13 days ago by justin

Digital Literacy for Technical Communication: 21st Century Theory and Practice – ed. Rachel Spilka Introduction – Rachel Spilka The author notes that the collection is valuable because work contexts and modes of production have changes so much over recent memory. As technical communicators, Spilka n ...

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20 days ago by Jim

With the takeover of Kennedy's seat by the GOP yesterday in Massachusetts, and thus ending the Democrat's majority for being able to get projects done despite the phalanx of the GOP, I once again have been idly and briefly thinking: could the United States really be governed by a consortium of corpo ...

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22 days ago by Chris Martin

According to Wikipedia 53% 47% of Haiti's population is illiterate. That is to say 53% 47% of the population lack basic human capital needed to function in a modern economy. Nevertheless Haiti's educational system is a model of free market development and local and international voluntarism: Current ...

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23 days ago by Chris Martin

Everyone responds to great tragedies, like the earthquake in Haiti, in their own way. Some send money, some go themselves to help and everyone does what they do best. For conservatives like David Brooks this means indulging in clueless speculation about the moral failings of the victims of the trage ...

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26 days ago by Gifford Pinchot

The theme of this blog is dreams, large and small, of a positive future. The beat, in the newspaper sense of the word, is the future of business, the economy, civilization, and living systems of our planet. I am interested in plausible positive visions of the future because they are much needed and ...

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29 days ago by Samsung HDTV Lounge

Are Prices the judge of value of art? We live in different times; we love different in time. The love for money nay the love for greed is extensive and whole economic systems tumble. We desire what we do not need, and what we need we do not desire anymore. Walk with me the little distance in time. W ...

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30 days ago by Chris Martin

This dedicated to the government of China and its apologists who clearly need some basic lessons in development economics. The goal of economic development is the material welfare of a nation's entire population. National power, military might, christian values or the creation of a new socialist man ...

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31 days ago by Renee Ghert-Zand

Daniel Pink's latest book is about what motivates us. Once again, the Sages of the Mishna give sound advice ( Pirkei Avot 4:1): “Who is rich? The person who is content with his lot.” What we are coming to realize post-economic meltdown, is that that lot doesn’t necessary have to be a lot. Our acquis ...

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38 days ago by Chris Martin

Of course the call for means tested programs extends well beyond our current debates over health care. Over the past few years we have be urged to save Social Security by paying benefits only to poor people and - until the Republicans became defenders of Medicare six months ago - we heard proposals ...

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38 days ago

Anonymous User94210 asked: It should be obvious that even from different perspectives, our children are being fed lies and deception. How should the concept of government and economic systems be taught to elementary, middle, and high school children?

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