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Sunday, 27 June 2010
Book Review: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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"I wish...to set some investigations...afloat...; and should they lead to a confirmation of my principles...the Rights of Women may b...
Saturday, 26 June 2010
An unexamined life was not worth living
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Socrates said that an unexamined life was not worth living. I believe that the key mission of every human being is to develop reflective an...
Amos Oz
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Duiker wrote the following in World History: From 1500 The internationally renowned novelist Amos Oz is a vocal supporter of peace with the...
Adept of the world of reading
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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote I dreamed that I floated at will in the great Ether, and I saw this world floating also not far off, but diminish...
Friday, 25 June 2010
Lyrics and Critical Thinking
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According to Heather Coffey, "Critical literacy is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better unders...
Armenia: Europe or Asia?
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The Armenian Genocide was carried out by the "Young Turk" government of the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1916 (with subsidiaries to 1922...
The Kurds Subjugated by Neighboring People
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A largely Sunni Muslim people with their own language and culture, most Kurds live in the generally contiguous areas of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, ...
Who are the Kurds?
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15 millio n to 20 million Kurds live in a mountainous area straddling the borders of Ar menia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. About 8 million...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Fiction, Fiction, & Fiction...
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Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that mankind has invented yet. Psychology and x-r...
Amnesty Class Circle Justice
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One finger cannot lift a pebble “Everybody is part of the healing, including people from the community-anybody who cares. But healing is mu...
Native American Ten Commandments
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1. Treat the Earth and all that dwell therein with respect 2. Remain close to the Great Spirit 3. Show great respect for your fellow beings ...
Saturday, 19 June 2010
The Gifts of Poetry
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Edward Hirsh uses the metaphor of a message in a bottle to describe poetry's relationship to its readers. The poet "crafts it, send...
Do Microfinance really alleviate poverty?
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Microfinance institutions exists to help the world's poor afford basic human services, such as education and health care, as well as to ...
Friday, 18 June 2010
My book review: Beloved by Toni Morrison
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I have enjoyed reading Morrison's book called Beloved. In Beloved , the remarkable novel for which Toni Morrison won the 1993 Nobe...
Middle School Pledge
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The Middle school students and I have read this pledge every morning before the start of our lessons. This pledge has promoted our socia...
Basic or Primal religions
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Basic or primal religions assert that the world is both spiritual and material. The rites, and rituals of Native American religions and Af...
Emotions
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Emotions have physical aspects and psychological aspects. All human beings have emotions and according to Eric Jansen “emotions are cross ...
Classroom Debate about PLAGIARISM
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines plagiarism as “the wrongful appropriation or purloining, and publication as one’s own, of the ideas,...
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