http://blog.lsc.edu/sagreen Just another Blog.lsc.edu weblog Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:59:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Although many of us in Duluth, Minnesota claim to be colorblind, I posit that race awareness operates in most social situations where different colors meet, unless those involved already know each other. As a city bus driver, I regularly witness race loaded situations, some of them blatant. These are uncomfortable ... http://blog.lsc.edu/sagreen/2007/12/07/race-conscious-or-not/ Traveling alone or with companions -- persuasive Traveling to and from work (and other places) with or without a car -- cause and effect Reasons to travel to other countries -- classification http://blog.lsc.edu/sagreen/2007/12/06/3-ideas-for-travel-essay/ What impressed me most about Barbara Lazear Ascher's essay, "On Compassion" was it's texture: descriptive words that made use of all my senses.  The sight of a man on a busy Manhattan street with his buttonless shirt hanging loose, "carefully plaited dreadlocks bespeaking a better time", and his shuffled gait ... http://blog.lsc.edu/sagreen/2007/12/03/on-compassion/ Personally, it's hard to hear anyone justify war for any reason. I think war is barbaric and I no longer buy the argument that those who participate in war are protecting my freedom unless the freedom they speak of refers to a freedom to invade other people's lands to strip ... http://blog.lsc.edu/sagreen/2007/11/20/dont-dumb-down-the-military/ "Suffering a bout of insomnia, however, I was stalking sleep, not defenseless wayfarers." This sentence in paragragh two, is at the heart of Staples' essay. An ordinary person, unable to sleep, is doing what anyone might do, but then in doing so, is percieved as someone with entirely different intent. Throughout ... http://blog.lsc.edu/sagreen/2007/11/11/just-walk-on-by-black-men-and-public-space/ List evidence/draw conclusions:   1)Car is stuck over water between the dock and a boat 2) The dock and the boat had to be there first 3) Woman with car keys does not appear to be wet 4) Rope is slack; must be untethered Paragraph: I gather that this picture was taken some time after the ... http://blog.lsc.edu/sagreen/2007/11/02/inductive-reasoning-assignment/ My partner is Mackensie. The first president she clearly remembers is Ronald Reagan whereas I'm old enough to recall when President Kennedy was shot. As the older person in our research partnership, I will contrast and compare our motivations to continue higher education. Mackensie lives in Hancock, Minnesota with her ... http://blog.lsc.edu/sagreen/2007/10/29/partner-introduction/ Grandma’s small house, clad in pink asphalt siding, sat tucked inside a grove of pine trees, high on a hill. It was a narrow house with the kitchen in front, a main room in the middle, and two side by side bedrooms in the back, their doorways each facing into ... http://blog.lsc.edu/sagreen/2007/10/22/evalena-mable/ “However, the Krispie, the Plain, and the Peanut are three that recur with more regularity than any other.” This is the sentence that pulled it all together for me (in an otherwise fully loaded paragraph). This is the sentence that defines the theses. Before I read this sentence, I wasn’t ... http://blog.lsc.edu/sagreen/2007/10/16/the-truth-about-mms/ “To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education.”  This sentence in Martin Luther King Jr.’s essay, “The Purpose of Education,” stands out for me as a statement that summarizes his thesis. To save ourselves from the morass of propaganda, ... http://blog.lsc.edu/sagreen/2007/10/07/the-purpose-of-education/