AMERICAN UNIVEWRSITY OF PARIS

On February 4 American Library in cooperation with the Kyiv EducationUSA Advising Center, administered by the American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, was glad to invite all those interested to attend a presentation with Mr. Randy Vener, Deputy Director of Admissions & Financial Aid at the American University of Paris.

Mr. Vener covered the following topics:

a. The American System of Education - Including the admissions process for applying to American Colleges and Universities, including those located outside the United States, and general tips on how to complete each section successfully.

b. Financial Aid - General overview and definitions of available resources, with insight into finding and qualifying for financial aid as part of the overall cost of affording an education;

c. A general presentation about The American University of Paris, an small, English-language, international university located in the center of Paris, France with students from over 100 countries.

The presentation lasted almost 2 hours. 10 students mostly of Kyiv Mohyla academy and Academy of advocacy of Ukraine listened attentively and applauded Mr. Vener. And of cause they asked a lot questions.

AFRICAN AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENTS

These are the first black Americans to realize pioneering achievements in their fields. With talent and determination, each one has reinvented not only what it means to be an African American, but also what it means to be an American. Our book dislplay is dedicated to the first African Americans to overcome the obstacles of discrimination and achieve top honors in their fields of endeavor.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH:LITEREATURE AND ARTS

This book display was prepared by American Library staff to highlight some of literature and art of the African-American experience. As it is Black History Month, we offer you to reed the following books.

JOHN ERNST STEINBECK, JR

This February we celebrate 111 th birthday of John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). As the author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

On February 4 American Library in cooperation with the Kyiv EducationUSA Advising Center, administered by the American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, was glad to invite all those interested to attend a presentation with Mr. Randy Vener, Deputy Director of Admissions & Financial Aid at the American University of Paris.

Mr. Vener covered the following topics:

a. The American System of Education - Including the admissions process for applying to American Colleges and Universities, including those located outside the United States, and general tips on how to complete each section successfully.

b. Financial Aid - General overview and definitions of available resources, with insight into finding and qualifying for financial aid as part of the overall cost of affording an education;

c. A general presentation about The American University of Paris, an small, English-language, international university located in the center of Paris, France with students from over 100 countries.

The presentation lasted almost 2 hours

10 students mostly of Kyiv Mohyla academy and Academy of advocacy of Ukraine listened attentively and applauded Mr. Vener. And of cause it was a lot questions.

Remembering Maratin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. goes down in history as one of the principal leader of the civil rights movement in the United States and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King's challenges to segregation and racial discrimination helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States.

King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and was ordained as a Baptist minister at age 18. He graduated from Morehouse College in 1948 and from Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951. In 1955 he earned a doctoral degree in systematic theology from Boston University. While in Boston, King met Coretta Scott, whom he married in 1953.

In 1954 King accepted his first pastorate at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Montgomery's black community had long-standing grievances about the mistreatment of blacks on city buses. Heading the year-long bus-boycott against segregation in buses, King soon became a national figure.

In 1957 King helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), an organization of black churches and ministers that aimed to challenge racial segregation. King and other SCLC leaders encouraged the use of nonviolent marches, demonstrations, and boycotts to protest discrimination.

King and other black leaders organized the 1963 March on Washington, a massive protest in Washington, D.C., for jobs and civil rights. King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to an audience of more than 200,000 civil rights supporters. The speech and the march created the political momentum that resulted in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited segregation in public accommodations and discrimination in education and employment. As a result of King's effective leadership, he was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for peace.

Throughout 1966 and 1967 King increasingly turned the focus of his activism to the redistribution of the nation's economic wealth to overcome entrenched black poverty. In the spring of 1968 he went to Memphis, Tennessee, to support striking black garbage workers. King was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968

American Library staff prepared the book display Remembering Maratin Luther King Jr. Everyone is wellcome to see and to boroww some book about great American leader.

On January 16, 2016 at 6:00PM crime drama Anatomy of a Murder (1959) has been shown and discussed.

John C. Engstrom, Resident Legal Advisor, U.S. Embassy, Kyiv presented the film and lead an after film discussion.

Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Traver (the pseudonym for Michigan Supreme Court justice John D. Voelker), Anatomy of a Murder is 1959 American courtroom crime drama. The most popular film by Hollywood provocateur Otto Preminger, was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex—but more than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words.

Viewers liked the progressive-jazz musical score is provided by Duke Ellington, who also appears in a brief scene.

22 patrons enjoyed the showing. Mostly students of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, National Taras Shevchenko University, six employees and one lecturer.