Family History of Rebecca Polk
Download 0.91 Mb. Pdf ko'rish
|
Family History of Rebecca Polk
Wikipedia, "Odyssey of the Mind," accessed February 20, 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odys-
sey_of_the_Mind. 5 Claude S. Fischer and Michael Hout, Century of Difference; How America Changed in the Last One Hundred Years (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006), 9 . 8 she participated in a state-wide theater competition and theater pro- ductions during Spring Wing, an end of the year showcase of student performance arts presented to the public. At Bridgewater College, she joined the theater honor society Alpha Psi Omega and participated in performances throughout the school year. In 2000, Rebecca’s family was among the two in ten Americans who lived in a rural town. 6 At this time, Rebecca began to feel isolated from academic and social experiences due to the isolationist hometown she grew up in. She had no interest in farming, which was a common oc- cupation in Edinburg, and the most common occupation of the last five generations of her paternal side. She also had decided in elementary school she wanted to go to college and become a teacher. To jumpstart this path and have extra spending money, she got her first job at the age of 15 at a local printing company, Narrow Passage Press, where several members of her family worked. Narrow Passage Press, which also went by the name of the Newspaper it published until 2019, The Free Press, was established in 1985 after its president, Keith Stickley, left his management job at another newspaper, The Shenandoah Herald, to start his own company. 7 Rebecca worked at Narrow Passage Press in the mailroom until late 2007 as a part-time employee, and periodically until 2018. High school allowed Rebecca to deepen her interests in history, culture, languages, and writing. These inspired her to write a schol- 6 Fischer, Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character, 146. 7 Keith Stickley, “In the Beginning: A Stray Cat and a Vision,” The Free Press, May 30, 2019. 9 arship essay her senior year that earned her a full two-year scholar- ship to the local community college, Lord Fairfax Community College. Rebecca would commute there for the next two years while working part- time and living with her parents. At Lord Fairfax Community College, Rebecca completed her general education requirements and earned an As- sociates of Arts and Science degree. Rebecca decided to transfer to Bridgewater College after graduation due to its well-regarded teacher education program, religious affiliation, and close-knit community. While not a particularly large college, Bridgewater College pre- sented Rebecca with new opportunities and experiences that had not ex- isted in her hometown or the areas around it. These included Japanese steakhouses, Greek and Ethiopian restaurants, Kings Dominion, con- certs, and a variety of clubs such as coding, martial arts, and sword fighting. The friends Rebecca made at Bridgewater were equally as in- vested as she was in movies, video games and board games, allowing Re- becca to diversify those interests. One of her friends taught her to play Magic the Gathering, which became a popular activity within her social circle and years later al- lowed her to meet her future husband, Anthony. Magic the Gathering was a trading card game created by Richard Garfield in 1993. The trading card game was active and popular almost thirty years later in April 2022, with new sets of cards coming out a few times a year that intro- duce new or built upon existing gameplay mechanics. There are differ- ent play formats, but most require that players have a 60-card deck, with other play formats requiring 100 or 40 card decks. The goal of 10 the game is to cause enough damage to an opponent’s life total, usu- ally 20, to 0 or force them to run out of cards, using a combination of creatures, spells, artifacts, and various game mechanics. Magic the Download 0.91 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
Ma'lumotlar bazasi mualliflik huquqi bilan himoyalangan ©fayllar.org 2024
ma'muriyatiga murojaat qiling
ma'muriyatiga murojaat qiling