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Gallaudet University Gallaudet University ― It is home to some two thousand undergraduate students and eight hundred and ninety employees (“Fast Facts”). The students walking the campus or on the sidewalks of Florida Avenue are not all that dis-similar to any other walks of life in the Washington, DC area. In fact, you wouldn’t notice a difference if you were just observing or people watching. They are a university that has multiple athletic programs, including football, basketball, and baseball…

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, has been central to American literature for over a century. He was born on November 30, 1835 in a small town in Missouri. Mark Twain is one of the most famous American literature authors of all time. He has changed the way people look at American Literature and has wrote hundreds of stories about his past childhood experiences and way of life. Twain tried to embody his virtues into the stories he wrote to help readers through tough times…

NFA loses an icon The summer of 2012 was hot and dry. In August, a branch split and fell from NFA's iconic European weeping beech tree initiating a process which led to a heart – wrenching decision. The tree was unsafe. Lindon Arborists of Hartford, who were intimately familiar with and had treated the tree for years, were called, completed an assessment, and made a recommendation to the Board of Trustees. Fagus sylvatica Pendula, the Weeping European Beech, a fixture on the campus for years…

over a week as a part of a family reunion. My dad’s from a big family and they are spread out all over the country from the east coast to the west coast. Every even numbered year we get together for a long weekend. We’ve had them in Savannah, Ga,, Hartford, CT., and we even hosted one in Detroit when I was too young to remember. Our family photo album shows proof that I was there and people have told me enough about it that I actually believe I was there. This particular year, the reunion…

The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation in 1517 when he nailed the 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg Cathedral. The most basic of Luther’s ideas were … The Bible or scripture was the source of God’s word People were saved by the grace of God (salvation comes as an undeserved gift from God). People are saved by having faith in Christ, not by any “good works” the person could have done. John Calvin preached Calvinism that stressed…

If you were a sports fan in Hartford the day of my birth you had probably traveled to Dell Rapids the night before to see the West Central Boys basketball team. The Trojans, who defeated the Quarriers 76-68, were lead by Tucker Hansen, who had 23 points (“West Central 76, Dell Rapids 68” 4C). Also from around the Sioux Empire the police were searching for the driver of a truck that hit a pedestrian. The driver of truck hit a man from behind on 31st Street North and between Cliff and Van Eps…

The phrase “attachment” was initially introduced by Bowlby in 1958. Edward John Bowlby was a British psychologist who was distinguished by his interest in children’s development and his revolutionary work in attachment theory which was the starting point in psychology. From Bowlby to Mary Ainsworth who was a developmental psychology known for her experiment The strange situation. There are different ways in which we attach to the people in their lives and how we categorise the types of…

The History of Basketball The multi-million dollar, money making game of basketball has came a long way since its humble beginning. The sport of basketball was born at a training school in Springfield, Massachusetts. For a century, basketball was played with soccer balls and peach baskets, but because of outstanding players, evolving rules and records set, basketball has became an international sensation. Basketball is enjoyed by people of all ages, has transcended gender barriers and has…

Church was a prominent figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters and his career revolved around painting landscapes. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, during the nineteenth century, and at the age of eighteen became the pupil of Thomas Cole in Catskill, New York, after Daniel Wadsworth, a family neighbor and founder of the Wadsworth Atheneum, introduced them. In May 1848, Church was…

people are able to connect with influential leaders who inspire others with their strong opinions to opt for a change in order for women to be recognized in society. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an early feminist, author and sociologist, born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1860, who encouraged women to gain independence, after suffering acute post-partum depression. Gilman was raised by her mother, Mary Perkins, and her influential aunts, after her father Frederic Beecher abandoned her at a young…