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Examining Our Busyness | Ma'at
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Inquiries of Truth, Balance and Order. September 18, 2012. After I declined a friend’s invitation recently, she replied, I’m happy to hear that you are so busy, but I’m curious what is it that is keeping you so tied up? Have I also inadvertently been proclaiming my own self-importance? Have I not albeit unintentionally been implying that others are not busy or that my time is clearly more valuable? Apparently, I’m not alone in my frenzy or in my ambivalence about it. In his popular June 30. Yet, and this...
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Reflections on The Time Bind | Ma'at
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Inquiries of Truth, Balance and Order. September 11, 2012. Reflections on The Time Bind. A potentially powerful insight. One that, despite the book’s numerous citations within the work-family literature, has not yet been seriously pursued by work-family scholars. Regardless, it seems a worthwhile venture to explore the potential implications of her argument. The placement of care within the market, in and of itself, is alarming. As Hochschild has noted in her other work. The extent to which jobs consume ...
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Does choice mean the same thing to everyone? | Ma'at
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Inquiries of Truth, Balance and Order. September 4, 2012. Does choice mean the same thing to everyone? Listening to Rush Limbaugh’s discussion of Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan a few weeks ago, I was amazed by the extent to which he lauded the plan’s provision of greater choice for Americans. Intrigued, I decided to take a look at the transcript. Mitt Romney, in his speech. Focused on choice within one particular area of policy reform, proclaiming, when it comes to the school your child will attend, every par...
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Matthew Braswell | The Fifth Floor
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Conversations for the academically minded. Why the fifth floor? The Ed. Dept. Author Archives: Matthew Braswell. What Books Inspire You? April 18, 2015. Middot; by Matthew Braswell. The People’s Court. August 18, 2014. Middot; by Matthew Braswell. In The Computer Lab. We Had a Hedge Back Home in the Suburbs. July 28, 2014. Middot; by Matthew Braswell. Last year I had the opportunity to hear a talk from Alexandra Murphy, a sociology Ph.D. and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan’s N...I’m a...
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August | 2012 | Ma'at
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Inquiries of Truth, Balance and Order. August 24, 2012. What to make of “Legitimate Rape”. In a recent public apology. It is not surprising, then, that when researchers Andrea Press and Elizabeth Cole interviewed women about their views on abortion, they found that both pro-life and pro-choice advocates referred to the authority of science to back their beliefs. [i]. Akin’s vague reference to doctors to support his August 19. Century. In contrast to the representative’s comments, a 1996 study. More distu...
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Safety…for girls! | The Fifth Floor
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Conversations for the academically minded. Why the fifth floor? The Ed. Dept. January 9, 2015. Middot; by J.Ticona. Please be careful when you’re walking around on campus this week, my husband said, looking up from his computer. He had just read Rolling Stone’s now infamous article. My mind raced around to the points in my biography when I had the opportunity to make this connection, but didn’t…. While I was at school I also took an optional Rape Aggression Defense (or R.A.D for short) course tha...After...
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Friday Five: Past, Present, Future | The Fifth Floor
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Conversations for the academically minded. Why the fifth floor? The Ed. Dept. Friday Five: Past, Present, Future. September 27, 2014. Middot; by A. Bloomberg. The temporal is in everything. The intersections of past, present, and future have got us thinking this week. From the modern day dustbowl to how future generations will look back on our “new” technologies, here on the fifth floor we are looking forward and backward and wondering if we have really come as far as we thought? What does it say about o...
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Sarah Mosseri | The Fifth Floor
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Conversations for the academically minded. Why the fifth floor? The Ed. Dept. Author Archives: Sarah Mosseri. What Books Inspire You? April 14, 2015. Middot; by Sarah Mosseri. Social Entrepreneurship and Empathetic Alienation. August 16, 2014. Middot; by Sarah Mosseri. Living to work or working to die? July 4, 2014. Middot; by Sarah Mosseri. In August 2013, Moritz Erhardt, a 21-year old Bank of America summer intern, made headlines when he was found dead in his apartment. Erhardt’s last 72 hours were...
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Friday Five: Beyond Survival | The Fifth Floor
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Conversations for the academically minded. Why the fifth floor? The Ed. Dept. Friday Five: Beyond Survival. October 11, 2014. Middot; by A. Bloomberg. ISIS, Ebola, Ferguson, and volcanoes seem to have the world on edge. Rather than focus on the threats we have five articles that look beyond the risk to the history and debates that underlie some of the recent tragedies. What do sharks and ebola have in common? Not all marriages survive parenthood. Check out this critical take on the power of the relig...
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J.Ticona | The Fifth Floor
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Conversations for the academically minded. Why the fifth floor? The Ed. Dept. Author Archives: J.Ticona. The Hand That Holds the Smartphone: A response to Alan Jacobs’ 79 Theses. April 27, 2015. Middot; by J.Ticona. What Books Inspire You? April 17, 2015. Middot; by J.Ticona. January 9, 2015. Middot; by J.Ticona. In The Computer Lab. Please be careful when you’re walking around on campus this week, my husband said, looking up from his computer. He had just read Rolling Stone’s now infamous article ab...