Communications since that is the major I am sticking with.There are many jobs that can come out of being a communications major. Communications is very broad, so there are many possibilities. One career that I would enjoy would be Vice President of Public Relations and Corporate Communications. This is a board level executive who oversees all the official messaging. This position provides coaching points to relevant managers on media inquires. They would also work with marketing and branding…
celebrate a 9-year anniversary working in a public library setting. When I started my library career in 2006, it was only a part-time job for me. I worked various second jobs in tandem with my page position at a small branch of a public library system while attending the University of Tennessee. I obtained my Bachelor of Arts with a major in psychology from UT in 2009, and decided ultimately, that I wanted to pursue full-time employment with the Knox County Public Library (KCPL). A former…
I always say that the public relations program at Mount Saint Vincent University found me, rather than the other way around. I have always had a passion for writing, public speaking and media, but as of my senior year of high school my exposure to public relations was limited to Samantha Jones from Sex and the City. As a 17-year-old that was torn between journalism and advertising, I followed a neighbour’s advice to research the field of PR. I quickly found that the profession is about so much…
life than become a Public Relations Director, so I can look out for people all the time. Reputation always matters, no matter what anyone says. If you have a bad reputation people are less likely to use your brand, be friends with you, vote for you, etc. Although it is just the beginning of my education, I am on my way to becoming a PR and the best question to ask is: How can I become successful in PR? Public Relations is the management of media that determines how the public will function and…
writer, and teacher, in his essay, “Aria”(1981) argues that the education of bilingual disadvantaged children separates their private and public life, which is detrimental because it delays their development, entrance into public life, and assimilation. Rodriguez utilizes the juxtaposition of the languages of English and Spanish to establish his idea of the public and private life of bilingual children. In addition, Rodriguez displays the feelings exerted by bilingual children when using their…
The peoples voice does matter and is presented in a variety of ways, through public speaking, media, partitions, are a few ways the peoples voice is heard. This step includes the executive order, budgets, laws, and rules and regulations and other factors that would affect the policy if it were put into place. (Wikland, 2014) Implementing Public Policy Policy implantation occurs when the law has passed. This is a crucial point in the process, many times the…
I grew up in Berkeley, California. A city that is located next to two major cities in the US, contains one of the top public universities and has over a 100,000 people. Going to a high school of over 3,500 students has exposed me to a variety of cultures, political beliefs and opportunities. Each day I was in class I would learn something new from those who surrounded me. To list a few examples one girl was a professional ballroom dancer, one would train horses with the family at the local race…
prevented early intervention if the patients did not visit a primary care provider (Liberman, 2011.) Free clinics are mostly nonprofit organizations that “provide medical, dental, pharmacy, and mental health services or prescriptions” to uninsured patients (with any immigration status) and rely heavily on volunteers, who are physicians, medical students, or other medical professionals. “Free clinics provide care to underserved communities, yet collaborative partnerships with such organizations…
would be a good idea to sell all my books so I could go shopping for new cloths to conform. This one moment has formed and altered me as a reader forever. Reading and our experiences with books give us new meaning to life. In Frederick Douglass’s, “Learning to Read” and Richard Rodriquez’s “Aria” and in my own life experiences…
constructs we have today of white privilege, perpetuated by the media and political propaganda, seemingly praises white people for the same work that criminalizes minorities. This distinction between the way graffiti and street art is perceived by the public is emphasized even more with the recent waves of gentrification happening all across American…