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- 2100 - Life in the Late 21st Century
by Steve Priest - 2100 - Life in the Late 21st Century
by Steve Priest - the world's largest outhouse
by John Flowers - Tea Party Fever: The New American Revolution
by Jerome Tuccille - Unsolicited Advice---And What Not To Do: A Guide for Avoiding Pitfalls that will ruin Your Life and Future
by Jerry Johnson - Frazzled
by Peter Johansen - Art Education in a Climate of Reform
by Penelope Orr
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- Art Education in a Climate of Reform
- by Penelope Orr
In an era of national school reform and accountability, it is more critical than ever for educators to agree on the major goals of education. Without clear and measurable goals, educators cannot provide data to show whether those goals are being achieved, making it difficult for teachers to be seen as accountable in today's reform climate.
Art Education in a Climate of Reform first analyzes the changes in the social context of art and how these changes have impacted K-12 and university level-education. These changes,plus the current culture of accountability, have led many arts educators to question the goal or message of arts-based curriculum. Charles Dorn and Penelope Orr reaffirm art's place in education by describing it as not just a discipline or form, but as an idea, even a language. Finally, they contend that art is a social enterprise essential to a a complete education.
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- 2100 - Life in the Late 21st Century
- by Steve Priest
2100 – Life in the Late 21st Century is a window into the future. It reveals how the United States will change in the next 100 years and how global changes will transform the world. It is a challenging look into the 21st century; offering more than 150 practical ideas to prepare for the changes ahead. The book is an eye opener into economics, politics, society, science, technology, government, climate change, cyber war, health and medicine, business, globalization and other aspects of the 21st century.
“2100” is a no-nonsense look at the United States and the World in the later years of this century. The book projects the future of what life may be like for current and future generations. It explores globalization and puts all the pieces together and makes common sense predictions.
This book is a blend of contemporary social issues, emerging science and domestic and global economic matters. It provides a porthole into the future. First, it considers America and how we will transform in the next 100 years. Secondly, it considers how the world will evolve and the global changes that will occur.
What will it be like in 2175? Curiosity has got to make you find out!
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- 2100 - Life in the Late 21st Century
- by Steve Priest
2100 – Life in the Late 21st Century is a window into the future. It reveals how the United States will change in the next 100 years and how global changes will transform the world. It is a challenging look into the 21st century; offering more than 150 practical ideas to prepare for the changes ahead. The book is an eye opener into economics, politics, society, science, technology, government, climate change, cyber war, health and medicine, business, globalization and other aspects of the 21st century.
“2100” is a no-nonsense look at the United States and the World in the later years of this century. The book projects the future of what life may be like for current and future generations. It explores globalization and puts all the pieces together and makes common sense predictions.
This book is a blend of contemporary social issues, emerging science and domestic and global economic matters. It provides a porthole into the future. First, it considers America and how we will transform in the next 100 years. Secondly, it considers how the world will evolve and the global changes that will occur.
What will it be like in 2175? Curiosity has got to make you find out!
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- Frazzled
- by Peter Johansen
GAP analysis methods endeavor toward developing visionary solutions to complex problems by bifurcating or simplifying the problem into measurable steps. The combined thesis ‘Economic Perils of the Middle-Aged American Worker’ and ‘The Forgotten Graveyard Worker’ attempts toward accomplishing solutions toward a complex problem. For instance, the middle-aged worker being 40 to 75 encounters many hiring challenges created by mythical or psychic superstitions, which eventually develop into lifeline challenges. In addition, ‘The Forgotten Graveyard Worker’ encounters humanistic challenges combined with company disguises. Unfortunately, creating humanistic challenges such as cancer expand into pre-existing conditions and former company denials. Hence, the combined thesis attempts to create awareness to ongoing confrontational humanistic events.
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- Unsolicited Advice---And What Not To Do: A Guide for Avoiding Pitfalls that will ruin Your Life and Future
- by Jerry Johnson
Unsolicited Advice is a guide for young adults caught up in decision making about education, career, marriage, credit, saving money, and so on---. The basic idea is to inspire the creation of a workable life plan. Hopefully, readers will be stimulated to think and make their own viable choices. Two things in life are mostly irreversible, namely, the aimless passage of time and continual and reoccurring illogical errors in the thought processes. Long-term mistaken thinking leads to bad choices that in turn causes the loss of valuable time. An important methodology followed in Unsolicited Advice is to draw from a lifetime of experiences in order to illustrate how easy it is to slip into time-consuming chaos and crisis.
The probability of avoiding ultimate failure is greatly enhanced by drawing up a flexible life plan. The "advice" ranges all the way from caring for your parents to the hazards of nightlife. Most importantly, the reader is cautioned to be especially careful in the choice of a marriage partner. To avoid a serious loss of cumulative time, your spouse must be your partner in success or failure. Choosing a spouse that will judge you as incompetent or undesirable based on day to day failure is likely to bring on divorce. Some amount of failure in everyday life is to be expected. However, jumping the gun and running for divorce court will call out the greatest enemy of all, namely, the loss of a major portion of time.
The real tragedy of chaos and crisis is usually not the precipitating event itself. Rather, it is the loss of time that such events take away from an otherwise productive life. Some additional examples of events that can disrupt life and cause a serious loss of time are an illness, changing careers or the loss of a job. Lost time cannot be regained. It is gone forever. Not all loss of time can be prevented, but making the correct choices can cut losses to a minimum. Illnesses and the consequential loss of time can be greatly reduced by choosing a healthy lifestyle and not falling into bad habits that lead to disease and suffering. Changing careers should be for good cause only, such as the technological elimination of your previous work. The normal threat of job loss can be controlled by researching and selectively choosing an employer, and by self-discipline in the performance of work-related duties. The major point here is simply that our human exercise of choice controls our destiny in most instances.
As human beings, we are each allotted only so much time on earth in which to complete our chosen missions in life. The loss of time can be equated to the loss of life. Life is time, and time is life. The two are interchangeable. Based on the average life span, we can count on about fifty-seven years in which to complete our chosen missions after reaching early adulthood. It can be assumed that “early adulthood” begins around eighteen or twenty years of age. Depending upon the choice of a career, the opportunity to accumulate wealth may begin shortly after becoming an adult, or it may not commence until ten or fifteen years later.
The master plan should be in writing and for the owner's eyes-only. It should be completed as early as possible at the beginning of early adulthood. The plan is not written in stone. It can be changed. However, with frequent changes, the plan itself can become a hindrance to avoiding the unnecessary loss of time. For that reason, the plan is only worthwhile if it is carefully considered in the beginning. The master Plan, in order to be effective, must be taken seriously and with as few changes as possible.
Some other advice in the book includes buying a house in your early twenties, planning to be old while you are still young, avoiding dead end jobs, starting your own business, and numerous other questions or problems the young adult is likely to encounter. Unsolicited Advice is a mix of the practical and the philosophical. Through a thoughtful analysis of your abilities, desires and interests, you can create a master plan suited for you.
