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As a whole, I found the article really intriguing, and I think the author makes an invaluable point about education in our culture. I just wanted to point out one thing that kind of bothered me a litt ...

hmm... 5 and a half hours later and no new posts.... oh well. here goes.

from Will’s post:
“He refers to Dr. Kerr's "pleas" and "pleading" with the students, which is totally m ...

Wait. I just realized that a huge chunk of my analysis just isn’t true. Anywhere I say that Clark Kerr said "we would have been dead” is wrong—Mario Savio actually said that, I think. The article ...

“A Rebel on Campus: Mario Savio”
The New York Times, Dec. 9, 1964

This New York Times article, written in the thick of the Berkeley free speech movement, profiled leader Mario Savio. The article i ...

yep, MLK was religious. he was a pastor, wasn’t he? : )

Heather’s question: King says that after "doing something special against the Negro for hundred of years do something special for him no ...

I’m before Heather?!

A few things that stood out to me:
In the first reading, “An AFL View of Women Workers,” the author goes to some pretty far extremes when discussing his apparent hatred for wo ...

I agree with Heather about the railroads and time zones—that was a cool little fact.

And to touch on what Will was saying about the whole wealth distribution thing: in eighth grade we had to do a ...

I completely agree—I’m such a slow reader, I’ve been reading this beast since I got home. Ridiculous. I did think it was interesting though, which helped.

My thoughts on Heather’s (unofficial) ques ...

Peter’s question: Is the threat of punishment or the temptation of reward a more effective way to control people?

I think that in the 18th and 19th centuries in the thick of slavery, threat of pun ...

I’m commenting mainly on the Zinn essay, partially because he’s fascinating, partially because I just barely scraped through with Monkeywrenching (no offence, monkeywrenchers). It was so facty and wor ...

I’ll answer Alex’s question: Its ironic that Thoreau's document says that the constitution is flawed while a good portion of his ideas are basically taken from the constitution. Do you think he did th ...

i have no idea if i'm doing this right!