We got home from our trip to Pennsylvania yesterday, and thanks to some of your suggestions we did manage to visit Fallingwater as well as Fort Necessity and a couple of other places. I thought we were closer to Pittsburgh than we actually were, so once we realized that Pittsburgh meant another couple of […]
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Fort Necessity and Family Reunions, Oh My!
Published June 23rd, 2008 in Back In the Day, Books, Class, Education, Family, Racism and Travel. 3 CommentsTake it from this documentary junkie, “Resolved” is one of the better documentaries I’ve seen in a couple of years, and lucky for you it’s playing on demand on HBO and is available via Netflix.
“Resolved” trains an eye on high school debate competitions and the peculiar traditions that make them so competitive, also basing a […]
In the Basement of the Ivory Tower:
We think of college professors as being profoundly indifferent to the grades they hand out. My own professors were fairly haughty and aloof, showing little concern for the petty worries, grades in particular, of their students. There was an enormous distance between students and professors. The full-time, tenured professors […]
This exercise was transcribed by Bint. Mark in bold the ones that reflect your experience.
ADULTHOOD:
If your father went to college
If your father finished college
If your mother went to college
If your mother finished college
If you have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor.
If you were the same or higher class than your […]
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