While the cartoon implies that madison fled from the british in panic. In fact, he and most of the , including monroe, state on the field until the end. They narrowly avoided capture. The british moved on to washington, d. C. , where they burned many public buildings, including the white house. In the aftermath of this disaster, armstrong resigned as secretary of war. And monroe assumed the office while remaining secretary of state. All of the british departed fort departed washington and failed to take fort mchenry. The possibility of another attack on the capital was spurred. The war ended in february 1815 with the u. S. Ratification of the treaty of ghent. Monroe was elected president in 1816. A culmination of his Public Service career that had taken him through so many different offices and experiences, here and abroad. He and his wife elizabeth undertook the restoration and refurnishing of the white house process that would occur , a throughout his two terms in office. It cannot b
Frustration and people that are struggling and communities that are struggling violence. I dont have a good answer. It takes some dialogue. Do you want to weigh in . I have thought a little bit about that before in one beginning of an idea i came up with is things need to be tackled in preschool because in preschool, preschool is a time where kids have the fewest ideas coming into conceptions about the world. Its the ideal time to try and encourage empathy through the structure of preschool and my hope would be as soon as we go through preschool and become more empathetic individuals in that time of very Rapid Development they are going to go into Elementary School and eventually high school with a much more empathetic background and that will leave them much more in tuned to the issues that you brought up which is i think the first step. There are simply people recognizing their presence in being willing to talk about them. Anybody else want to weigh in before i answer back . It seems
Social entrepreneur, is that a knew term . I think it was coined by people like nicholas kristof, but it is widely used now for people like me who direct nonprofits and do Different Things in the nonprofit sector. How did you get involved with appalachian girls in middle school . That is a long story i write about in the road out. I grew up as a workingclass girl. The first in my family to go to college which was a big step for me and ended up, through a scholarship, going to college and doing super wrong in college and ended up going on and getting a graduate degree from harvard in education. That long journey i experienced came back to my native soul, North Carolina, and founded this nonprofit. When you say you work with appalachian girls, what do you do . I teach. I teach. I, we, the people who work with me have created this out of School Opportunity for girls in the most rural and remote parts. They come to an intensive summer program, have meetings with volunteers, and we offer th
Postcode tv is on the campus of Duke University in durham, North Carolina, where we are talking with professors and scholars about some of their book. Joining us here is Deborah Hicks. Her book, the road out the road out a teachers odyssey in poor america. What do you do here at duke first of all . Guest i have a couple of things that i do. I am part of a researching occult social Science Research institute and that is the unit composed of people doing research in the social science and disciplined and i do a lot of research. Im also a social entrepreneur, so i direct the nonprofit called page, partnership for appalachian girls education. And there i work with appalachian girls in middleschool and help them get Educational Opportunity and access. I have a couple different hats i wear at the university. A researcher in our social entrepreneur. Host social entrepreneur. Is that a new term . I think it was coined by nicholas kristof. It was a widely used term. People like you basically di
Host booktv is on the campus of Duke University in durham North Carolina where we are talking with professors and scholars about some of their books and now joining us here is Deborah Hicks. Her book the road out a teachers odyssey in poor america. Deborah hicks what you do at duke first of all . Guest i have a couple of things that i do. I am part of their research into called social Science Research and that is a unit that is composed of people whore doing research in the social sciences and different disciplines. I do a lot of a lot of research and then im also a social entrepreneur so i direct a nonprofit the North Carolina mountains called page, partnership for appalachian Girls Education in their work with appalachian girls in middle school and help them get Educational Opportunity and access. So i have a couple of different hats that i wear at Duke University and researcher and now social entrepreneur. Host social entrepreneur. Is that a new term . Guest atinguas point coined by