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13 Reasons In Reality
13 Reasons In Reality I just finished watching Season 3 of 13 Reasons. It reminded me of people I knew in High School once upon a time. I will not name names, but I do think it is an important … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, education, Event, Feminism, Flashback, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged #MeToo, 12 year old, 13 Reasons, 16 year old, 17 year old, accuse, accutation, America, Anger, Assault, bestiality, bombshell, Boyfriends, Bryce, choice, Clay, College, consensual, counseling, Date, denial, Depression, Drinking, Drugs, flowers, forced himself on her, Friends, Girlfriends, Hannah, High School, Hospitalization, Jealousy, Jessica, Justin, lies, lucky, Mad, Marriage, Midwestern Town, no choice, not prosecuted, not reported, outburst, police report, Pregnancy, preventable, Private, Prom, prosecuted, Public, punishable, Rage, Rape Culture, Reality, red flags, Rejection, report, reports, Repression, reputation, rumblings, rumors, Secrets, Sex, Signs, suicidal, suppression, Temper, Trauma, Truth, Violence, Virginity
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America By Alissa Quart, 2018 In the introduction to her book Quart overviews the reasons why Families Can’t Afford America any longer. Student Loans and Medical Debt are a huge issue for Generation X … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1% Television, 24 Hour Day Care, 24 Hour Day Care Needed, Adjunct Professors, Alexa, America, American, backlash, Benefits, Billions, bills, Bosses, Captialism, Child Care, College, Colleges, Commune, Computers, Consumerism, Contract Work, Crime, Day Care, descrimination, Do What You Love, Downtown Abbey, Economy, education, Employment, English, Feminism, FMLA, Food Stamps, Goodwill, Hand To Mouth, Headstart, History, Huge Income Gap, Huge Wage Gap, Humanities, inflation, Irregular Hours, ITT, Keeping Up with the Jones's, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Law, Lawyers, Lie, Long Term Careers, Low-Income, MA, Mad Men, Manipulate, Maternity Leave, Maternity Wall, Medicaid, MIddle Class, minimum wage, Mortage, Nanny's Strugle, No Love or No Money, Ozark, Paternity Leave, PhD, Politics, Poor, Pre-K, Precariat, Precarity, Pregnancy, Private Program, Private School, Proletariat, Public, Raising Brooklyn, Ray Bradbury, Real House Wives, Reality TV, Rent, Rich, Robots, Roommates, Roseanne, Science, Second Act Industry Myth, Shift Work, Short Term Jobs, Siri, Social Class, Squeezed, Student Loan Debt, take advantage, Technology, The Middle, The Outsourced Self, The Secret Life of Inequality, The Wire, There Will Come Soft Rains, Trade Schools, Trump University, Uber, Uber Dads, Union, Upstairs Downstairs, We Believe the Children, Wealthy, Why Our Families Can Afford America, Without Predictablity, Working Class, World, worry
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Shameless
Shameless I read that Shameless is the most watched series on Netflix in America. Sherlock Holmes is the most watched Netflix show in England. This sparked my curiosity and so I binged watched Shameless this week—all 7 Seasons. The first … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged Absence, Accident, Alcoholic, Assistantship, Baby, Beg, Bipolar, Bitchy, Borrow, Car, Carl, Chicago, Coke, College, Dad, Deb, Debs, Delinquent, Dorm, Drinking, Drug Addict, Drunk, Dylan McDurmontt, Emmy Rossum, EMT, entrepreneurial spirit, Evolved, Father, Fierce, Fire, Foster Care, Frank, Funny, Gallagher, GED, Genius, Graduate, High School, Humor, husband, Hymie, Ian, Intelligent, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Job, Job and Family Services, Jobs, Jody, Karen, Kev, Liam, Lip, Literary Criticism, Lovers, Mandy, Meth Lab, MIA, Mickey, Military School, Mom, Monica, Mother, Murder, Neil, Only Child, Phillip, physics, Poor, Poverty, Private School, Professor, Prostitute, Quantum Physics, relationship, Russian, Sad, Sales, Sammi, Scam, Shameless, Shelia, Shoplift, Six Children, Smart, Sociopath, South Side, Spunk, Steal, Survey Courses, Svetlana, Teaching, The Alibi, Thrupple, Thug, Tragedy, Undergraduate, V. Fiona, Weed, William H Macy
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The Age of American Unreason
The Age of American Unreason By Susan Jacoby, 2009 Jacoby writes about anti-intellectualism in America. She was inspired by the book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter, which was published in 1963. Jacoby points out that more than half … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Pedagogy, Politics/Economics, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1800s, 1960s, Alan Bloom, America, Ann Coulter, Anti-Intellectual, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Book of the Month Club, Bush, Campus Crusades, Cheap Books, Christianity, Clinton, College, Common Sense, Communisim, Communist, Cristina Hoff Summer, Culture, Debate, Democrat, Don Imus, Dumbed Down, English Language, Founding Fathers, Government, Guilded Age, High Brow, Internet, Junk Media, Junk Science, Learning, Lectures, Left Wing, liberal, Literacy, Low Brow, Middle Brow, Nixon, Patriotic, Pop Culture, President, Protests, Publishers, Reason, Regan, Republican, Richard Dawkins, Richard Hofstadter, right wing, Russia, Science Versus Religion, Seperation of Church and State, Socialism, Socialist, Soviet Union, Television, The Closing of the American Mind, The Constitution, The Rights of Man, The Supreme Court, Thomas Paine, United States, Unpatriotic, Unreason, Vietnam War, Working Class
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Literature As Exploration
Literature as Exploration Louise M Rosenblatt 1965 Reprint 1995 Schools and Colleges are there to teach students about themselves and humankind. As students, we try to understand the psychology of the characters we read about. We try to figure out … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture
Tagged Anthropology, Book, Books, characters, College, Criticism, Culture, dissatisfaction, Emotions, experience, Flexabilty, framework, Growth, High School, Humankind, ideas, Individual, instructors, judgment, Knowledge, lack of knowledge, Learning, learns, Life, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Literature As Exploration, Louise Rosenblatt, motivations, personal experience, Personality, Psychology, Reader Response, Reading, School, society, Sociology, Students, Teachers, Understanding, will to learn
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Arts and Sciences
July 16, 2002 Arts and Sciences Arts and Sciences is a good theme for the week. Generally, the term applies to a College of Arts and Sciences. It is a department or unit within a University and focuses on liberal … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Environment, Event, History, Science/Philosophy
Tagged Agriculture, Art, Arts and Sciences, Bed of Nails, Black Man, ChromoZone, College, Cotton, Diamond, Diploma, Explore, Famers, George Washington Carver, Grocery Store, hands on, High School, human body, Ingenuity, Intelligence, Inventor, Missouri, Newspaper, Peanut, Science, Scientist, Slave, Soil, space, Springfield, Springfield Art Museum, Teach, Tesla Lamp, The Discovery Center, Theater, Tuskegee, Water Table
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Indiana Jones Books
Indiana Jones Books In 1991, I discovered a new series of books that expanded upon the universe created in the three original Indiana Jones movies. Author Rob McGregor, who had written the novelization of The Last Crusade, returned to write … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 19 year hiatus, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1992-1995, Aliens, California Jones, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Cartoons, Cold War, College, Deidre Campbell, Disney, Famous People, Franchise, George Lucas, Harry Potter, Historical Figures, Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants, Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Seven Veils, Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs, Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge, Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth, Indiana Jones and the Interior World, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi, Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone, Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx, Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy, Indiana Jones and the White Witch, inspiration, Irony, James Bond, Jurassic Park, Killed, Magic, Married, Martin Cadin, Max McCoy, Mystical, Nazis, Novels, Oracles, Peru, plot, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Religious, Rob McGregor, Sean Connery, Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, Spiritual, Stephen Spielberg, Steve Perry, Suspension of Disbelief, The Bible, The Lost Testaments, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, The Purple Rose, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Time Travel, Tukyme, TV show, Voynich Manuscript, World War Two
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Pregnant Pause
Pregnant Pause The second trimester was better in many ways, but it was not without its own set of problems. As I started to feel better physically, financially things were beginning to deteriorate. I had been teaching English at a … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Feminism, Flashback
Tagged 2nd Trimester, Anastasia Vaughn, Angry, Babies R Us, Baby Bath Tub, Car Seat, Clothes, College, Community College, Contract, Crib, English, English Department, Female Department Head, Frustrated, Graco, Greensboro, GTCC, In-Laws, It's A Girl, Jeep Stroller, Job, Legal Action, Let Go, Male Department Head, Money, Neighbor, North Carolina, Paula, Pregnancy, Pregnant Pause, Prejudice, Randolph Community College, Solidarity, Spring Semester, Stroller, Substitute, Summer, support, Teacher, Teaching, Ultrasound
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Twenty-Something
Twenty-Something Twenty-Something: Why Do Young Adults Seem So Stuck by Robin Henig and Samantha Henig came out in 2013. Many Millennials are living in their parent’s basement, eating ramen noodles and sometimes even on food stamps. Why is … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Culture, History
Tagged 11 Jobs, 1946, 1954, 1956, 1965, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1990, Age 26, Age 27, Age 30, Age 34, Age 40, Age 44, BA, Babies, Baby Boomers, Bachelor's, Bad Economy, Careers, Children, Choice Overload, College, Deadline For Growing Up, education, Emerging Adulthood, Extended Adolescents, Facebook, Family, Fertility, Food Stamps, Friends, Generation X, Generation Y, Internet, IVF, Jobs, Kids, Language Courses, Lazy, MA, Marriage, Master's, Memorize Countries, Millennials, Parent's Basements, Ramen Noodles, Recession, Robin Henig, Samantha Henig, Subscribe to the Economist, Travel The World, Twenty-Something, Why Young Adults Seem Stuck
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