Notebooks

School in Tanzania in village we called Nduta. I remember that day just because that was the day I was waiting for with great eagerness. Every day I was see other kids went to school, dressed in their school uniforms with notebooks. I started think that one day I would pack my notebooks, wear school uniforms and go to school to read like other kids. An old qualification for joining the first class was different. All the kids brought to school there were supposed to stand and hold their hand on…

Rachel Guest January 25, 2018 CHM 3050-01: Chemistry Seminar The Mystifying Case of Bengü Sezen In 2000, Bengü Sezen started her doctoral studies at Columbia University. “For her doctoral work at Columbia, Sezen claimed to have developed a method for selectively activating C-H bonds, a technique commonly used to functionalize hydrocarbons” (Schulz, 2011). This research topic became the basis for many of the papers she and her mentor, Dalibor Sames published in the Journal of the American…

Several years ago I recall hearing Steve Harvey, yes that Steve Harvey, the comedian, television, and radio show host say “the best lessons are the ones that are bought.” I have always interpreted this comment to mean the most memorable lessons are frequently the product of the distress, torment, and heartache we experiences as a result of decisions we have made or the unanticipated and uncontrollable challenges of life. The suffering we experience as we grapple with the consequences of our…

The world since the Golden Age of Renaissance has changed drastically in the past five hundred years. However, there are still a myriad of influential modern day Renaissance men (and women) existing in the world. Although the set of criteria that the world uses to define a Renaissance man is different from the past, the definition of humanistic virtues and ideals itself has not changed. Paul Allen, one of our leading businessmen, is a definite apotheosis. His versatility allowed him not only to…

geology, physics, music, military technology, aeronautics, and a wide range of other fields, not only stood without peer in his own time, but were strikingly prescient for the distant future. He recorded his forward-looking ideas in thousands of notebook pages, known as codices. He produced one codex entirely on flight in 1505-1506, the Codex on the Flight of Birds. Among the many subjects Leonardo studied, the possibility of human mechanical flight held particular fascination. He produced more…

A couple of weeks ago I took a seventh grade student out for frozen yogurt to ask a different questions about bullying, what kind of anti-bullying methods she experienced in her school, her opinions about those methods, and her ideas about different approaches. Though this was one middle school student out of the millions of middle schoolers in America, I interviewed this seventh grader in hopes to see these things from a bystanders eyes and gain insight from a whole new perspective. In this…

Identical twins are when one egg separates and becomes two. However because their genes are the same they will still lead same lives. As is the case with this article: Twins can be freaky, but we all understand why they're so disturbingly alike: Not only do they share the same DNA, but they also tend to grow up surrounded by the same people, playing with the same toys, and doing the same activities. They were most likely traumatized by the same cartoons and disappointed by the same birthday…

One, two, three, four, five, and the list goes on. I had a notebook in the third grade in which I would write numbers from one and beyond. Unfortunately that list was never finished; the fact that one could begin to write numbers from the day they were born to the day they would die and would not even be close to infinity is both scary and fascinating to me. This blew my eight year old mind. It sparked this passion in me to expand my knowledge of numbers, how they work and why they worked. Now…

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 -1519) Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452 near the Tuscan town of Vinci, the unlawful son of a local lawyer. He was apprenticed to the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence and in 1478 became an self-governing master. In about 1483, he moved to Milan to work for the ruling Sforza family as an engineer, sculptor, painter and architect. From 1495 to 1497 he produced a mural of 'The Last Supper' in the refectory of the Monastery of Santa Maria.…

The Marjory Collins’s Photograph "Reading lesson in African American elementary school in Washington, D.C., 1942" is a photograph about the school in District of Columbia. This picture is meant to show the viewers that as the economy of our country go down during the World War II, the school was populated by black and the schools were being divided into two groups of peoples, Black and White. During the first half of the twentieth century, there were not so many schools like now a days, and…