Marble Diary
Journey of Self-discovery by life long student
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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arybak149@gmail.com
Education
The City College of New York/CUNY August 2008-Present
Major: International Studies
LaGuardia Community College/CUNY
Associate of Applied Science degree: Paralegal Studies 08/08
Experience
Kings County District Attorney’s Office
Intern, Freedom of Information Bureau (FOIL) Summer 2008
- Acted as an aide to Paralegals and Assistant District Attorneys in office procedures;
- Maintained complex dockets and files.
Structured Funding Group Inc. September 2007 – August 2008
Part-Time Office Assistant
§ Managed busy phone lines and promptly forwarded calls to appropriate people;
§ Scheduled meetings for all employees; escorted visitors to staff member's offices;
§ Organized, sorted and assigned mail distribution for all employees;
§ Updated files, databases, records, and other documents.
International Gemological Institute October 2004 – June 2006
Administrative Assistant
§ Performed essential administrative tasks for the effective running of the receiving department, such as providing information to clients regarding services;
§ supporting department supervisor by responding to telephone calls in her place and entering new data into computer system;
§ Assisted supervisor in training new employees and in reviewing client files and records.
Languages
Polish, English
Technical and Research Skills
Proficient in MS Word, Excel; Familiar with MS PowerPoint, Access; Adobe Photoshop CS2;
Adobe Illustrator SC3; Lexis Nexis, WestLaw.
Presentations & Conferences
National Model United Nations Conference in
Presented ePortfolio at Making Connections: National ePortfolio Conference
Memberships, Certifications & Affiliations
United Nations Club ~ Student Advisory Council Representative of the United Nations Club Certificate of Appreciation ~ Student Association of International Studies.
References
Available Upon Request
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Are good poems those that rhyme? What kind of quality should poems have to be considered good? Essentially these are questions that Walt Whitman attempts to answer in his preface to “Leaves of Grass”. Whitman in his prologue highlights the unity and plainness of life and people and at the same time he gives a lecture to other poets about the main aim of poems and how they should be written so they can be easily understood by everyone. “The poetic quality is not marshaled in rhyme or abstract addresses to things nor in melancholy complaints or good precepts, but is the life of these and much else and is in the soul” (Whitman 10).
I think that in the above-mentioned passage, Whitman maintained that a poet's style should be simple and natural, without traditional meter or rhyme in order to be fully meaningful. He encourages poets to use free verse and use plain language instead of rhymes. Furthermore, Whitman cautions poets that, “the fluency and ornaments of the finest poems or music or orations or recitations are not independent but dependent [therefore, he thinks that a person] who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is [entirely] lost” (Whitman 10).
There is a way poetry should be written in order to be well understood and meaningful. Take the “Sonnet” written anonymously in November 1857 where the author instead of giving the lecture how to write poetry, he illustrate is by example. He uses the seasons in order to express his thoughts and help others to understand him. “To be in tune with what the robins sing, plastering new log-huts ‘mid her branches gray; But when the Autumn southward turns away, then in her veins burns most the blood of Spring, and every leaf, intensely blossoming…the Maple put her corals on in May.” (Sonnet 120) I am assuming that the author in this passage talks about how our lives depend on the nature and how deeply we are attached to it if we want to or not. He says that we, human beings, like the nature fall asleep in order to rest and regain strength before a difficult time.
As long as I can remember any type of poems, sonnets and other forms of English literature were, are and will be very hard to understand and interpret. Back in high school I realized that I am unable to read between the lines. I always interpreted literature in a wrong way. For instance, Whitman’s preface of “Leaves of Grass” talks about diversity of geography, culture, work, sexuality, and beliefs. Whitman mostly emphasizes American dreams of independence, freedom, and fulfillment, and transforms them for larger spiritual meaning. Overall, he values the importance of hard work within an individual performance and recognizes the necessity of being humble towards others.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Yes, that’s me.
When I was young I always have loved theater and because in
As I said at the beginning, I constantly wanted to be evolved with law and its mechanism, because I believe that through this filed I am able to in the minor change world which need some help to be fixed. Though I decided to do so after coming to the