RC Reedley & Writing April 2018 Center presents... With National Library is important to appreciate College. She loves helping Week from April from where everything started students reach their poten- April 10th-12th and Nation- and that’s with old fash- tial. She manages the li- al Librarian Day approach- ioned books. brary, including its func- Inside this issue: th ing on April 16 , it’s im- Here at Reedley College, tions and activities. She Nat. Librarian Day 1-2 portant to recognize librari- Shivon Hess is the head li- enjoys it when stressed stu- ans and the work that they dents come to her and Webster’s Dictionary 3-4 brarian, and she has always do. National Library Week been a reader. Her parents she’s able to help them and Sasha Pimentel 5 originally started in 1958 often took her to the library ease the stress. She loves Grammar Corner 6 to recognize the im- when she was growing up. her job because she gets to Cesar Chavez 7 portance of libraries However, she originally help students navigate re- around the world. This received a degree in paint- search and help them suc- Beverly Cleary 8-9 event brought awareness to ing and drawing. As she ceed. Book of the Month 10 reading with the goal of began working at a local By: Nicole Huebert Safari Days 11 encouraging people to read library, shelving more. During the 1950s, books to pay the Tiger Pageant 12-13 television and music was bills, she felt at Graduation 14 becoming increasingly home. It was then World Autism Day 15 popular, and the American that she decided Library Association was she wanted to be a Thomas Jefferson 16 worried about the decline librarian and work Holocaust 17 in reading. This year will in a place she Shivon Hess Clubs/Service Ads. 18-19 be the 60th anniversary of loved. She got her Masters this event. Even though the Calendar 20 in Librarian Information Continued on pg. 2 world is moving towards a Sciences, and eventually RWC Info. 20 more technological era, it made her way to Reedley Continued... The library here at Reed- to 2 hours. There are over people’s ability and to ley College provides an 30,000 electronic books. push them to succeed. It array of services. There is Furthermore, there are provides resources to in- always someone there to over 40,000 titles, which spire students to be the help students find what offers an array of topics best that they can be. they are looking for. Some for people that like read- Reading engages the brain of the regular employees ing real paper books in- and enhances people’s that can be seen on most stead of reading on a vocabulary, and as a result days are: Kim Davidson, screen. The library also makes them a better writ- Lynne Kemmer, and Kyle has wireless internet that ers’. Reading is vital to Kirkman. In the library, can be accessed from stu- being successful as a col- there are many resources dents’ personal laptops. lege student and being to help students succeed. Libraries are a place of well rounded as an indi- There are two group-study learning and expanding vidual. rooms led by student tu- one’s knowledge. It is a tors, who are accompanied link into the vast world of Pictured below: Kim Davidson, Lynne Kemmer, by supervisors who help information, whether that and Kyle Kirkman with assignments and re- infor- search. There is a fully mation is equipped computer lab in a book that allows students to or online. look up assignments, re- It was built search, and type papers. to advance For students who don’t have a computer at home, this is a practical and useful service. Stu- dents can also check out laptops and iPads for up Page 2 By: Ronnie Coates surprise to many of his critics. Shortly after his first dictionary was pub- lished, he began working Noah Webster on what would be his big- The Webster Dictionary gest work, An American was created by Noah the world. He believed it Dictionary for the English Webster, who was born in should differ in figurative Language. Webster want- Connecticut in 1758. He language and pronuncia- ed to outdo the British began teaching in Goshen, tion. He also thought Eng- competition, so he trav- New York in 1782, and lish should be written as it eled to France and Eng- became unsatisfied with is spoken, rather than us- land to study dictionaries the English books availa- ing a different set of rules. and other works that had ble to him and his class. To ensure the changes he been previously pub- Due to his discontent, he believed in achieve nation- lished. His second work published a book to be al success, he began work- would be more advanced used in classrooms across ing on his first dictionary. than his first, nearly dou- the country, which made Webster published bling the word count and its way to most class- the first American diction- adding word origins. rooms in the United ary in 1806, titled A Com- To discover the States. He wanted Ameri- pendious Dictionary of the ins and outs of his coun- ca to have its own unique English Language. His try’s language, Webster style of the English lan- first dictionary contained taught himself twenty-six guage. Webster believed 40,600 words and applied languages. An American American English should reforms that hadn’t ap- Dictionary for the English be different than English peared in any previous dic- Language was published spoken across the rest of tionaries. His first diction- in 1828, and was the last ary did not alter words’ major dictionary devel- spelling, which came as a Continued on page 4 Page 3 oped by one person alone. dictionary wasn’t Web- to influence that Ameri- It contained over 70,000 ster’s only accomplish- can politics, he is best definitions and was much ment. He exerted a great known for his dictionary. more advanced then the influence on America’s George and Charles Mer- British competition. It in- founding fathers and riam obtained rights to cluded approximately helped to shape the laws Webster’s dictionary after 30,000 definitions that that Americans have be- his death and began re- hadn’t previously been come accustomed to. He leasing revised and updat- defined in a dictionary. held social views that ed copies of the diction- Webster was the first per- were ahead of his time ary. Noah Webster is son to record American such as support for the credited as being the vocabulary and is the rea- abolition of slavery, and founder of American Eng- son some words are the belief America should lish and helped America spelled the way they are. have a safety net for its form its unique cultural He tweaked the spelling poorest citizens. Even identity that is still appre- of British English words though Webster did a lot ciated to this day. to make their spelling more predictable. Musick became music, and centre became center. Due to the dictionary’s high popular- ity, Webster became a household name. Webster died on May 28, 1943. Creating a Page 4 By: Berto Gallegos Sea Change Morning, and light seams through Juárez, its homes like pearls, El Paso rippling in the dark. Today I understand the fact of my separate body, how it tides to its own center, my skin crumbling from thirst and touch. The sun hangs like a bulb in corridor: one city opening to another. When did my heart become a boat, this desert the moving chart of my palm? And when did pain invert the sky to glaucous sea, each home on each hill rocking? I would give my lips to a soldier if only he would take them as sextant, our mouths an arc, my tongue the telescoping sight between. Below such light, the measure of boys swimming cobbles, their stomachs dripping wild stamen. See Love this poem? Come out to hear Sasha Pimentel in how they are clutching to their guns person on April 19, 2018. Born in Manila, Philippines and like lovers, as if the metal could bear raised in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, Sasha Pimentel is the au- them. thor of For Want of Water, selected by Gregory Pardlo as win- Morning, and still in umbra, my dog ner of the 2016 National Poetry Series. She is also the author of and I walk, her tongue a swinging rudder. Insides She Swallowed, winner of the 2011 American Book Award. Selected by Philip Levine, Mark Strand, Charles Wright, Joy Williams and John Guare as a finalist for the 2015 April 19, 2018 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been published in such journals as New York 7:00 pm Times Magazine, American Poetry Review, New England Re- view, and Guernica. She is currently an Associate Professor in RC Forum Hall the Department of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso, on the border of Ciudad Juárez, México. She teach- es contemporary American poetry, poetry writing and creative Reading nonfiction writing with research emphases in race, class, immi- gration and gender. In her time at UTEP, Pimentel also won the Q&A 2015 University of Texas System’s Regents’ Outstanding Book Signing Teaching Award. The University offers a bilingual MFA Pro- gram and affiliated Chicano Studies Program, and is open to students from all over the Americas. Page 5 Allegory: a long metaphor where the characters, places, and objects in a narrative have a figurative meaning.