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Volume 76, Issue 16 SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935 Jan. 28, 2011
Obama echoes sentiments of State of the Union
By Carolyn Briggs
via UWIRE
After a November election which focused
largely on job creation. President Barack Obama
changed gears, mentioning the future, the 21st
century and innovation a total of 19 times in his
first major address following Tuesday’s State
of the Union.
While Obama discussed the creation of jobs
and the economy — with the word “jobs” used
nine times — he echoed a sentiment already
covered in Tuesday’s State of the Union
address: the United States must become the
world champion in innovation to lead the global
economy in the 21 st century.
At green technology manufacturer Orion
Energy Systems in Manitowoc, a city just south
of Green Bay, he told the audience of more than
250 employees the kind of work they do there
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Campus News:
Flu Season 2
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Voice of the Rivers 3
SOTU at a Glance 3
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BC makes SAC Preseason Team 5
BC Standout 5
Tornado Scoreboard 5
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Devil's Advocate 6
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Cartoon by Karam Boeshaar 7
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will be central to the country’s goals.
“I came here to Manitowoc to glimpse [the]
future,” Obama said. “We’ve got to lead the
world in innovation... that’s how we’ll create
the jobs of the future.”
Obama recalled how more than 50 years ago a
chunk of the satellite Sputnik fell in Manitowoc,
after which the U.S. pooled their energy to beat
other countries of the world to the moon. The
current global race, he said, will be won by the
country who leads the world in innovation —
particularly with green products.
“It is here, more than 50 years later, that the
race for the 21st century will be won,” said
Obama, who referenced economic competition
with South Korea and China in his speech
Tuesday.
Clean energy, he said, must be vital to
America’s goals for the future. In the State
of the Union address, Obama challenged the
An essay by Brevard College Adjunct English
Instructor Jennifer McGaha appears in this
month's issue of The Portland Review.
The essay, titled “Fundraising,” is one of
three works by McGaha that will be published
in national literary magazines in the coming
months. “It’s about the state of economics,”
said McGaha, “it’s timely, and I think people
can relate to it.”
A second essay, “Visualizing A Stallion,” will
be included in the March issue of Slow Trains
Literary Journal. A third, “Distracted from
Deliverance” will appear in the May issue of
Compass Rose, a literary journal representing
the New England region and beyond.
“I wrote ‘Distracted from Deliverance’ about
my experience with ADHD,” said McGaha, “I
took a quiz about ADHD in the book ‘Delivered
from Distraction’ and centered the piece around
my answers. I don’t write linear stories, it’s
experiential.”
All three essays are from a collection McGaha
is currently writing.
McGaha, who writes both creative nonfiction
and nonfiction, has also been published in the
North Carolina Literary Review, moonShine
U.S. to see that 80 percent of electricity comes
from clean sources by 2035. On Wednesday,
he reiterated another goal: to become the first
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I don’t write linear stories.
It’s experiential, it’s edgy.
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Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Queen City Review,
Fried Chicken and Coffee, WNC Woman,
BackHome Magazine, and Smoky Mountain
Living Magazine and Echoes Across the Blue
Ridge: An Anthology of Southern Appalachian
Literature to name a few.
One essay, "Leanin' Back," originally
published in New Southerner in 2009, has been
nominated for a Pushcart Prize. The Pushcart
Prize is an annual anthology of stories, poems,
essays and memoirs selected from hundreds of
small magazines and presses throughout the
world.
In addition to teaching, McGaha also serves
as the nonfiction editor for the Pisgah Review,
a biannual journal associated with Brevard
College that features fiction, poetry and creative
nonfiction works by national and international
writers.
Essay by BC Adjunct Faculty Member
Published in the Portland Review