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By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. - Review... - 0 views

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  • Leonard Steinhorn (who is white) and Barbara Diggs-Brown (who is black) argue that th
  • fantasy of representational diversity hinders actual racial progress, which they define as black and white integration.
  • see it: America lives an "integration illusion," which they define as "the public acclaim for the progress we have made, the importance of integration symbolism, the overt demonstrations of racial harmony, the rejection of blatant bigotry, the abstract support to neighborhood and school integration - all coupled with a continuing resistance to living, learning, playing and praying together."
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  • By the Color of Our Skin is not a policy book. It aims to describe America's black-white condition, not to point the way to racial harmony
  • Blacks and whites live, learn, work, pray, play, and entertain separately.
  • Desegregation, they say, "means the elimination of discriminatory laws and barriers." Integration, by contrast, is "governed by behavior and choice."
  • "America is desegregating," the authors write. "But we are simply not integrating."
  • One Nation, Indivisible, would point to my friends as examples of America's racial progress.
  • They cite statistics that show residential segregation is receding: 83 percent of blacks and 61 percent of whites have at least one member of the other race in their neighborhood, a huge increase from 30 years ago.
  • They give integration an almost impossibly strict definition. It's not enough for whites to interact with blacks with whom they share space, whether residential, professional, or personal interest. Whites must actively seek out and embrace blacks.
  • American culture doesn't exist apart from black American culture. Some of this integration may be virtual - corporate ads and university brochures, for example.
  • Yet due to centuries of separation, black Americans have developed a culture that is distinct from, even as it exerts a disproportionate influence on, America's white or mainstream culture.
  • mariakanarakis on 09 Dec 11
     
    This is a good site for my PLN "The Illusion of Skin Colour". Yellow: info Blue: examples Green: statistics Pink: word searches/ definitions
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2012: End of the World Perceptions and Myths CyArk - 0 views

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  • adily fueled by our market economy, in which countless vendors have rushed to fuel the flames of fear in order to sell survivalist goods such as dry food rations, duct tape, firearms, and plastic sheeting - all strongly echoic of the y2k scare less of than a decade ago
  • pecific time frame in our
  • eschatology
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  • n era of our present world comes to an end and experiences a renewal of some sort
  • Norsemen
  • Ragnarok,
  • entire world is temporarily flooded and only two humans survive to repopulate a renewed planet
  • Hopi Indians
  • on-Hopi ways
  • shamans
  • panish Conquistadores
  • creator spirit Maasaw
  • concepts of creation, destruction, and renewa
  • Hinduism
  • Hinduism
  • Shiva,
  • Robert Oppenheimer
  • atomic bomb,
  • Abrahamist religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) deal with Armageddon and the Last Judgement of all human souls by God, and also tell the story of Noah's Ark
  • awm al-Qiyamah (Day of Resurrection)
  • nd the Book of Daniel's
  • Revelation
  • Daryl Bambic on 11 Jan 12
     
    comparative myths of the end of time
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Four-Winged Dinosaurs Found in China, Experts Announce - 0 views

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  • bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs called theropods
    • adam unikowski
      adam unikowski on 14 Dec 11
       
      The theropod (meaning "beast-footed") dinosaurs are a diverse group of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs. 
  • fully developed, modern feathers on both the forelimbs and hind limbs.
  • The six specimens were excavated from the rich fossil beds of Liaoning Province in northeastern China
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  • How did a group of ground-dwelling flightless dinosaurs evolve to a feathered animal capable of flying?
  • used its feathered limbs, along with a long, feather-fringed tail, to glide from tree to tree.
  • new species, Microraptor gui
  • dated at between 128 to 124 million
  • four feathered limbs,
  • birds are most closely related to dromaeosaurids
  • dromaeosaurs were small, feathered animals with forelimbs similar to those of Archaeopteryx, the oldest known bird at around 150 million years old, and feet with features comparable to modern tree-living birds.
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BBC - Gloucestershire Get Fresh - Teen Talk: Can You Hang With the Slang? - 0 views

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  • ony Thorne, head of the language centre at King's College, London says: "Their language is very important to teenagers, because it's another kind of badge of identity.
    • Stephanie dore
      Stephanie dore on 10 Mar 11
       
      Because language plays a role in their identity, it is definitely apart of their culture, and becasue its so different from traditional english it seems to be even more for them to keep up on. If lingo and slang are more important to the youth culture then proper English, there starts the decline of the traditional language
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Survey finds teens put value on their religion - Washington Times - 0 views

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      Catherine Delisle on 10 Mar 11
       
      This article is very interesting because it is explaining how ARE interested in religion, they just want to adapt it to a more modern way. An interfaith survey of 1153 teens released by B'nai Brith says that 70% of teens value religion and they would like to connect better with religion. They also state that when they are in their younger phase of teenage years, they are interested in religion but the interest drops when they become older.
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Teen Marijuana Use on the Rise White House Study Finds - ABC News - 0 views

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      Catherine Delisle on 10 Mar 11
       
      This website explains that the rate of teens using marijuana is at its highest yet. The percentage of high school seniors using pot daily is at 6.1%. 21.4% of 12th graders in the U.S have admitted that they used marijuana in the last month. Marijuana is now more used than cigarettes and alcohol.
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By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race. - Review... - 0 views

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  • residentially segregated
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      mariakanarakis on 09 Dec 11
       
      Definition: Blacks and Whites don't live in the same areas (ex. neighborhoods). 
  • this is a result of choice, not legal compulsion.
  • "It's not a segregated town. It's just not an integrated town. There's a difference."
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  • Seven in 10 blacks attended schools that were at least 50 percent black in the 1996-97 school year, according to a June 1999 study
  • same study found that nearly four in 10 blacks attended schools at least 90 percent black. The typical white student attended a school that was 81 percent white.
  • Blacks and whites experience myriad pressures that keep them separate, a fact that becomes clear when you attempt to straddle the race line, talk to people who have, or simply read the newspaper.
  • The aversion to whites is so strong that, even in schools where few are present, black students who excel academically are ridiculed for "acting white." This is a serious problem.
  • If black women dare to date interracially, they may receive random threats of violence from black men who encounter them in public.
  • suffered verbal assaults on the streets of every city in which we've lived and some where we haven't. If black men date white women, they too can expect such attacks from blacks. There are strong pressures to stay within the group.
  • black cliques erect insuperable cultural barrier of tastes and behavior that are unintelligible to whites
  • blacks excommunicated for "acting white," whites who adopt black culture are likely to face resistance at home and in their former cultural community. They're labeled "wannabes" and "wiggers."
  • makes developing deep friendships hard
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Stone tools influenced hand evolution in human ancestors, anthropologists say - 0 views

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  • features in the bones and musculature of the human hand and wrist associated with specific gripping and manipulatory capabilities that are different from those of other extant great apes
  • confirmed Charles Darwin's speculation that the evolution of unique features in the human hand was influenced by increased tool use in our ancestors.
  • humans split from the last common ancestor
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  • Africa a
  • ow, researchers Dr Stephen Lycett and Alastair Key have shown that the hands of our ancestors may have been subject to natural selection as a result of using simple cutting tools
  • apes,
  • 2.6 million years ago,
  • show that 'biometric' variation
  • Darwin proposed that the use of stone tools may have influenced the evolution of human hands.
  • David Bono-Raftopoulos on 09 Dec 11
     
    Quite Interesting, and quite helpful.
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World / Global Inequality | Inequality.org - 0 views

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    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      This would be a nice simple definition of what is global inequality
  • Global inequality refers to the extent to which income and wealth is distributed in an uneven manner among the world’s population
  • redit Suisse numbers released in October 2010 show that the richest 0.5 percent of global adults hold well over a third of the world’s wealth.
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  • The best estimates for wealth’s concentration at the global economic summit come from Forbes magazine. Forbes annually tallies the fortunes of the world’s billionaires. The world’s 1,210 current billionaires, Forbes reported in March 2011, hold a combined wealth that equals over half the total wealth of the 3.01 billion adults around the world who, according to Credit Suisse, hold under $10,000 in net worth.
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      Interesting statistics and facts that would be great for my TFAD
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      To summarize this page it gives several stats and facts on how the worlds richest people are richer then the total of all the poorest people and how they have finally come out with sound reports with more statistics proving their theory. 
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 10 Dec 11
       
      The reference in this text is incredible because you can use their database for your use and you can compare the incomes of different countries.
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 10 Dec 11
       
      This text gives us a statistic on how some adults are just insanely rich compared to the common man
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 10 Dec 11
       
      More sites that i can go on to find info
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Inequality.org | News, Data & Statistics on Income, Health, Social Inequality - 0 views

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    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      The goal to this site is to inform the people with stats,video's and articles on inequalities. The type of inequality varies from social to global. 
    • Alex Maguid
      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      Go to global inequality's due to the fact that my TFAD is on that very subject and that I have highlighted some things.
  • Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
     
    This sight is delightful because it gives you information on global inequality's as well as social inequality's. On top of that awesome stuff they put video's that help the reader understand the topic. It is very credible because they have a about us section where you can see the founder and even contact her if need be. They even tell you where the founder is working so you know that the person is not abandoning the website. Also on top of all that the site is founded by an organisation by the name of IPS where there are senior scholars involved 
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10 Evernote Tips For School - Education Series « Evernote Blogcast - 0 views

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  • Daryl Bambic on 03 Feb 11
     
    An important tool that you might want to try out and include on you PLN.  Maybe you will find a different way to use it.
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Darwin's Theory - 0 views

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  • the search for a mechanism of evolution. The first was Jean Lamarck. The second was one of the greatest figures in biology, Charles Darwin.
  • mechanism
  • mechanism
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  • Assume that there were salamanders living in some grasslands. Suppose, Lamarck argued, that these salamanders had a hard time walking because their short legs couldn't trample the tall grasses or reach the ground. Suppose that these salamanders began to slither on their bellies to move from place to place. Because they didn't use their legs, the leg muscles wasted away from disuse and the legs thus became small.
  • passed this acquired trait
  • Darwin disliked school
  • no legs.
  • by inheriting the acquired characteristic of
  • Darwin's Background
  • o have extraordinary talents.
  • genius, did not at first appear
  • legless salamanders evolved
  • d observing birds and collecting insects to study.
  • sent to medical school in Scotland
  • "intolerably dull
  • interested in attending natural history lectures.
  • university at Cambridge, England, in 1827.
  • Darwin be chosen for the position of naturalist on the ship the HMS Beagle.
  • thousands
  • Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell,
  • In the Andes he observed fossil shells of marine organisms in rock beds at about 4,300 m.
  • One reason that Darwin was so eager to study life on land was that he suffered from terrible seasickness and couldn't wait to get off the Beagle.
  • to collect specimens, make observations, and keep careful records of anything he observed that he thought significant.
  • trekked hundreds of miles through unmapped region.
  • catalog his specimens and write his notes.
  • praised by the scientific community.
  • experts for study.
  • bird specialist
  • Darwin's bird collections from the Galapagos Islands, located about 1,000 km west of South America.
  • 13 similar
  • Other experts
  • believe that species change over time.
  • evidence f
  • In 1837 Darwin began his first notebook on evolution. For several years Darwin filled his notebooks with facts that could be used to support the theory of evolution.
  • fossils of similar relative ages are more closely related than those of widely different relative ages.
  • He ran his own breeding experiments and also did experiments on seed dispersal.
  • David Bono-Raftopoulos on 09 Dec 11
     
    Very interesting document, it is a credible site, and has multiple pages of information about Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Helped me quite a bit for my TFAD assignment. 
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Guide to Web Search: Web Site Credibility - 0 views

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  • Daryl Bambic on 01 Feb 11
     
    This is an essential skill so bookmark this site and return to it often.
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What is Globalization - 0 views

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    attempting to share with my student's group
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Contact | Inequality.org - 0 views

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      Alex Maguid on 07 Dec 11
       
      Here is a positive sign in terms of credibility.
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Animal Minds - National Geographic Magazine - 0 views

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  • ublished: March 2008
  • By Virginia Morell
  • Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University
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  • She brought a one-year-old African gray parrot she named Alex into her lab to teach him to reproduce the sounds of the English language.
  • They were simply machines, robots programmed to react to stimuli but lacking the ability to think or feel. Any pet owner would disagree.
  • many scientists believed animals were incapable of any thought.
  • controversial.
  • How, then, does a scientist prove that an animal is capable of thinking—that it is able to acquire information about the world and act on it?
  • Certain skills are considered key signs of higher mental abilities: good memory, a grasp of grammar and symbols, self-awareness, understanding others' motives, imitating others, and being creative.
  • chimpanzees use a variety of tools to probe termite mounds and even use weapons to hunt small mammals; dolphins can imitate human postures; the archerfish, which stuns insects with a sudden blast of water, can learn how to aim its squirt simply by watching an experienced fish perform the task.
    • Chrissy Le
      Chrissy Le on 11 Dec 11
       
      Reminds me of the video we had to watch for homework, very interesting, and great information for my TFAD project!
  • Chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas have been taught to use sign language and symbols to communicate with us, often with impressive results.
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NOVA | The Four-Winged Dinosaur - 0 views

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  • n 2002
  • In 2002
  • the 130 million-year-old creature
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  • debate over the origin of flight
  • Chinese stone quarry where the fossil was discovered
  • Dubbed Microraptor, the crow-sized fossil is one of the smallest dinosaurs ever found
  • Did it array its arm- and leg-mounted wings in the style of an early 20th-century biplane to produce high lift at low speed?
  • Did it use them to create a single lifting surface for efficient, swift gliding?
  • Or were the extra wings useless for flight and likely to have been for some other purpose, such as attracting a mate?
  • Artists have historically played an important role in paleontology by helping to reconstruct the appearance and behavior of ancient animals.
  • For years the debate has been a standoff between two camps—those who believe dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds, and those who do not.
  • Believers in the dinosaur-bird connection have generally assumed that flight must have begun from the ground up, with fast-running dinosaurs that eventually got airborne as feathered arms evolved into wings,
  • Skeptics of the bird-dinosaur link say it would have been physically impossible for running dinosaurs to overcome gravity and get off the ground.
  • Larry Martin
  • speaks out for the minority view that birds descended from non-dinosaur tree dwellers.
  • Microraptor is the unexpected missing link that has reignited the debate
  • adam unikowski on 08 Dec 11
     
    This very interesting because it shows how people though that birds are decedents of dinosaurs. Then there are the non believers that do not believe that dinosaurs were the ancestors of birds. The four winged dinosaur Microraptor had brought up this debate again. Microraptor is the missing link that reignited this debate. This website is credible because at the bottom of the page it gives the name of the man who made the site and it is part of pbs.
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Are women more empathic than men? | Greater Good - 0 views

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  • By Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas
    • Karleen Muhlegg
      Karleen Muhlegg on 13 Dec 11
       
      Emiliana R. Simon-Thomas provides a credible article because she is an neurologist with a PhD at the University of California. 
    • Karleen Muhlegg
      Karleen Muhlegg on 13 Dec 11
       
      This is a column that described the different reactions and reasons behind empathic responses based on gender.  This a column associated to the University of California, Berkeley where credible studies and facts are stated. 
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Cooking Gave Humans Edge Over Apes? - 0 views

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      kelsey sazant on 13 Dec 11
       
      This shows the evolution of Apes and how cooking helped us develop our new species (Homo Sapiens) 
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Dirty song lyrics can prompt early teen sex - Health - Sexual health - msnbc.com - 0 views

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      fred robert on 10 Mar 11
       
      This website gives facts about today's music. Studies prove that kids who listen to rap start having sex sooner than those who don't. The site also features interviews with kids talking about how music influences there decisions.
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