Today's Word:
Like most people, I was involved in a lot of different activities when I was young – things like T-ball, karate lessons, and acting classes. Onstage, I played the wizard in the "Wizard of Oz", painted the fence in "Tom Sawye"r, and was the king in a Kabuki theater play. I did these things using my power wheelchair (I have cerebral palsy), and I always like working with people and learning about each other
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In 2001, at age 14, I was selected as one of 15 young people with disabilities from across the United States to be a member of the Youth Advisory Committee of the Presidential Task Force of Employment of People with Disabilities. It was a tremendous experience
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Benjamin has long admired Roger Ebert as a film critic, to the extent that he's become interested in studying films as an art form and writing about it. Benjamin routinely gives a shorthand review of a film in the same "Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down" made famous by Roger Ebert. He immediately thought of the "Thumbs Down" tagline as a way of linking his film message to the movie industry
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FYI National Film Contest Winner Benjamin Snow
PPCC student Benjamin Snow was one of five winners for this year’s FYI National Film Contest, sponsored by MSNBC. Judges included Walter Cronkite and George Clooney.
More than 88,000 people across the nation responded to vote in this year’s film contest in which 18- to 24-year-old students could submit a 30- to 60-second film about an issue of personal importance
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Some of Benjamin Snow's Articles
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