The best place for a real education is in the real world with real people doing real things that really matter. "It is not the best place where the environment is actually controlled by manipulative age-mates and marginally monitored by an adult, nor is it the best place where the child is exposed only to pre-planned issues" (Walsh 15). In this statement, Walsh is saying that the best environment for learning is not a fake place where the problems are made up and phony and it's not the best place where all the answers are found in a teacher's manual. ... Such lea...

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Thousands of students mobilized, all dressed in their best display of American pride like ourselves, and descended upon the social epicenter of Boston college-the senior modular housing -- mods for short -- located in the center of campus. ... " According to The Long Shadow of 9/11, a recent Rand Corporation study, more than 70,000 American's have been killed or injured in this conflict. ... According to Jason Ingram, in his book Hegemony and Globalism, dominant ideologies establish "blinders" that make us view certain behaviors as acceptable and others as incompatible with...

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Smedley states that until recently, "the major source of knowledge and explanations of the world and its complexities was the biblical interpretations (Smedley, 152). ... When Noah cursed Ham, he cursed his posterity as we see stated above from the book of Genesis. ...

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What so draws us to this Coke guy is not just the fact that his world was inscribed in his appearance. ... The Greeks said, "The corruption of the best is worst."" ... Below are excerpts from the book Hippies from A to Z by Skip Stone regarding the hippy values and ways of thinking. ... We study many of the world's religions and take what makes sense and enhances personal freedom and reject the dogma. ...

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