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Category: The Importance Of History In Our Own Lives?
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‘The Fire Next Time’ by James Baldwin
Last night I listened completely to the audio-book, ‘The Fire Next Time’ by James Baldwin. Cornel West is right, from a recent interview, Baldwin was unpopular with the largest section of the population, and he was often misunderstood by his ‘white liberal’ friends whom he mercilessly criticised. West too was unpopular with the…
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The Collapse of now too old ‘New Christian Right’
The signs might be early, but I believe we are seeing the alliance of the global “New” (so old now) Christian Right collapsing; the alliance at the very least. And I suspect that if the Christian Right reforms and creates a new movement, it will have to step away from the dominant theology from the…
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Are you being diverted from what really matters! Understand the history! …globally!
Friends, do not be distracted by the diversion fallacies, currently going around social media, about what is at stake in our contemporary history. It is wrong to not to take a stand when it is so blatant that a great wrong has been committed. Those who do wrong need to be held accountable…
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IDRlabs.com 8 Values Political Test: Why informing opinion is better than behavioural psychology?
I took the IDRlabs.com 8 Values Political Test, and, much like most tests designed for unreflective responses, so as to get to the prejudices of a person, I was frustrated on these psychological goals as an educator and a researcher. Many of the questions, if not all, assumes that any tested person has no prior…
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2020 THE SDGs for Australian Universities
The rankings game can be a farce in statistics but perception does count. The ‘2020 Impact Rankings’, on the measures of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), has been provided by the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings tables. There are seventeen measures with the overall ranking. My analysis in this paper…
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Books, learning, and thinking, in the midst of global destruction
I saw this image, “HOLLAND HOUSE BADLY BURNED. WS/57” (1940), while reading Jay Winter’s book this afternoon, War Beyond Words: Languages of Remembrance from the Great War to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2017). The original photography was no doubt staged, but Eduardo Cadava makes the point that it was art with the message…
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Higher Education Research and Employment-Income Statistics: Here is my Face, Look Me in the Eye
ID 52687398 © Sss200 | Dreamstime.com There is a very meaningful discussion in the THE world – am I working hard enough? I recently calculated the tallies of work hours for my 2018-2019 Tax Return, as well as for the last eight months. Before I announce the depressing picture, a critical point has to be…
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Multiple Factors: History that is the Unfolding in the Present
ID 97111108 © Madpixblue | Dreamstime.com In terms of watching the media, one of the weirdest experiences I had was to see, on the ABC News, an immediate breaking from the Declaration of a Global Emergency of the World Health Organisation, on the Coronavirus Outbreak, to the Declaration of a State of…
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An Open Letter to the Queensland State Archives, 21 December 2019
To Whom it Concerns Today, 21 December 2019 I saw the Q-Album website. Let me be clear at the outset. It is an excellent project. There are no copyright infringements made. There are no legal complaints. Rather the reason why I am writing publicly is to say that you have deeply hurt me without…
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Meaning, Knowledge, and Understanding — Why it is Important in You
ID 152918926 © Adonis1969 | Dreamstime.com There is semantic need in cognition; not as disagreement, but each is compelled to say reasons to take mere opinion to the status of knowledge. Each in honest opinion seeks understanding. It never stops in its attainment, and furthers in reattainment. Imaginative creation and recreation where truthfulness…