Category: A & M San Antonio
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Monday August 29, 2011 Note this is a repeat of a post from a year ago, just as relevant now. One might wonder just how so many people can look at, the oil spill in the Gulf, unemployment in Michigan, health care, etc, and reach such different conclusions. The answer is in this hundreds year…
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Monday Aug 29, 2011 I'm not a football fan but the re alignment of UT Austin and A & M has caught my attention. A & M is looking to move to a more 'prestigious conference. In the South East Conference it will play Ole Miss and Alabama, both classic football powerhouses. This article notes the differences…
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Sunday Afternoon 2:16 PM CST All classes are reporting the inability to log in to the textbook sites. We will work thru this over the next week. In the meantime, read the RL assignment and post your essay on Self Reliance. ACCT 3310 and 3312 the pastina assignment is under course content, so you…
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Sat August 27, 2011 I promised the ACCT classes we would have some fun with the material. So let's start with one of the hottest fashion icons on the planet, Ralph Lauren RL. Click the hyper link to read this article from Fast Company, remember I mentioned the magazine in class? Do you know how to…
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Sat Aug 27, 2011 Add SLB and Baker Hughes to the list of companies eyeing South San Antonio for new office and field locations. I had suggested Feb 2 that we take a trip to Odessa Midland and learn more about the oil field. Of course, no one was interested Get interested. As Molly Ivins would…
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The theatre has made its greatest artistic advance through the unlocking and lighting up and ventilation of the closets, attics, and basements of human behaviour and experience. No significant area of human experience should be held inaccessible, provided it is presented with honest intention and taste, to the writers of our desperate time.[2] Tennessee…
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Thursday August 25, 2011 I am asking the classes to read Emerson's essay on Self Reliance and make a discussion post about it. I also mention Steve Pressfield's The War of Art – he talks a good deal about our natural enemy, Resistance. One student has already asked, what do we write about how long.…
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Thursday August 25, 2011 The classes using McGraw Hill Connect, 3310, and 3312, MH will not be able to send those until the end of this week, so that may mean Monday, oh well, this is the second or third time in a row this has happened, an obvious violation of Total Quality Management…
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Thursday Aug 25, 2011 As I pointed out in class yesterday, most recruiters decide in the first five minutes whether they will spend any more time with the person. So, what are you going to say to create a positive impression in your 2.5 minutes? I have lots of links on this site. Again when…
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Thursday August 18, 2011 Professor Sam Rock (psychology) and I did a paper entitled Peak College for the recent Southwest Teaching and Learning Conference held here. We suggested that Higher Education like sub prime mortgages were supported by lots of easy loans perpetuating an industry (colleges) that encouraged more lending and accordingly was free to…
