I have always had some interest in becoming an RA. When my cousin was in college, she was an RA, and she always told me it is something that I should consider. When I found out the date that applications to become an RA were shortly approaching, I decided to make an appointment with my RA, Chanel Mazzone. When talking to Chanel, she made it very clear that it was not the easiest job to take on, but it was definitely rewarding. Chanel said that being an RA was hands down the not only the most amazing thing that she has done at Stonehill, but possibly the most amazing thing that she has ever done in her life. She said that she really has grown as a person and developed many skills that she did not think she would acquire. Chanel's responses
Through this program I learned a lot of leadership and teamwork skills. EAMC highly encourages its staff to be leaders for team members to provide the best possible healthcare to its patients. During My first year of volunteering, I had great leaders and team members that helped me learn all of the aspects associated with being a TAV. When our leaders graduated, I in turn had to take on the role and help all the new members learn their jobs throughout the hospital. EAMC believes in high quality patient care and as volunteers it was our job to make sure that we also meet their patients needs in a responsible manner. I learned a lot of leadership skills throughout my years of volunteering and teaching new members our jobs roles as well as picking up teamwork skills needed in making healthcare at EAMC the best it can be. I believe I can bring my work ethic and dedication to Auburn’s campus and help lead engineers to be the leaders in our world while being one
was born on April 17, 1929 in Yazoo City, Mississippi to Charlie and Juanita Miller. She was oldest of five children (Henry, George, Charlie Mae, Sadie)born to the union. She accepted Christ at an early age and joined the New Tabernacle Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Carter of Yazoo City, Mississippi. Annie attended school at the Yazoo City School System. She moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1946 where she worked in housekeeping and the dry cleaning business. She met and married Pruitt Carpenter to this union three sons were born Larry, Michael and Curtis. Later she met a special friend Leroy Tart, to this relationship one daughter was born, Vanessa Tart. Annie joined the Christian Faith Missionary Baptist Church where she was a
On October 6, 1917 Fannie Lou was the 20th child born to Jim and Ella Townsend in Montgomery County, Mississippi. During World War I (WWI), many black sharecroppers left the fields for jobs in the north. Fannie Lou's parents decided to take advantage of the shortage of blacks in the South and headed further South, where they ended up sharecropping on a plantation outside of Ruleville, Mississippi. At the age of six, Fannie started picking cotton part time and at age 12, she was picking full time. After finishing the sixth grade, Fannie Lou dropped out of school. She married Perry Hamer in 1944.
Through my experiences at SAU thus far, I feel that I would be able to best serve the upperclassmen population as an RA.
Christopher Johnson McCandless was born on February 7, 1968, and died sometime in August 1992. His surviving family members include his parents, Walt and Billie, his sister, Carine McCandless, and his friend, Westerberg. One of the defining moments in Christopher’s life was when he did a selfless deed by picking up a homeless man and keeping him in his parents’ trailer without them knowing. Christopher was an extremely confident man who always did what he wanted and set high standards for himself. One can say that his extreme confidence and high standards are what enabled him to fall on the path towards death. In April 1992, Christopher embarked on a peregrination in Alaska where he intended to live off of the land for a few months. He was
There are a variety of reasons that I am highly interested in becoming a community assistant for Barrett, The Honors College. As a Barrett student I have found that the Barrett community is one that is both inclusive and inspiring. It is my hope that as a community assistant I could help extend and enhance the unique Barrett community in the residence halls. Furthermore, I want to be a valuable resource and mentor for Barrett students. Additionally, I want to be a community assistant because service is something I am passionate about. Serving the Barrett community and its residents is something that I would thoroughly enjoy and excel at. I have gotten a taste of what it means to be a part of and a leader of the Barrett residential community through the Barrett Residential Council. This experience has been incredibly rewarding, and I would like to be able to get more involved with this community by becoming a community assistant. The Barrett community is something that I feel privileged to be a part of. In my opinion the Barrett experience is about connecting with a variety of individuals and learning from a combination of opinions and backgrounds. The Barrett experience is a special one, and one I am thankful
grandmother, Mary Lou Wiseman. Mary Lou is an 83 year old Caucasian, born in the fall of 1933, in Marble Hill Missouri. She lived in Marble Hill up until 2007. She then moved to Elgin, South Carolina to stay with her second to youngest child David Wiseman, his wife, Tia Wiseman and three younger children, Jamie, Vanessa and Ashley Wiseman. After remaining in South Carolina for three years, she decided to move back to her hometown in Missouri. Over her years, Mary Lou has held several jobs in multiple different fields. Her first job was collecting eggs from her neighbor’s chicken coop.
I had the absolute honor of meeting and interviewing the wonderful Isis Howard, a Residential Advisor in PCV 1. Isis, a 2nd year Environmental Management and Protection major, greeted me with a smile which led me to immediately feel comfortable around her. Isis had several personal motivations for why she chose to become a RA; ranging from personal growth and gaining useful life skills, such as communication, honesty, and leadership, to giving back to the Cal Poly community. One point brought up that resigned with me was that her transition to living on her own had been difficult, but her RAs were there for her every step of the way. Their efforts to create a sense of home in an unfamiliar environment truly motivated her to become a RA. Now that Isis has received the job, she mentions she receives the benefits that she hoped for from the beginning everyday- she continues to develop skills in a wide range of areas that deem valuable for life.
’m writing this cover letter to inform you that I am extremely interesting of being part of your Residential Assistant Program for the coming 2016 Fall semester. I first heard of the program when moving into my first year as a college student I was lost and unaware of where certain things were located throughout the building by reaching out to my RA for help I came to encounter what a RA position was and what were their obligations as an RA. Knowing the commitment, dedication and self management that it takes to become an RA I would say I am ready to take on the hands on experience with open arms making me not just an interested candidate but a prepare fully aware candidate.
An American journalist as well as novelist, Martha Gellhorn was known to be the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century who had covered almost every important world conflicts that took place during her writing career. She began her career by writing for The New Republic and then she became a reporter for a local newspaper. Later she not only travelled throughout the continent but also met President Franklin D. Roosevelt's confidant, Harry Hopkins, with whom she shared about her way in to a job. She is also remembered as an ex-wife of the American novelist Ernest Hemingway. In the year 1938, she was sent to Europe to report on reactions to a possible war and she covered France and Czechoslovakia during Sudetenland
It is a standard December day in 1960, in the lethargic Florida town of Fort Repose. On the stream street, Florence Wechek, the nearby Western Union broadcast administrator, stirs and watches the morning news as she makes her breakfast. Pressures between the Soviet Union and the United States are high—the Russians are propelling more Sputnik satellites, and there is an emergency in the Middle East—however as Florence leaves for work, she is more worried with her neighbor, Randy Bragg, who she suspects of keeping an eye on
Growing up as sharecropper her whole life, Fannie Lou had faced the struggles of a black sharecropper since the age of six, where she was tricked into picking cotton (Myers Asch, 54). Her family has a home of their own and animals when she was twelve, but soon lost it due to white farmers sabotaging them by poisoning their animals (Myers Asch, 55). Moving on, Lou had an education of her own, where she “[s]he had been a solid student at the local school, winning spelling bees and doing well in reading” (Myers Asch, 55). In addition, she raised two children while living in the Hamer home, where she tried her best to make condition for their sharecroppers “decent” by doing outside jobs (Myers Asch, 58). Due to these conditions and events in Lou’s
Lee Papageorge was one of the few that could deservedly be called a stand up guy. He was one of the few adored by everyone that knew him. It’s heartbreaking to have lost someone with so much kindness and goodwill. He never varied in his benevolence, and Westport is all the better for it. I was one of the fortunate ones on the receiving end of Lee’s gentle compassion early in my life, and I am the better for it. My heart goes out to Mary Jo, Ali, and Melissa.
From Hamburg, Germany, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was best know as a composer. She was of Jewish descent and her father was a philosopher. Her mother however, was not born into Judaism. From her early years as a child and on, she has composed over four hundred and sixty pieces of music according to Wikipedia. The majority of her songs are considered a style called Lied ohne Worte, or Songs without Words. Hensel lived during the years 1805 - 1847.
Marie Antoine Careme had humble beginnings, he was born into a large, poor family in Paris, France in 1784. This was not an ideal time to start a life in Paris, the French Revolution had just recently begun and because of hard times Careme was abandoned by his parents. Careme was lucky enough to find employment with a local chef at a chophouse when he was just nine years old (Steward). After six years of doing the least desirable work of the kitchen Careme moved on to begin his work in pastry. Careme was fortunate enough to be taken on as an apprentice for Sylvain Bailly. This kind of experience gave Careme his first official look into the baking world.