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A Snyder Web: Denial is a Money-Maker
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A place to collect posts and articles useful to my classes. Tuesday, December 6, 2016. Denial is a Money-Maker. In the U.S., about 70% of people believe climate change is real, 35% believe it's caused by humans, and 16% are worried about it. The 30-minute film, " The Doubt Machine: Inside the Koch Brothers' War on Climate Science. Explains how many people have been tricked into a false belief. It features Michael Mann, who was also in recent films made by Josh Fox. What makes him so important? Their numb...
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A Snyder Web: Charles Taylor on the Crises of Democracy
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A place to collect posts and articles useful to my classes. Tuesday, December 6, 2016. Charles Taylor on the Crises of Democracy. Charles Taylor gave a lecture on the " Crises of Democracy. Two years ago, as part of a "Civic Freedom in an Age of Diversity" program where he explores the very complex situation we're in. He says we're not in a period of democratic stagnation. But in a downward spiral that has to be actively stopped. He takes up the same thread as in his Sources of the Self. If people can do...
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A Snyder Web: August 2014
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A place to collect posts and articles useful to my classes. Saturday, August 30, 2014. Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. I feel like I dont have to read this one with all the press its getting. Maybe next summer. This is the gist Ive gotten so far:. 160; Michael Rozworski. In Canada right now, our distribution looks like this:. The top 10% owns 58.2% of the wealth, up from 51.7% in 1984, and its largely in businesses and enterprises. Posted by Marie Snyder. 8221; - Howard Zinn. By Jared Di...
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A Snyder Web: October 2014
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A place to collect posts and articles useful to my classes. Friday, October 31, 2014. On the Titanic and Tolstoy. I've heard this before somewhere, but I can't find it to give due credit: Coping with climate change is like coping with being a passenger on the Titanic. Some won't notice anything's amiss until they're well into the water. Some will notice it's going down and decide we should continue playing until the bitter end. Will swoop in to save the day. We mustn't worry ourselves too much. 2 We can ...
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A Snyder Web: April 2015
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A place to collect posts and articles useful to my classes. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. On Raising the Minimum Wage. So, the argument goes something like this: If you raise minimum wage, corporations will pay for that cost by raising prices, thereby increasing inflation, and we'll all be poorer for it as everything gets more expensive. The problem isn't wages, but inflation. Therefore, we should not increase minimum wage. So, we're actually helping. I don't buy it. Agrees. The video shows that in Stat...
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A Snyder Web: Solidarity Over Competition
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A place to collect posts and articles useful to my classes. Sunday, December 11, 2016. As always, I loosely summarize/transcribe the important bits below if you don't have 33 minutes to watch the video. In anything like its current form of organization of social systems. We’re facing two fundamental questions. Which we know that if there were one, everything would be destroyed, and climate change. Overwhelms concerns for whether your grandchildren will have a chance for a decent existence. It’s an ...
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A Snyder Web: September 2014
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A place to collect posts and articles useful to my classes. Monday, September 15, 2014. You Say You Want a Revolution. Students are having a day of protest tomorrow to rally against the burgeoning loss of extracurriculars in Ontario high-schools. I love a good protest, and Im behind their energy and drive in spades! 160;But Im afraid this bit of activism will be less provocative than desired. I hope Im wrong. I hope Broten. 160;Without a stand, whats the plan of action? Posted by Marie Snyder. Monday,...
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A Snyder Web: February 2016
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A place to collect posts and articles useful to my classes. Saturday, February 13, 2016. Finish Schools: What Do They Have that We Don't Have? Everyone's a buzz about schools in Finland being awesome, so I read a book and some articles and their curriculum documents to figure out what's so special. In a nutshell, copying their school system will do little unless we can find a way to copy their entire culture, but let's look at their structure nonetheless because it's pretty interesting. In total, there a...
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A Snyder Web: Swiss Army Man
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A place to collect posts and articles useful to my classes. Sunday, December 25, 2016. Kind of way. Here are a few different things I think it could. Be about; I'll likely read much into it because it had me thinking and questioning at every turn. Authorial intention be damned! There are a ton of spoilers, but they won't really ruin anything. This is a film that can be watched over and over. It's a story about loneliness. Just regular loneliness that can be debilitating and so shameful. We don't want oth...
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