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Brooklyn Book Festival
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The Brooklyn Book Festival is an annual book fair held in Brooklyn, New York. It was begun in 2006 by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, however, in subsequent years the fair has expanded its scope and hosted many non-Brooklyn writers, including Joan Didion, Dennis Lehane, John Reed, Rosanne Cash and Dave Eggers. Unlike most book fairs, the Brooklyn Book Festival caters to the readership, although they also feature numerous activities. Also in 2009, St. Francis College established a biannual Literary Prize worth US$50,000 to support a mid-career writer, the winner of the prize is announced by a panel of authors during the Brooklyn Book Festival every other year in September. The festival includes themed readings, panel discussions, vendors, official website Brooklyn Book Festival on Twitter Pictures from the 2010 festival at the Los Angeles Times
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Brooklyn
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Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a Census-estimated 2,636,735 residents in 2015. It borders the borough of Queens at the end of Long Island. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U. S. behind Los Angeles, the borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves, Brooklyns official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms. The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years, the neighborhood of Marine Park was home to North Americas first tidal mill. It was built by the Dutch, and the foundation can be seen today, however, the area was not formally settled as a town. Many incidents and documents relating to this period are in Gabriel Furmans early compilation, what is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, a prelude to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. The English reorganized the six old Dutch towns on southwestern Long Island as Kings County on November 1,1683 and this tract of land was recognized as a political entity for the first time, and the municipal groundwork was laid for a later expansive idea of Brooklyn identity. On August 27,1776 was fought the Battle of Long Island, the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War after independence was declared, and the largest of the entire conflict. British troops forced Continental Army troops under George Washington off the heights near the sites of Green-Wood Cemetery, Prospect Park. The fortified American positions at Brooklyn Heights consequently became untenable and were evacuated a few days later, One result of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was the evacuation of the British from New York City, celebrated by residents into the 20th century. The New York Navy Yard operated in Wallabout Bay for the entire 19th century, the first center of urbanization sprang up in the Town of Brooklyn, directly across from Lower Manhattan, which saw the incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn in 1817. Reliable steam ferry service across the East River to Fulton Landing converted Brooklyn Heights into a town for Wall Street. Ferry Road to Jamaica Pass became Fulton Street to East New York, Town and Village were combined to form the first, kernel incarnation of the City of Brooklyn in 1834. Industrial deconcentration in mid-century was bringing shipbuilding and other manufacturing to the part of the county. Each of the two cities and six towns in Kings County remained independent municipalities, and purposely created non-aligning street grids with different naming systems and it later became the most popular and highest circulation afternoon paper in America. The publisher changed to L. Van Anden on April 19,1842, on May 14,1849 the name was shortened to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, on September 5,1938 it was further shortened to Brooklyn Eagle
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Jezebel (website)
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Jezebel is a blog geared towards women, under the tagline Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women. It was launched in 2007 by Gawker Media and is owned by Univision Communications. Jezebel was launched on May 21,2007, as the 14th Gawker blog, according to founding editor Anna Holmes, the site stemmed from the desire to better serve Gawker. coms female readers, who made up 70% of the sites readership at the time. Basically, we wanted to make the sort of womens magazine wed want to read, one of the sites guiding principles, according to Holmes, is to avoid saying misogynist things about womens weight. Tkacik was subsequently laid off in a restructuring the following October. Holmes left the site in June 2010, Jessica Coen replaced her as editor-in-chief, other current staffers include Madeleine Davies, Kelly Faircloth, Hillary Crosley, Kate Dries and Callie Beusman. Jezebel was one of six websites that was purchased by Univision Communications in their acquisition of Gawker Media in August 2016, on its first day of operation, Jezebel offered a $10,000 reward for the best example of a magazine cover photo prior to being retouched for publication. The winning entry, announced in July 2007, was a photo of Faith Hill that was used on the July cover of Redbook, Jezebel pointed out 11 different ways the photo had been drastically altered, including radically distorting Hills left arm. Redbook editor-in-chief Stacy Morrison said that their retouching of Hills photo was in line with industry standards, Media coverage of the controversy included discussion and interviews on NBCs Today show and in several other publications. In December 2007, Jezebel reached 10 million monthly views, the article also cited Ad Ages research showing that womens Internet use is outpacing mens. In 2010, Jezebel received widespread media coverage when it criticized The Daily Show for its treatment of women writers, as a result of this publicity, the site was parodied as JoanOfSnark. com on an episode of 30 Rock, TGS Hates Women. Kashmir Hill of Forbes has been critical of the blog on two occasions, in 2012, Jezebel faced criticism when it published screen shots of a video depicting a rape and some users threatened to boycott the site. Later, in November 2012, Jezebel was criticized for publicizing the names of teenagers who posted racist tweets in response to Barack Obamas re-election. In 2014, Jezebel writers revealed that the company Gawker Media failed to address a series of violent, rape-themed images and personal harassment directed to its staff, throughout the blogs existence it has faced ongoing threats of physical violence and sexual assault, due to its gender equality theme
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Warren Wilson College
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Warren Wilson College is a private four-year liberal arts college near Asheville, North Carolina, in the Swannanoa Valley. The college offers classes in a range of disciplines with Environmental Studies, WWC is known for its curriculum that combines academics, work, and service. The college is notable for its surrounding environment, the campus includes a 275-acre working farm, market garden, and 625 acres of managed forest with 25 miles of hiking trails. Warren Wilson College went through many phases before becoming what it is today, on November 30,1894, the Asheville Farm School officially opened on 420 acres, with 25 students attending. A professional staff of three offering the first three grades of elementary instruction, in 1923, the school graduated its first high school class, and the first post-high school programs offering vocational training began in 1936. Wilsons name is also on a Presbyterian church started at the school in 1925 so students, after World War II, the public education system in North Carolina improved dramatically and the need for the high school diminished, with the last high school class there graduating in 1957. Warren Wilson College was a college until 1967, when it became a four-year college offering six majors. In 1972, the National Board of Missions deeded the WWC property over to the colleges Board of Trustees, Steven L. Solnick, formerly the Ford Foundation representative in Moscow, then in New Delhi, became the Colleges seventh president in 2012. Warren Wilson Colleges seventh president, Steven Solnick, announced his resignation in October 2016, the official reason is that Solnick accepted a position to be the newest leader of The Calhoun School, a day school in New York City. In 1952, the college one of the first in the South to desegregate, when it invited Alma Shippy. Sunderland dorm residents voted 54-1 to allow Shippy to become a student, in contrast to its original student population of underprivileged mountain youth, Warren Wilson now enrolls students of many different geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds. In addition to liberal arts majors such as Biology and English. The Natural Science Seminar is the name for the undergraduate research, a masters program has also been a part of the campus since 1981 in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, which awards a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. WWC has more than 100 work crews that are supported by students who commit to working 240 hours a semester, helping to cover part of the cost of attendance. Some of them are, 3-D Studio Crew maintains the 3-D Art Studio areas, including stocking ceramic chemicals, mixing glazes and slips, aquatics Crew operates and maintains the college swimming pool. All crew members are responsible for life-guarding, pool member relations, cleaning, archaeology Crew members act as curators of the archaeological artifact collections and maintain the archaeological site on Warren Wilson campus. Crew members also develop educational programs related to the Warren Wilson College Archaeological Field School, usually, students on this crew demonstrate a strong interest in archaeology, cultural studies, or museum work. Auto Shop crew maintains campus vehicles through routine maintenance checks and major repairs, students learn to evaluate the mechanical condition of cars, learn computer analyses of engines, welding, and small-job metal fabrication
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Asheville, North Carolina
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Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is the largest city in Western North Carolina, and the 11th largest city in North Carolina, the citys population was 87,236 according to the 2013 estimates. It is the city in the four-county Asheville metropolitan area. Asheville is home to the United States National Climatic Data Center, before the arrival of the Europeans, the land where Asheville now exists lay within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation. In 1540, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto came to the area, bringing the first European visitors along with European diseases, the area was used as an open hunting ground until the middle of the 19th century. The history of Asheville, as a town, began in 1784, in that year, Colonel Samuel Davidson and his family settled in the Swannanoa Valley, redeeming a soldiers land grant from the state of North Carolina. Soon after building a log cabin at the bank of Christian Creek, Davidson was lured into the woods by a band of Cherokee hunters, Davidsons wife, child and female slave fled on foot overnight to Davidsons Fort 16 miles away. In response to the killing, Davidsons twin brother Major William Davidson and brother-in-law Colonel Daniel Smith formed an expedition to retrieve Samuel Davidsons body and avenge his murder. Months after the expedition, Major Davidson and other members of his family returned to the area. The United States Census of 1790 counted 1,000 residents of the area, Buncombe County was officially formed in 1792. The county seat, named Morristown in 1793, was established on a plateau where two old Indian trails crossed, in 1797, Morristown was incorporated and renamed Asheville after North Carolina Governor Samuel Ashe. For a time, an Enfield rifle manufacturing facility was located in the town, in late April 1865 troops under the overall command of Union Gen. Stoneman captured Asheville. Hartley, Stonemans Raid, p.362 After a negotiated departure, the years following the war were a time of economic and social hardship in Buncombe County, as throughout most of the defeated South. On October 2,1880, the Western North Carolina Railroad completed its line from Salisbury to Asheville, almost immediately it was sold and resold to the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, becoming part of the Southern Railway in 1894. With the completion of the first railway, Asheville experienced a slow but steady growth as industrial plants increased in number and size, textile mills were established and plants were set up for the manufacture of wood and mica products, foodstuffs, and other commodities. The 21-mile distance between Hendersonville and Asheville of the former Asheville and Spartanburg Railroad was completed in 1886, by that point, the line was operated as part of the Richmond and Danville Railroad until 1894 and controlled by the Southern Railway afterward. Asheville had the first electric railway lines in the state of North Carolina. These would be replaced by buses in 1934, Asheville prospered in the decades of the 1910s and 1920s and at one point was the third largest city in the state, behind Charlotte and Wilmington
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Teachers College, Columbia University
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Teachers College, Columbia University is the graduate school of education, health and psychology in New York City at Columbia University. Founded in 1887, it has been a Faculty of Columbia University since its affiliation in 1898, Teachers College is also an academic department of the university and its Ph. D degrees are conferred by the Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Consistently achieving top rankings, Teachers College alumni and faculty have held prominent positions in academia, government, music, non-profit, healthcare, in general, Teachers College has over 90,000 alumni in more than 30 countries. Forkner, E. Gordon Gee, and Chester Earl Merrow, Teachers College is the oldest and largest graduate school of education in the United States. Less than one-third of students are preparing to become teachers, although admnistratively independent, Teachers College is represented in Columbias governance structure and appoints two senators to the Columbia University Senate. In 2018, Teachers College was ranked #7 among all schools of education by U. S. News & World Report. However, Teachers College has achieved the #1 ranking in the past, Teachers College was founded in 1880 by the philanthropist Grace Hoadley Dodge and philosopher Nicholas Murray Butler to provide schooling for the teachers of the poor children of New York City. The curriculum combined a humanitarian concern to others with a scientific approach to human development. Unlike normal schools, after 1893 Teachers College required all students to have a school diploma. Its professional teacher education was considered the equivalent of the junior and senior years of college, many early students who lacked preparation for the advanced coursework first took introductory liberal arts classes, often at Barnard College. The founders early recognized that professional teachers need reliable knowledge about the conditions under which children learn most effectively, as a result, the Colleges program from the start included such fundamental subjects as educational psychology and educational sociology. As the number of children increased during the twentieth century. The college took on the challenge and instituted programs of study in areas of administration, economics, the area of developmental psychology has specially received numerous accolades. Teachers College was also associated with philosopher John Dewey who taught at the facility, from 1932 to 1939, Teachers College was home to the experimental New College for the Education of Teachers, a progressive undergraduate college. The college was closed due to a combination of growing financial deficits, Teachers College has played a role in curriculum reform efforts, such as during the New Math movement of the 1960s with its Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study program. Teachers College also houses a range of applied psychology degrees. It also houses the programs in Anthropology and it was foundational in the development of the field of Anthropology and Education. By the 1930s, Teachers College had begun to offer courses in anthropology as part of the foundations of education, by 1948 Margaret Mead started what would be a long association with Teachers College where she taught until the early 1970s
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AmeriCorps
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The program is often seen as a domestic Peace Corps. It employs more than 75,000 Americans in intensive service each year, AmeriCorps is an initiative of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which also oversees the Senior Corps and the formerly-funded Learn and Serve America. It was created under President Bill Clinton by the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993, incorporating VISTA, a third division, AmeriCorps State and National, provides grants to hundreds of local community organizations throughout the United States. The program first became operational in 1994 and has expanded over time, members may be provided modest financial compensation in the form of cost-of-living allowances, student loan deferment, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and the Americorps Education Award. Less tangible benefits include professional skill development and work experience, an internal study found that participation in AmeriCorps strengthened civic attitudes and sentiment, making members more likely to choose careers in public service. AmeriCorps VISTA, or Volunteers in Service to America, was founded in 1965 as a version of the Peace Corps. The program was incorporated into AmeriCorps and renamed AmeriCorps*VISTA with the creation of AmeriCorps in 1993, there are currently over 5,000 VISTA members serving in 1,200 VISTA programs nationwide. AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps is a full-time, residential team-based program for men and women ages 18–24, members serve at one of five regional campuses located throughout the United States. Each campus focuses efforts on states within its region but may travel to areas in response to national crises. Former campuses were located in Washington, DC, Charleston, SC, San Diego, CA, grants assist these groups in recruiting, training and placing AmeriCorps members to meet critical community needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment. Each states Service Commission dispenses funding from the Corporation for National, thousands of organizations across the nation have been awarded AmeriCorps State and National grants since the programs inception. After successfully completing their term of service, AmeriCorps State and National members may receive an Education Award of up to $5,750, the Education Award can pay for additional college or graduate school courses, or it can pay off existing student loans. Full-time members typically complete 1,700 hours of service over 11 months, these members additionally receive an allowance, health benefits. According to the AmeriCorps website, since the creation of AmeriCorps in 1993 more than 250,000 individuals across the United States have served hundreds of communities in every state of the nation. Some of the programs, organizations, and institutions partnering with AmeriCorps include Communities In Schools, Jumpstart for Young Children, Public Allies, Citizen Schools, City Year, YouthBuild. While discussion has occurred about the range and efficacy of evaluating the successes of AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps provided fiscal and personnel to support the start-up of national programs, including Public Allies and Teach For America. It also brought vital resources to established programs, including City Year, Boys and Girls Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Justicecorps, AmeriCorps is reported to increase the effectiveness of community service. AmeriCorps members take the same Oath of Service as other government employees
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MTV
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MTV is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks and headquartered in New York City. Launched on August 1,1981, the originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as video jockeys. In its early years, MTVs main target demographic was young adults and it has received criticism towards this change of focus, both by certain segments of its audience and musicians. MTVs influence on its audience, including issues involving censorship and social activism, has also been a subject of debate for several years, in recent years, MTV had struggled with the secular decline of music-related cable media. In April 2016, MTV announced it would start to return to its original music roots with the reintroduction of the classic MTV series MTV Unplugged. It was also reported that the series MTV Cribs would be making a return on Snapchat, MTV has spawned numerous sister channels in the US and affiliated channels internationally, some of which have gone independent. As of July 2015, approximately 92,188,000 US households have received MTV, several earlier concepts for music video-based television programming had been around since the early 1960s. The Beatles had used music videos to promote their records starting in the mid-1960s, CBS rejected the idea, but Williams premiered his own musical composition Classical Gas on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, where he was head writer. The series featured clips from various popular artists, but was canceled by its distributor in 1971. The channel, which featured video disc jockeys, signed a deal with US Cable in 1978 to expand its audience from retail to cable television, the service was no longer active by the time MTV launched in 1981. The QUBE system offered many specialized channels, One of these specialized channels was Sight on Sound, a music channel that featured concert footage and music-oriented television programs. With the interactive QUBE service, viewers could vote for their favorite songs, the original programming format of MTV was created by media executive Robert W. Pittman, who later became president and chief executive officer of MTV Networks. Pittman had test-driven the music format by producing and hosting a 15-minute show, Album Tracks, the inspiration for PopClips came from a similar program on New Zealands TVNZ network named Radio with Pictures, which premiered in 1976. The concept itself had been in the works since 1966, when record companies began supplying the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with promotional music clips to play on the air at no charge. Few artists made the trip to New Zealand to appear live. A shortened version of the shuttle launch ID ran at the top of hour in various forms. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles Video Killed the Radio Star and this was followed by the video for Pat Benatars You Better Run. Sporadically, the screen would go black when an employee at MTV inserted a tape into a VCR, MTVs lower third graphics that appeared near the beginning and end of music videos would eventually use the recognizable Kabel typeface for about 25 years
