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Financial Literacy Friday Week 4!
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Financial Literacy Month is nearly over, and we come to you with our last Financial Literacy Fridays blog post. I know, I’m sad too. This last one is personal to me, as a soon-to-be college graduate in my early twenties. How can I build my future with a firm financial…
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Post Internship: A Reflection
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The last time I wrote one of these self-reflective blogs was at the beginning of my internship. My first week was the middle of September; I was doing a lot of research and writing a lot of “fun blogs.” One of those blogs just so happens to be my “biography…
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My Time with the Press
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This last year that I’ve had with the University of North Georgia Press is proof that things happen for a reason. There is a plan for the universe, and if something doesn’t work out it only means that there is something better just around the corner. When I first applied…
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Rounding the Corner: A Reflection
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Reflection blogs are difficult. In my introduction blog, I remember struggling to explain why I even want to go into publishing, and quite frankly, it hasn’t gotten much easier to explain. I have fallen in love with the process of refining a work to its best form, and the Press…
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Poet Spotlight: Sarah Kay
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We’ll be rounding out National Poetry Month with another amazing contemporary poet. This week’s spotlight: Sarah Kay Sarah Kay is a renowned spoken-word poet from New York City. At the age of 28, Kay has a Master of Arts in teaching from Brown University and an honorary doctorate in humane…
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The Library of Congress
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On April 24, 1800, President John Adams set aside $5,000 for “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress” as the nation’s capital was moved from Philadelphia to Washington. The first batch of these books arrived from London in 1801 and were stored in the Capitol building.…
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Happy 453rd Birthday, Mr. William Shakespeare!
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If you’ve ever been in an English classroom, you’ve most likely read a play or two by the one and only William Shakespeare. You probably know that he also wrote a series of sonnets that are still used today to woo literary hearts. What you may not be aware of…
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Happy Earth Day!
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Earth day is here! It’s the day to celebrate the plants, the animals, and environmentalism as a whole – a day that Dr. Seuss would approve of as we come together as a nation and “speak for the trees.” On this day, April 22, in the year 1970, Earth day…