Many different Leadership Programs across the states and for that reason my brothers and i rarely saw her pure kind of in and out of the house, but linda is amazing inspiration to me and thats why im an education policy and management student here. I am inspired by her every day. I hope i dont have to do that 5 00 a. M. Wakeup to be just like her, but thats my own wish. Linda is wonderful and also alongside carmen torres. Carmen and linda are my inspirations and im so lucky to have this opportunity to introduce my mom, my favorite educator and best mom to talk about when grit isnt enough. [applause]. Not going to could be introduced by your daughter. Kind of cool. I think they are opening up the back, so if you are a little too hot in here come i think we are getting more seats, so if anyone wants to get up. Lets give it up one more time for those kids. [applause]. Kind of why i did kind of why i do what i do because i believe deeply in the power of the arts in those kids came all the
Stepped out for the david you can take a peek around and see how they lived. He was probably the most famous painter from missouri, most famous in the 1930s, 40s, is known for doing a style of art called regionalism. A lot of the midwest rural scenes, he often paints. He paints American Labor scenes but it tends to be the rural aspect of it. His core belief was common art for the common man. He is an artist who becomes famous during his career, and fairly welltodo. Tom benton came from a political family. He was named for his great uncle senator thomas benton. Tom grows up surrounded i politics by politics. His father was a successful lawyer. A u. S. District attorney. When tom was seven his father was elected to the house of representatives. The family moves to washington dc for eight years. For benton, growing up in bc, then coming back to the ozarks every summer, that will be formative for him to experience those different worlds. This able to move in political, powerful orbit but a
A good evening and welcome to the strand bookstore. I am and nancy the owner. Force in history the strand was founded in 1927 by my grandfather and it was founded in an area known as book row that ran along Fourth Avenue from after place to union the square and at its height in houston 488 bookstores and ran from about the 1880s until about 1960 and in the 90 years since then all of the stores have shuttered leaving strand to be passed down by my father fred and now to me and will hopefully be kept in the family, so thank you all for being supporters and readers. Tonight, very excited to welcome the power couple composed of scientific research, doctor Kelly Weinersmith who gushes work with parasite has been published in numerous scientific journals and awardwinning cartoonist Zach Weinersmith known for his daily web comic, saturday morning breakfast club. It has won the web cartoonist choice award for outstanding single panel comic, multiple times in this dynamic duo has been working t
Vice president of Public Programs at the new york public library. Its a privilege for the library to host tonights program celebrating Mike Wallaces new book, greater gotham. The longawaited sequel to his book gotham. Greater gotham picks up the story at the turn of the last century, a period when new york experienced unparalleled growth, expansion and consolidation when much of the infrastructure was developed and when many of our institutions were founded including this one at the new york public library. Incidentally the room in which we are seated was carved out of what was once the reservoir and there is a great illustration of that in the book. Its a special honor for us to host this program not only because of the importance of the book and its subject matter but also because mike wallace who is a fellow in the Coleman Center for scholars and writers and a resident in the allen room researched a good deal of the book right here in the librarys archives. The librarys holdings on
Silent your cell phone. You are also welcome to follow us on social media. But today we are here to talk about economics so dont recount on a finicky guys a lecture. I will leave you in the capable hands of our guest author, mr. Bhu srinivasan. In his new book americana he takes us to a 400 euros journey to American History of capitalism highlighting some of our industries most important inventions. From the arrival of the mayflower to the inner workings of the mafia to the early days of silicon valley, he presents an exhilarating and eyeopening perspective of an American History of capitalism that im sure hes very excited to share with you all today. Mr. Srinivasan is an accomplished media entrepreneur, digital media, pop culture, technology, publishing and financial content. He arrived in the u. S. With his family at the age of eight, and as a child has lived in the south, the rust belt, Southern California and the pacific northwest. His book is available for sale in the bookstore an