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The United States has historically managed its national politics through two dominant political parties. Examine this relatively unique system of representative politics by looking at some significant election examples from the Revolution to the present, and conclude with a discussion of what divides the present Democratic and Republican parties and what this might mean after the 2012 election.

Gain essential strategies to tackle this unique portion of the GMAT that is not multiple choice. Benefit from information and tips on optimizing your score under time pressure and gain practice in a timed Analytical Writing Assessment exercise in a computer lab to simulate the test environment.

Studies show that people who work in a career that supports their intrinsic interests are happier, more successful and better fulfilled in life. For individuals feeling stuck in an unsatisfying job, considering a major career change, or re-entering the workforce after an extended absence, the Career Testing Package provides a positive first step towards a career path more aligned with intrinsic interests, personal style and individual strengths. The assessment package includes four inventories designed to increase understanding of your individual aptitudes, career interests, work-related personality and key values.
The package is administered in a two-and-a-half-hour group setting and is followed approximately one week later by a private, one-hour session with a professional career counsellor. The assessments in the package include the Wonderlic Personnel, Strong Interest Inventory, Work Personality Index and Career Values Scale.

Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks – the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Dr. Garvey’s talk opens a new window into the feelings and thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary North Americans. Like us, nineteenth-century readers spoke back to the media, and treasured what mattered to them. In her groundbreaking book, Garvey reveals a previously unexplored layer of American popular culture, where the proliferating cheap press touched the lives of activists and mourning parents, and all who yearned for a place in history. Scrapbook makers documented their feelings about momentous public events such as living through the Civil War, mediated through the newspapers. African Americans and women’s rights activists collected, concentrated, and critiqued accounts from a press that they did not control to create “unwritten histories” in books they wrote with scissors. Whether scrapbook makers pasted their clippings into blank books, sermon collections, or the pre-gummed scrapbook that Mark Twain invented, they claimed ownership of their reading. They created their own democratic archives.Garvey’s recent book argues that people have long had a strong personal relationship to media. Like newspaper editors who enthusiastically “scissorized” and reprinted attractive items from other newspapers, scrapbook makers passed their readig along to family and community. This book explains how their scrapbooks underlie our present-day ways of thinking about information and news, and what we do with it.
Talk topics include:
· Writing with Scissors: The American Scrapbook in the Nineteenth Century
· African American Newspaper Clipping Scrapbooks: Alternative Histories
· Too Much to Read: Scrapbooks and How People Managed Information before the Internet
· Mark Twain’s Self-Pasting Scrap-Book, the Authorship of Blank Books, and Intellectual Property
· Civil War Scrapbooks North and South: Newspaper and Nation
· Newspaper Readers Breaking Rules: Scrapbook Making Women
· Strategic Scrapbooks: Activist Women’s Clipping and Self-Creation
· The Pedagogy of the Periodical, the Primer, and the Scrapbook
· Cross-Dressed Civil War Poetry, Gender, and the Hunger for Authentic Testimony
The Records of the 99 Percent: American Newspaper Scrapbooks
· Scrapbook Makers as History Keepers: Betrayed by Archives
· Newspapers into Databases: Abolitionist Innovations