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Building Dorm Rooms Cheaper, Quicker and Quieter - New York Times
This page describes actions to create new dorms. This article is truly interesting and may somehow effect Rowan
Abstinence - Chastity Clubs - Virginity - Colleges and Universities - Harvard University - New York Times
This article discusses Abstience in the college realm. The girl in this article is caught completely off guard when she sees the "hook-up" craze even effecting presitigious schools like Harvard!
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she believed in more than anything at Harvard was the value of not having
premarital sex
A Different Kind of Student Exam - New York Times
This article discusses a school in the districts of Southington and Clinton who test BAC of their students. Is this a breach to of their first amendment rights?
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Before he and classmates are allowed to enter a dance, they are asked to breathe
into a device to determine whether they have consumed alcohol.
Reference Article : Encouraging Young Writers
This website gives strategies how to encourage young writers
Exciting Writing
This blog discusses education and writing. It covers many topics as you will see.
How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into the Web's Hottest Platform
this page discusses the emergence of facbook
NY Times Article
This article discusses Seton Halls involvment in helping a public school that is failing.
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Every one of those policies has left the Iraqi people worse off than before,
even if nowadays, from beneath the rubble, the devastated survivors can at least
ruminate about a better future — though I doubt that many of them are in any
mood to do so.
TRISTAN and ISOLT: INTRODUCTION
introduction to the love story of Tristan and Isolt
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Although the differences in treatment of the love potion are slight
Wired 14.12: The Secret World of Lonelygirl
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Almost everything in the room was bought from Target on the same day, and the
price tags are still hanging from some of her stuff. The closet is filled with
men's clothing, and in the corner two guys huddle around a laptop and stare at
the webcam feed.
Continued Landes and Frank Debate
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Andre Gunder
Frank -
For in my wealth of nations, wealth and poverty of nations, I contend that it is
our precious Judeo-Christian culture and values that fundamentally distinguish
the west from the rest. This contention which for me is self-evident, the same
as its demonstration, also comes for the wealth of the west and the poverty of
the rest. - 2 more annotations...
Landes and Frank Debate
This is a debate of Landes's The Wealth and Poverty of Nations and Andre Gunder Frank's Reorient
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Question 1: Biggest question. How to account for European/Western performance.
The question is, and this is a quote from Professor Frank's book, the question
is: How and why, beginning around 1800, Europe, and then the United States,
after long lagging behind, suddenly caught up, and then overtook Asian
economically and politically in one world economy and system? end quote.
Suddenly?!?!? Exclamation marks!!!! Question mark!!!!” -
First of all, the British orange has already been converted into marmalade for
over a century after Clapham when it had virtually squeezed dry in the century
before so there isn't anything left to get there. Secondly, the issue really is
to compare the British Orange with the Chinese orange and all the other oranges
according to some. And you do that to a little extent not very well, because you
don't look very far beyond Europe as to what actually happened - 3 more annotations...
Continued Landes and Frank Debate
continuation of the Landes and Frank Debate
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Now, I have to tell you that I am not going to criticize his book for the moment
except to say that it's full of misstatements of alleged fact -
. My book is an effort to understand how the world got to where it is. And it is
global history. It is concerned with the large process of what you might call
economic and industrial development or what you might call modernization. And my
thesis is that this story, over the last thousand years has been set and driven
by what was happening in Europe and some of its overseas extensions, alright?
And what's more, it is not something that started relatively recently, that if
you want to follow the process by which Europe – which at the start of this
period is a somewhat backward western extremity of the Eurasian land mass – that
Europe, over a period of centuries beginning already in the 10th and 11th
centuries, begins to take a different path from the rest. That is, it really
deviates from the pattern of what has sometimes been called aristocratic empires
in which small elites ruled large populations often connected to the elites only
by their submission, submissiveness and subordination that Europe moved in an
entirely different way in the direction of science and the application of
science, such that, by 1500 already, the Europeans could plant themselves
anywhere in the world within reach of naval cannon. - 4 more annotations...
Wired 14.12: The Secret World of Lonelygirl
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Meanwhile, the online celebrity started spilling over into the real world.
Rose was browsing for a book in Santa Monica after "My Parents Suck …" was
posted and noticed two girls watching her closely. That night, Amanda received
an email from a fan: "Hi Bree. My friend and I thought we saw you at the Barnes
& Noble in Santa Monica, but it couldn't be you, right?" -
If you want to talk to Jessica Rose, you can go to her MySpace page. If you want
to keep talking to Bree, use this email."
Wired 14.12: The Secret World of Lonelygirl
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The previous week, one guy had offered her a part in a movie if she would use
her student ID to buy him discounted film at Kodak
Wired 14.12: YouTube vs. Boob Tube
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"They've
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So what about "Evolution of Dance," for instance? To put together this medley,
did Laipply license 30 songs?
Wired 14.12: YouTube vs. Boob Tube
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Altogether, this stuff constitutes a bottomless reservoir of short-form video
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Until now, advertisers have underwritten mass media to reach mass audiences.
Indeed, they've paid increasing premiums for the opportunity as audiences have
shrunk, because even in a fragmented media world, the largest fragment – network
TV – is the most valuable. But now they realize that they are losing not only
mass but critical mass.
Wired 14.12: YouTube vs. Boob Tube
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which stars a chubby young man in his New Jersey bedroom lip-syncing to an
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The price tag for YouTube, just to put the investment in perspective, is what
Target paid for 257 Mervyns department stores and four distribution centers in
13 states, and just a bit more than WPP Group paid for the Grey Global Group
advertising network with 10,500 employees in 83 countries generating $1.3
billion in revenue. Those, of course, are both profitable enterprises with vast
fixed assets.
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