Today, the high school dropout rate has reached epidemic levels. There are nearly 40 million Americans without a high school diploma—and those adults looking to return to high school have limited options. The startling figures below from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2012 American Community Survey, uncover just how many adults in each state has less …阅读更多
发表于2016年2月23日
Originally Posted by Helena Smith, DK Eyewitness Travel Blog
毫不费力地沉浸在历史、时尚、大声或lavish – a city’s architectural highlights build its very character. From New York City’s geometric skyscrapers to the ancient wonders of Rome, discover some of DK’s Eyewitness Travel top cities for 2016 one fascinating building at a time.
Below are just the top three.
Going to a conference? Be sure to stop by the Gale booth.
By Sande B. In 1952, after my second younger brother was born, my parents packed us up and joined the rapid migration to the potato farm suburbs of Long Island. Now my favorite aunts and uncles and grandparents were no longer a hop and a skip away. Most days, I was terribly lonely, and after …阅读更多
By Laurel S. As a second-generation librarian, I have been enjoying libraries for many decades. I learned very early the incredible fact that if I had a question, I could call the Grace A. Dow Memorial Library and the reference librarian would help me find the answer. I loved to read, and spent most of …阅读更多
By Terry M.
作为一个年轻人,一个男孩,我喜欢原来的Planet of the Apes movie.One Saturday afternoon, I was watching it for the umpteenth time and for some reason this time, I did not want it to end. It was that day, that maleficent fall almost snowy day I became a credit reader. While reading the closing credits, I made a discovery – I discovered that the film was based on a book, by Pierre Boulle. I immediately jumped up and ran throughout the house in search of my father. I found him in the kitchen. The next room over from which I had originally started my paternal hunt. With an outrageous sense of urgency I yelled, “Dad we have to go to the mall.” He withdrew his head from the refrigerator and while slowly turning to face me he closed the fridge door. Once we were face to face he casually tossed the bag o’ turkey he had retrieved on the kitchen table and said, “Why?”
By Kevin D. The Niagara Falls Public Library is built in the brutalist style of the Yale School of Architecture and Boston’s New City Hall: it LOOKS like a factory of knowledge and for a City of then 70k people (in 1970), now for 45,000 denizens, it is still an imposingly massive yet welcoming repository …阅读更多
By Stephanie W.
我在一个偏僻的安大略省北部小镇，那里的公共图书馆为，起初长大了，距离太远的访问。但是，流动图书馆走过来，每3周，我们被允许在同一时间检查出2本书。我学会了早的读取，并始终结束几天内我的两本书，这给我留下等待，急切地对回访。后来，当我8，一个很小的分支库在本地带钢商场开业，我的生活改变了。我几乎住在这里，和第一吞噬孩子们的部分，然后，用我父母的签字同意，成人节。我读到的一切，从百科全书布朗人类生物学的百科全书。我的父母强调教育和阅读的重要性，但均王传福，而决不可能提供给我买的一切 - 或大部分 - 我吞噬。我直接信用库，我从来没有想过，缺钱意味着我将教育，阅读，或知识的乐趣被拒之门外的事实。
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This is my story, what a great journey it has been!
我是一个怪胎总额和很自豪吧！长大后我花了我周末和夏天的每一刻空闲时间在图书馆。在大学里我用来切割类，我不喜欢到孔起来图书馆看书几个小时就结束。该库一直是一个令人欣慰的地方，我并继续欢迎和培育我像一个最好的朋友的支持性武器。