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When researching blogging I ran across the book Say Everything by Scott Rosenberg. I did not have time to read the entire book, but I did come across a excerpt from chapter 9, “Journalists vs. Bloggers,” on the books web page. This chapter focuses on beliefs from journalists that blogging is nothing more than simple [...]
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One of the things that keeps coming up in conversations with my friends this year has been the silent rejection. It is one of the most frustrating things because you put time and energy into tailoring a cover letter, resume, and application to each specific job; only to never hear from them again. Why is [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: application process, employers, GLEE, Harvard, job applicants, silent rejection | 4 Comments »
In my previous post I began to look at the history behind the housing market bubble, and its eventual downfall. I have found the housing bubble to be particularly interesting because I come from an area in California where the bubble had a very strong impact. Many people during that time thought that they could [...]
Filed under: Blog | Tagged: Alyssa Katz, Downfall of the housing market, housing bubble, housing market, housing policies, Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us | 8 Comments »
When exactly did the downfall of the housing market start? Many play around with dates from the 1980s to September 11, but one woman takes it back even further than that. Alyssa Katz wrote the book Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us and brings up housing market problems that started as early [...]
Filed under: Blog | Tagged: 30 year mortgage, CA, Co-op, CRA, develpers, government insurance, housing bubble, NYC, rent control | 7 Comments »
“Playboy magazine is now doing a ‘Women of Enron’ pictorial spread. … Apparently the only thing these women have left to shred is their dignity.” —Jay Leno When searching for answers to what Enron employees did after its demise, I was immediately drawn to this clip from The Daily Show. If you don’t believe them [...]
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Over the past 14 years, the impact agriculture has on Georgia’s GDP has gone down from 65.86% to 13.72%. In Georgia the percent of Agriculture generating GDP was above that of Lower, middle income nations; however, in 2006 it went below, and continues to fall. Georgia’s strength in agriculture declined as Georgia gained its independence [...]
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One of my favorite topics that I have looked into was the study of virtual classrooms. Using the WordPress search function I recently found another blog post that looked at the pros and cons of virtual classrooms.
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Burning Man is a temporary community that is set up in the middle of the desert in Nevada. It is expected that each person who attends participates and establishes their own role within the community. By the time the last of the volunteers leave, there is no trace left of the community. Also, while there [...]
Filed under: Organization Theory | Tagged: Active Participation, burning man, Natural Systems, Self Expression, Theory X, Theory Y | 7 Comments »
After looking at The blog Contexts Crawler, I was very intrigued by the article the skinny on fat. This post focuses on discrimination against those who are obese, as well as, organizations’ “solutions” to reduce obesity. Some supposed solutions include Lincoln University in PA forcing students who are obese to lose weight or take a [...]
Filed under: Blog, Organization Theory | Tagged: consumption, descrimination, indulgence, obesity, self control | 5 Comments »
People desire to fix the broken, but what happens when it’s an accumulation of many broken things. In Haiti the destruction from the earthquake is shocking, but the people have already begun to ban together and plan to rebuild. We are not just talking about rebuilding the buildings as they once were, but reinventing Haiti’s [...]
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I chose to evaluate the post “My participation isn’t low… my connection is slow!” which looked into the use of Second Life and other virtual worlds for the classroom. This was very interesting to me because my cousin is in an advanced nursing program, which uses Second Life for lectures and office hours. I also [...]
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T-Shirt Poll
Hey, So below is the poll for T-shirt ideas… voting ends on Sunday at 5PM. You can vote for up to 3 ideas because there are so many options.
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