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Testing Guest Author Plugin
This is a post to test the Guest Author Plugin. On the main blog site, it doesn't seem to work right. Rather than changing the byline displayed at the top, it adds a box at the very bottom of the post with the author name, gravatar, bio,...
The Brawndo Fallacy or Circular Reasoning
by Mark Castricone
This movie clip, from the movie Idiocracy (2006), presents a future version of Earth where the average intelligence has dropped. They cannot grow crops anymore because they have been watering the crops with the sports drink akin to Gatorade. Thus, the electrolytes or salts...
Teacher Dress Narratives
The English influences that shaped the history of American teacher dress narratives are easy to identify in early America. The teacher contracts of 1872 and 1915 convey a strictly defined framework for the expectations of gender roles that tie into what it means to dress as an American teacher. Currently,...
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Racism As Self-Love
By Grant J. Silva
In his Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, Jean-Jacques Rousseau posits an important distinction between self-preservation (amour de soi) and self-love (amour-propre). As he puts it, self-preservation “is a natural feeling which leads every animal to look to its own preservation, and which, guided in man...
