It’s time to enjoy the warmer weather and all the pleasures that this time of the year provides. Flowers, fruits, and vegetables are some of of these gifts. The humble bee plays an important role in all of these products. Bees are divided into two classes, cultivated bees (honeybees who produce honey and pollinate crops)… Continue reading Be Kind to Bees
Author: Barb Keleher
Smoke on the Prairie
The Moraine Valley campus is surrounded by Cook County Forest Preserves. Most of us drive by without much appreciation of the open land. The amount of work that goes into sustaining these green spaces is staggering, not only financially but also the amount of strategic planning to keep these spaces viable for future generations. You… Continue reading Smoke on the Prairie
Pandemic Poster Art
“A poster is a temporary promotion of an idea, product, or event put up in a public space for mass consumption. Typically, posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text.” With our current technology, posters are not a necessary tool to help spread information but… Continue reading Pandemic Poster Art
“NASA Works”!
That sentence was jubilantly proclaimed as the Perseverance rover landed on Mars today at 2:56 (CST). After a year of doom and gloom news, a ray of sunshine burst through the world with the announcement that the NASA Perseverance rover touched down on the red planet. The rover will collect samples of rocks and soil.… Continue reading “NASA Works”!
Chinese New Year 2021
Happy Lunar New Year! The Chinese New Year falls on February 12, 2021 and the celebration lasts for several weeks. “The Chinese Zodiac, a system that has existed in Chinese culture for more than 2,000 years, dictates which animal represents a given year.” The cycle repeats every 12 years, and 2021 is the Year of… Continue reading Chinese New Year 2021
Something Old, Something New
I spent part of the winter break rereading Orwell’s 1984, watching Netflix’s The Rain for the second time and listening to a new musical group, Reina del Cid, that I discovered on YouTube. I had no specific reason why I chose this novel/series/music but I think they were helpful in that I challenged myself to… Continue reading Something Old, Something New
Veterans Day 2020
Today the MVCC library would like to thank all veterans who have served and continue to serve our country. “Moraine Valley is honored to have those who served our country in the military as members of our college community.” Visit the MVCC Veteran site and explore the numerous resources that the college offers.
National Adoption Month
November is National Adoption Month. The celebration of adoption began in 1976 when Governor M. Dukakis announced that Massachusetts would “promote awareness of the need for adoption for children in foster care”. Here is a brief background on adoption in the United States. The MVCC catalog and databases are an excellent source of information on… Continue reading National Adoption Month
1984
“The dystopia described in George Orwell’s nearly 70-year-old novel 1984 suddenly feels all too familiar. A world in which Big Brother (or maybe the National Security Agency) is always listening in, and high-tech devices can eavesdrop in people’s homes. (Hey, Alexa, what’s up?) A world in which the government insists that reality is not “something objective, external, existing in its own right” —… Continue reading 1984