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to Cherise's Homepage!!


     Hey, Cherise here, and you have entered the BIGGEST school project in history.:) Before I explain further, let me tell you a little bit about myself.

     In case you haven't figured it out yet, my name is Cherise(although I'm sometimes referred to as Reese). I'm a 19 year old Sophomore at the University of Maryland, College Park(Go Terps)!! I'm majoring in Psychology(at the moment) and plan to attend Medical School when I graduate from here. I'm into a whole lot of interesting stuff that I'll go into later:), but right now let me tell you a little bit about this homepage.

     This homepage is actually not of my free will.:) It's part of a MASSIVE project I have to do for my American Studies class. "Material Aspects of American Life," examines material culture in the United States. We explore how to read material objects as sources of insight about American culture. Here's a quote that explains it a little more:

"We are surrounded by things, and we are surrounded by history. But too seldom do we use the artifacts that make up our enviroment to understand the past. Too seldom do we try to read objects as we read books- to understand the people and times that created them, used them, and discarded them." - History of Things edited by Stevan Lubar and W. David Kingery


Anyways, I hope by now you have a general overview of what the course is about. For the rest of the semester, we will be doing several homework assingments and projects that will be put on our web pages. So you have to keep checking back in here to see what I've been up to. And if everything goes according to plan, I'll even post my grades for each of the Homework Assignments. That is of course if I get an "A" or "B".:) Anyways, have fun on your journey through American Studies. Check out some other stuff to.



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