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Malcolm X | What a Day, What a Life!

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What a Day, What a Life! On March 30, 2011 · 3 Comments. Keeping X’s advice in mind, how would you assess the changes in his attitudes towards white people over the course of his entire life. 2 How would you assess the changes in his attitudes toward other African Americans over the course of his entire life. 3 Was Malcolm X a racist? You are allowed to pick any answer you like, as long as you cite evidence from the book to back it up.]. Does Wal-Mart’s Pick Up Today raise the bar? Nature of Racism →.

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The role of economics and culture in students’ motivation for learning | Digital Cultures

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Digital cultures, e-learning, and humanity. Why do we need structure in higher education? Digital Artifact for “E-learning and Digital Cultures” #edcmooc →. The role of economics and culture in students’ motivation for learning. In my blog Why do we need structure in higher education? I talked about how students sometimes choose to pursue a major because of cultural and economic factors rather than an intrinsic motivation for learning and shared a story to illustrate that point:. My impression is that th...

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Digital Cultures | Digital cultures, e-learning, and humanity | Page 2

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Digital cultures, e-learning, and humanity. Newer posts →. Coursera and the homogenization of knowledge. Coursera’s course E-learning and Digital Cultures. Has launched. Thousands joined in. The discussion forums already have more than 200 pages of titles. Current enrollment exceeds 30, 000 students. How many people will view the same short films, read the same articles, and create blogs in response to the same topics? The image of Bendito Machine III. Not long time ago, I read about how Coursera and oth...

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NICHOLAS PATRICK COX: June 2013

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Jones's article originally appeared in The Journal of Social History. In the summer of 1974, and I recommend it for anyone interested in academic considerations of the intersection of class and politics, easily available now in pdf via JSTOR. I first encountered the article in abridged form in an anthology, John Storey's Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. 1998) when in college thanks to one of the many unsung contingent faculty in the English department, Dan Traber.

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the contrary flâneuse: January 2013

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Virtual, visual, verbal flânerie through scenic, human, and cultural byways small town space, open space, wild space, cityspace, cyberspace, unspace. Baudelaire's Paris it's not, 'la chambre à deux" perhaps - but still its own kind of microcosm. Tuesday, January 29, 2013. Thoughts on starting #introphil. 8230;in no particular order, counting #introphil, I am now in…four MOOCs! Most of the usual connectivist MOOC bunch sticks to about pedagogy and elearning courses.  . Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Race is ...

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Tony Grafton on the higher education crisis, and your turn to talk back! | Historiann

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History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present. The Mary Maples Dunn Prize. Tony Grafton on the higher education crisis, and your turn to talk back! November 5, 2011. Via my colleague Nathan Citino who reads the. New York Review of Books. We learn that Tony Grafton has written a thoughtful review of the raft of books on the “crisis” of higher education in the United States. The problem as Grafton sees it is not just that students buy into the. In theory, budgetary constraints have forced these measures...

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. . . of Dubious Authenticity: June 2010

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Stories of candid absurdity from the world beyond korea. Tuesday, June 29, 2010. But I digress . . . . Sunday morning came - next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces alight with martial dreams - visions of the stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender! Thunder thy clarion and lightning thy sword!

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. . . of Dubious Authenticity: A Christmas Showdown at the PO

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Stories of candid absurdity from the world beyond korea. Monday, December 27, 2010. A Christmas Showdown at the PO. This Christmas, shopping was easier than it has been for some time. In years past, my wife has been the one in charge of the Christmas shopping. Since she likes shopping and I could care less, I've always considered this a fair deal. But, unfortunately for me, this means hours of standing and feet shuffling in one department store after another. 8220;What do you think about this? Home in ti...

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. . . of Dubious Authenticity: April 2010

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Stories of candid absurdity from the world beyond korea. Saturday, April 24, 2010. Immortality in the Margins. My father, like many old men, has grown fascinated with his own genealogy. Indeed, the intensity of his fascination seems to rise commensurately with his age. When searching for his Christmas present last year I considered this and decided trace his family tree. Hell, it's about time I put those two history degrees I've acquired to work! Together we dug through several crates and wooden chests t...