The Crash Course

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The Crash Course

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Language Beginnings: Proto-Elements

September 22nd, 2014 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

While I cannot seem to track down the idea online, it is stuck in my head that in Metaphors We Live By (1980) George Lakoff and Mark Johnson discuss the base reasons language developed in humans: to communicate in the abstract events that happened, are happening or will/might happen. Elemental to such communication is the identification of basic conceptions:  who […]

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Wonder & Passion – How a Jesuit Drew Me to Them

September 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized

In “the” course I am co-teaching this semester (there are three sections of the class for a total of 57 students), we have investigated the topic of higher education, it’s purpose, it’s past, present and future manifestations and what it takes to dance with the beast. Out of the need for a text, we came […]

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Welcome to My Lab

June 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized

This blog will my “laboratory” to try out stuff … and random thoughts blog. Good luck figuring it out!

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