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Journals for Genesis

Submitted by EPJ62993 on Wed, 2008-02-20 17:13.


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Just one journal can change a child's life forever. Journals for Genesis is a project started last year, April 2007, for children in need at Genesis Youth Crisis Center and Alta Vista Children's Shelter in Clarksburg, West Virginia. These centers provide temporary homes for children in abusive or neglectful homes. This project was formed to help children in crisis situations express themselves through writing. These journals are sometimes the only possession the children at the centers will have for their entire stay. Last year, April 2007, we collected, as a local community, 113 journals for Genesis and Alta Vista centers. This year our goal is to double the income.

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Started On:Tuesday April 1, 2008Ended On:Wednesday April 30, 2008
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Tags: helping comfort kids in crisis kids going through crisis journal

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Local bingo on April 20th. Bring a Journal- get a free cover all.

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Capital Culturel Africain

Submitted by aoyeboah on Sat, 2007-07-07 02:33.

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Capital Culturel Africain, translated means African Cultural Capital, is a new journal which will work toward increasing, preserving, distributing and creating objectified forms of African cultural capital. These cultural goods can be transmitted physically as an exercise of economic capital, and symbolically as cultural capital. Popularized by Pierre Bourdieu, capital acts as a social relation within a system of exchange, and the term is extended ‘to all the goods material and symbolic, without distinction, that present themselves as rare and worthy of being sought after in a particular social formation (Harker, 1990:13) and cultural capital acts as a social relation within a system of exchange that includes the accumulated cultural knowledge that confers power and status.

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Started On:07/01/07Ended On:
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Related Cause: The Arts

Category: Arts & Culture

Tags: magazine culture AFRICAN AMERICAN journal

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