ANNOUNCEMENT

2012 Scholarship Announcement and Application

Applications Accepted from January 1, 2012 - September 10, 2012

Children and youth in homeless situations face numerous barriers to educational success. Deep poverty, high mobility, and school requirements often make attending and succeeding in school a challenge. Despite these challenges, many students who experience homelessness not only graduate

from high school, but wish to pursue a college education.

What is the LeTendre Education Fund? 

 The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth  provides scholarship assistance to students who are homeless or have experienced homelessness through the LeTendre Education Fund for Homeless Children, established in 1998 in memory of André E. LeTendre, husband of Mary Jean LeTendre, former Director of Compensatory Education for the U.S. Department of Education who was especially committed to helping children in homeless situations.  The LeTendre Education Fund supports their efforts to pursue higher education.

Who administers the LeTendre Education Fund? 

The LeTendre Fund is administered by the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth. Who selects the recipients? A national advisory board including local, state, and national educators, as well as family, and friends of the late André LeTendre, reviews the applications and makes the selection. How many scholarships are awarded? There will be a minimum of two $2,000 scholarships awarded annually. The scholarship is a one-time award. Additional financial support may be available for scholars in subsequent years.  How may the LeTendre Education Fund scholarship be used? Upon submission of evidence that you have enrolled in a post secondary program for credit, the scholarship will be provided and may be used to help defray the costs of college tuition, fees, books, or other educational expenses.

How many scholarships have been awarded in the past? To date, the Fund has awarded scholarships to more than 220 recipients. 

NAEHCY’SLETENDRE EDUCATION FUND

Building Futures Through EducationLeTendre Education Fund 2012 Scholarship Application 

When will the 2012 scholarships be awarded? The scholarships will be awarded on Sunday, October 28, 2012 at the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Who is eligible for the scholarship? The scholarship funds are available to students who are homeless or who have been homeless during their school attendance, and who have demonstrated average or higher than average achievement. According to federal law, a person is considered homeless who “lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence.” This includes people living in shelters, cars, motels, campgrounds, or places not meant for human habitation, as well as children and youth who are living with friends or

relatives temporarily because they lack permanent housing.Students who have not reached their 21st birthday by September 1, 2012, and who have completed no more than one year of college are eligible to apply. Applicants may be high school seniors, students enrolled in a GED or other alternative education program, or recent graduates/GED recipients. If you are in high school and not yet enrolled in a post secondary program, the committee

will hold your scholarship for you pending your enrollment.

Additional application forms may be downloaded from the NAEHCY web site at

http://www.naehcy.org/letendre_app.html.

To receive applications via email or fax, please contact Patricia Popp, NAEHCY LeTendre Chair, at: 

757.221.7776 or pxpopp@wm.edu.

How do students apply? Applicants must submit:

1) A completed application form;

2) An essay about the impact of homelessness on the their lives and their desire to attend college

(approximately 1,000 words; please see essay evaluation criteria listed below);

3) A school transcript, include class ranking if available; and

4) A minimum of one letter of recommendation from a teacher, counselor, or other adult who can speak to the applicant’s qualifications and experiences.

This packet must be sent to:

Patricia A. Popp, Ph.D.

The LeTendre Education Fund

The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth

9176 Harvey Hollow Drive

Mechanicsville, Virginia 23116

Materials may also be faxed to: 757-221-5300

QUESTION:
1. who can enroll in this scholarship program?
2. What are the requirements?
3. can we recommend someone to get this scholarship?
4. Why the program can be follow by homeless person only? Follow the reasons!
5. Can these program be followed by other countries, if it can what are the requirements?

SUMMARY

Summary of short story

"REGRET"

Summary:

There lived on a village the strong and independent old woman named Mamzelle Aurlie. Until she's fivety years old, she has never through marrying. She is alone in the world but except her dog and her employee who do all her livestock.

One day her neighbor Odile said to her to take care for her four child. The child name is Lodie and three other child. For a few days Mamzelle spend a lot of time Lodie and three other child.

She's doing a lot of things she's never done before. She tell a story, give them food, and keep them when they are playing. She's very tired to do all of things and she wish that all of that child gone.

Her wish come true, all of that child was gone. But after all, she know for the first time she feel lonely. She know that she can't live alone, she needed someone.

Character:

1. Mamzelle Aurlie, she's very lonely

2. Employee and her dog, their are very loyal

3. Lodie, she's very obident

4. Odile, she's very easy going

Plot:

The plot is thrive because it tell from the child come until Mamzelle feel lonely and sad.

Setting:

The setting is on a village, exactly at Mamzelle's house and and animal husbandry.

Moral value:

You have to realize that in life you need someone. We can't through this life alone.

REGRET

by Kate Chopin

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Mamzelle Aurlie possessed a good strong figure, ruddy cheeks, hair that was changing from brown to gray, and a determined eye. She wore a man's hat about the farm, and an old blue army overcoat when it was cold, and sometimes top-boots.

Mamzelle Aurlie had never thought of marrying. She had never been in love. At the age of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it.

So she was quite alone in the world, except for her dog Ponto, and the negroes who lived in her cabins and worked her crops, and the fowls, a few cows, a couple of mules, her gun (with which she shot chicken-hawks), and her religion.

One morning Mamzelle Aurlie stood upon her gallery, contemplating, with arms akimbo, a small band of very small children who, to all intents and purposes, might have fallen from the clouds, so unexpected and bewildering was their coming, and so unwelcome. They were the children of her nearest neighbor, Odile, who was not such a near neighbor, after all.

The young woman had appeared but five minutes before, accompanied by these four children. In her arms she carried little Lodie; she dragged Ti Nomme by an unwilling hand; while Marcline and Marclette followed with irresolute steps.

Her face was red and disfigured from tears and excitement. She had been summoned to a neighboring parish by the dangerous illness of her mother; her husband was away in Texas. It seemed to her a million miles away; and Valsin was waiting with the mule-cart to drive her to the station.

"It's no question, Mamzelle Aurlie; you just got to keep those youngsters for me tell I come back. Dieu said, I wouldn't both you with them if it was any other way to do! Make them mine you, Mamzelle Aurlie; don't spare them. Me, there, I'm half crazy between the children, and Lon not home, and maybe not even to fine po' maman alive encore!" a harrowing possibility which drove Odile to take a final hasty and convulsive leave of her disconsolate family.

She left them crowded into the narrow strip of shade on the porch of the long, low house; the white sunlight was beating in on the white old boards; some chickens were scratching in the grass at the foot of the steps, and one had boldly mounted, and was stepping heavily, solemnly, and aimlessly across the gallery. There was a pleasant odor of pinks in the air, and the sound of negroes' laughter was coming across the flowering cotton-field.

Mamzelle Aurlie stood contemplating the children. She looked with a critical eye upon Marcline, who had been left staggering beneath the weight of the chubby Lodie. She surveyed with the same calculating air Marclette mingling her silent tears with the audible grief and rebellion of Ti Nomme. During those few contemplative moments she was collecting herself, determining upon a line of action which should be identical with a line of duty. She began by feeding them.

If Mamzelle Aurlie's responsibilities might have begun and ended there, they could easily have been dismissed; for her larder was amply provided against an emergency of this nature. But little children are not little pigs: they require and demand attentions which were wholly unexpected by Mamzelle Aurlie, and which she was ill prepared to give.

She was, indeed, very inapt in her management of Odile's children during the first few days. How could she know that Marclette always wept when spoken to in a loud and commanding tone of voice? It was a peculiarity of Marclette's. She became acquainted with Ti Nomme's passion for flowers only when he had plucked all the choicest gardenias and pinks for the apparent purpose of critically studying their botanical construction.

"'They ain't enough to tell I'm, Mamzelle Aurlie," Marcline instructed her; "you got to tie me in a chair. It's w'at maman all time do when he's bad: she tie 'im in a chair." The chair in which Mamzelle Aurlie tied Ti Nomme was roomy and comfortable, and he seized the opportunity to take a nap in it, the afternoon being warm.

At night, when she ordered them one and all to bed as she would have shooed the chickens into the hen-house, they stayed uncomprehending before her. What about the little white nightgowns that had to be taken from the pillow-slip in which they were brought over, and shaken by some strong hand till they snapped like ox-whips? What about the tub of water which had to be brought and set in the middle of the floor, in which the little tired, dusty, sun-browned feet had every one to be washed sweet and clean? And it made Marcline and Marclette laugh merrily -- the idea that Mamzelle Aurlie should for a moment have believed that Ti Nomme could fall asleep without being told the story of Croque-mitaine or Loup-garou, or both; or that lodie could fall asleep at all without being rocked and sung to.

"I tell you, Aunt Ruby," Mamzelle Aurlie informed her cook in confidence; "me, I'd rather manage a dozen plantation' than fo' chil'ren. It's terrassent! Bont! don't talk to me about chil'ren!"

"They ain't ispected sich as you would know airy thing about me. Mamzelle Aurlie. I see dat plainly study when I spy that l'll chile playing wid you baskit o' keys. You don' know dat makes chillun grow up hard-headed, to play wid keys? Des like it make my teeth hard to look in a looking-glass. Them's the things you got to know in the raisin an'dmanigement o' chillun."

Mamzelle Aurlie certainly did not pretend or aspire to such subtle and far-reaching knowledge on the subject as Aunt Ruby possessed, who had "raised five an' buried six" in her day. She was glad enough to learn a few little mother-tricks to serve the moment's need.

Ti Nomme's sticky fingers compelled her to unearth white aprons that she had not worn for years, and she had to accustom herself to his moist kisses -- the expressions of an affectionate and exuberant nature. She got down her sewing-basket, which she seldom used, from the top shelf of the armoire, and placed it within the ready and easy reach which torn slips and buttonless waists demanded. It took her some days to become accustomed to the laughing, the crying, the chattering that echoed through the house and around it all day long. And it was not the first or the second night that she could sleep comfortably with little Lodie's hot, plump body pressed close against her, and the little one's warm breath beating her cheek like the fanning of a bird's wing.

But at the end of two weeks Mamzelle Aurlie had grown quite used to these things, and she no longer complained.

It was also at the end of two weeks that Mamzelle Aurlie, one evening, looking away toward the crib where the cattle were being fed, saw Valsin's blue cart turning the bend of the road. Odile sat beside the mulatto, upright and alert. As they drew near, the young woman's beaming face indicated that her home-coming was a happy one.

But this coming, unannounced and unexpected, threw Mamzelle Aurlie into a flutter that was almost agitation. The children had to be gathered. Where was Ti Nomme? Yonder in the shed, putting an edge on his knife at the grindstone. And Marcline and Marclette? Cutting and fashioning doll-rags in the corner of the gallery. As for Lodie, she was safe enough in Mamzelle Aurlie's arms; and she had screamed with delight at sight of the familiar blue cart which was bringing her mother back to her.

THE excitement was all over, and they were gone. How still it was when they were gone! Mamzelle Aurlie stood upon the gallery, looking and listening. She could no longer see the cart; the red sunset and the blue-gray twilight had together flung a purple mist across the fields and road that hid it from her view. She could no longer hear the wheezing and creaking of its wheels. But she could still faintly hear the shrill, glad voices of the children.

She turned into the house. There was much work awaiting her, for the children had left a sad disorder behind them; but she did not at once set about the task of righting it. Mamzelle Aurlie seated herself beside the table. She gave one slow glance through the room, into which the evening shadows were creeping and deepening around her solitary figure. She let her head fall down upon her bended arm, and began to cry. Oh, but she cried! Not softly, as women often do. She cried like a man, with sobs that seemed to tear her very soul. She did not notice Ponto licking her hand.

Source: www.google.com and www.americanliterature.com with some editing.

MY SELF

MY SELF

My name is Selma Khairunnisa. My friend often call me Selma. I was born in Bandung on 1 April 1997. I'm going to 3 senior high school of Bandung. I live with my father, my mother, and grandma. I love my family so much because we are always understand each other. 

As a human, I have strength and weaknesses. I want to tell about my weaknesses first. I feel that I often postpone everything near deadline. For example I often do my homework if the deadline come soon. My other weaknesses is sometimes I come to school almost late.

My mother said that my strength is I always wise to take a decision. I think that my mother is right because I always think every adventage and disadventage for my self and other on took a decision.

As a person, I will always doing my best and be better person every single day. I wish that I can be usefull for my own self, my family, and my beloved country.

Dolphin

DOLPHIN

1. Characteristic of the dolphin:

The dolphin is from family delphinidae. They range in size from 1, 2 meters to 9 meters and 40 kg until 500 kg. They typically have curved dorsal fins, clear beaks, and melons forehead. They have a wide range of colors and patterns.

They eat fish, squid, and also sometimes birds. They are purely carnivorous which have 100 teeth until 200 teeth. The female dolphin gave to gestation lasts from 10 to 20 months to have a single calf baby dolphin. They take oxygen every 3 minutes because they are mammals.

They have solar system to guide them on swimming. So, they never crush the rock and also can interact with another dolphin. The dolphin are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seq of the continental shelves.

2. The unique things from the dolphin:

The unique things from from dolphin are the only one mammals that have the solar system and live on the sea. They always take a breath every 3 minutes. Not only that but also dolphin are very friendly animals. They have close relationship with human because they can be a therapist for autism child. 

3. What I learn from the dolphin:

The things that I learn from dolphin are we have to be useful for each other and we have to trust your self even you are different  another.