Category Archives: 3 Economics

January 9, 2016 · 8:26 am

R-U-AWAKE?

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January 2, 2016 · 10:14 am

Post for Economics – College Talk

The following are posts for College Talk – that I need in PDF form on a blog in order to link them in PDF form to Schology – so this is in essence just a holding tank for these forms…

January 1,2016 – Link to Part III – Award Letters.pages

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November 29, 2015 · 7:01 pm

What do you know? / Paying for College Survey / Econ 2016

We will be spending the next month in Economics on an issue that is essential to your future. What are you going to do when you get out of Oakridge; how will you create valuable human capital and how are you going to pay for it? Some pretty big challenges await. Post high school training is a necessity in this highly competitive globalized economy. You can’t go into this thing blind, and you cannot go into it lazy. A high school diploma is virtually worthless in today’s society; we need to lay some solid groundwork on what comes next. And we need to do it with eyes wide open.

Let’s start with this survey. It’s fully anonymous. Nobody will know its you; me included. But the fact that you are honest and detailed in answering the questions should give us a good start on a very very important study. So…take your time. Check your spelling. And do your best work. We will thoroughly discuss the responses as a class.

Create your own user feedback survey

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November 15, 2015 · 6:08 pm

Music by Prudence

The Academy Award Winning Music by Prudence tells a self-empowering story of one young woman’ struggle who, together with her band overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds, and in her own voice conveys to the world that ‘disability does not mean inability.”

Prudence lives in Zimbabwe, and for a long time almost no one knew about that hauntingly beautiful voice. No one knew the strong, resilient woman that owned it. Born with a debilitating condition called arthrogryposis, they were unable to overlook her body.

I’ve never been to Zimbabwe; I was in Mali and in Uganda and it felt like this film. While there, amid all the chaos and poverty, I encountered wonderfully optimistic and loving people. The same is true of those featured in Music by Prudence. If ever there were a place where where you’d think people might feel sorry for themselves and give up, it’d be in a school for the disabled in one of the poorest nations on earth. Not a chance. The humor and hope in this film overcomes any sense of “whoa is me.” This story, not only of Prudence, but her band mates at the King George School, should inspire anybody who moans about their ongoing first world problems.

If nothing else, this movie should encourage you to roll up your sleeves, push past your first world problems, and get moving. It’s time to change the world people. It shouldn’t be so difficult; you have both of your arms and legs.

We’ll figure out an assignment that should get you thinking…