September 2011
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Has President Obama Been Good For African... →
On NPR this morning, on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, there is a GREAT conversation going on right now! They even mention “postracial” society, so you, as a listener, can hear some the different points of view that still exist among the black community. Though it does not tackle art, but politics, it’s the different points of view that are especially interesting to me,...
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"Occupy Philadelphia" Joins Occupy Wall Street... →
Here is an article in the Philly Metro about the Philadelphia branch of what has been going on in NYC. There is a meeting planned at Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St. on Thursday 9/29 at 6pm, if anyone is interested in seeing more specifically than the article states what the movement is about/if any of you are student journalists looking to get an up-close perspective on this current issue/etc.
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Become a Noun! Live Forever! →
I heard this on NPR this morning— it’s a great skit about people’s names becoming nouns. This may be an interesting topic for a Rowan grammar paper! Definitely watch the song/video.
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Berkley Republican Bake Sale = Racist/Sexist or... →
This is terrible, but the club’s reason for doing it are interesting. It’s about a Republican Club at Berkley University selling cupcakes at “discounted” rates to people based on their race or gender. The club is doing to bring awareness to the school’s consideration on figuring these things into their acceptance policies.
This is an online news article that contains...
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du BOYZ basics via Mental Floss →
This article from the online version of the magazine Mental Floss gives a pronunciation of W.E.B. Du Bois’s last name as well as some brief history on him.
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"Is the Adverb Dying?" →
This is an article that uses advertising to show reasons that the adverb may be “dying”. Depending on if you lean more towards grammatical purity or progression, you may agree or disagree with the points made. A purist would think, “No, the advertisers are bad grammarians!” A progressive would think, “Advertising is changing grammar.” Where do you stand?
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Running for Office Should Be Free →
from the website:
If you’re running a political campaign in Pennsylvania that is governed by Commonwealth election law, chances are you need to file state mandated reports at regular intervals. For this purpose, we designed the Pennsylvania Political Campaign Management Database (PPCM), a Microsoft Access database application that is free to the public (yes, it really is free —...
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Did you know that ASL is not related to English? →
This is an interesting article from Dictionary.com about the differences between American English and American Sign Language.
It’s relevant to my Temple First Year Writing class, for in our first section we read a lot about disability, including about deaf culture. It’s also relevant to my Rowan American English Grammar course— perhaps someone may want to write their Grammar...
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The Verbing of the English Language →
This is an interesting article on the changing of parts of speech from one to another.
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“I’ve been speculating about a sort of anti-video game… In lieu of...”
– Principal Bernam from Mike Young’s short story “The World Doesn’t Smell Like You”
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NYTimes: Universities Seeking Out Students of... →
American classism at its best! This is an article about how Universities are more likely to admit students based on their PARENTS’ ABILITY TO PAY THEIR TUITION than their grades/activities. This makes me too mad for words. This is one of the things about higher education that I hope to some day influence/change. It’s complete nonsense and unbelievably classist.
You learn in college...
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NYTimes After Deadline Blog: the Dangler Zone →
This blog is a GREAT resource for looking for your paper topic for AMERICAN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. The most recent topic is titled “The Dangler Zone” and is about dangling modifers, something that we will get to.
If you don’t have something about language that particularly interests you, then take a look at this week’s edition and past week’s editions of this blog....
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College for the Intellectually Disabled →
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Gallaudet University's main page →
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Being a Teenager During September 11th, 2001:... →
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A man goes to a bar with his dog. He goes up to the bar and asks for a drink. The bartender says “You can’t bring that dog in here!” The guy, without missing a beat, says “This is my seeing-eye dog.” “Oh man, ” the bartender says, “I’m sorry. Another guy walks in the bar with a Chihuahua. The first guys sees him, stops him and says “You...
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Family Guy's Joe Swanson: Animated Hero →
Here is someone who looks at a character on Family Guy with a disability, Joe Swanson, the cop in a wheel chair, as a hero. How does this fit in with our conversation as people with disabilities being viewed often as victims or saints?
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Marty Moss-Coane Interview with Oliver Sacks →
WHYY rebroadcasted this Radio Times interview with Oliver Sacks, which is relevant to our conversations on disability. Here is the description from the website:
Neurologist OLIVER SACKS returns to Radio Timesexplaining the complexity of the brain through new stories of his patients’ creative adaptations to losing fundamental life skills as they are still communicating with others. Sacks’ new...
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