The Forward

Education budget cuts are hitting children’s passions in a negative way. School, teachers, and extra activities are a safe place for some children. Lynda Barry is showing how education is a safe place for children, as it was for her. School and teachers can save children from their negative home life. In Barry’s essay she shows how school was her safe place and how education budget cuts are bad. Lynda Barry’s position is that education budget cuts are bad is correct because for some children…

As we all know law, crime, and justice is more than often exaggerated on television. Like the cheesy cop on cop relationship that always seem to be a plot line in the show. Books, on the other had is a whole other argument. Books on law and crime always seem to have an angle. Whether it's romantic, or physiological it always takes on a particular angle of interest. Some books would even go so hard that they qualify more for a romantic comedy, rather than a law/justice/crime/drama novel. One book…

Today Australia is a mutli-cultural country, with a rich blend of cultures and freedom. So if Australia cuts ties with the British monarchy and becomes a republic, what real difference will it make? Will it establish the independence and recognition Australia deserves? Will it create dictatorship that Australians cannot escape? Or will it unite Australian citizens as one, with the one common interested shared – the future of Australia. A republic is a form of government in which a state is…

Stages of a Group Forming a group is a selective process in which a leader chooses individuals who will benefit from the new behaviors and interventions displayed. The common practice is that, a leader sets the tone of how the group will move forward, so being credible is very critical. On the other hand, a counselor can’t be held responsible for the outcome of the group if the proper techniques were utilized. The leader is open, trusting and exerts a willingness to model behaviors that he…

Currents of Time in The Great Gatsby A prominent theme in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the idea that time has the capability to pull an individual forward and backward simultaneously. In the 1920s, especially in the urban areas, mainly focused on in the novel, there was a major pursuit to move forward; the future was just around the corner and those who couldn’t keep up were left behind (Hutchins). “The novel, beautifully spare in its prose style, is famous for capturing the…

Leaders need to ensure that they process they use to ultimately succeed in creating organizational change is one that is clear and flexible. Establishing a define process that has a clear path forward will offer the best chance of success. Leaders would do well to ensure that need is required (Fernandez, S., & Rainey, H., 2006). In order to persuade others that change is needed, the leader must define what needs to be change, why it needs to be…

and the people of the church are the purest who will go straight to heaven. He believes that church bells are sweet and the choir is but a way to praise the great lord, when in reality everything is but the opposite and he too is taking two steps forward, and one step back and his journey through life. Brown thinks of himself as a beacon whose light is now going dark and turning to the devil’s…

typically symbolic of something. In “A Rose For Emily” her house is symbolic of how much time affected Emily. The house wasn’t cared for at all, which shows time’s effect on Emily. She is aging, but she doesn’t want to. She doesn’t want time to move forward and…

During the early 1900s, two separate nations were experiencing a revolution. The Russian Revolution began in 1917 as a result of the people’s dissatisfaction with the czar. Czar Nicholas II was overthrown by his subjects when he decided to enter World War I, despite Russia being unprepared to fight its powerful and industrialized enemies. Communist leaders within Russia soon started to gain more control. A similar event occurred in China in 1911, when revolutionaries overthrew the Qing Dynasty.…

With an eye for detail and methodical work, I look forward to diving into courses on cataloging, classification, indexing, and thesaurus construction. I would like to apply these skills to work as a catalog librarian in a special collection of a public library, academic library, or cultural institution. I…