which can be accessed in the WIC data folder at the administrative computer. The Human Resources department has asked that all employees complete a certain number of education hours for the year. Lydia said that the policy and procedural binder at Williamsburg needs to be revised since the auditors may visit that site for the upcoming site review. Tessie said that employees who swap with one another for working on Saturdays must notify the office manager in…
Sharing the American Dream On its fourth season with CBS, 2 Broke Girls, came to television at a time when it was needed. In 2011, America had been faced with the economy taking a downward spiral and American viewers started to possibly find the millionaires and their Kardashians unappealing. Max Black and Caroline Channing, the two female protagonist of the show, share the character arc and ideology of working hard to achieve what they desire. The two young ladies, both in their mid-twenties,…
first day at TNCC. The sun was shining through my window reassuring me of a new day, it was a perfect day to start a new adventure. I made sure to wake up early enough to not battle the craziness of the traffic because I live in Williamsburg, and I need to drive from Williamsburg to Hampton to attend my ENF class. I felt excited and the butterfly in my stomach, and i quickly lost my appetite. I could not eat breakfast. These things brought back memories to my first time at college in Morocco.…
Horatio doubted Francis, so Horatio sent Francis on a mission to take command of the Williamsburg Militia in the Pee Dee area. Just because he was in charge of the Williamsburg area, the Americans lost the battle that Horatio took charge of. In 1781, Nathanael Greene ordered Francis Marion and Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lee to attack Georgetown. The two were unsuccessful. Then,…
At the Capitol building every year there is a naturalization ceremony during where a new group of immigrants become Americans, continuing a process begun in the building nearly 300 years ago. At the ceremony people from around the world come to Williamsburg at the Capitol building to become citizens of America. The neutralization is held at the Capitol building because it is important for immigrants to learn about how our country was developed and where it was established. Also, it was where…
The Townshend Duties of 1767 brought about trifling understandings harming the economy of the British and prompted the 1770 Townshend Duties rescind (The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2015). There was far reaching strain and roughness as an aftereffect of seizing of boats and the things by the traditions pioneers. The demonstration likewise saw to it that the British East India organization was the main organization…
This interactive narrative is an interactive documentary short that follows Marta Aviles, a longtime resident of Brooklyn’s Los Sures neighborhood in South Williamsburg, NY. Living there for nearly forty years, she now faces challenges with the rapid gentrification of her neighborhood. This piece documents her journey in deciding whether to stay or to leave her home. The narrative was broken down into the following structure: Introduction, The Street, The Stairs, The Apartment, The Listing, Part…
studied law on his own. In 1760, he appeared in Williamsburg to take his attorney's examination before Robert Carter Nicholas, Edmund Pendleton, John and Peyton Randolph, and George Wythe, and from that day forward, Patrick Henry's story is inseparable from the stream of Virginia history. Powerful words resonated In 1763,…
important. And that extra information usually took about a paragraph or two to describe that person. For example, Hibbert wrote, “In Williamsburg, Virginia, a young lawyer, Thomas Jefferson, came into prominence. The son of a surveyor who had left him comfortably off, Jefferson, already something of a classical scholar, had entered the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg in 1760…” (26). Another weakness in the book was the language. Because a British author wrote the book, the way they…
given the opportunity. We lived in one of the poorest area of Santiago and I would see the struggles of the people around me. The fact that I never wanted to live that way again, shaped who I am today. After a long process, our family ended up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. During this time my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer and my mother suffered a heart attack. This prompted my parents to move back home, which meant I had to move back as well. I returned to the US to go…