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manuscripts, letters, and modern and historical editors of poems and letters. The funding for this archive has been provided by the Harvard Library, The Sidney Verba Fund, The Houghton Library, and the Harvard University Press. Some of the institutions that contribute to this archive are the Boston Public Library, Amherst College, Library of Congress and the Yale University Library. The primary audience of this archive are scholars especially…

During your first week of employment you should:  Register for Harvard-wide New Employee Orientation  Register for a Getting Started at FAS session, an opportunity for new staff members to come together and learn about what it 's like to work at the facility  Meet appropriate department and other colleagues  Review…

foods are not proper sources of energy for the busy and active lifestyles that students at URI endure. With this in mind, should the University of Rhode Island extend the hours of the Mainfare dining hall to make twenty-four hour dining available…

Forget everything you thought you believed about your hero. Written in 1962, Daniel Boorstin’s, From Hero to Celebrity: The Human Pseudo- Event, a classic piece of cultural criticism, comments on the rise of celebrity and the unfailing decline of the hero. Traditional heroes are believed to have reached their status because they achieved greatness or great accomplishments in their own life times. Boorstin argues that unlike the celebrity, famous people were heroic, “admire for his courage,…

In the Unlikely Event of a Water landing Tragedies such as murder and rape are thought to be horrendous crimes; acts so violent and malicious that the perpetrators must spend their lives in prison to pay their dues, but these crimes occur so often they rarely make headlines anymore. Every once in a while a big “story” will hit the news and the masses will cry out in outrage but even then the outrage dies down and the victims are forgotten. Many times there are witnesses to these crimes that do…

created by the dining service, students recognize or know little about these efforts. To establish a more well-rounded approach to sustainability, students should take a more active stance on the sustainability efforts within all dining halls at Harvard College, including Annenberg. Students becoming participating members of sustainability within the dining halls will not only create a more holistic approach but, in the process of doing so, will also teach students to act in favor of waste…

released in 2001 and directed by Robert Luketic talks about a rich blonde sorority girl by the name of Elle Woods who is a fashion major at a University in LA, who got dumped by the love of her life Warner, because he wanted to “get serious” and basically said that she wasn’t smart enough for him as in “too blonde”. To prove him wrong, Elle applied to Harvard to pursue a career in law, got accepted, and showed him that there lies a formidable brain beneath the blonde hair. Not only is this movie…

Legally Blonde 2 is about a young woman who learns, through trial and error, about the process of getting a bill passed into a law. Elle Wood travels to Washington D.C. to get “Bruiser's Bill” passed. Bruiser’s Bill is a bill that Elle wrote to help change animal testing laws after finding her dog’s (Bruiser) mom in an animal testing facility. Elle needs 218 signatures from congress to get the bill passed. Elle and her friends go through several troubles to get the votes needed by the…

Self-Evaluation In the fourth year review, according to the Copley Library Appointment, Rank, and Tenure Policy, “the candidate’s professional goals should include such evidence as a record of publication, progress in research projects, involvement in conference programs, and committee responsibilities” (p. 10). This self-evaluation provides a highlight of my accomplishments according to the four criteria and a reflection upon my strengths, my challenges, and my future plans. My aspiration…

down the definition of archives in five examples of archives. The five examples are documents, records, archives, historical records, historical manuscripts. With these example can be found in institution that are called archives libraries, record center, historical libraries and etc. Documents can be textual, graphic, photographic, and even audio and video. The important documents are to demonstrates by the way of people that seek to invent or to improve reading technology. Records are…