In over three hundred entries, the fluffy jargon of edubabble, the quirks and foibles of teachers, and the frequently zany antics of teenagers are lampooned with wit and sardonic humor.ATTENTION ECONOMY: The economists have finally discovered what teachers have known for a long time-that attention is difficult to obtain and even harder to keep. Teachers have little chance in any competition since selling knowledge and skills is not nearly as sexy or exciting as peddling a new video game or tech gadget. Given the obstacles faced, teachers are remarkably skilled in grabbing what little student attention is available; see also, David and Goliath.BAKE SALE COMEBACK: The profit margins for old-fashioned cupcake sales are woefully inadequate to meet the extra needs of schools today. With the legalization of pot (weed) in several US states and across Canada, opportunity arises. Weed-laced cupcakes could be sold to parents at concerts, theatrical productions, sports events, and graduations. The margins could be kept slim to keep the price tag low since the school could rely on sheer quantity of sales to generate impressive revenue; see also, David and Goliath (5), Gateway Drug, Weed.TERM-DROPPERUsing fifty-dollar words when dime ones will do is only effective when the person at the other end of the conversation is lacking the sufficient vocabulary to respond in kind or up the ante. A person must be careful about firing off edubabble to everyone. Eventually a more skilled term-dropper will be encountered. If a person never understood what the fifty-dollar term being used really meant, trouble is on the horizon when a one hundred-dollar one is flung back; see also, Edubabble-Characteristics, Name-Dropper, Questions in Interviews-Strategy One....
In over three hundred entries, the fluffy jargon of edubabble, the quirks and foibles of teachers, and the frequently zany antics of teenagers are lampooned with wit and sardonic humor.ATTENTION ECONOMY: The economists have finally discovered what teachers have known for a long time-that attention is difficult to obtain and even harder to keep. Teachers have little chance in any competition since selling knowledge and skills is not nearly as sexy or exciting as peddling a new video game or tech gadget. Given the obstacles faced, teachers are remarkably skilled in grabbing what little student attention is available; see also, David and Goliath.BAKE SALE COMEBACK: The profit margins for old-fashioned cupcake sales are woefully inadequate to meet the extra needs of schools today. With the legalization of pot (weed) in several US states and across Canada, opportunity arises. Weed-laced cupcakes could be sold to parents at concerts, theatrical productions, sports events, and graduations. The margins could be kept slim to keep the price tag low since the school could rely on sheer quantity of sales to generate impressive revenue; see also, David and Goliath (5), Gateway Drug, Weed.TERM-DROPPERUsing fifty-dollar words when dime ones will do is only effective when the person at the other end of the conversation is lacking the sufficient vocabulary to respond in kind or up the ante. A person must be careful about firing off edubabble to everyone. Eventually a more skilled term-dropper will be encountered. If a person never understood what the fifty-dollar term being used really meant, trouble is on the horizon when a one hundred-dollar one is flung back; see also, Edubabble-Characteristics, Name-Dropper, Questions in Interviews-Strategy One....
Dealing with incompetent bureaucrats, a power-hungry parent, and a scheming superintendent aren't the only hurdles facing second-year principal Steve Hepting. Fortunately, he has steadfast allies, including the academically-challenged school custodian, a feisty eco-activist teacher, and a counselor urging calm amidst the swirling brouhaha.A mysterious blueprint for a "Brave New World" of public education not only threatens Hepting's school but the education system itself. The principal enlists the aid of a scandal-sniffing journalist as he and his colleagues grapple to uncover the truth.The comedic tale unfolds as the presence of an "Animal Hotel" on the deserted second floor unexpectedly complicates the implementation of the master plan and Hepting's role in the entire affair....
Dealing with incompetent bureaucrats, a power-hungry parent, and a scheming superintendent aren't the only hurdles facing second-year principal Steve Hepting. Fortunately, he has steadfast allies, including the academically-challenged school custodian, a feisty eco-activist teacher, and a counselor urging calm amidst the swirling brouhaha.A mysterious blueprint for a "Brave New World" of public education not only threatens Hepting's school but the education system itself. The principal enlists the aid of a scandal-sniffing journalist as he and his colleagues grapple to uncover the truth.The comedic tale unfolds as the presence of an "Animal Hotel" on the deserted second floor unexpectedly complicates the implementation of the master plan and Hepting's role in the entire affair....
A transdisciplinary Mormon history, this book is a work of American religious history, theology, science history, and cultural and historical geography. It deconstructs the "race" creationism, White supremacy, and Christian imperialism of leading interwar Mormon theologian B.H. Roberts. Roberts hoped to introduce the front-rank post-Darwinian, scientific, and philosophical postulates of his time—polygeny, preadamitism, electromagnetism, idealism, the multiverse, infinity, and interstellar travel—to an increasingly fundamentalist Mormon establishment. Church authorities, however, including eventual "prophet" Joseph Fielding Smith Jr., proscribed and rejected Roberts' modernist manuscript, The Truth, The, Way, The Life: An Elementary Treatise on Theology, circa 1930. Paradoxically, however, Roberts' thinking appeared uncited in Smith's 1954 theology, Man, His Origin and Destiny. Here, Smith accelerated Roberts' racism toward African Americans, while reviling science, philosophy, and free thought. This book contextualizes all such fundamentalist Mormon thinking within today's struggle for social and environmental justice, and especially the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Dravidian Connections: The Extra Indian Linguistic Connections of the Dravidian Languages, is the first book to explore the linguistic relation of the Tamil and people in Africa and Eurasia. The Tamil speakers originated in Africa. Today there are still Tamil speakers' in Cameroon, a country in Central Africa. In The Dravidian Connection: The Extra Indian Linguistic Connections of the Dravidian Languages we tell the story of the Tamil speakers migration out of Africa into Eurasia. It explains why many Europeans carry the R haplogroup and the Tamil substratum in many Eurasian languages.
In Archaeological Decipherment of Ancient Writing Systems I explain how archaeological evidence indicates that African literacy began in the Sahara over 5000 years ago . This earliest form of writing was a syllabic system, we call Thinite, that included hundreds of phonetic signs, which over time was shorten to between 22 and 30 key signs, and used as an alphabet by the Mande people of the Fezzan and Niger Valley, Dravidian speaking people in India, the Sumerians, Elamites, the Xi (Olmecs), Egyptians, Meroites, Phonesians and Ethiopians.
This is somewhat of an updated version of my first book, "Moving Forward". It includes some of the writings from my first book and many more new writings. It consists of dated material I've written over the past few years. I felt the need to have a "better" version of some of the writings in "Moving Forward".Please look for my new book "The Testimony of Maurice" coming soon
Everyone knows the story: you turn eighteen, graduate high school and have to decide which road to travel; college, work, stay at home or move out? For Rachel, life is not destined to be that simple. Her road diverges dramatically and her life changes in the blink of an eye. Nothing is the same and now she must make the most important decision of her life, where will she spend eternity? Heaven? or Hell? .....
