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 https://hourofcode.com/, create an account, and start problem solving. Melinda Gates visits with local students. Several learning scenarios are available, including an experience organized around Minecraft, Microsoft’s hugely popular video game. You can also create an Hour of Code Dance Party based on the Katy Perry song “Firework,” or other popular tunes. To date, over 600 million Hour of Code sessions have been completed in 180 countries and 45 languages. It is truly a global phenomenon with an

, on a very cold and very rainy and windy day – so windy that my umbrella flew out of my hand.” He admitted, “I’m glad no one was filming me chasing that darn umbrella before it landed in the Volturno River!” Alcuin Library, Saint John's University Dr Torvend also spent a week in the archives and library of the Pontifical University of Sant’Anselmo in Rome. “That was a great experience, as I was able to work with early medieval monastic “chronica” or chronicles, unavailable in the U.S., to get a

one site, San Vincenzo al Volturno, the largest abbey of the early medieval world, on a very cold and very rainy and windy day —so windy that my umbrella flew out of my hand.” He admitted, “I’m glad no one was filming me chasing that darn umbrella before it landed in the Volturno River!” Dr Torvend also spent a week in the archives and library of the Pontifical University of Sant’Anselmo in Rome. “That was a great experience, as I was able to work with early medieval monastic ‘chronica’ or

unsettling and things didn’t make much sense. It was easier to confront these realities in a show which centered on Machiavellian power struggles while catering to the viewers’ sense of wonder with dragons, zombies, and more. Though Weiss and Benioff were fantasy fanboys without any show-running experience, HBO’s heads of programming, Michael Lombardo and Richard Pleper (now CEO of HBO), were won over by the themes at the core of the story: love, hate, power, and validation. Themes which characterize the

tiresome and crappy and just want to get on to the next project. I just finished a third novel for HarperCollins and had the same exact experience as well, so I’m guessing that’s the new normal for me. Q: Kirkus also called Perfectly Good White Boy “engaging, perceptive, witty and at times gut-wrenchingly sad.” That seems a perfect combination for any audience, but how do you adapt your style and approach specifically for young adults?   In my mind, I don’t actually write for young adults. Instead, I

shaped by our culture, so our responses to a film’s foreign-ness can tell us a lot about our own assumptions and expectations. Why is “Tus Padres Volverán” a film that PLU students will enjoy and learn from? Urdangarain: The film tells a story that, despite its specific reference to a historical event that occurred in Uruguay in the 1980s, resonates with any person who has experienced migration or is interested in learning about the impact of this experience. I believe that PLU students will be moved

Archives at PLU White’s analysis of historians and philosophers of the nineteenth century argues that their attempts to attain historical truth have been influenced by strategies of “emplotment” (structures of narrative), ideology (political beliefs), patterns of formal argument (founded upon various epistemological commitments), and styles of “tropic configuration” (different ways of giving order to our experience of the world at a preconceptual level). This intricate and difficult volume has

, communities, and organizations. If you are excited about tackling some of today’s major social challenges and enjoy working with people, then social work may be just the career for you!Reyes dedicated herself to the study of social work, and the PLU program’s blend of social justice, egalitarianism, pluralism and compassion for the oppressed resonated with her. Inspired by her personal experience, Reyes spent her senior year immersed in a research-intensive capstone project that examined the correlation

surgeries in 10 months and countless emergency room visits. Six months before I left for Namibia I was finally healthy. It was going to be the redeeming experience I needed, so having it canceled was really disappointing.” While Larios was only in Namibia from January to March of 2020, she found a marimba band at a local private school through an advertisement in the local newspaper and went on to teach and perform with them. After she left, she created a cultural-musical exchange program between

minister at the church my family helped found in Seattle. I soon learned that wasn’t really a viable career path for a young woman in the 70’s, so I began down a social work path. Spring term, I took ceramics, Poetry and the Mystical Experience, and Lutheran Studies, and had an epiphany about my calling and became an art major. I ended up transferring to the UW to study with Patti Warashina and Howard Kottler, because I was more into handbuilding than throwing. While I was at the UW, I worked in fiber