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Word Processing Literacy Skills
1,115 wordsWhat Computer Skills Do Employers Expect From Recent College Graduates? Philip Davis, Instructional Technology Librarian Rankings, Groupings, and Correlations 4 Why is this research important for librarians? 7 What Computer Skills Do Employers Expect From Recent College Graduates? Philip Davis, Instructional Technology Librarian The university is responsible for graduating students with the skills necessary to thrive and lead in a rapidly changing technological environment. Meanwhile corporate l...
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Young Adults Young Readers
926 wordsNobody but you can do it, (Blume, 2) was a famous quote written by Judy Blume in one of her famous books. Judy has written over 30 juvenile fiction books that can relate to childrens lives. Judy has worked her whole life to try and reach children by talking about reality, however, other people try and hide the young adults from what is really happening in the world. Children read Blume's books because it takes them away from the reality of their lives and into the world of her fictional characte...
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Fiedler Detests Mundt Fiedler Bundles Leamas Control
1,771 wordsThe grim, dangerous work that makes up the core of spying is displayed in exquisite and fascinating detail, in this excellent novel by John Le Carr. With the cold rain pouring down on the murky streets of Berlin, Checkpoint Charlie doesn't seem to have much to recommend it. Yet this symbol of the Cold War represents hope and freedom to those oppressed in the East and, conversely, the malignant presence of Communism to the West. In this transition zone stands Alec Leamas, a British agent waiting ...
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Daughter Of Shew Find A Cure Benjamin
336 wordsThis story is about a boy name Benjamin and his adventure. In this book there was a great city and a fire destroyed it. The only survivors were mutants that eat people. The mutants god is a librarian. Benjamin is out to find a cure for the people who live in a colony that was not destroyed but the great fire. The children of his colony are sick and 2 have died. His mission was to find a cure for these children. A man came to the colony and he told Benjamin about a girl who cures dieses. The girl...
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Book Review Of The Name Rose Truth
803 wordsImagine a medieval Benedictine monastery, with cellarer's, herbalists, gardeners, librarians, young novices. One after the other, half a dozen monks are found murdered in the most bizarre ways, and the reader very quickly finds out that the monastery, supposedly a place of piety and tranquility is the place of sin and corruption. William of Baskerville, a learned Franciscan who is sent to solve the mystery finds himself involved in the frightening events inside the abbey. This is the story of "T...
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Library Of Congress Thomas Jefferson
1,447 wordsHISTORY The Library of congress was established by an act of congress on April 24, 1800. It was originally housed in the United States capitol. The collection, which stared out small at 740 volumes, slowly increased to over 3, 000 volumes by 1814. That year, though, the British along with the capitol burned those books during the assault on Washington. To rapidly replace the collection, Thomas Jefferson offered his personal library to congress at no cost, describing the nature of his books like ...
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High School Students Library Of Congress
1,403 words... nternational, fundamentally, as a useful and well-organized book stack "encircled with work spaces. " It was designed by the Washington architectural organization of Pierson & Wilson with Alexander Buel Trowbridge as a consulting designer. The contract was completed by June 24, 1938, but the structure was not ready for use until December 2, 1938. The move of the Card Division started on December 12, and it opened its doors for production to the public in the new building on January 3, 1939. ...
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Made Him Feel Whites And Blacks
1,588 wordsThe Library Card, by Richard Wright is a strong essay on how books can affect and influence readers. Richard Wright writes that his first experience of the real world is accomplished through novels. He read an article criticizing H. L. Mencken and it tempted him to read some of his books. The article labeled Mencken as a fool. Wright wanted to know what this man had done to cause such hatred against him. I wondered what on earth this Mencken had done to call down upon him the scorn of the South....
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Author Eudora Welty Success As A Writer
1,161 wordsEdward Gibbon once said in Memoirs, My early and invincible love of reading, I would not exchange for the treasures of India. As agreed in the passage taken from the autobiography, One Writers Beginnings, author Eudora Welty is introduced to myriad books as a young child, therefore arouse an enthusiasm for reading and encourages her later career as a novelist. Welty's success as a writer is explained by her eagerness and sensitivity to literature, Mrs. Calloway's strict domination of the library...
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Assistant Chief Housing Assistance
2,505 words... sch 5423 Lead Carpenter - Steve Duncan 5422 Senior Building System Specialist - Isaac Simmons 5421 Carpenter Shop 5424 Electrical Shop 5424 After Hours Emergencies 817 - 543 - 5901 FINANCE DEPARTMENT: 101 W. Abram St. , 3 rd floor 817 - 459 - 6300 Part of the Administration group; responsible for directing and controlling the areas of accounting, cash and debt management, and purchasing; prepares the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. FAX 817 - 459 - 6315 Chief Financial Officer - Roger ...
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Internet Censorship Federal Funding
925 wordsThe internet was created in the 1960 s as a communication tool for the military so that if there was a nuclear attack the military could still communicate according to the internet censorship report. It wasn t until the 1980 s that it was opened up to the public. The number of people on the internet has grown from an estimated 56 million in 1995 to over 200 million in 1999 according to the same web site. The internet itself did not become a debatable topic until NBC ran a segment in 1994 on the ...
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Works Of Literature Library Journal
1,086 wordsCENSORSHIP IN SCHOOL IS NOT RIGHT I believe that Imposing censorship within Americas schools is not only against the First Amendment of the United State Constitution, but it is also against the very moral fiber upon which this country was founded. In an attempt to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around to remove any and all questionable works of literature from school libraries. The right to interpret the written wor...
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W E B Quot And Quot
1,551 wordsNaomi Long Madgett Poet, publisher, editor, and founder of Broadside Press. Dudley Randall was born 14 January 1914 in Washington, D. C. , but moved to Detroit in 1920. His first published poem appeared in the Detroit Free Press when he was thirteen. His early reading included English poets from whom he learned form. He was later influenced by the work of Jean Booker and County Cullen. His employment in a foundry is recalled in " George" (Poem Counterpoem), written after encountering a...
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Ptolemy Ii Philadelphus Eratosthenes Was Born Library
705 wordsEratosthenes was born Eratosthenes Eratosthenes Eratosthenes was born in Cyrene which is now in Libya in North Africa. His teachers included the scholar Lysanias of Cyrene and the philosopher Ariston of Chios who had studied under Zeno, the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy. Eratosthenes also studied under the poet and scholar Callimachus who had also been born in Cyrene. Eratosthenes then spent some years studying in Athens. The library at Alexandria was planned by Ptolemy I Site and th...
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Johann Bernoulli Royal Society
3,640 wordsGottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz was born on the July 1, 1646 in Leipzig, Germany and died on November 14, 1716 in Hanover, Germany. He was the son of Friedrich Leibnitz, a professor of moral philosophy at Leipzig. Friedrich Leibnitz was evidently a competent though not original scholar, who devoted his time to his offices and to his family as a pious, Christian father. His mother was Catharina Schmuck, the daughter of a lawyer and Friedrich's third wife. Friedrich died when Leibnitz was only six year...
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Communication Skills Public Library
732 wordsService at First Colony Elementary Mentoring I am very satisfied with myself for working at First Colony Library and I am not disappointed, as I learned many useful things, while completing service at the school. I, being an enthusiastic and active person, really appreciated this opportunity and took advantage of this place of this chance provided by this school. During my experience I learned, observed and became aware of the fact, how foreign library differ from American public. I made useful ...
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Carl Grimm Was Born Grimm Was Born Jacob
733 wordsThe Brothers Grimm Matthew Malacarne All over, the world children have grown up with the Grimm brothers Nursery and Household Tales. The 200 stories usually called Grimm's Fairy Tales, that have stories in them like Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, and Rumpelstiltskin, have been translated into 70 languages. The Grimm brothers first collected these stories, though scholars have found that the brothers often made the tales as they thought were good before they published them. To the scholars of their...
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Sexually Explicit Material Amendment Guarantees
1,373 wordsThe Internet Censorship Internet Censorship The internet has become one of the most widely used means of media in the world today. It provides people with everything from getting directions from one place to another, to downloading entire books that can be read on the computer without ever having to visit a library or bookstore. However, the internet is also host to significant amounts of sexually explicit material-as many as 28, 000 hard-and soft-core pornography sites (Warren 52). The World Wi...
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Children Young Adults
957 wordsWhy Judy Blume Never Quits? Nobody but you can do it, ? (Blume, 2) was a famous quote written by Judy Blume in one of her famous books. Judy has written over 30 juvenile fiction books that can relate to children? s lives. Judy has worked her whole life to try and reach children by talking about reality, however, other people try and hide the young adults from what is really happening in the world. Children read Blume? s books because it takes them away from the reality of their lives and into th...
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Philadelphia The Movie Philadelphia Philadelphia The Movie Andy
910 wordsThe Philadelphia The Movie Philadelphia The movie, Philadelphia, was an excellent example of the severe discrimination many people with Aids are exposed to. In this instance the main character, Andy, was also gay. Unfortunately, in our society, he was faced with a double whammy. The gay iss is controversial enough, but to compound that in the work force with having Aids would be almost unbearable for any person to cope with. Tom Hanks played Andy with a serious need to communicate to the viewers...
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