I've just handed in the following essay as part of my Academic Writing course at Harvard's Extension School. It culminates a six week process of cumulative work, that began with three assigned readings on aspects of education. We had to pick one of the three readings and build our exercises around it. The essay below is my final product. I hope you ( Read more... )

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"Lottery commercials are incredibly seductive and they're also everywhere. States spend half a billion on them every year and the reason they do that, is [that] the lottery is a massive moneymaker for them. Last year alone, lottery sales totalled about $68 billion. That's more than Americans spent last year on movie tickets, music, porn, the NFL, ( Read more... )

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Ramadan Karim to all those who partake. Back in Oman this would mean no eating in public during the daytime. In my high school we wouldn't be allowed to eat outside during lunch breaks, but sometimes (often?) we'd finish class early. Those fasting would often leave the room and this would continue for a lunar month, at the end of which there would ( Read more... )

9 years ago my uncle decided to start a school. but get this, he was a dentist by profession and even with that there's a story to tell. his grades were prolly not good enough to get into med school so he joined evironmental studies cuz he didn't want to do dentistry which was next in the hierarchy of 'colleges-you-enrolled-into-based-on-your- ( Read more... )