Archives for June, 2010

Is Star Wars Racist?

This essay was written as a discussion of the existence of racial stereotypes  and critical cultural theory in Star Wars. Feel free to leave me a comment. I’m open to debate and comments. Ideologies, Connotations, and Polysemy in Star Wars: How to deal with race in space One cannot deny the existence of dominant ideologies [...]

2 Comments. Posted by David on Monday, June 14, 2010 at 3:11 am.

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3 Morning Tips to Give Yourself a Delightful Day

While I was in a meeting this morning, @danbischoff related some very wise counsel. He said he’d been thinking about it when he arose for the day. He spoke of the 3 most important things to do in the morning in order to start the day off right and make it a good day: Wake [...]

0 Comments. Posted by David on Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 5:06 am.

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Understanding each other’s time perspective

This lecture really stood out to me. Perhaps my time perspective differs greatly from others. Professor Phillip Zimbardo talks about different time perspectives (there are 6 different ones): Positive and Negative Past, Present Hedonistic, Future oriented, etc.

0 Comments. Posted by David on Thursday, June 3, 2010 at 3:02 am.

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