Works Progress Administration

tonight; her dad’s client would have no problem proving laundering and finding where her date had buried the paper trail. “He was my ride here, actually.” She admitted, wincing. The plan for getting home was still a work in progress; Weevil’s face said it was suddenly more progress than work. “Was there a question in there, Veronica Mars?” Weevil blinked down to her, endlessly amused. Somewhere along the line, doing this girl favors started feeling like helping a friend. “There was,…

I feel like I might jinx myself but it fairly rare that I take sick days from work. Last year I lost my voice so I took three days off because a teacher without a voice is not very useful. Ben did a great job of looking after me and would text when leaving his work to check if I needed anything picked up. (He wouldn’t call because I couldn’t talk!) I feel that smoking is now a very anti-social habit and not one of my extended…

The trick is merely to know when the progress is good enough. I will never reach perfection as perfection is not tangible in the arts, and writing is an art. Logistically, a photograph, a painting, a song, a poem, or an essay could be flawless. Theoretically, though, it could be lacking in areas…

MISSION 3 Scripts and Dip is a Denver based guerrilla theatre group whose aim is to build a community of local performers, artists and consumers. Scripts and Dip intends to achieve this development of community through the reading of new produced play scripts by working actors for live audiences at local watering holes of all kinds. Scripts and Dip is a modern approach to dramatic art that fuses the power of a well written script with the fun atmosphere of a local pub’s happy hour. Both…

A few weeks ago we watched the film, Including Samuel. It is a documentary on the complexities of inclusion. It also touched on how inclusion works, and how more schools are starting to try and incorporate inclusion. While it is still a work in progress, inclusion is becoming a big part of life. Despite the fact the film was not perfect, they did a good job of stating how important and beneficial inclusion is. The film starts out with a little boy named Samuel, and his family. They explain…

developing classroom learning environment that are learner-centered, knowledge-centered, and assessment -centered (p 14)". According to the star sheet, students will learn more as well as being accountable for completing class work if they can connect with the content of the work being taught to their learning and experience (p14). When assigning appropriate task, the task is suitable for the the student on all levels; such as content of background, motivation, the type of instruction, and time…

parents paid into the mill levy on a yearly basis. Yes, there was a difference in cost, depending where in the city the students lived. Even though this was true, all students received basically the same educational standards. Carpenter said, “That progress was the rule in public education and equals a better society. That it gave a road map to educators of the day.” There is definitely a debate going on whether he was right or not. Standardization did improv,e but not every student fit…

Youth Administration allowed teenagers to obtain jobs to make money. Teenagers worked long hours, but were able to help support their families and provided enough money for them to stay in school. The National Youth Administration provided much needed relief to entire families as teenagers were able to find jobs to boost family incomes and to receive an education. Another example of the relief provided by the New Deal is found in Document 6, where evidence is given on how the Works Progress…

Roosevelt took office, he passed a series of documents called the New Deal. These documents were created in hope to push recovery in America and pull it out of the Great Depression. This New Deal supplied workers with jobs by creating government funded works projects to help better develop the country. Many of these jobs were specifically directed to artists. Before this time never before in history have artists been considered "workers". But because of the New Deal, many new programs were…

primary role is in the household. The purpose of The Works Progress Administration was to employ millions of individuals for projects specifically in the construction sector. However, this poster implies that a woman had no place in the work sphere outside of the household. Furthermore, the fact that it states that the job has “good pay, good meals, good surroundings and working conditions” indirectly hints at the terrible working conditions in most work environments during this time, as a…