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Honorary Doctorate of Science from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia in 2010, the De Pizan Honor from National Women's History Museum in 2014, the NCWIT Pioneer in Tech Award in 2015, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, the Silver Snoopy award from Leland Melvin, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Arthur B.C. Walker II Award, and the Presidential Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia in 2016. The most important of…

What do the songs “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” and “There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow” all have in common? They were all co-written by Richard and Robert Sherman (Kamp). While Robert Sherman died a few years ago, Richard is still alive. But without Robert, Richard would not be where he is today. So to start out, the Sherman brothers were the sons of the famous Tin Pan Alley singer Al Sherman (Harvey). This means Richard and Robert both grew up with music…

expected, method of influencing a child's behavior. It's a subtle method that starts when children can't even walk yet. At first the toys a child is given are gender neutral toys such as The Little Tikes Go and Grow Lil Rollin Giraffe, Fisher-Price Lil’ Snoopy, and The Playskool Poppin’ Park Elefun Busy Ball Popper. These toys are slowly replaced with more gender specific toys like Thomas The Tank Engine and Minnie Mouse and the Smile & Style Mirror by VTech as babies grow older. These toys are…

John W. Young Our country is filled with interesting people, one of these people is Astronaut John W. Young, also known as John Watts Young. John Young was selected by NASA to be an astronaut in the September of 1962, thus beginning his long career. Young has been on many flights including Gemini 3 on March Twenty-third, 1965 , this was the first Gemini mission to be manned. On July 18, 1966, launched Gemini 10 carrying Young and another astronaut named Michael Collins. The primary purpose of…

Have you ever walked onto a nursing unit and looked around wondering who was who among the nursing staff with all the many different colors and prints located throughout the floor. Have you ever been a patient yourself and had several hospital staff enter your room only to be confused of who has come into your room or who the nurse was that was taking care of you? That is what many patients and family members have continue to encounter with all the increasing health care. Today’s dress codes…

the Stone’s apartment in the 1970 short story “Neighbors” by Raymond Carver. Bill and Arlene Miller have agreed to watch the apartment of their neighbors, Jim and Harriet Stone, and their activities inside their friend’s living space is outright snoopy and slightly voyeuristic. Carver compliments the Miller’s outlandish behavior with a minimalist format that focuses the audience attention on the Stone’s household items, like a clock. The reoccurring…

As Bobby Jones once said “Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots- but you have to play the ball where it lies.” Golf is not your typical sport. Golf is something I would lose myself in. Most importantly it taught me how to grow up by a code of ethics. Every time I took the course I learned a new lesson whether, it was in my personal game or personal life. A golf club carries a culture of it’s own and I truly…

a) Degradation ceremony/ pg. 200: a term coined by Harold Garfinkel to refer to a ritual whose goal is to remake someone’s self by stripping away that individual’s self- identity and stamping a new identity in its place. Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) is a gang organization that commits its members to identify with the gangs collective mentality and dogma. To achieve gang conformity, MS-13 uses many rites of passage to prove that a prospective member is able to serve in the gang. These degradation…

Worth All the Time and Money? According to “The Mall Phenomenon,” the average person spends $330.82 in a shopping mall, which is an increase from past years where the average was $316.80. The article also claims that on average, a person will visit a mall 3.4 times per month and stay for 1 hour and 24 minutes. People tend to go to stores and spend time and money as a stress reliever, which can help and hurt you. In this essay, I will be talking about the “Grand Mall Seizure” along with…

Peter Griffin, from the hit Television show Family Guy, once stated in an episode, “I do not know who you are. I do not know what you want, but I have a very particular lack of skills. I will never be able to find you, but what I do have is two dollars and a Casio wristwatch. You can have one of them.” When Peter states that he has a “lack of skills” he is adding humor to the show. The show, Family Guy, is full of comical humor from jokes to reenacting scenes. Family Guy was created by Seth…