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		<title>A Project on Textbook Author Biography</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many students do not know well the entire details of textbook author. Meanwhile, they mention the names all the time on their paper and discussion. This is common, and nobody thinks it is weird. However, a new project has been initiated and many people are excited about it. Several people realize how these authors make [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many students do not know well the entire details of textbook author. Meanwhile, they mention the names all the time on their paper and discussion. This is common, and nobody thinks it is weird. However, a new project has been initiated and many people are excited about it. Several people realize how these authors make great contribution to science and society. They respect these authors and try to engage as many more people as possible to learn even more knowledge and science from authors’ biography. They build an idea based on the ignorance of students on authors’ existence and contribution, and they develop a thorough work on it too. Many people are excited not only because they want to know more about their textbooks authors, but also to know more authors from other discipline and field as well. This is indeed very interesting.</p>
<p>The project is still in progress. There are many authors and many biographies to write. They already have several biographies on the website, <a href="http://textbookauthorswiki.com/" target="_blank">textbookauthorswiki.com</a>. Several authors’ biography are already posted, and we can access the information because the it is online. This is brilliant because all people from all parts of the world can access the information and read it. It often happens that people learn a lot from biography. In the end, they follow the lead and make great contribution to science and society as well. The idea is like building an online <a href="http://www.britannica.com/">encyclopedia</a> about those authors. It means complete story and facts about them. We will know their childhood and the entire journey, and also how they finally wrote those textbooks. This is very educating and nice.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> already makes such information too, but this one is quite different. If we visit the website, we will notice a lot of nice things. Details on personal and professional life, achievement, theories, and also summaries on their writing are also included on the biography. It is just like reading an advance biography but through online connection. There are huge visitors on the website every day. Most students enjoy the content and get many inspirations and understanding by reading the biographies. It also makes cheaper solution for those who cannot save more money to buy biography. They only need to access it. The website is not yet perfect and advanced. The team is still working on the entire aspect from connection to content. This website is going to be really amazing!</p>
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		<title>The Art and Science of Sports Betting Systems That Produce Profits</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The statistics show that most individuals in the work force who earned a college degree earn, on average, more than their non-degree earning colleagues. The statistics also show that most individuals who pursued and acquired graduate school degrees earn more, on average, than their undergraduate degree earning colleagues. The reason? They invested in their education, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The statistics show that most individuals in the work force who earned a college degree earn, on average, more than their non-degree earning colleagues. The statistics also show that most individuals who pursued and acquired graduate school degrees earn more, on average, than their undergraduate degree earning colleagues. The reason? They invested in their education, learned how to apply the education they earned in their respective careers and are being compensated for their efforts. There is no better investment than in your education. When applied correctly, you too will be compensated for that investment.</p>
<p>I have seen it all in my day with respect to sports betting systems. Some do not work. Some are no longer relevant because of the rule changes in sports. Some sports betting systems work right away only to fail in the long run. The good news is their are plenty of excellent betting systems in existence right now.</p>
<p>Those systems are making people TONS of money, and there are thousands of people who earn a living sport betting. I can assure you that the overwhelming majority of those who do earn a living betting sports have some type of system in place that they follow verbatim. This is how you turn the life you are currently living into the dream life you could only imagine. Implement the proper systems now and you can kiss the old you goodbye.</p>
<p>On the scientific side of sports betting systems, you can start out by breaking your bankroll into 4 blocks of $250. You are only going to work with one block to begin. You can bet 5% of that first block for any given game you bet. Once you have doubled that block, add it back to your total bankroll. Now you have $1250. Break that $1250 down into four blocks, rinse, and repeat. The percentages of your bankroll that you place on each bet is up to you but I work off of 5%. The same applies to your losing streaks&#8211;just adjust your bankroll down and work the system.</p>
<p>Since systems like Bookie Busters cover a multitude of sports, you can apply these systems across different sports and create multiple profit streams to accelerate your income producing venture. These systems do work and they will make you money but you won&#8217;t get there without the investment in your education. I&#8217;m no good at playing tennis because I didn&#8217;t invest any time or effort in it. I never learned it. This investment into my sports betting education was the best decision I have ever made. Sports betting systems, when applied correctly, will make you money. The choice is yours.</p>
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		<title>Nature Inspired &#8211; Arts and Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) died just as the American Civil War came to a full blow with the Confederate forces crossed the Potomac River to attack Federal targets in Virginia and Maryland. Today, beside his political legacy, there is also the legacy of his experimental spiritual and intellectual pursuits through communion with nature. He aspired [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) died just as the American Civil War came to a full blow with the Confederate forces crossed the Potomac River to attack Federal targets in Virginia and Maryland.</p>
<p>Today, beside his political legacy, there is also the legacy of his experimental spiritual and intellectual pursuits through communion with nature.</p>
<p>He aspired to demonstrate his pursuit of the divine through communion with nature as a poet and also as a scientist.</p>
<p>In later years, his &#8220;journal&#8221; was filled with scientific observations and insights that became an important inspiration to the modern day environmental movements. Through both art and science, his transcendentalist perspective a century later became the conscious of an individual, as much as the character of a nation, our nation, America.</p>
<p>&#8220;Direct your eyes right inward, and you&#8217;ll find</p>
<p>A thousand regions in your mind</p>
<p>Yet undiscovered.&#8221; Travel them, and be Experts in home-cosmography&#8221;</p>
<p>Voice Of Thoreau<br />
&#8220;It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all that the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
<p>So said, H.G. Wells, english novelist and visionary, in 1902 in his article titled &#8216;Vision of the Future&#8217; in a journal called &#8220;Nature&#8221;.</p>
<p>Poetry, music, art, religion, science, and philosophy, much is rooted in inspiration by nature.</p>
<p>A deep appreciation for the laws of nature, and interconnectedness of all life on earth as we know are important for sustenance of our cultural heritage of technology innovation. Such a heritage takes us back to such great minds of modern science and technology, as Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau, C.V.Raman, and Albert Einstein (just to mention a few such &#8220;great minds&#8221;) must also be part of such heritage of natural philosophy. It is important thus to note that before there was modern science and technology, there was natural philosophy.</p>
<p>In parallel, and often totally integrated to the process of science and technology innovation, were such great minds in philosophy and arts that existed in America. In that world of the past included practical minded founding fathers of America as Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and George Mason.</p>
<p>Afterward, there were other &#8220;great minds&#8221; rooted in natural philosophy such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. It is from such &#8220;great minds&#8221; that our heritage of deep appreciation of nature comes forward to our era at the gates of 21st Century America&#8217;s knowledge economy and our spirit of innovation. Quest for clean water and associated &#8220;natural habitats&#8221; to sustain clean water comes from this heritage here in America.</p>
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		<title>The Art and Science of Card Making</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have friends who are getting married next month, or whose birthdays fall next week; you want to send your get-well wishes to your neighbour who got hurt in an auto accident and who is now recuperating in the hospital. What would you do to congratulate the soon to be married, the birthday boy or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have friends who are getting married next month, or whose birthdays fall next week; you want to send your get-well wishes to your neighbour who got hurt in an auto accident and who is now recuperating in the hospital. What would you do to congratulate the soon to be married, the birthday boy or girl, and to console or show sympathy for the warded neighbour?</p>
<p>The normal thing for you to do is to get to a bookstore or a cards shop to buy a congratulation wedding card, a Birthday card and a &#8216;get-well&#8217; card, as the case may be, of course. In this age of fast food and convenience stores, where good, quality cards are being mass-produced and are relatively inexpensive, almost everyone uses easily available and factory-produced cards to convey their feelings. Very few people are into serious, home card making and indeed not many people buy cards so made to send to their intended recipients.</p>
<p>This article is a small attempt to encourage people to give home-made, customized cards a try. We should make an effort to support card making artists, artisans and associated professionals who are making unique-looking, specialist cards for all occasions and purposes. There are now individual, home-based card-makers who create such cards, though the number is still not large enough to become mainstream and noticeable.</p>
<p>One day I visited a friend in his house and I noticed a cute little cylindrical object which looked like a tennis balls can to me (because I play tennis, I am familiar with such cans) except that there was a picture wrapped around it. My friend remarked that it was actually a get-well &#8216;card!&#8217; He handed it to me and on closer look it was indeed a get-well &#8216;card&#8217; of sorts: there was a handwritten message &#8211; &#8216;Get well soon, Uncle John, we are all waiting for you to come back to play with us again!&#8221; In the picture my friend was depicted as a footballer charging at a goal post, with fellow players (children) closing in too. The art work was amateurish to say the least but it was fun to look at. There was even a ribbon attached at the edge of the &#8216;card&#8217; so that it could be hung.</p>
<p>&#8220;I quite like it,&#8221; said John, &#8220;It shows that even children can learn to create such tokens of good wishes and I really appreciate their effort. Do you know that it could even be opened into two halves? Inside it I found some more get well messages individually written by these kids.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Popular Master&#8217;s Programs Within The Arts And Sciences</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Drexel in Philadelphia offers students many great graduate programs within the Arts and Sciences. These programs are great options for individuals who wish to pursue an advanced degree within that focus of education. Drexel offers an unparalleled experience. One of the programs that Drexel offers in Arts and Sciences is in Biological [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The University of Drexel in Philadelphia offers students many great graduate programs within the Arts and Sciences. These programs are great options for individuals who wish to pursue an advanced degree within that focus of education. Drexel offers an unparalleled experience.</p>
<p>One of the programs that Drexel offers in Arts and Sciences is in Biological Sciences. This is a great program for individuals who are interested in scientific research, genetics, molecular and cellular biology, as well as biostatistics. This program gives the option of completing a thesis or not, depending on what your goals are within the program. Students who successfully graduate from the Biological Sciences program are able to enter into a career in the field in a position of leadership.</p>
<p>Another option is to pursue a Master of Science in Communication. Students who enter into this program are able to begin careers in a great number of areas. The program offers three areas of specialization that include technical communication, science communication, and public communication. The basis of the program provides students with a foundation in theoretical approaches to communication. The perks of choosing to enroll in this program are that individuals who come from a variety of educational backgrounds can benefit from it.</p>
<p>The graduate program in Environmental Policy gives students a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to the development, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy. This is a perfect choice for individuals who want to enter into careers as policy analysts. This program gives the insights necessary for students to learn about environmental values and how to effectively engage in environmental issues. Students are able to learn how such policies come about, the engineering and scientific basis of effective environmental policies, as well as how to accomplish environmental improvements.</p>
<p>Drexel also has a Master&#8217;s program in Mathematics for individuals who are interested in all things numbers. Students in the program must complete a series of courses in linear algebra, principles of analysis, and complex variables. Students can then round out their program by choosing 10 courses in any field of math as long as they are at the graduate level.</p>
<p>There is also a Masters program in Physics. Students can specialize in astrophysics, biophysics, chaos theory/nonlinear dynamics, or condensed matter and particle physics. The environment in the Physics program is one that allows the understanding of current topics and trends within the field of physics. Requirements of the program include completing 45 graduate credits.</p>
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		<title>The Art and Science of Teaching in the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeats, philosopher, once said, Education is not the filling of the pail, but the lighting of the fire (www.quotations page.com). Teachers are the key to our childrens future, they are the ones who will ignite their love for learning. Teaching contains two major concepts of learning, the arts and the science. The art is defined [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeats, philosopher, once said, Education is not the filling of the pail, but the lighting of the fire (www.quotations page.com). Teachers are the key to our childrens future, they are the ones who will ignite their love for learning. Teaching contains two major concepts of learning, the arts and the science. The art is defined in the Encarta Encyclopedia as the product of creative human activity in which material is shaped or selected to convey an idea, emotion, or visually interesting form. This describes exactly what a teacher does in a day, they create human activity. While science is defined as, a study of anything that can be examined, tested, or verified (Encarta, 2003).The teacher is always studying the situation, examining what they can do, and verifying that their job has been complete. Teaching is an art and science that is learned and then developed through a teachers learning style.</p>
<p>Albert Einstein once said, Believe it or not, one of my deepest regrets [is that I didnt teach]. I regret this because I would have liked to have more contact with children. There has always been something about the innocence and freshness of young children that appeals to me and brings me great enjoyment to be with them. And they are so open to knowledge. I have never really found it difficult to explain basic laws of nature to children. When you reach them at their level, you can read in their eyes their genuine interest and appreciation (Parkway, 2001, p. 5). Albert Einstein was a mastermind and knew that teaching children was the only way to open little minds to great wisdom. It takes a special kind of person, one who knew that teaching was the life, not career, that they wanted to lead. Teachers are required to do the dance, a way of smoothly persuading the students to achieve greatness. This is the mentally, emotional, and physically preparation dance, or motion, that develops the entire package of teaching the students how to learn. This is the ability to maneuver through lesson plans, teaching strategies, print-rich classroom environments, classroom management, discipline tactics, parental lack of support or to much support, and all the other encounters teachers learn to juggle. This is the art and science of teaching, the ability to multi-task all the above items and still manage to accomplish the goal of teaching the students.</p>
<p>Daniel Lipton, Educational Theorist, explains, A love of learning, a love of inquiry, comes in many forms. In its carious manifestations we seem to reach beyond ourselves, to discover, create, and uncover. We invest ourselves in and engage ourselves with the world around us (Lipton, 2000, 22). Teachers have made a commitment to their students, to the lasting learning process, and to the schools that they teach. This means that they are to find ways to teach their class everything that the students will need in their entire lifetime, not just the school year. Liston writes about the love of learning and teaching by stating:</p>
<p>As teachers we share this love of learning with our students. To teach<br />
is to share publicly this love; it is to ask others to be drawn in by<br />
the same powers that lure and attract us; it is to try to get our<br />
students to see the grace and attraction that these &#8220;great things&#8221; have<br />
for us. In teaching we reach out toward our students in an attempt to<br />
create connections among them and our subjects. We want them to love<br />
what we find so alluring.</p>
<p>As a teacher, you cannot settle for anything less than complete knowledge and dedication to your students. This requires an eagerness to teach the students to achieve far beyond their expectations of the classroom, a desire to stay educated. An example would be, that of a parent not letting their child leave the home without the proper sills and developments to live by themselves. Teachers do not want their children to go into life without the proper education (Cain, 2001).</p>
<p>Liston writes, Good teaching entails a kind of romantic love of the learning enterprise; it is motivated by and infuses other with a love of inquiryif guided by an enlarged love, teaching can become an ongoing struggle that nourishes our students and our own soul. (Liston, 2000, p. 81). Teaching is based on both a physical and emotional level, or emotional and intellectual work. No matter what the age or grade level that is taught, teachers are effective through emotions and ideas on how to spark the students interest in learning. When a teacher is successful in a lesson plan, it feel as though anything can be conquered. This is an affirmation that most professions will never achieve in their careers (Liston, 2000). Teachers have learned that the their art of teaching is to shape and explore the needing minds of their students.</p>
<p>Frank Smith, a leading educational theorist, remarks, The brutally simple motivation behind the development and imposition of all systematic instructional programs is a lack of trust that the teacher can teach and that the student can learn. To be effective, teachers must have flexibility to tailor their methods to the needs of individual students (Perlich, 2000, pg. 1). This is the art and the science of teaching. The ability to put the trust back into the teacher and the students and to do it in a creative manner. Lesson planning is one of the ways that teachers can develop flexibility and tailor the needs of individual students. This is because the lesson plan is the core of the classroom stability and what will really make the student want to learn. There is a special art/style that a teacher must possess in order to accommodate to these classes. Lesson plans need to hold onto the childs interest and also to each students learning style. The lesson should be well thought out and very well planned, on the teachers behalf. Lesson plans should follow these simple rules:</p>
<p>1. Identify the special needs of each student through assessment and evaluation.</p>
<p>2. Choose a lesson based on the needs of the group and the experiences or lessons wanted to learn.</p>
<p>3. Make good decisions on how the book will be used in the class (Batzle, 1996).</p>
<p>Other questions a teacher might think of when developing lesson plans is is it interesting to the students and how long will it keep their attention. Learning should be fun and not something that gets moans and groans when talking about. Sesame Street is a great program for children to watch and this program is done in a manner what children, as young as 12 months, dont realize that they are learning. Melanie Roberts, Special Education Teacher, noticed that her 20 month old son could count to 20 without her help. Upon further investigation, she found that he had learned this from Sesame Street. He didnt even know he was learning because he was enjoying what he was doing (Roberts, 2003). This is how teachers lessons should be, an unknown learning process. A way to do this is to always educate yourself and learn new strategies for teaching subjects.</p>
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		<title>The Art and Science of Sports Betting Systems That Produce Profits</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The statistics show that most individuals in the work force who earned a college degree earn, on average, more than their non-degree earning colleagues. The statistics also show that most individuals who pursued and acquired graduate school degrees earn more, on average, than their undergraduate degree earning colleagues. The reason? They invested in their education, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The statistics show that most individuals in the work force who earned a college degree earn, on average, more than their non-degree earning colleagues. The statistics also show that most individuals who pursued and acquired graduate school degrees earn more, on average, than their undergraduate degree earning colleagues. The reason? They invested in their education, learned how to apply the education they earned in their respective careers and are being compensated for their efforts. There is no better investment than in your education. When applied correctly, you too will be compensated for that investment.</p>
<p>I have seen it all in my day with respect to sports betting systems. Some do not work. Some are no longer relevant because of the rule changes in sports. Some sports betting systems work right away only to fail in the long run. The good news is their are plenty of excellent betting systems in existence right now.</p>
<p>Those systems are making people TONS of money, and there are thousands of people who earn a living sport betting. I can assure you that the overwhelming majority of those who do earn a living betting sports have some type of system in place that they follow verbatim. This is how you turn the life you are currently living into the dream life you could only imagine. Implement the proper systems now and you can kiss the old you goodbye.</p>
<p>On the scientific side of sports betting systems, you can start out by breaking your bankroll into 4 blocks of $250. You are only going to work with one block to begin. You can bet 5% of that first block for any given game you bet. Once you have doubled that block, add it back to your total bankroll. Now you have $1250. Break that $1250 down into four blocks, rinse, and repeat. The percentages of your bankroll that you place on each bet is up to you but I work off of 5%. The same applies to your losing streaks&#8211;just adjust your bankroll down and work the system.</p>
<p>Since systems like Bookie Busters cover a multitude of sports, you can apply these systems across different sports and create multiple profit streams to accelerate your income producing venture. These systems do work and they will make you money but you won&#8217;t get there without the investment in your education. I&#8217;m no good at playing tennis because I didn&#8217;t invest any time or effort in it. I never learned it. This investment into my sports betting education was the best decision I have ever made. Sports betting systems, when applied correctly, will make you money. The choice is yours.</p>
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		<title>Nature Inspired &#8211; Arts and Science</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) died just as the American Civil War came to a full blow with the Confederate forces crossed the Potomac River to attack Federal targets in Virginia and Maryland. Today, beside his political legacy, there is also the legacy of his experimental spiritual and intellectual pursuits through communion with nature. He aspired [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) died just as the American Civil War came to a full blow with the Confederate forces crossed the Potomac River to attack Federal targets in Virginia and Maryland.</p>
<p>Today, beside his political legacy, there is also the legacy of his experimental spiritual and intellectual pursuits through communion with nature.</p>
<p>He aspired to demonstrate his pursuit of the divine through communion with nature as a poet and also as a scientist.</p>
<p>In later years, his &#8220;journal&#8221; was filled with scientific observations and insights that became an important inspiration to the modern day environmental movements. Through both art and science, his transcendentalist perspective a century later became the conscious of an individual, as much as the character of a nation, our nation, America.</p>
<p>&#8220;Direct your eyes right inward, and you&#8217;ll find</p>
<p>A thousand regions in your mind</p>
<p>Yet undiscovered.&#8221; Travel them, and be Experts in home-cosmography&#8221;</p>
<p>Voice Of Thoreau<br />
&#8220;It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all that the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening&#8230;.&#8221;</p>
<p>So said, H.G. Wells, english novelist and visionary, in 1902 in his article titled &#8216;Vision of the Future&#8217; in a journal called &#8220;Nature&#8221;.</p>
<p>Poetry, music, art, religion, science, and philosophy, much is rooted in inspiration by nature.</p>
<p>A deep appreciation for the laws of nature, and interconnectedness of all life on earth as we know are important for sustenance of our cultural heritage of technology innovation. Such a heritage takes us back to such great minds of modern science and technology, as Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau, C.V.Raman, and Albert Einstein (just to mention a few such &#8220;great minds&#8221;) must also be part of such heritage of natural philosophy. It is important thus to note that before there was modern science and technology, there was natural philosophy.</p>
<p>In parallel, and often totally integrated to the process of science and technology innovation, were such great minds in philosophy and arts that existed in America. In that world of the past included practical minded founding fathers of America as Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and George Mason.</p>
<p>Afterward, there were other &#8220;great minds&#8221; rooted in natural philosophy such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. It is from such &#8220;great minds&#8221; that our heritage of deep appreciation of nature comes forward to our era at the gates of 21st Century America&#8217;s knowledge economy and our spirit of innovation. Quest for clean water and associated &#8220;natural habitats&#8221; to sustain clean water comes from this heritage here in America.</p>
<p>Thoreau integrated art and science and provided a philosophical anchor for many 20th century leaders in community, arts, and science including, Martin Luther King (community leader), Gandhi (community leader), Tagore (literary voice and poet), and B.F.Skinner (scientist). Many today considers Thoreau is the father of the modern environmental movement.</p>
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		<title>Book Summary: &#8220;Mr Shmooze &#8211; The Art and Science of Selling,&#8221; by Richard Abraham</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book has been on my reading list for awhile. Then, its recent endorsement by commercial real estate broker-extraordinaire Peter Pessetto prompted me to act. &#8220;Mr. Shmooze&#8221; is the story of a man who lives his life and performs as a salesperson with the conviction that selling is not about &#8220;taking&#8221; or &#8220;persuading,&#8221; but about [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This book has been on my reading list for awhile. Then, its recent endorsement by commercial real estate broker-extraordinaire Peter Pessetto prompted me to act. &#8220;Mr. Shmooze&#8221; is the story of a man who lives his life and performs as a salesperson with the conviction that selling is not about &#8220;taking&#8221; or &#8220;persuading,&#8221; but about &#8220;giving.&#8221; Sometimes shmoozing (or schmoozing) has a negative connotation, as when a person acts kindly toward someone else in order to take advantage of them in some way.</p>
<p>However, in &#8220;Mr. Shmooze,&#8221; it is the act of asking questions and listening in order to understand what people really need (not just in business, but in life) and then giving of yourself to help them. Energizing others, making them feel special, and adding value to people&#8217;s day-to-day lives is what Mr. Shmooze is all about. He is constantly giving people special gifts and otherwise letting people know that he is thinking of them and cares about them. He gives more than he takes and has come to learn that, when he does this, he gets plenty back in return, both personally and professionally.</p>
<p>Since Mr. Shmooze is a very successful salesperson, there are numerous ideas and suggestions in the book of how to apply these concepts in sales. It shouldn&#8217;t be surprising that Mr. Shmooze says &#8220;Most successful service providers succeed because of their ability to build relationships&#8221; and also that &#8220;it&#8217;s all about adding value through your relationships.&#8221; Mr. Shmooze contends that the only way to win in sales is to establish an intimate, personal relationship with the buyer and to be able to clearly explain how your product and service will benefit her. These are not new ideas. However, there is benefit in reading about these concepts in the context of how Mr. Shmooze applies them.</p>
<p>Mr. Shmooze believes strongly in the benefits of a positive attitude; imploring us to elicit positive emotion from others and to always end each &#8220;encounter&#8221; on a high note. Mr. Shmooze also believes that people base most of their decisions on two basic sensations: pleasure and pain. If others associate you with pleasure, you win! If they associate you with pain&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>As a sales manager, Mr. Shmooze states that &#8220;I want passion, guts, drive and enthusiasm. And I want someone who is in love with life, who loves people and who laughs hard and often.&#8221; Someone who is truly optimistic and who really lives. Living is comprised of actions and behaviors, which are driven by feelings and emotions. So, ask yourself: since feelings and emotions are contagious, are mine worth catching? Mr. Shmooze pushes us all to do better in this regard.</p>
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		<title>The Art and Science of Teaching in the United States</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeats, philosopher, once said, Education is not the filling of the pail, but the lighting of the fire (www.quotations page.com). Teachers are the key to our childrens future, they are the ones who will ignite their love for learning. Teaching contains two major concepts of learning, the arts and the science. The art is defined [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeats, philosopher, once said, Education is not the filling of the pail, but the lighting of the fire (www.quotations page.com). Teachers are the key to our childrens future, they are the ones who will ignite their love for learning. Teaching contains two major concepts of learning, the arts and the science. The art is defined in the Encarta Encyclopedia as the product of creative human activity in which material is shaped or selected to convey an idea, emotion, or visually interesting form. This describes exactly what a teacher does in a day, they create human activity. While science is defined as, a study of anything that can be examined, tested, or verified (Encarta, 2003).The teacher is always studying the situation, examining what they can do, and verifying that their job has been complete. Teaching is an art and science that is learned and then developed through a teachers learning style.</p>
<p>Albert Einstein once said, Believe it or not, one of my deepest regrets [is that I didnt teach]. I regret this because I would have liked to have more contact with children. There has always been something about the innocence and freshness of young children that appeals to me and brings me great enjoyment to be with them. And they are so open to knowledge. I have never really found it difficult to explain basic laws of nature to children. When you reach them at their level, you can read in their eyes their genuine interest and appreciation (Parkway, 2001, p. 5). Albert Einstein was a mastermind and knew that teaching children was the only way to open little minds to great wisdom. It takes a special kind of person, one who knew that teaching was the life, not career, that they wanted to lead. Teachers are required to do the dance, a way of smoothly persuading the students to achieve greatness. This is the mentally, emotional, and physically preparation dance, or motion, that develops the entire package of teaching the students how to learn. This is the ability to maneuver through lesson plans, teaching strategies, print-rich classroom environments, classroom management, discipline tactics, parental lack of support or to much support, and all the other encounters teachers learn to juggle. This is the art and science of teaching, the ability to multi-task all the above items and still manage to accomplish the goal of teaching the students.</p>
<p>Daniel Lipton, Educational Theorist, explains, A love of learning, a love of inquiry, comes in many forms. In its carious manifestations we seem to reach beyond ourselves, to discover, create, and uncover. We invest ourselves in and engage ourselves with the world around us (Lipton, 2000, 22). Teachers have made a commitment to their students, to the lasting learning process, and to the schools that they teach. This means that they are to find ways to teach their class everything that the students will need in their entire lifetime, not just the school year. Liston writes about the love of learning and teaching by stating:</p>
<p>As teachers we share this love of learning with our students. To teach<br />
is to share publicly this love; it is to ask others to be drawn in by<br />
the same powers that lure and attract us; it is to try to get our<br />
students to see the grace and attraction that these &#8220;great things&#8221; have<br />
for us. In teaching we reach out toward our students in an attempt to<br />
create connections among them and our subjects. We want them to love<br />
what we find so alluring.</p>
<p>As a teacher, you cannot settle for anything less than complete knowledge and dedication to your students. This requires an eagerness to teach the students to achieve far beyond their expectations of the classroom, a desire to stay educated. An example would be, that of a parent not letting their child leave the home without the proper sills and developments to live by themselves. Teachers do not want their children to go into life without the proper education (Cain, 2001).</p>
<p>Liston writes, Good teaching entails a kind of romantic love of the learning enterprise; it is motivated by and infuses other with a love of inquiryif guided by an enlarged love, teaching can become an ongoing struggle that nourishes our students and our own soul. (Liston, 2000, p. 81). Teaching is based on both a physical and emotional level, or emotional and intellectual work. No matter what the age or grade level that is taught, teachers are effective through emotions and ideas on how to spark the students interest in learning. When a teacher is successful in a lesson plan, it feel as though anything can be conquered. This is an affirmation that most professions will never achieve in their careers (Liston, 2000). Teachers have learned that the their art of teaching is to shape and explore the needing minds of their students.</p>
<p>Frank Smith, a leading educational theorist, remarks, The brutally simple motivation behind the development and imposition of all systematic instructional programs is a lack of trust that the teacher can teach and that the student can learn. To be effective, teachers must have flexibility to tailor their methods to the needs of individual students (Perlich, 2000, pg. 1). This is the art and the science of teaching. The ability to put the trust back into the teacher and the students and to do it in a creative manner. Lesson planning is one of the ways that teachers can develop flexibility and tailor the needs of individual students. This is because the lesson plan is the core of the classroom stability and what will really make the student want to learn. There is a special art/style that a teacher must possess in order to accommodate to these classes. Lesson plans need to hold onto the childs interest and also to each students learning style. The lesson should be well thought out and very well planned, on the teachers behalf. Lesson plans should follow these simple rules:</p>
<p>1. Identify the special needs of each student through assessment and evaluation.</p>
<p>2. Choose a lesson based on the needs of the group and the experiences or lessons wanted to learn.</p>
<p>3. Make good decisions on how the book will be used in the class (Batzle, 1996).</p>
<p>Other questions a teacher might think of when developing lesson plans is is it interesting to the students and how long will it keep their attention. Learning should be fun and not something that gets moans and groans when talking about. Sesame Street is a great program for children to watch and this program is done in a manner what children, as young as 12 months, dont realize that they are learning. Melanie Roberts, Special Education Teacher, noticed that her 20 month old son could count to 20 without her help. Upon further investigation, she found that he had learned this from Sesame Street. He didnt even know he was learning because he was enjoying what he was doing (Roberts, 2003). This is how teachers lessons should be, an unknown learning process. A way to do this is to always educate yourself and learn new strategies for teaching subjects.</p>
<p>For reading, a fun and educational lesson plan would be to have the students read or have the teacher read a favorite book. When the book is finished assess the students by shared writing or a writing workshop. An example would be reading the book, Stone Soup. After having read the book, the students will then have the student make the story into a poster, create a new ending in groups, use a setting to create a postcard, or create a paper doll for each character and act out the book. The teacher can even have a special stone and make soup with the class after the lesson and assessment has been done. There are so many ways to have the students learn without realizing this. Another great resource would be to use online reading sites. Links for Learning, [http://www.links-for-learning.com] has a great resources book site for teachers. These books provide grade leveled reading books.</p>
<p>Diane Perlich, leader for the California Literature Project, states, Anyway you look at it, children in our classroom will live in the future and it is out responsibility as educators to provide the learning environment in which they can be successfully prepared (Perlich, 2000, p.1). A print rich environment is so important in developing a positive atmosphere that will provide learning in the classroom. With this aura developed by the teacher, the students will be able to openly express their thoughts and personality, breaching the door between a higher thought process and that child. This room will provide a place for the students to escape from any hardships they might encounter outside of the classroom and allow this place to be their safe haven. A good example of how to make a classroom print-rich friendly is to have a moveable word wall. This is a giant piece of paper with the alphabet attached to it. When the students learn a new word, their spelling words, etc. the teacher attaches that word to the Word Wall under the appropriate letter. This will help with phonics, sight reading, and memorization of words. A literacy-rich environment would include, learning centers, colorful rugs, or grouped seating arrangements, Anything can make a classroom print-friendly, as long as the classroom will allow the students to feel important and comfortable when learning.</p>
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