...Columbia University Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England. It is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States. Columbia University, is an American private Ivy League research university. The name of the current president of the university is Lee C. Bollinger. The academic stuffs of the university are currently 3,763. 29,250 students are enrolled at present, off them 8,365 are undergraduates and 18,568are post graduates. It has a campus of total 299 acres in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City. In April 2007, the university purchased more than two-thirds of a 17 acres (6.9 ha) site for a new campus in Manhattanville, an industrial neighborhood to the north of the Morningside Heights campus. Stretching from 125th Street to 133rd Street, the new campus will house buildings for Columbia's Business School, School of International and Public Affairs, and the Jerome L. Greene Center for Mind, Brain, and Behavior, where research will occur on neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. In 2006, the university established the Office of Environmental Stewardship to initiate, coordinate and implement programs to reduce the university's environmental footprint. The U.S. Green Building Council selected the university's Manhattanville plan for the Leadership in Energy and...
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...into Columbia University, which had a 6.9% acceptance rate this year? We just got a clue thanks to Peter Jacobs at IvyGate, who discovered an online folder where students who were accepted into Columbia's class of 2017 are sharing their Common App essays. Columbia is one of hundreds of colleges that accept the Common App, a standardized undergraduate college application. One of the most daunting parts of the application is the essay, where applicants are asked to write up to 650 words about nearly any subject under the sun. Unfortunately, the Google Drive folder was deleted shortly after we discovered it. But we picked out a few noteworthy opening paragraphs, below, and you can read more about what was in the essays over at IvyGate. The 'life as a movie': Google Drive The dramatic opening: Google Drive The hipster paradox: Google Drive The extended resume: Google Drive The romance novel: Google Drive SEE ALSO: 25 Colleges Where Students Are Hot And Smart Ads by Google Ivy League Math TutorsAll tutors Ivy League. Stat, Trig, Geometry, Algebra. Free Lesson. manhattanivyleaguetutors.com Recommended for You 17 Celebrity Before-And-After Plastic Surgery Disasters 20 Scientifically-Proven Signs You're Smarter Than Average Facebook Connect Is A Huge Success -- By The Numbers 23 Secrets To Booking Cheap Flights Please follow The Life on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Julie Zeveloff on Twitter. Ask Julie A Question » Tags: Columbia University...
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...What is post-traumatic stress disorder? What can cause PTSD and how does it affect that individual and the people around them? When the subject of PTSD arises, the “average” persons’ first thoughts of PTSD are combat veterans. The fact of the matter is, PTSD has many ways of rearing its ugly face into society. PTSD is caused when an individual if any situation where they have experienced a tremendous event, whether it be through observation or have experienced the event directly. Examples that may cause post-traumatic stress disorder are: child abuse, child neglect, a physical altercation, sexual molestation, rape, combat exposure and among many other things which can include witnessing a death ( In World of Criminal Justice, Gale, 2002). Although all are serious experiences that can cause PTSD, concentration on this paper will be focused on the cause and effects of the veterans that have been exposed to combat. Combat exposure not only affects the people that are in the military but also the civilians that are directly exposed to combat. What causes post-traumatic stress disorder? The medical community has only recently recognized stress due to combat as PTSD. It did not have a name until the Vietnam War. During World War I, PTSD was called "shell shock" and as "battle fatigue" during World War II. Medical historians described PTSD-like symptoms as "Da Costa’s Syndrome" during the Civil War ( In World of Criminal Justice, Gale, 2002). In combat situations, military veterans...
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...Tyshauna F. Epps Mrs. Louise M. Brown English 101 29 June 2011 Working as a Nurse V/S Working as a Teacher As stated in the 6th edition Columbia Encyclopedia, nursing has always existed as an occupation, and recently, it has developed as a specialized profession. Teachers have been around for millions of years providing students with the proper education. Nursing is a better career choice than teaching is. Every student needs continuing education preparation to have any type of college degree. Students who become interested in nursing may want to become registered nurses or licensed practical nurses. The requirements for degree programs and licensure vary for these two groups. When training for licensed practical nurses, students study a 1-year program from technical schools, vocational schools, or community colleges. As for a registered nurses degree, students study from 2-4 years at an accredited nursing program. To become a teacher, students need to complete 4 years of study at any university. If students opt to become preschool teachers, a 2-year degree program in early childhood development must be obtained. When you choose to go into any profession, continuing education preparation is required. Nurses have more job opportunities than teachers. If you look around, nurses are needed at hospitals and nursing homes every day. With over 100,000 vacant positions and an ever-growing need for healthcare workers, the career outlook is excellent for the nursing field. More...
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...University of Phoenix Material Professional Values for the BSN Student Complete the worksheet with a substantive response to each prompt. Define each term using the course textbooks or a peer-reviewed resource. Describe how you, as a BSN student, demonstrate each value as you interact with patients and other health care providers. Provide specific examples of how your values influence your attitudes and behaviors. Each response must be 100 to 150 words. |Value |Definition |Personal Demonstration | |Altruism |The ability to lead as well as motivate others. |I hold a position as charge nurse of my unit at a | | | |local community hospital in my area. It is my job to| | | |ensure all nurses as well as patients’ needs are | | | |met. I also have weekly meetings with my hospital | | | |Chief Nursing Officer to discuss patient | | | |satisfaction numbers as well as compliance of new | | | ...
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...Reflection Paper When asked to “choose” a definition of religion that best fits my beliefs and understandings, I had no idea it would be this difficult. I have really fought with this answer internally, and although I do not necessarily agree with all the terms, I have to choose the definition by, Paul Tillich (1886–1965), German theologian, “Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.” The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations is licensed from Columbia University Press. Copyright © 1993, 1995 by Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. I decided upon this definition because if you insert “the Lord, or “God” in place of the word “concern”, then it best fits my beliefs. I understand that it does not say anything about a God or anything, but being a Christian I ultimately believe in the one and only all-powerful God. And that concern does indeed “grasped” me uncontrollably, and which gives me the “meaning of our life”. I believe that Jesus Christ my savior is the ultimate meaning of life. I was raised in church as a small child but I was ultimately able to transform my own mind, heart and soul into what I believe today. I was raised by a conservative Christian grade school teacher, who was always sure I knew what “right” from “wrong” was, even if we did not attend church. But I seem to have a strong connection to my morals...
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...a young age, making sculptures of red clay found all over North Carolina. His family finally moved to New York in 1913. Education Alston went to New York’s DeWitt Clinton High school; there he realized he had artistic talents by winning a school art prize. When he graduated from high school he became encouraged to study art, so he enrolled at Columbia University New York, Alston graduated in 1929. During his student years he was influenced by Alaine Cock who told black artists to express the African-American experience. He stated at Columbia for graduate work until 1931. Career Alston then met the Mexican Mural School including Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco who painted public art. They inspired him to paint classical public art of Michelangelo and the others. Alston also married a hospital surgeon named Myra Logan; he also got into teaching and taught artists such as Jacob Lawrence. Alston started painting portraits such as Jacob Lawrence and Dr. Martin Luther King. Awards Arthur Wesley Dow Fellowship, Columbia...
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...his practice. Encouraged by her parents to pursue her education, she began college as a physics and math major. She met her husband, Kenneth Clark, at Howard and he soon convinced her to switch majors to psychology. She graduated magna cum laude in 1938 and then spent some time working in a law office where she was able to witness first-hand the damaging effects of segregation. She soon started graduate school and had two children while pursuing her studies. Her master's thesis work was centered on the formation of racial identity and self-esteem. Her work helped pave the way for further research on self-concept among minorities. In 1943, she earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Not only was she the only black woman in the entire program, she became the second African-American to earn a doctorate from Columbia (the first being her husband). Career: After graduating, Clark found that finding good job opportunities was difficult. "Although my husband had earlier secured a teaching position at the City College of New York, following my graduation it soon became apparent to me that a black female with a Ph.D. in psychology was an unwanted anomaly in New York City in the early 1940's," she later explained. After working briefly analyzing data for the American Public Health Association, she moved on to a position as a research psychologist for the United States Armed Forces Institute. While working as a testing psychologist at an organization for homeless black girls, Clark...
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...Colson Whitehead is an esteemed novelist and essayist who was born on the 6th of November in 1969. Whitehead was born and raised in the city of Manhattan. He attended Trinity school and the prestigious Ivy League school called Harvard College. He then continued to go on and work for The Village Voice. There he wrote various commentaries on things such as music, books and television. One of his very first novels he wrote was called, The Intuitionist. The Intuitionist is about an African American elevator inspector and the trail and tribulations she encounters because of the color of her skin. This fiction piece won the Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices award and ended up being a runner-up for the Hemmingway. Colon’s next novel was called,...
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...mother always reminded her that the best way to have an independent life was to establish her own business someday. Hazel, a brilliant young lady, graduated from the Bergen School for Girls in New Jersey. In 1925, she was accepted into Barnard College in New York. She completed a pre-med program and graduated four years later with a bachelor's degree. Hazel persisted her medical studies at Columbia University to follow her career. In October, a stock market crash and economic depressions occurred, and this intruped her plans for medical school. She searched for a job, and she recieved the opportunity to work at the New York State Psychiatric Hospital and Institute in New York to become a biochemical technician, where she conducted routine analyses of medical samples. Hazel dedicated her time to skin care research, and she loved dabbling in cosmetics. In her kitchen, she created her own laboratory and invented products, such as an acne cream. In 1935, Hazel moved up to become a research assistant to Dr. A. Benson Cannon, a highly recommended dermatologist at the Columbia University Medical Center. Hazel started working for the Standard Oil Development Company in 1942, as a organic chemist, where she designed fuels for airplans and helped create a new form of gasoline for bombers during World War II. Three years past, and Hazel switched to the Socony Vaccum Oil Company, but her work remained the same....
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...looking for a wife, it was frowned upon to marry a person of another race. Sol Salinger fell in love with Miriam Salinger, of Scottish decent, despite the norms of society. However, the family did their best to hid Miriam Salinger’s background and J.D. Salinger did not even know of his mother’s decent until he was fourteen (Biography). J.D. Salinger’s childhood was much like the main character’s in the Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield. Despite his immense intelligence, he did not do well in school. Like Caulfield he flunked out. His parents, Sol and Miriam Salinger, later decided to send him off to Valley Forge Military academy in Wayne Pennsylvania. After graduating, Salinger returned home for one more year and attended New York University. His father sent him to Europe after his studies to learn another language and observe business overseas. While in Europe, Salinger grew an interest for Vienna, Italy. He was enchanted by the Italian language but paid little attention to business strategies. Back in the United States of America, Jerome...
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...Light in August:A Study in Black and White.New Yourk:Twayne Publishers 1992. • Blair, Walter. etal. American Literature: A Brief History.Glocose:Scott,Foresman And Company,1964. • Blanks,June."The Women of Absalom,Absalom!". URL: http://athena.english.vt.edu/~exlibris/essays02/Blanks2.htm. Retrieved: 22 Nov. 2004. • Bleikasten,Andre. "Light in August:The Closed Society and Its Subjects".In New Essays on Light in August.Ed.Michael Millgate. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1987.Pp.81-102. • Brooks, Cleanth. William Faulkner:First Encounter.New Haven and London:Yale University Press,1983. • ____________.William Faulkner :Toward Yoknapatawpha And Beyond. New Haven and London: Yale University Press,1978. • Brown,Sterling ."A Century of Negro Portraiture in American Literature".In Black and White In American Culture.Eds.Jules Chametzky and Sidney Kaplan. Massachusetts: The University of Massachusetts Press,1969.Pp,333-359. • _____________. The Negro In American Fiction.Washington,New York: Kennikat Press,1968....
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...Founding Brothers Vs. Hamilton The Musical Many years ago the Founding Fathers worked to make a strong independant country. Now the legacy of their hardships is forever carved into our history, through not only books but now through a musical as well. A theme in the book Founding Brother by Joseph J. Ellis is posterity. Throughout the book Ellis tries to understand what these men hoped posterity would say about them. I find that the musical Hamilton reflects the posterity of the Founding Fathers in modern day through the eyes of the modern day creators. I will highlight how both of these Pulitzer Prize winners are similar in theme however present in different but effective ways. Ellis illustrates beautifully how he tried to think through the minds of these men and how they wanted posterity to think of them. Posterity is defined as a succeeding or future generations collectively. The founding fathers seemed to “pose for posterity”. This pose is what Ellis was particularly looking at. Some of the founding fathers held this pose so naturally while others couldn’t stay in the position. For example Adams couldn’t ignore the messiness that is our reality and he can’t forget it or make it seem like nothing is there to keep a flawless pose. Jefferson however could almost make himself believe anything. Including the fact the reality is a mess. He had the ability to make himself to be the legendary figure that the whole public believed he was. Ellis doesn’t find the whole situation negative...
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...GOWANUS OVERVIEW Public Services Police Department 65 6th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217 The Brooklyn 78th Police Precinct is located just west of Prospect Heights, overseeing both the Gowanus and Park Slope neighborhoods. As of 2014, the precinct reported a drop of 7.95% in crime rate since 2013, a slow but steady improvement as the neighborhood undergoes a massive transformation from industrial and residential properties into Brooklyn’s next cultural hotspot. FDNY Emergency Medical Service 347 Bond Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231 The FDNY EMS Station 32 is located on the northern end of Gowanus. This emergency medical service station in place of a typical ladder company addresses the safety needs of incoming residents, while acknowledging the reality of a modest population in an industrial neighborhood. GOWANUS OVERVIEW Activism History of Community Engagement Before any development was made in Gowanus, the neighborhood was an untouched parcel of land, with Gowanus Creek flowing 1.8 miles into Brooklyn territory. In the 1840s, industrialization took over America, and the creek underwent visible changes as New York elected officials decided to convert it into a canal to promote an efficient transportation system. The canal, as a shipyard and port, became active, but not without consequence. Industrial power plants discharged pollution into the canal. And as commercial traffic increased exponentially through Gowanus Canal, so did contamination. It wasn’t until...
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...really named William Sydney Porter. Mr. Porter was born to a mother who had a talent for writing poetry and the ability to paint, but unfortunately she died when he was three years old. This may have led to him moving with his father to his relative’s farm. He eventually left the farm and married and had a child. He developed a magazine but he also spent time in prison for embezzlement. He eventually moved to New York City, which is the background for the Gift of the Magi. As a result of Porters problems with the law and drinking habits, I think that might be were the story line came from. He grew up poor and struggled and giving to others was probably not really something he could do. The third source from the author from the Columbia encyclopedia helps to understand what he may have been thinking about when he wrote the story. There is some irony in the couple sacrificing their possessions to buy gifts that were related to the possessions they were in fact each selling off. Poverty is the prominent theme and this work really looked at the lower class life during the time of the writing. Henry had a knack for trick endings in his works and I think this one is part of that structure. I don’t think that any...
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