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the effects of structural racism. My community service experience, includes mentoring/ tutoring school aged youth (ages 6-18) in the Boys and Girls Club program and organizing/ shelving books in the biographies section of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library. For…

Another week has zoomed by! The kindergartners are settling in and are busy learning school procedures and practicing self-control. We are practicing recognizing letters, sounds, and numbers. We are working on letters/sounds for Bb, (butterfly) Cc, (caterpillar) Mm, (monarch) and Ss. (smile) We are learning to recognize our classmates ' names and recognizing color words! We have 1 growing caterpillar. Ten of our caterpillars have entered the third stage of metamorphosis! We were excited…

Outside the system of the National Archives, there are other depositories of letters from POW/MIA families. One shortcut to collect such correspondence is the Laurence Jolidon papers in the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. It contains the copies of the primary sources (including over a hundred letters) he used to write Last Seen Alive (1995). Other possibilities include the personal papers of Defense Secretaries and State Secretaries. According to my talk…

Gateway is designed to create foundations for becoming a successful and effective college student. The five reflective writings encourage the examination of thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors that affect my performance and acceptance within the campus community. Regular writings provide an outlet for personal expression. The Education and Career Planning Projects are intended to help me make informed career decisions. The projects focus on self-assessment, career exploration, and goal setting.…

Since I barely have the music sense, listening and writing about jazz music was my biggest headache from the beginning of class. It is hard to use words to describe wordless music that is being heard. Yet I still learned the origin and the evolution of jazz music, its African American background and the different style it changes into. The videos playing in the class were useful to better understand the jazz music: by going over Billy Taylor’s What Is Jazz, I realized the composition of a jazz…

It was a busy road, cars would never stop unless it was a red light or other things that got the driver attention. My family went to the library, but it was not the whole family. It was just the children from my family. We were allowed to go to the library by ourselves because the library was really close to our house. When we were heading the the library, we were about to cross the big street that had the cars running non-stop on it. My sisters ran to cross the street without me and I was…

When Carnegie was young, American libraries were not free. Colonel James Anderson allowed children to use his personal library for free which strongly influenced Carnegie (“Andrew Carnegie, Philanthropist”). He desired to build libraries that were “free to the people” (Gangewere 108). Carnegie funded a library in Dunfermline, his hometown, which fulfilled a promise he made to his mother when he was young. He later built a library in Allegheny City with an art gallery, music hall…

overwriting the content in the current version, thus making it possible to determine the differences in the two versions (Microsoft). In regards to security with version control, site owners set and control permissions to lists and libraries, and the files within libraries. This allows an administrator to control access and modification permissions allowed by site users, as needed, for employees to complete their assigned…

and would not of experienced what these books have to offer if they would have been banned. The First Amendment is not just to protect the popular choices, it is to protect them all. The law does not guarantee that books will be accessible, in libraries, stores or taught in schools, Book censorship is often hidden from the public and we, the people, have the obligation to be the stewards of our First Amendment rights and continue the practice of…

English skills through positions such as document editor, interpreter and translator. As a Library Student Assistant for MacRae Library, Dalhousie Agricultural Campus from September 2015 to present, I have provided a variety of library services to students, staff and faculty at the Library’s Service Point, instructed them how to make use of the library service, kept patrons’ information confidential and assisted Library staff with special projects. As a fundraiser for Love Summer 2013 Campaign…