habits

Weaken OCD Patterns

April 15, 2020

Breaking the thought patterns that lead to endless obsessive-compulsive behavior may be similar to breaking the habits of addiction.

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The reason I have holes in the right armpits of most of my t-shirts is that I take my shirts off the wrong way. I don’t remember anyone ever teaching me otherwise. I resist changing the way I remove my shirts because I feel like it’s something that makes me me. My habits distinguish me from other people. Without them, who am I?

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Academic Peace Papers

This is my 2007 thesis for Lesley University's Masters of Education in Curriculum Design, focusing in Conflict Resolution and Peaceable Schools:
The Unlikely Peace Seeker: Adopting a Life of Nonviolence in the Context of Opposing Family Values

This is a short paper I wrote in response to the standard assignment of finding and writing about sites on the internet:
A Few of My Favorite Peace Things

This is a paper I wrote in 2003 before the advent of Obama:
Three Forms of Government: Violent, Negative Peace and Nonviolent

Here's an example of how I can take a perfectly good book & ruin it with academic gibberish:
The Secret Life of Bees: The Developmental Journey of Lily and White America

This is my 2006 report on the structural violence of institutional racism and poverty that produce an inadequate and unequal public school system in the United States. The case study is of Central High School in Providence, Rhode Island:
Central High School