Tag: education
member name: Cynthia C.
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August 18, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
While the religious right eats away at the edges of American culture I had thought their influence on education, particularly science education, was confined, primarily to Kansas, where we get to watch . . .
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August 04, 2006 08:56 AM EDT --
Some people are clueless about how to close a deal.
Last week while I was teaching at the film and photography workshops in Rockport Maine I walked by a young photographer with some prints laid out on . . .
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August 20, 2006 10:55 AM EDT --
The Society of Visual Anthropology meets every year in the context of the American Anthropological Associations annual meeting. I'm a member of their board of directors. It's part of the requirements . . .
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June 08, 2007 08:26 AM EDT --
Graduation at Harvard was yesterday. I had totally forgotten about it, which, if you live in Cambridge Massachusetts, is difficult to do, especially every year during the first week of June. But I had . . .
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July 03, 2007 08:30 AM EDT --
As we Americans approach the 4th of July, our day of nationalistic overindulgence, I sense a desire by many of my friends and acquaintances to ignore the reality of what we have become as a nation and . . .
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July 10, 2007 08:01 AM EDT --
So ran the headline in yesterdays BOSTON GLOBE. Was I the only one whose brain misfired on reading that headline?? So this is where four years of war in Iraq has gotten us. This is the result of the great . . .
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July 13, 2007 10:25 AM EDT --
"Special Waivers" is the new jargon in US army recruiting circles. Nearly 12% of our current enlistees who entered basic training needed a "waiver" because they had criminal records. . . .
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July 15, 2007 12:40 PM EDT --
Got a notice in today's mail from the high school. My daughter is failing gym because she comes in unprepared. I wonder if her cavalier attutude towards school has anything to do with her counting . . .
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August 02, 2006 06:36 AM EDT --
Today my students will pull together the story telling skills they've practiced all week. The goal is to convince a panel of commissoning editors that their projects should be green-lighted for broadcast . . .
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August 05, 2006 08:32 AM EDT --
The Friday night wrap party ia always a jubilant, raucous event. The intense pressure and creative effort to produce original, well crafted work that will awe your peers cries out for release. It needs . . .
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August 26, 2006 10:18 AM EDT --
I'm submitting the above classified ad for the next issue of the Anthropology Newsletter. GATHER presents a unique opportunity for a doctoral thesis in anthropology.
Tribalism may be primitive behavior . . .
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February 28, 2007 10:53 PM EST --
In the 1950's women didn't have muscles, unless they lived and worked on a farm. Of course everyone has to have muscles or they couldn't stand up, what I mean is they weren't supposed to . . .
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June 11, 2006 11:00 AM EDT --
RISING FROM THE ASHES
Three years ago, almost to the day Liberia was news in both the Boston Globe and the New York Times. In the spring of 2003, I wrote the post below in response to a front page photo . . .
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August 01, 2006 08:24 AM EDT --
Two wonderfully horrible stories, like funhouse mirror images of how grotesque a society we have become are featured, one in today's Boston Globe, the other in the business section of the New York . . .
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August 03, 2006 07:15 AM EDT --
My students perform true to form. Mr. Slick, who seemed supremely self-confident during the week, turned into a sweating pile of anxiety when he had to pitch his film concept to our panel of commissioning . . .
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August 13, 2006 12:02 PM EDT --
I was an elitist, an Art snob. Painting was my medium of choice. As a child I had natural inclinations, an ability to draw, followed by 2 university degrees in Art and some local success. I never hesitated . . .
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September 03, 2006 07:07 PM EDT --
It was some years ago that RG and I went back to his home town of Cody Wyoming for his 20th high school reunion. I was a city girl, born in New York, having lived most of my adult years in Boston and had . . .
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September 26, 2006 08:09 AM EDT --
When my film students tell me they're going off to make a documentary together with their best friend I always ask them if they have defined this partnership and put it in writing. Most of them seem . . .
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July 26, 2006 08:28 AM EDT --
Tomorrow I leave the security of subways, buses and sidewalks for rural, coastal Maine. I teach a week long course on funding documentary film at the International Film and Television Workshops in Rockport . . .
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July 07, 2007 12:05 PM EDT --
you can't take the country out of the boy. I'm not sure where that platitude came from but my buddy, RG, and I often joke about this concept as it applies to him and our relationship. He, having . . .
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