In September 2020, the Homewood Public Library hosted its first Snapshots contest. Snapshots, an online teen photography contest, was open to any Jefferson County student. Suggested by the Teen Advisory Board, Snapshots allowed for local students to submit two original photographs. Thank you to all the teens that took the time to submit their entries….
“El principal imperativo de cualquier sociedad nueva es lograr el pleno empleo. Esto constituye hoy una evidencia, pero no siempre ha sido así, y hay aún quienes, incluso en nuestros días, se oponen a ello
o que, si bien aceptan el fin, no aceptan los medios. Hasta hace poco, el desempleo era considerado como un efecto inevitable de lo que se denomina la “sociedad liberal”, o incluso una reserva deseable de mano de obra sin la cual una economía capitalista carecería de un instrumento fundamental de flexibilidad y disciplina.” (Dobb)
“Great Expectations, which was written in the afternoon of Dickens’s life and fame, has a quality of serene irony and even sadness, which puts it quite alone among his other works.” (Chesterton)
“The rise of Dickens is like the rising of a vast mob. This is not only because his tales are indeed as crowded and populous as towns: for truly it was not so much that Dickens appeared as that a hundred Dickens characters appeared.” (Chesterton)
“Cómo desplegar la evolución teal en la administración pública. Cinco retos comunes y tres historias transformadoras.”
“You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. I don’t say this by way of disparagement.” (Conrad)
