ANDREW HENDERSON

ASSIGNMENT

A lady (name withheld) gets her hair braided by students at a back to school celebration in Remington Community, Baltimore.
  
Paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division Nate Schaming, 22, of Toronto, Ohio, looks out at New York City on the World Yacht on Saturday August 2, 2008. Walter Reed Army Medical Center sent 22 severely wounded veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to New York City for the weekend.
   
A group of kids play handball at John Allen Payne Park in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY on June 11, 2008. Handball was introduced at the end of the 19th century.
     
  
Police move the body of Habib Marzi, 40, of Springfield, Va., who was unconscious after being beat up inside Crazy Charlie’s in Virginia Beach, Va., on Sunday August 5, 2007.
  
Two students of Reachout Village Ministries stand in the doorway of the room used to cook in. Reachout Village Ministries is a Christian ministry for orphans, most of whose parents died of HIV/ AIDS. Located outside Kampala, Uganda Reachout Village Ministries offers housing and schooling for around three hundred children, grade one to seven.
   
A houseboy of Sye Ali holds a goat in the air before it is sacrificed and given to the poor at the end of Sye Ali’s wedding ceremony in Hyderabad, India.
     
  
Anthony Gomes plays music for the crowd of 2000 at the 13th Annual Hot August Blues Festival as Henry Tate, of Columbia,MD, listens to the blues, which gives him energy.
   
Wind turbines in Ringkoben, Denmark.
   
Family members of Esmin Green cry during the funeral at Jesus is Lord Church in Brooklyn, NY on Sunday July 6, 2008. Ms. Green, 49, an immigrant from Jamaica and devout churchgoer, had been admitted to the hospital’s psychiatric ward on June 18. Twenty-four hours later, having yet to be seen by hospital staff, she collapsed onto a waiting room floor, where she lay, ignored, for nearly an hour. She died soon after.
     
  
Patty Flanagan, 49, of Upper Marlboro, Md., waves an American flag as her son T.J. Flanagan is deployed on the aircraft carrier Enterprise at Pier 12 of the Norfolk Naval Station on Saturday July 7, 2007. The Enterprise will lead a strike group to the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf for a 6-month deployment.
  
Ray Quinones, 36, of Ponce, Puerto Rico, and Anac Cruz, 12, of Hatillo, Puerto Rico, left to right, cheer during the 51st Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday June 8, 2008.
  
Seeltou Kasim, of Khammam, India, sweeps rice into a pile while working at a rice facility. Kasim works an average of 11 hours a day in a facility that cleans, separates, and packages rice, the staple food of southern India, for the 2.6 million people living in Khammam.
     
  
Fans of Sonic Youth watch as they play the last show in McCarren Park Pool. McCarren Park Pool hosted Sonic Youth as the final concert on Saturday August 30, 2008. The City Department of Parks and Recreation plans to begin a $50 million renovation project which would reopen it in 2011 as an actual swimming pool again.
  
  
Jim Backus, of Suffolk, Va., stands towards the front of the Hunter 34 sailboat named Fourplay as it hits a patch of bad weather on Wednesday June 28, 2007.
     
  
Candace and Natalie, who have been dating for 3 months, spend almost every minute together. "Every relationship with a guy I felt inferior. The difference is there is someone that feels the same way you do; someone who won't just sit there; someone being an equal with you. I have been able to come out of my shell," said Natalie.
   
Family members kiss and touch a picture of Staff Sgt. Alex Jimenez. A funeral procession for Staff Sgt. Alex Jimenez, whose body was found 14 months after he was captured during an ambush in Iraq, goes down 37th Ave. in Queens, NY on Thursday July 31, 2008.
   
A man waits for another drink at a bar in Liberty, N.Y.
     
  
Street mechanic Mike (last name withheld) changes the brakes on an SUV outside Autozone on Atlantic Ave. Several street mechanics work underneath cars parked on the side of the road, installing parts newly purchased by the store’s customers.
  
Emiliano Rangel, 34, and his daughter, Arely, 4, of Norfolk, Va., lean on a police car holding water given out at the end of a federally funded program run by Officer Juvenal Valdez, of the Norfolk Police Department, that is intended to better its relationship with the city’s Hispanic community, including illegal immigrants.
   
Dennis W. Horton, 40, of Franklin, Va., and his daughter, Alexandria Macia Marie Horton, 5, pray at Sycamore Baptist Church on Wednesday July 25, 2007 for the children killed in an accident on US Rt. 58 near the Pitchkettle Rd. exit in Suffolk, Va., yesterday. Horton pulled a child from the car that left 5 dead on the scene. The child passed away today. "I was depressed to see a whole family in a wreck like that," said Horton.
     
  
A crowd forms outside Rowe Memorial School in Hyderabad, India, in protest over not being allowed into a school celebration. Rowe Memorial School is an expensive private school surrounded by slums in Hyderabad.
   
A farmer orders around workers in the cassava garden outside of Kampala, Uganda.
  
Lucy Karadontes, of Jeffersonville, N.Y., laughs and remembers the site where the Woodstock Music Festival took place.
     
  
Crosses line Kicukiro Nyanza genocide site in Rwanda where bodies are buried in mass graves.
  
Bobby Parish, of Bowling Green, KY, talks in his bedroom, which is lit by a candle. Parish's electricity was turned off because his Social Security check did not arrive in time for him to pay the bill.