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    My Post-High School Life

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    the third floor, I made a sharp left and saw the patient transport room containing several other young people all wearing the same blue polo shirt. I was home. For my graduation project, I volunteered at three different hospitals: Paoli Hospital, Bryn Mawr Hospital, and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. After accumulating almost two-hundred hours in various hospital environments, I have made important decisions that will affect my post-high school life. I started volunteering at the Paoli

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    Noether, a noted mathematician of his time. Her mother was Ida Amalie, for whom Emmy was named. She grew up attending finishing school and learning the arts necessary to be learned by a middle class young girl. Young girls were not allowed to attend college preparatory schools. In 1900 she was certified to teach English and French within the school systems. However,

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    The Bryn Mawr Honor Code and Self-Government Association (SGA) will allow me to thrive and achieve my goals, academically and socially. The Honor Code shows Bryn Mawr's commitment to creating an environment of respect for one another. SGA creates a clear process in which students can bring up their concerns with faculty and other students. I've really enjoyed being part of the Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) at my school, including leading it since sophomore year, because I wanted to create

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    1948. As a teenager she attended High School of the Performing Arts and graduated in 1964. She attended Bryn Mawr College, in which she received her A.B degree in French in 1968. While a junior at Bryn Mawr, she was given the opportunity to study abroad in Paris, London. After attending Universiy de Nancy in France, Harris returned back to the U.S and earned her master’s degree from Queens College. Later earning her PH. D from New York University in 1983. Jessica B. Harris’s career is devoted into

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    Emmy Noether

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    Amalie Emmy Noether born March 23, 1882, in Erlangen, Germany and died April 14, 1935, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania was an intellectual German mathematician who made numerous amounts of contributions towards abstract algebra. Emmy Noether was one of the highly acknowledged female mathematicians during the late 18th and 19th century, who earned the respect of many well-educated scholars. Emmy noether was also the oldest child of Max Noether, a research mathematician in algebraic geometry and the theory

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    Many of the mathematicians in the Dark Ages where men. However that theory is wrong. The mathematician Emmy Noether was a teacher at Bryn Mawr College until her death in 1935. Emmy Noether was the oldest child of four but one of only two to survive the childhood. She was born in Erlangen, Germany on March 23, 1882. Her name is Amalie but everyone called her “Emmy”. As a child Emmy did not focus on mathematics very much. Her main focus was studying languages mainly English and French. Her

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    National Book Association in 1958¨ (¨Edith Hamilton¨). She was finally awarded for all her hard work in school. ¨Hamilton was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Rochester, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and Groucher College¨ (¨Edith Hamilton¨). All her hard work to show and teach about Greece and Greek mythology was also finally awarded. ¨In 1957 King Paul of Greece named her an honorary citizen of Athens¨ (Hamilton Back Cover). All of her achievements and awards were

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    A Critique of “With No Boys to Ogle, We Had Time to Learn” by Christine Flowers Schools are divided into two categories around the world as we know: single-sex or mixed schools. While mixed schools accept both males and females, single-sex schools accept students of a certain single sex only. Both coed and single-sex schools have pros and cons, which nobody can deny. Some studies, however, have shown that there is no particular benefit to single-sex education. The study of the American Association

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    In 1890 Jane Addams brought to America the “settlement” project movement she had seen in Europe on an extended vacation after college. She founded Hull House, a “settlement house” dedicated to help poor immigrant women and children in Chicago. She and her like-minded college graduate friends would live and work in the huge mansion offering everything for free. The would hold classes to provide skills, political lessons, free lectures, art exhibits

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    moved to France in 1901 and back to New York in 1912. As an adult Katharine lived her entire adult in a house close to the one from her childhood. Katharine had one brother, George Blodgett Jr. and was the youngest of the 2. Katharine attended Bryn Mawr College, University of Chicago, and University of Cambridge. At a young age she attended Rayson School and showed great talent at mathematics, she was 15 when she graduated high school and she won a

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