aThe principal of a school is one of our first encounters with a figure of authority. Consequently, he or she must be a good example of a leader. The principal must be firm, fair and foresighted which are important qualities of a principal. 学校的校长是我们的一第一遭遇与当局图。 结果,...
schoolteachersWoutersThe article discusses the change in attitudes towards school discipline in Finnish schoolteachers' professional journals from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. In explaining this change, the article draws from the studies of Cas Wouters and Arlie Hochschild. At the beginning of...
How to Win an Arguement With an Authority Figure: You can use a couple strategies to win your basic argument with a normal person. It just takes a preset response or two and a quick wit.
If I see a uniformed officer in a grocery store, I assume he's just doing some shopping before he goes home. I might think he's working as a paid security guard if he's in uniform at a private event. Either way, I figure I'm just seeing him or her in uniform for a short ...
Darwin is a controversial figure for some. Ernst Mayr’s declaration is as true today as it was in 1966: “No other work advertised to the world the emancipation of science from philosophy as blatantly as Darwin’s Origin. For this he has not been forgiven to this day…” (Mayr1966). ...
As someone that is currently trying to figure out how to integrate all of these ideas into my life and blog, it is refreshing to see someone tell it exactly like it is (as you did in the 279 Days manifesto) and then continue to provide ideas that support those theories (as you did ...
ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income is a book about blogging professionally written by Darren Rowse and myself.
When a simple robbery goes wrong in 1950s Detroit, a group of gangsters has to figure out who’s pulling their strings, how to get paid, and what the booming automotive industry has to do with it. Singin’ in the Rain (1952) MGM Is there a better movie musical than this 1952 classic...
Andy’s toys come to life in his room when he’s not around. The leader of this toy community, Woody, is threatened when a new sci-fi action figure, Buzz Lightyear, shows up. Making matters worse, Buzz thinks he’s a real space ranger. ...
As the central figure in “Selma,” King (David Oyelowo) is a virtuoso combination of grace, intelligence, rhetorical power and persistence. In an early scene inside the Oval Office, he implores a reluctant President Lyndon Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) to push through the Voting Rights Act of 1965...