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Professor Loren Eiseley: A Grant Proposal In Honor
Amber Doll Diaz 11-21-11 English WRT 101 Word Count: 1,411 Mr. Kaiser
A Grant Proposal in Honor of the late Professor of Anthropology and History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Loren Eiseley
Introduction and Executive Summary As a current full-time student with an incessant thirst for knowledge of all things existential and transcendental, as an advocate of reflective literacy in all people, and as a compassionate activist for the publicity of important philosophical musings or sociological findings, I pen this summary in hopes that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will thoughtfully and meaningfully provide the funds for my student-run humanitarian organization to purchase a space in the extremely low income
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Pennsylvania being the home state of the university where Loren Eiseley made his greatest contributions to mankind, we intend to devote upwards of four million dollars to build from the ground up, ensuring that this building, future youth contribution and learning center will be a monument to the change we wish to bring to the community in honor of Professor Loren Eiseley, who allowed less than nothing defer his dreams. Blueprint sketches have been drawn up, for where we wish to integrate four to five different wings of the building, supporting the many different arts and divisions of study that Loren Eiseley mastered in his lifetime. In each respective hall there will be creative writing presentations and workshops, anthropological film showings, enlightening technology rooms complete with brand new computers to be used for free tutoring, and décor being replicated child-appropriate archeological displays. All this will be enclosed by a comprehensive, well rounded library section to be freely accessed by the youth of the

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