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81Best places to see in Australia
My favorite spot in Australia was at Ayers Rock in the Outback. The landscape was not that different from the desert landscape around my home in Arizona, but the colors were much more vivid. Here we have...
6 comments82Teaching is Rewarding, but Sometimes at a Price
I have done many jobs in my life, including bar-tending, waitressing, cooking, delivering mail, working in a lumber mill, driving school bus, and house-cleaning. I have always been a writer and that is my...
14 comments80Personality Traits and Educators
According to Wikipedia, the Big Five personality factors and their traits are summarized as follows: Openness - an appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, curiosity, and a variety of...
6 comments76Schools Going to a 4-Day Week
There are many reasons to shorten the traditional school week, most of them related to budgets and facility use. From a school administrator's point of view a four-day school week makes sense in these days...
8 comments71Why are Weddings in June?
Have you ever wondered why June is the most popular month for weddings? Do you know why a rabbit and colored eggs are symbols for Easter? Did you know that Easter is always on a certain Sunday each year? (not...
7 comments74Business Plan for a New Business
Starting a business is an exciting prospect. The entrepreneur in all of us wants to share our knowledge and experience with the world and what better way to do that than to start a business? There are some...
17 comments68Front Loading Washing Machines: Good or Bad?
Front loading washing machines are, for a lot of reasons, the best thing that ever entered the laundry market. Using the machine is so much easier because there is no bending over the machine to lift heavy,...
12 comments68Creating Character Sketches for Fiction Writing
When creating a work of fiction, the writer needs to decide who the characters are, where they come from, what motivates them to do something, and why they are in the story. Knowing all these things about a...
4 comments66Skimble-skamble, Words from the Bard?
I have a fascination with words, and this morning I stumbled upon this combination: skimble-skamble. It appears that this hyphenated set of what I thought were nonsense words are considered to be an adjective...
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65Twelve Angry Men 1957 movie review
12 Angry Men - 1957 This movie is one of my favorites. I teach Critical Thinking to undergraduate students and always use this movie to illustrate some of the principles covered in this movie. If you have not...
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