October,+2013

October, 2013

=CAPITALIZATION RULES:= =Welcome to the Purdue OWL= This page is brought to you by the OWL at Purdue (https://owl.english.purdue.edu/). **Contributors:**Chris Berry, Allen Brizee. This resource details standard capitalization rules. =A Little Help with Capitals = This handout lists some guidelines for capitalization. If you have a question about whether a specific word should be capitalized that doesn't fit under one of these rules, try checking a dictionary to see if the word is capitalized there.
 * Summary:**

Use capital letters in the following ways: When he tells a joke, he sometimes forgets the punch line. The last time I visited Atlanta was several years ago. Worrill Fabrication Company Golden Gate Bridge Supreme Court Livingston, Missouri Atlantic Ocean Mothers Against Drunk Driving **Family relationships (when used as proper names)** I sent a thank-you note to Aunt Abigail but not to my other aunts. Here is a present I bought for Mother. Did you buy a present for your mother? **The names of God, specific deities, religious figures, and holy books** God the Father <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">the Virgin Mary <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">the Bible <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">the Greek gods <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Moses <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Shiva <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Buddha <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Zeus <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Exception: Do not capitalize the nonspecific use of the word "god."** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">The word "polytheistic" means the worship of more than one god. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Titles preceding names, but not titles that follow names** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">She worked as the assistant to Mayor Hanolovi. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">I was able to interview Miriam Moss, mayor of Littonville. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Directions that are names (North, South, East, and West when used as sections of the country, but not as compass directions)** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">The Patels have moved to the Southwest. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Jim's house is two miles north of Otterbein. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">**The days of the week, the months of the year, and holidays (but not the seasons used generally)** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Halloween <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">October <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Friday <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">winter <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">spring <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">fall <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Exception: Seasons are capitalized when used in a title.** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">The Fall 1999 semester <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">**The names of countries,nationalities, and specific languages** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Costa Rica <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Spanish <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">French <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">English <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">**The first word in a sentence that is a direct quote** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Emerson once said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">**The major words in the titles of books, articles, and songs (but not short prepositions or the articles "the," "a," or "an," if they are not the first word of the title)** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">One of Jerry's favorite books is //The Catcher in the Rye//. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Members of national, political, racial, social, civic, and athletic groups** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Green Bay Packers <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">African-Americans <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Anti-Semitic <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Democrats <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Friends of the Wilderness <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Chinese <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Periods and events (but not century numbers)** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Victorian Era <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Great Depression <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Constitutional Convention <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">sixteenth century <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Trademarks** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Pepsi <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Honda <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">IBM <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Microsoft Word <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">**Words and abbreviations of specific names (but not names of things that came from specific things but are now general types)** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">Freudian <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">NBC <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">pasteurize <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">UN <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">french fries <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Roman,serif; font-size: 16px;">italics = = = = = = =October 2, 2013=
 * The first words of a sentence **
 * The pronoun "I" **
 * Proper nouns (the names of specific people, places, organizations, and sometimes things) **

Ally Ruffo: Guest Speaker: President of ECCO, the community outreach program at Emmanuel College, Boston, MA

 * 100 Million people are homeless in the world
 * Any given night 625,000 people are homeless in the U.S.
 * 16,500 people homeless in Boston


 * Pine Street Inn
 * Rosie's Place
 * Greater Boston Food Bank (largest in NE) -- feed 500,000 people (41 billion lbs of food distributed last year; served 545,000 people)

At Emerson they try to bring awareness to the issue of homelessness:

Homelessness Awareness Week Nov. 18-22

 * Night in the Life (shows how homeless people live--tents, cardboard houses, shopping carts)
 * The Oxfam Hunger Banquet (dinner guests get random card--upper class-middle class-low class-homeless) You sit in a spot and get the food style that reflects your class. Sometimes a sudden change happens -- someone gts a job or someone loses their job changing their status).
 * "A Place at the Table" film and panel--gardens in communities
 * Open Mic Night--speaker talks about homelessness/substance abuse, speakers/performers from school/bring a canned good for admission/
 * PB&J Day--Boston Common--create bagged lunches--and walk around on Common who can take a bagged lunch.

Arizona Homelessness:
One of the highest homelessness rates in the country. 82,000 get emergency food boxes per week St. Vincent de Paul Shelter -- 3 step housing program - 600 people served in two hours for lunch Andre House of Hospitality - prayer services (white tanks) for unclaimed bodies about 4 dead per week

What You Can do:

 * volunteer at soup kitchens
 * host a clothing drive
 * write Congress and the Senate to ask them to support laws in favor of helping homeless and building shelters or temporary housing
 * bring awareness to public about homelessness
 * volunteer to tutor at Rosie's or St. Ambroise
 * donate school supplies to shelter