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I Should Probably Blog

September 30, 2012

I should probably blog

I’ve got great ideas

And half-remembered things that I’ve said

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Why am I blogging? Do I have something to say, or do I just like the idea of having something to say? Do I need to speak or do I need to be heard (even if I have nothing to say)? Do I need to make my mark before I die? Maybe I’m blogging to give something for people to read at my funeral, so they can say, “Man, he had something to say.” Read the rest of this entry »

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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