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88Rev. Jim Jones and the People's Temple: A Memoir
The day I met the infamous Rev. Jim Jones, he was wearing semi-opaque sunglasses and a black shirt, and he was being trailed by a half dozen or so teen-aged young men. They piled out of a wine-colored van...
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79A Teacher's solutions for America's School Problems
Perhaps the following thoughts will provoke a conversation about schools in America. I went to public schools and a state university for my own schooling. I have taught in a university school of education, a...
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79Fly-fishing
I have been fly-fishing now for several years, and because I am also an Ethics teacher by trade, I couldn’t help but put the two together and consider the ethics of fly-fishing. When...
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74Classroom Management: A teaching memoir
Classroom Management Classroom management was the key buzzword in teachers' college when I went back to school to learn to become a teacher after a first career as a woodworker. I remember being...
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78Folsom Vacaville San Quentin Prisons: A memoir
The best class I had in seminary, titled "Ministry to Captive Structures ", was taught by Dody Donnelly at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. The class included about a dozen students both women and...
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76The America I Believe In does not Torture
1. Information extracted from torture is typically useless because someone being tortured will say anything to get the torturer to stop torturing him. And then the torturer is faced with the problem of...
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77Book Review: Almost Moon: Alice Sebold
First let me introduce myself. I currently teach American Literature, Ethics, World Religions and Social & Political Philosophy at a prep school. In the past, I have taught courses at the university level. I...
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71Illegal immigrant labor: Antonio: a Border Memoir
One day I asked Ignacio if he knew anyone who could build a wall around my house and stucco both. He replied that his brother, Antonio, was a master mason and looking for work. I trusted Ignacio completely...
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69Momones: a fruit memoir
Some fruits are worth climbing trees to enjoy. A fruit from my childhood that is not widely known in the United States but is considered a delicacy in the tropical regions of Colombia and Venezuela are...
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73A Holy Communion Memoir
Why Sister Bunny Flick hired me to teach had something to do with an item on my resume: we had attended the same consortium of seminaries in Berkeley, California. Principals of Roman Catholic high schools...
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