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Fulbright Fellowship and No Borders Agency

http://www.macece.org/box-1-title/grants/grants-for-moroccans/fulbright-study-grant/

Fulbright

Study

Grant

Each year the Moroccan-American Commission awards Master’s scholarships for Moroccan students to pursue their studies in the United States. These scholarships are funded by the governments of Morocco and the United States.
Applicants must meet the following criteria:

1. The application is due June 30, 2015.  If you are expecting your diploma but do not already have it in hand,  you may turn in a copy of it no later than Thursday, July 17, 2015.
2.  Students studying in the United States are not eligible to apply.
3. Candidates who have worked overseas for more than two years are not eligible to apply.
4. Preference will be given to those who have not previously studied or lived in the U.S. or outside Morocco for an extended period.
5. Scholarships are not awarded for medicine, dentistry or pharmacy.
6. Those who want to pursue the degree of Master of Business Administration (M.B.A) must have at least one year of work experience. Unpaid internships do not qualify as work experience.
7.  Candidates applying to complete a dual M.S. degree in the context of an institutional agreement are not eligible to apply. Also people with dual nationality are not eligible to apply.
8. Applicants must provide the Commission with scores on two tests:

• TOEFL
• GRE (Graduate Record Examinations General Test) for most fields of study, or the
• GMAT (Graduate Management Achievement Test) for Business Administration. 

These tests are administered in Morocco on specific dates by AMIDEAST, 35 rue d’Oukaimeden, Agdal, Rabat,
Tel: 0537-67-50-82. You must register in advance at AMIDEAST. The GRE is given only  in October  and February only, so please contact Amideast to make sure of the dates of the test.
Most American universities require a minimum TOEFL score of 550 for the paper-based test and 213 for the computer-based test.  For the MBA, the minimum GMAT score is 550.
9. Applicants are warned that the MBA is the most competitive area of Fulbright grants.
10. Applications must be submitted through the Embark online application system.
Application dealine: June 30, 2015.
Students who are eligible and interested to apply for the Study grant Program are welcome to complete the following online application using the Embark system:  
Online Application
Instructions to guide you through your online application could be downloaded from the following link:
Embark Instructions for study Grant 2014-15
11.  Candidates should be available for an interview in the second half of July 2015.
Further information could be obtained by contacting Program Officer in charge of the Study Grant Program, Mrs. Laila Meftah <l.meftah@macece.ma>
A Note  Concerning Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is extremely serious business, and no hint of plagiarism will be tolerated on student grant applications.  Plagiarism by students at American universities often results in the students receiving a zero for plagiarized work, expulsion from the course, or more drastic action, such as expulsion from the university for a semester or more. 
University students in America typically receive warnings concerning plagiarism and in many universities, students must sign an “academic integrity policy” (or something identified along those lines) in which they pledge, on their honor, not to plagiarize. 
What is plagiarism? Here we quote from a typical warning, and this from the Clemson University Undergraduate Catalog and repeated on the Clemson University website: 
“plagiarism is a form of academic dishonesty defined (in the Undergraduate Catalog) as ‘the intentional or unintentional copying of language, structure, or ideas of another and attributing the work to one’s own efforts’ (p. 29). The catalog also states that ‘when, in the opinion of a faculty member, there is evidence that a student has committed an act of academic dishonesty, the faculty member shall make a formal written charge of academic dishonest, including a description of the misconduct, to the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies.’” (p. 29).   
http://www.clemson.edu/academics/integrity/plagiarism.html, accessed January 6, 2015. 
Note how we have used this statement, taken directly from the Clemson University website:
1)      The website is identified, below the material;
2)      The material is quoted and the source identified;
3)      To further note that the material is not our own, we have put it in a separate paragraph and put it in italics.
Please focus on this University’s definition of plagiarism:  …“the intentional or unintentional copying of language, structure, or ideas of another and attributing the work to one’s own efforts.” “Copying,” especially copying and pasting from the web without attribution, is the biggest problem to be aware of.  The issue is taking language out of the web and not citing it.  
Using language judiciously from another source, such as a hard-copy book or online on the web, and using proper citation, is okay. 
What then is proper citation?  While this is a big and technical subject, the above material provides you, especially when read against the source, an example of the proper use of someone else’s material – in this case, Clemson University’s website. The simplest thing to say is this:  when it’s someone else’s material, you may use it IF you put it in quotes and provide the source (the citation).
The best guide to methods of citation may be The Chicago Manual of Style Online, for which you can sign up for a free 30-day trial membership: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
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 For trips to the United States, UK, Spain, etc, there are linguistic trips that are paid with No Borders Agency:
http://www.noborderagency.com/index.php/contact-noborders

Opportunity for Young Moroccan Writers in the United States

https://rabatexchanges.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0kj4

Post from Rakil Zazza (not from Prof. Dixon)

"the universities in Morocco. "

the universities in Morocco and job markets does not go in equal way
due to the system of universities don't prepare students for job
markets.
first of all universities graduater have hopeless chance after yeas of
studying and struggling to get certain degrees it,because of a lot of
obstacles which are the real problem as lack of advanced among systems
and companies. for instance  that systems of teaching  had been taught
for many years before which mean there is no new knowledge that
students can benefits from, furthermore, when it comes to curriculam
which does not meet the job markets need, so they still suffer from
lack of necessary skills and less knowledgeable about careers which
they apply for but they get refused. on the other hand,  most
universities have made small changes toward equality of systems of
education and jobs by engaging some communication course so students
learn how to deal with other, also some other courses teach job search
skills so they can know how to apply for it or how to deal with job
interviews.
finally, most students have apprehension of lack of job opportunities
which need better connection with universities.

Freedom

In my own time. In my own way_ That is one of my personal motto. 

We should all have the freedom to move and grow and

develop at own pace. Micheal Scofield

HOPE

Since I was a child, I have been looking for a real meaning or even meanings to this word" HOPE"

I asked a great deal of people, but the answers were different. In fact, I tried as much as I could to define" HOPE" just as I have understood it. As a consequence, this was all what I have understood from those people:

"Hope only hope can break down the obstacles that prevent one from moving forward.

 Hope builds bridges between you and your abilities, and all what it takes is a ruthless determination"

I hope I was able to give its real meaning.

Post about "Beatbox", by Salah eddine El Abbar.

Hello friends, I would like to share something I like a lot, it's a talent that is not that famous. I'm talking about "Beatbox"...
Beatboxing (also beatbox) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of producing drum beats, rhythm, and musical sounds using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice. It may also involve singing, vocal imitation , and the simulation of horns, strings, and other musical instruments.
Sometimes, beatboxers will use their hand or another part of their body to extend the spectrum of sound effects and rhythm. For example, some have developed a technique that involves blowing and sucking air around their fingers to produce a very realistic record scratching noise, which is commonly known as the 'crab scratch'. Another hand technique includes the 'throat tap' which involves the beatboxer tapping their fingers against their throat as they throat sing.
Beatboxing today is connected with hip-hop culture, being one of "the elements", although it is not limited to hip-hop music.
Here is my favorite Beatboxer, I consider him the best in the WORLD.
His name is Alem and he is from France.

Thank you for your attention !

Post from Meryem Yazidi

  I have been really keen on it since I was 4 years, as it frees me from the prison of sadness and lonlyness, everytime I am pushed into it.  It's a symbole of freedom to me, particulary, when the pencil starts to surf smoothly on the paper like a bird flying freely in the sky, so this is how I feel towards my passion which is "Drawaing".

Post from Yasmine Semlil

Creativity has no limits ,and when you combine it with science, you get this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs

Post by Khadija Nidrahou

Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry. She lived with autism since the age of 4. She is a real source of inspiration to all of us, she has a very unique ideas and point of view, she challenged everyone and she is now a professor at colorado university and a doctor in science of animals. She has lots of works(hugging machine), books about her life, and their is a film about her named Temple Grandin.i would like to ivite all of you to watch and read about her.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFP7ubENTAM

united states history

       

history of the United States   

When to date the start of the history of the United States is debated among historians. Older textbooks start with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and emphasize the European background, or they start in 1600 and emphasize the American frontier. In recent decades American schools and universities typically have shifted back in time to include more on the colonial period and much more on the prehistory of the Native peoples ^]

Indigenous peoples lived in what is now the United States for thousands of years and developed complex cultures before European colonists began to arrive, mostly from England, after 1600. The Spanish had small settlements in Florida and the Southwest, and the French along the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast. By the 1770s, thirteen British colonies contained two and a half million people along the Atlantic coast east of the Appalachian Mountains. In the 1760s British government imposed a series of new taxes while rejecting the American argument that any new taxes had to be approved by the people. Tax resistance, especially the Boston Tea Party (1774), led to punitive laws (the Intolerable Acts) by Parliament designed to end self-government in Massachusetts. American Patriots (as they were called at the time as a term of ridicule) adhered to a political ideology called republicanism that emphasized civic duty, virtue, and opposition to corruption, fancy luxuries and aristocracy.

All thirteen colonies united in a Congress that called on the colonies to write new state constitutions. After armed conflict began in Massachusetts, Patriots drove the royal officials out of every colony and assembled in mass meetings and conventions. Those Patriot governments in the colonies unanimously empowered their delegates to Congress to declare independence. In 1776, Congress created an independent nation, the United States of America. With large-scale military and financial support from France and military leadership by General George Washington, the American Patriots won the Revolutionary War. The peace treaty of 1783 gave the new nation the land east of the Mississippi River (except Florida and Canada). The central government established by the Articles of Confederation proved ineffectual at providing stability, as it had no authority to collect taxes and had no executive officer. Congress called a convention to meet secretly in Philadelphia in 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation. It wrote a new Constitution, which was adopted in 1789. In 1791, a Bill of Rights was added to guarantee inalienable rights. With Washington as the Union's first president and Alexander Hamilton his chief political and financial adviser, a strong central government was created. When Thomas Jefferson became president he purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, doubling the size of the US. A second and last war with Britain was fought in 1812.

Encouraged by the notion of Manifest Destiny, federal territory expanded all the way to the Pacific. The expansion was driven by a quest for inexpensive land for yeoman farmers and slave owners. The expansion of slavery was increasingly controversial and fueled political and constitutional battles, which were resolved by compromises. Slavery was abolished in all states north of the Mason–Dixon line by 1804, but the South continued to profit off the institution, producing high-value cotton exports to feed increasing high demand in Europe. The 1860 presidential election of Republican Abraham Lincoln was on a platform of ending the expansion of slavery and putting it on a path to extinction. Seven cotton-based deep South slave states seceded and later founded the Confederacy months before Lincoln's inauguration. No nation ever recognized the Confederacy, but it opened the war by attacking Fort Sumter in 1861. A surge of nationalist outrage in the North fueled a long, intense American Civil War (1861-1865). It was fought largely in the South as the overwhelming material and manpower advantages of the North proved decisive in a long war. The war's result was restoration of the Union, the impoverishment of the South, and the abolition of slavery. In the Reconstruction era (1863–1877), legal and voting rights were extended to the freed slave. The national government emerged much stronger, and because of the Fourteenth Amendment, it gained the explicit duty to protect individual rights. However, when white Democrats regained their power in the South during the 1870s, often by paramilitary suppression of voting, they passed Jim Crow laws to maintain white supremacy, and new disfranchising constitutions that prevented most African Americans and many poor whites from voting, a situation that continued for decades until gains of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and passage of federal legislation to enforce constitutional rights.

song covered by me

i'm a rifian and i'm so into singing , it feels good when i do and so i covered this song and thought i'd share it with you , i hope you guys like it