end the propaganda. FDR set out to do what Hilter could not do in front of the American public with his diplomacy, recognization, power, and eloquence. He showed Hilter to be 'deranged' and he deactivated him by careful, rational planning. FDR had "open the door" for America to have nearly the world as its allies. FDR allowed countries no matter how rich or how poor to join the fight and support ending Hilter's Axis and his Nazis. FDR was no stranger to working with people of diverse backgrounds and he promised them "a share in the glory" and this proves the true opposite of Hitler and his Axis. FDR rewarded the world with peace when America and its allies won. And he even believed that "enemies of war" should have a pathway for redemption and that tainted leadership should be punished. FDR believed "Thou shalt not lie" and "Thou shalt not steal", these were his keys to policy and what he expected from his family, friends, and supporters. FDR never believed that he was the smartest or cleverest, he believed that he was meant to be decisive and lead surrounding himself like President Jefferson with the greatest minds of his time, no matter gender or race. The book details how his wife, Eleanor was his "right-hand person", she would do the things that he found impossible, run the race that seemed almost unbearable, being the matriarch of a family dynasty while keeping her husband's health intact. Eleanor Roosevelt, like many of his closest friends and supporters, were the "conscious of FDR", showing him the true America, where inequalities lie and the hopes and fears of the American Public. Eleanor Roosevelt took one more step and join the oppressed as she learned from President Woodrow Wilson's wife who made decisions for her husband when he was ill. Eleanor Roosevelt reinvented the role of First Lady. No one ever knew why FDR ran for a fourth term even though they believed the third term was due to World War 2 until this book, where he explains that he asked his family. FDR's presidency was about family values, relying on their strength, building up their weakness, and maintaining love and respect.
By Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous6 years ago in The Swamp
The Other Washington's Lessons
There are other things about George Washington that we should consider when thinking about the founding father of America. There are secrets and initiatives that he left behind for us to understand him and his ideologies. It was no coincidence that he became a famed leader around the world for discovering America. He built the reputation of this country with not only military might but intellectual curiosity. He was not only a military leader to his people but a spiritual leader to them. George Washington was a former secret Baptist Minister who built the Episcopal Church and it was this strong belief that he instilled into those who believed he should lead. He kept a steady hand and did not waver because of his great faith. Yet there are other things Washington left behind for the country to do, we must in good conscience pick up the pieces and open our minds to great thinking that has left so many in wonder:
By Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous6 years ago in The Swamp
