Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro1 A couple of years ago I spent the second day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, in an arboretum, alternately wandering under the trees and stopping to sit down with my ...prayerbook. Because it was the second day, I was already steeped in the power of the holiday, the themes of renewal, of memory and self-examination. Everything the devout person consumes, uses, sees; everywhere the devout person goes; everyone the devout person meets - all of this is supposed to receive focused, holy attention and intention - kawanah, in Hebrew.3 There are therefore specific blessings designed for just about everything: eating bread; eating fruit from trees or fruit that grows in the soil; witnessing an ocean, a rainbow, a shooting star; meeting a wise person; smelling spices; hearing good news; hearing bad news.
...the president was referring to elementary- and high-school teachers, but mass shootings also happen at colleges, so it seems incumbent on those of us who teach in higher education to think about ...how we might participate in a program like the one he suggested.Could they offer seminars on the use of military weapons as pedagogical tools? "How to Keep Students Engaged While Killing Heavily Armed Intruders"? "Active Learning Versus Active Shooters"? "How to Translate Your Years of Engagement With Matters of the Mind and Heart Into a Split-Second Decision to Kill"?The fact is that college faculty members, like all teachers, tend to be pretty busy, so would they be given allowances to set aside some of their current responsibilities to make time for the shooting range?
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MISDIRECTIONS David Harris Ebenbach; Stewart O’Nan
20 More,
10/2021
Book Chapter
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My wife is using the mice as an excuse to let our marriage fall apart. All night they crawl around in our walls and we can hear them gnawing. They’re gnawing at the foundation of our marriage, she ...says. She complains I won’t do anything about them, or about anything else, and that’s the problem. Neither of us mentions the man whose sweat she smells like these days.
But I put out humane traps, little plastic opaque boxes for them to get cornered in. Our son loads the peanut butter into the back ends. That same evening, we’ve got our
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1999.
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Environmental attitudes have become normative in the United States and some other industrialized countries, and thus bear inconsistent relationships to other variables (e.g., attitudes, behavioral ...intentions). In spite of this, controversies continue to surround specific environmental issues such as whether to allow certain developments in certain places. This dissertation addresses these normative attitudes and their role in such controversies. It is suggested that such attitudes might be expressed due to an internal motivation and/or an external motivation, and that they might be best understood if those separate motivations are measured explicitly. Toward a first goal of attempting to measure these motivations, the Environmental Attitudes Scale (EAS) was developed and refined across several large samples. Second, in several more samples, the validity and reliability of the EAS was established, and evidence is provided that the EAS-Internal subscale mediates the relationship between other existing measures of environmental attitudes and self-reports of behavior. As expected, the external subscale did not significantly predict most self-reported behaviors. Additionally, results showed that these internal and external motivations seemed to be more domain-specific than general, such that a person's motivation for expressing one attitude may be different from his or her motivation to express another. The third goal was to explore the role of these motivations in environmental controversies, which may often arise or be rooted in entrenched individual differences. In two policy decision-making studies, EAS-Internal scores predicted use of environmentally-relevant information in making a decision. The paper concludes with a discussion of qualifications to these findings while maintaining the importance of considering these motivations in the context of environmental issues.
Fighting DAVID HARRIS EBENBACH
Between Camelots,
10/2005
Book Chapter
MY FIRST fight since eighth grade happens the same night I get mugged on the corner of 48th and Osage. Thatʹs a long time to go without fighting, and thatʹs how you end up so unpracticed you get ...mugged by a kid, a teenager—not even carrying a knife or a gun, not even pretending by jamming his fist into his jacket pocket. He only has a tone of voice, sounding so sure he wants my wallet, more sure than I feel about keeping it. What do I know, grad student or not? So I hand it over, watch him
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