#upward bound

[boyhowdyghosts]

[kamreadsandrecs]

Nonspeakers Speaking Out | Los Angeles Review of Books

Woody Brown discusses his debut novel and the challenges those with nonspeaking autism face today.

[friendtothefairfolk]

This might not matter to a lot of people who see it, but there's a federally-funded program in the USA called TRIO; there are around eight different programs under the organisation, and all of them are at risk of being shut down. TRIO programs help high school and college students who are in lower financial brackets find universities and stay in university. The TRIO program I've participated in through high school, Upward Bound, has been a major help to me to meet new people, get more experience in the world, and get more of an idea for what I want to do in the future in regards to University. I know that it's also been a major part of many of my friend's lives and has been a major help for people all over the United States, and a lot of people will miss out on major opportunities if TRIO loses its funding and gets shut down.

[rainey-staerie-daize]

[dermidy]

Hey guys, I am collecting donations for Upward Bound. This is my internship currently. I have attached information on what to donate, why and information on Upward Bound. Please let me know if you can donate. 

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Photo credit - Taylor Freeman Thanks to upward bound for being the program they are

[aruralqueer]

i just watched wonder woman for the 2nd time, this time with a group of 30 teenage girls. they were all so hyped afterward, they felt important and empowered. i cannot describe the joy and strength i felt from those girls, who struggle so much with their own self worth, after finally watching a movie that catered to them. i love the movie, but i love what it did for those girls even more.

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Is there a limit to human creativity?

By Arturo Guillen

Humans have lived on this planet for thousands of years, about 200,000 years, and have been able to advance themselves in those thousands of years. The one underlying similarity throughout human history has been the creativity that has been shown in the large amount of time. This creativity has been exhibited from early human history to the modern era and the creativity is exhibited through music, art, inventions, and daily innovations. The spark of creativity has lead us to a point in which we can carry most of the information in the world in our pocket, have vehicles that allow us to travel the vast planet in a matter of hours, and even create businesses that profit off of people’s addictions in well produced shows. The human race has come to a point in which it should ask itself, “ Can the human race ever hit a creativity cap?” , “Is there anything else that we can think of that has not been done before?”, and lastly “Is there a limit to human creativity?”

To better understand the vastness of the human mind, all of the human advancements up to this point must be analyzed. The first humans were not much different from the animals that they hunted. All they would do is eat, hunt and sleep, but even at this time there was an elementary level of creativity showing up. Due to their reliance on animals as their primary source of food, the early humans quickly learned new ways to obtain the animals. Early humans were able to distinguish between their strengths and weaknesses: they noticed that they had superior minds but compared to the animals, they lacked physical strength. With this in mind, early humans created simple weapons and tools to improve their ability to capture food. From there the human mind did not stop and would then figure out a way to control fire, to create improved tools, and to create clothing to help with the conditions of the environment.

Humans continued to find creative ways to use everything at their disposal to improve their lives. One result was the start of agricultural societies found in the Fertile Crescent. The humans were able to see the opportunity and used their creativity to figure out a way to create more sustainable sources of food. Jumping ahead to the era of the Romans, the vastness of the human mind lead to the birth of huge cities due to the many advances that they have taken in this time. Aqueducts allowed water from a far off spring to be available to the people of the Roman cities. With the growing comfort of the people came the improvement of leisure activities such as public theater and production of books for more and more. Moving on from that came the large boats used to travel the large bodies of water which lead to the expansion of human dominance over the planet.

This was only propelled further with more advancements which lead to the 20th century, the time in which the human mind flourished and many things came from that. Planes allowed travel across the world but also brought in threats from the sky as they were used in the world wars. Television was created during this time and it completely the way that human creativity was perceived. Now the talents of others were put on a world stage for everyone to be able to see. People became famous for their abilities to stick out from the crowd with their superior acting skills, dangerous stunts, creative minds for production of movies and so much more.

We reach the 21th century, a time in which many begin to question, “Is this it?” What more can humans do to change they way we live? These are very reasonable questions because most of what is needed is at the click of a button. Humans were able to imagine digital places in which all information is reachable, places that with a click of a button, most things are available to be brought to the door. This really seems to be a time in which not much can be improved upon, but that is not true...