Category: Personal Blog

  • Do you Fear Death?

    Image via Wikipedia originally Published January 2010 After reading Gilgamesh, I asked all of the students to write about their views of Death and Life. You know an assignment that sounds way to complicated for simple homework; thus, they all commune together in the slog of academia. Yet, for me I was almost completely befuddled…

  • Random quote

    There is creative reading as well as creative writing.  — Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • US History: Eisenhower-Nixon

    This week will center around the major issues, both domestic and foreign, during the administrations of these four presidents. Monday/Tuesday: Students are to research using their books and/of internet resources to find how each reacted/responded to the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, the Space Race and the Counter-Culture movement. Civil Rights Vietnam Space Race Eisenhower Kennedy…

  • World Interests: Darfur, Nuba, and “new” Ethnic Cleansing Issues

    Darfur Redux: Is ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Occurring in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains? – TIME. Nuba now view the U.N. peacekeepers, the only major international presence now on the ground, with shades of deep suspicion and anger for failing to keep any peace. Said one local church official collecting reports from across the state: “People are getting hopeless.…

  • Summer, Reading, and Events

    With just over two weeks of Summer Break down, I have one more week of Summer Reading left to teach. So far not much exciting has happened. My family spent some time with grandparents, a short trip to the Vandalia Festival in WV and some time cleaning the rubbish around the yard. It was my…

  • Congratulations to the Class of 2011!

    Congratulations to a wonderful group of young people. May you do great things in the world. Final grades have been posted. Anyone who has questions may email me directly and I will discuss you grade directly. I will be in the building on May 31st- June 2nd. Since this is my last post of the…