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Author: Andrew Bushard Publisher: Free Press Media Press ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 28
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Some people vilify the working class But we should love the working class You can get by or you can thrive You can embrace mediocrity or you can seize excellence Why just get by when life offers more? Seize working class excellence, today So you can beam with working class pride 28 pages.
Author: Andrew Bushard Publisher: Free Press Media Press ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 28
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Some people vilify the working class But we should love the working class You can get by or you can thrive You can embrace mediocrity or you can seize excellence Why just get by when life offers more? Seize working class excellence, today So you can beam with working class pride 28 pages.
Author: Stanley Fish Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198024193 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 345
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In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and "fascist" are by the left--Stanley Fish would seem an unlikely lightning rod for controversy. A renowned scholar of Milton, head of the English Department of Duke University, Fish has emerged as a brilliantly original critic of the culture at large, praised and pilloried as a vigorous debunker of the pieties of both the left and right. His mission is not to win the cultural wars that preoccupy the nation's attention, but rather to redefine the terms of battle. In There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, Fish takes aim at the ideological gridlock paralyzing academic and political exchange in the nineties. In his witty, accessible dissections of the swirling controversies over multiculturalism, affirmative action, canon revision, hate speech, and legal reform, he neatly eviscerates both the conservatives' claim to possession of timeless, transcendent values (the timeless transcendence of which they themselves have conveniently identified), and the intellectual left's icons of equality, tolerance, and non-discrimination. He argues that while conservative ideologues and liberal stalwarts might disagree vehemently on what is essential to a culture, or to a curriculum, both mistakenly believe that what is essential can be identified apart from the accidental circumstances (of time and history) to which the essential is ritually opposed. In the book's first section, which includes the five essays written for Fish's celebrated debates with Dinesh D'Souza (the author and former Reagan White House policy analyst), Fish turns his attention to the neoconservative backlash. In his introduction, Fish writes, "Terms that come to us wearing the label 'apolitical'--'common values', 'fairness', 'merit', 'color blind', 'free speech', 'reason'--are in fact the ideologically charged constructions of a decidedly political agenda. I make the point not in order to level an accusation, but to remove the sting of accusation from the world 'politics' and redefine it as a synonym for what everyone inevitably does." Fish maintains that the debate over political correctness is an artificial one, because it is simply not possible for any party or individual to occupy a position above or beyond politics. Regarding the controversy over the revision of the college curriculum, Fish argues that the point is not to try to insist that inclusion of ethnic and gender studies is not a political decision, but "to point out that any alternative curriculum--say a diet of exclusively Western or European texts--would be no less politically invested." In Part Two, Fish follows the implications of his arguments to a surprising rejection of the optimistic claims of the intellectual left that awareness of the historical roots of our beliefs and biases can allow us, as individuals or as a society, to escape or transcend them. Specifically, he turns to the movement for reform of legal studies, and insists that a dream of a legal culture in which no one's values are slighted or declared peripheral can no more be realized than the dream of a concept of fairness that answers to everyone's notions of equality and jsutice, or a yardstick of merit that is true to everyone's notions of worth and substance. Similarly, he argues that attempts to politicize the study of literature are ultimately misguided, because recharacterizations of literary works have absolutely no impact on the mainstream of political life. He concludes his critique of the academy with "The Unbearable Ugliness of Volvos," an extraordinary look at some of the more puzzing, if not out-and-out masochistic, characteristics of a life in academia. Penetrating, fearless, and brilliantly argued, There's No Such Thing as Free Speech captures the essential Fish. It is must reading for anyone who cares about the outcome of America's cultural wars.
Author: Randy Pausch Publisher: ISBN: 9780340978504 Category : Cancer Languages : en Pages : 0
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The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author: Andrew Bushard Publisher: Free Press Media Press Inc. ISBN: Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 28
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Most everyone values hard work, but what does hard work mean and how do we know if we are working hard? This short book offers various criteria for determining whether we are working hard or not. 28 pages.
Author: Ellis Cose Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062999737 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 167
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Named one of Newsweek’s "25 Must-Read Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Escape the Chaos of 2020" The critically acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rage of a Privileged Class explores one of the most essential rights in America—free speech—and reveals how it is crumbling under the combined weight of polarization, technology, money and systematized lying in this concise yet powerful and timely book. Free speech has long been one of American's most revered freedoms. Yet now, more than ever, free speech is reshaping America’s social and political landscape even as it is coming under attack. Bestselling author and critically acclaimed journalist Ellis Cose wades into the debate to reveal how this Constitutional right has been coopted by the wealthy and politically corrupt. It is no coincidence that historically huge disparities in income have occurred at times when moneyed interests increasingly control political dialogue. Over the past four years, Donald Trump’s accusations of “fake news,” the free use of negative language against minority groups, “cancel culture,” and blatant xenophobia have caused Americans to question how far First Amendment protections can—and should—go. Cose offers an eye-opening wholly original examination of the state of free speech in America today, litigating ideas that touch on every American’s life. Social media meant to bring us closer, has become a widespread disseminator of false information keeping people of differing opinions and political parties at odds. The nation—and world—watches in shock as white nationalism rises, race and gender-based violence spreads, and voter suppression widens. The problem, Cose makes clear, is that ordinary individuals have virtually no voice at all. He looks at the danger of hyper-partisanship and how the discriminatory structures that determine representation in the Senate and the electoral college threaten the very concept of democracy. He argues that the safeguards built into the Constitution to protect free speech and democracy have instead become instruments of suppression by an unfairly empowered political minority. But we can take our rights back, he reminds us. Analyzing the experiences of other countries, weaving landmark court cases together with a critical look at contemporary applications, and invoking the lessons of history, including the Great Migration, Cose sheds much-needed light on this cornerstone of American culture and offers a clarion call for activism and change.
Author: Andrew Bushard Publisher: Free Press Media Press ISBN: Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 26
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We can consider motivational speaking one of the best things ever, yet we ought to be thoughtful about it. Thus this work critiques and also praises motivational speaking, so you can best separate the wheat from the chaff to get what you want in life. 26 pages; 25 poems.
Author: Andrew Bushard Publisher: Free Press Media Press ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 26
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Nothing beats participating in a successful revolution. The public schools fail, so we need an unschooling and homeschooling revolution to take over. Whether your parents homeschooled or unschooled you or you attended the public schools, now is the time for you to hop aboard our unschooling revolution. 26 pages; 25 poems.
Author: Andrew Bushard Publisher: Free Press Media Press ISBN: Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 30
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Most of society's institutions such as medicine, school, academia, athletics, and the legal system violate God's laws. Given this, we can easily feel depressed, but we have hope. If we resist these institutions and build better institutions in their place, we can create a world that rocks. 30 pages.
Author: Andrew Bushard Publisher: Free Press Media Press Inc. ISBN: Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 30
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Don't despair! You can improve in every area of life and when you do so empowerment will seize your soul. You'll get addicted to the empowerment high so you'll keeping coming back to the virtuous cycle that this pamphlet discusses. 30 pages.
Author: Andrew Bushard
Author: Andrew Bushard
Author: Stanley Fish
Author: Randy Pausch
Author: Andrew Bushard
Author: Ellis Cose
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Author: Andrew Bushard
Author: Andrew Bushard
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor