Here is the instructions that came along with the audition: The client has requested an “adult female who should be bright and playful”. Keep in mind, though, that the target audience for the video are the PARENTS & TEACHERS, not the kids themselves. Generic American accent, please–not a region-specific one. We’re looking for a range […] Read more

As a business owner, you know you need to look at your financial statements to understand the health of your business and how to plan for growth. But if you’ve ever felt confused trying to understand financial terms, you’re not alone. Here are 13 basic terms you’ll need to find your way around your financial […] Read more

In both rating years and non-rating years, the educator effectiveness process includes several steps. These steps help educators to set, refine and document their progress towards individualized goals for student and educator growth. They also help educators get tailored support from evaluators and peers to meet their goals. Although teachers and principals will be evaluated […] Read more

When Edward Abbey died in 1989 at the age of sixty-two, the American West lost one of its most eloquent and passionate advocates. Through his novels, essays, letters, and speeches, Edward Abbey consistently voiced the belief that the West was in danger of being developed to death, and that the only solution lay in the […] Read more

To modern eyes, the people of ancient Egypt seem bearers of some higher civilization…whose sources lay in another world. While populations elsewhere, still in their infancy, were groping their way out of the stone age, the Egyptians seem to have been born adult. They soon broke through the barriers of human possibility, six thousand years […] Read more

Egypt has always been a land of mystery and magic — a land different from all others, difficult to understand, apart and alien, yet strangely fascinating. It was the most self-contained of all the countries of the ancient world; it lived its own life, practiced its own religion, and made up its own government with […] Read more

The life of Albert Einstein has a dramatic quality that does not rest exclusively on his “Theory of Relativity.” For the extravagant timing of history linked him with three shattering developments of the Twentieth Century: the rise of modern Germany; the birth of nuclear weapons; and the growth of Zionism. Their impact on his simple […] Read more

There’s Gold in them thar hills! January 24, 1848 Gold is discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California and the rush is on. People with “Gold Fever” from around the world head to California’s Mother Lode and have to pass right through El Paso on their way. El Paso, known as Franklin then, was the midpoint […] Read more

Eleanor Roosevelt brought a breezy informality and bustle of activity to the White House. At the inaugural buffet, the President waited his turn to be served like anyone else, and Mrs. Roosevelt helped with the serving. She also horrified chief usher “Ike” Hoover by insisting immediately on operating the elevator herself. “That just isn’t done, […] Read more