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The Hitchhiker
lines from my dissertation proposal
Niels Bohr
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from 'The Scarlet Letter '
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from 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
It was a pleasure to burn. - Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
'Cause Sadie moved like water poured
The shapes she shaped had angels floored
She knew her walk turned wind to fire
A wink from Sadie turned brains to mire" -Tim Seibles, The Ballad of Sadie LaBabe
Friday, February 05, 2010
The Hitchhiker
the kid had me read "The Hitchhiker" by Lucille Fletcher (originally heard on the radio in 1946) after she read it in school. she thought is was an interesting read, but was a bit baffled at the interpretation that it may have had anything to do with the afterlife or god.i'll leave god out of it, but i am glad she shared the story. now i am passing it along. [simul-post]
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
lines from my dissertation proposal
"We have become increasingly dependent on the criminal justice system, evidenced by the quadruple increase in prison populations in America over the last 25 years (Travis 2005). Criminological attention has recently turned to examine the consequences of these actions, especially in the realm of offender reentry (Travis 2005; Urban Institute 2006). Research has found that two-thirds of released prisoners are rearrested within three years (Langan and Levin 2002), over a million children have a parent incarcerated (Mumola 2000) and four million people are disenfranchised (Fellner and Mauer 1998; Urban Institute 2006).Former inmates face a variety of risk factors including unemployment, low education, substance abuse, disease, and homelessness. “With limited assistance in their reintegration, former prisoners pose public safety risks to communities” (Urban Institute 2006:2). New legislation such as residency restrictions on sex offenders have made life increasingly challenging across the nation and in California. Although many believe that sex offenders are due these challenges, “there is good reason to believe that the real-world consequences of residence restrictions are actually decreasing public safety because the conditions associated with homelessness are directly associated with increased sexual recidivism” (Delson, Kokish, and Abbott 2008:2). The general consensus is that sex offender recidivism is quite high (Thompson 2006), although this is not actually the case. In addition, to say that sex offender recidivism is high implies that the commission of a sex crime is repeated, (as opposed to some other type of crime); this is not the case either. Successful reentry is impacted by a lack of social capital, education and work experience, and waning mental and physical health (Visher and Travis 2003). [simul-post, written by me]
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This excerpt from your dissertation was wonderful! I think you really know how to write a phd dissertation, and all of its turn. And from the looks of it, the topic really deals with our everyday life, so it just fit that you tackle it.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Niels Bohr
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."posted by jessica at 7:45 AM -
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Fredrick Douglass
"It's easier to raise strong children than it is to repair broken men."(i've always loved this one. it is one small line on a collage hanging in my bathroom.)
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Friday, May 01, 2009
from 'The Scarlet Letter '
by Nathaniel HawthorneBut there was a more real life for Hester Prynne here, in New England, than in that unknown region where Pearl had found a home. Here had been her sin; here, her sorrow; and here was yet to be her penitence. She had returned, therefore, and resumed, —of her own free will, for not the sternest magistrate of that iron period would have imposed it, —resumed the symbol of which we have related so dark a tale. Never afterwards did it quit her bosom. But ... the scarlet letter ceased to be a stigma which attracted the world’s scorn and bitterness, and became a type of something to be sorrowed over, and looked upon with awe, and yet with reverence, too.
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Jimmy Calano
"Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word.First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore.
Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension."
(i think this applies to the PhD program.)
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Winston Churchill
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”posted by jessica at 9:21 PM -
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
from 'Lies My Teacher Told Me'
by James W. Loewen. Simon & Schuster, 1995.Americans seem perpetually startled at slavery. Children are shocked to learn that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson owned slaves... Very few adults today realize that our society has been slave much longer than it has been free.. The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia but Massachusetts.. Wall Street was the marketplace where owners could hire out their slaves by the day or week (142).
Textbooks canonize Patrick Henry for his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech. Not one tells us that eight months after delivering the speech he ordered "diligent patrols" to keep Virginia slaves from accepting the British offer of freedom to those who would join their side (146).
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Friday, December 19, 2008
from 'Choke'
by Chuch PalahniukEvery addiction, she said, was just a way to treat this same problem. Drugs or overeating or alochol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
from 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'
by Maya AngelouMost plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
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