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    My auto-ethnography encompassed a three-day span from last Thursday afternoon to Saturday afternoon. During this time, I visited Boston to participate in the celebration of a rabbi’s installation as the first woman to lead New England’s largest Reform Jewish Synagogue (Temple Israel of Boston). As points-of-reference: this particular rabbi was also the person who oversaw my conversation to Judaism and was particular influential during some of my tumultuous life events. Additionally, I have remained close to both the Temple as an institution and its congregation. (For example, I will be traveling up there again later on in the year to do some teaching.) So I traveled to Boston - the same city/region where I received my undergrad and Masters degrees – with both literal and figurative baggage.…

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    In texts authors can use literary elements to affect a story's meaning and to help make connection to readers. Literary elements include many things, such as, imagery, hyperboles, similes, metaphors, connotative meaning, emotion, and shades of meaning. These elements help authors to create new depths of meaning in a various amount of ways, some texts that use literary elements to impact meaning and tone are, "I Have A Dream", "38 Witnesses", and "Night". To begin, one text that is affected by…

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    your specific angle) For my final project, I will follow up on the city council meeting from Dec. 19, 2014, between the Committee on Education and Boston University President Robert Brown that focused on diversity in the Boston University community. I will use that angle to discuss the changes in the school’s diversity since 2014. B. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: (write one sentence demonstrating you have thoroughly scrubbed your angle and it has not been the subject of news coverage in the past 1-3…

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    why I chose this topic University of Massachusetts Amherst has been joined “The Real Food” challenge for three years. I’ve seen the posters and boards towards “The Real food” challenge in the dinning hall but without knowing what “the real food” stands for. After doing the research. I getting to know that “Real Food” means the food is grown locally, heathy and sustainable. This year UMass dining has been ranked number 1 in the nation by Princeton Review. According to the Princeton Review…

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    Shreveport, LA (Clinical, One Year Rotation) Bachelor OF GENERAL STUDIES: Business Administration | MAY 1985 | Louisiana Tech University, RESTON, LA | GPA 3.76 Associate OF ARTS, GenerAL STUDIES: BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION | MAY 1984 | Louisiana Tech University, RESTON, LA | GPA 3.76 Military Technical TRAINING Electronic Systems TECHNOLOGY | May 1987 | The Air UniverSity - Community COllege of the Air FORCE | Maxwell AFB, LA | GPA 4.00 L30ZR2825 24, TEMPEST NONSTOP and HIJACK Testing ? 60…

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    Massachusetts 1 of the original 13 colonies and one of the six New England states and is very important to the history of America and is a relatively wealthy state. Massachusetts had the thirteenth-highest gross state product in 2005. Although this state is very small, it is one of the most populated states in the US. Boston is the state capital and the largest city with a very important seaport. Massachusetts is also the homes to some of the most important people in our history today like John…

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    awards including Best Performing Large Waste Water Plant. Additionally, in the past 10 years they have passed all inspections by the EPA and DEP and have made many energy improvements. As a result of these energy improvements, they were awarded the Massachusetts Energy Improvement Award in 2011. (http://www.lynnwatersewer.org/about.shtml) Beaches Science Advisory Committee is a special project of Save the Harbor/Save the bay and the Executive Office of Energy and the Executive Office of Energy…

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    Boston Marathon Bombing On April 15th 2013, during the running of the 117th Boston Marathon, the city of Boston experienced a tragic event. Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, brothers from the former Soviet Republic are the alleged suspects who perpetrated this tragedy. After a massive search, they were both identified. Tamerlan was killed while being shot by the police and Dzhokhar was captured and is awaiting trial. They allegedly used homemade explosives containing BB like pellets and nails…

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    Title: The Non-Tenured Track Faculty: Supporting Faculty Development The Non-Tenured Track Faculty (NTTF), the contingent, also known as the adjuncts, teacher assistants, clinical faculty, part-timers, lecturers, and instructors are considered the majority of US faculty today. However, unlike Tenured/Tenured Track Faculty (T/TTF), NNTFs serve in unreliable, unsupported positions with little employment stability and assurances for academic freedom (American Academy of University Professors…

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    unconstitutional. However, The Boston the Board of Education under Louise Day Hicks repeatedly ignored orders from the Massachusetts Board of Education to comply with the recently passed Racial Imbalance Act (which stated all schools in Massachusetts must not have a white population exceeding 50% of the whole school). The Boston Board were eventually given a deadline by which they had to reform their system or else their funding would be cut. However, before this could happen, the NAACP…

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