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College Unbound
College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What it Means For Students By Jeffery J Selingo, 2013 Students are pressured to go to a 4 year college, but many drop out. Some find success in a 2 year Community … Continue reading
Posted in education, Pedagogy
Tagged 1999-2009, 2 Year College, 4 Year College, A Whole New Mind, Academically Adrift, Ala Cart, Bachelor's Degree, Body, Career Planning and Assessment, Carnegie Mellon, College Ranking, College Unbound, Community College, Credential Creep, Daniel H Pink, Degrees of Value, Drop Out, Ease of Transfer, Education Bubble, EdX, Elite Education for Free, Federal Loan Programs, Federal Pell Grants, Financial Health, Graduation Rates Dropped, Harvard, How We Got There, http://collegeyuseruka.blogspot.com/2017/08/college-unbound.html, Hybrid Online and In Person Classes, Information, Jeffery Selingo, K-12, Khan Academy, Language, Law, Liberal Education, Lost Decade, Master's Degree, Matchmaking, media, Mind, MIT, Money, MOOC, Naviance, Networks, No Improvement in Knowledge and Skills First Two Years, No Longer One Size Fits All, Online Courses, Open Source, Prices Rose, Professors and Performers, Return Investment, Revolving Door of Students, Software, space, Specific Skill, State Budget Cuts, Student Loan Debt, Student Loans, The Customer Is Always Right, time, Trade Skill, Tuition Increase, University, University of Manitoba, US News and World Report
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Books To Read On Writing
Books To Read On Writing Writing is hard work! Suffice to say no writer was born knowing all the ins and out of the business. While Creativity and Imagination may come naturally, the Rules of Writing do not. Writing is … Continue reading
Posted in Writing
Tagged 78 Reasons Your Writing May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons It Just Might, Anguished English, Anne Lamott, Annie Dillard, Aspects of the Novel, Avoiding Scams, Betsy Learner, Bill Bryson, Bird By Bird, Blogs, Books To Read on Writing, Business, creativity, D Steven, Editing, Elements of Style, EM Forrester, Fiction, Forest For The Trees, Form Letters, Formatting, Francine Prose, Getting Paid For Writing, Grammar, Henry Miller, How I Write, How To Get Happily Published, How To Supress Women's Writing, Imagination, J Glatzer, Janet Evanovich, Joanna Russ, Judith Applebaum, Julia Cameron, Language, Living By Fiction, Magazine Articles, Marketing, Milan Kundara, Money, Mother Tongue, Natalie Goldberg, Nonfiction, Novels, On Writing, Pat Walsh, Peter Clark, Philip Roth, Plans, Plotnik, Poetry Repair Manuel, Publishing, Query Letter, Read Like A Writer, Reading, Rejection, Richard Leeder, Shoptalk, Spunk and Bite, Stephen King, Street Smart Writer, Strunk and White, Ted Kooser, The Art of the Novel, The Artist's Way, The Street Smart Writer, William Kenney, Writer's Digest, Writer's Market, Writing, Writing About Fiction, Writing Down the Bones, Writing Tools
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring Rachel Carson, 1962 Silent Spring begins with a “fable for tomorrow” – a true story using a composite of examples drawn from many real communities where the use of DDT had caused damage to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Culture, Environment, Event
Tagged 1960, 1962, 22nd Century, Air, beauty, Bill of Rights, Biology, bird-less, Bohemia, Bones, brush control, burning, California, cancer, carcinogens, Chemicals, Chimney Sweeps, choice, Coal, contact, Cornwall, cost, Coughing, DDT, Death, destroy non-human life, Destruction, diet, Disaster, dose, Dutch, Earth, Ecology, England, Environment, Environmental Movement, Fable For Tomorrow, Facts, farmers, Farms, fish-less, Fork in the Road, harm, Holland, Ill, Illinois, industrial revolution, industry, Inhalation, insects, lethal, lies, Life, Lung Cancer, Maine, marrow, Miners, Mines, Money, mosquitoes, Nature, Newspaper, not quite fatal, notes, Officals, Pesticides, Poison, Power, Preservation, profit, prophetic, Public, quotes, Rachel Carson, Radiation, rivers, Robert Frost, Saxony, Scientists, Sick, Silent Spring, Skin Cancer, Soot, species, streams, study, survive, Swallowing, Sweden, United States, US, Vision, Warfare, waterways, who gets to decide?, Who Speaks?, Why Do They Speak?, witness to nature, WWII
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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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Greed Is Nurtured In The Grandet Family
Greed Is Nurtured In The Grandet Family Cari Gilkison, French Literature 1996 The world of the Grandet family is one full of greed. Why is this? Because is a trait that is nurtured by one’s environment and not innate … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1996, Aggressive, assertive, Cari Gilkison, Charles, Controlling, Eugénie Grandet, Eugenie, French Literature in Translation, Greed, Honoré de Balzac, Influence, Love, mankind, Mary Joyce, Money, Nanon, Nature, nurture, Paris, Passive, selfishness, Wealth
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Aimless Ambition in The Red and The Black
Aimless Ambition in The Red and The Black Cari Gilkison, French Literature 1996 Julien wants to get away from the lower class that he despises. He is driven by ambition to rise above his place in life. What Julien doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1996, Aimless Ambition, Cari Gilkison, Cerebal Love, Class, Duchess, Failures, French Literature in Translation, Happiness, Julien, la Mole, Love, Lust, Martyr, Mary Joyce, Master, Mme de Renal, Money, OSU, Paris, Power, Pregnancy, Redmption, Rural, Status, Stendhal, The Red and the Black, Wealth
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