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A Year Without a Smartphone
Some say there are moderators and abstainers. One post, call or text with “off” energy, unfortunately, would get me down for days, sometimes more, so for the time being, I abstained. Moderation requires more discipline. I hoped detaching from tech would help me build up to moderation
Rationalizing Racism: Arizona Representatives Employment of Euphemisms for an Assault on Mexican American Studies
This study details the political climate and logic priming the termination of Mexican
American Studies in elementary and high school programs within the state of Arizona. The
author applies conceptual content analysis and intertextuality to decode euphemisms
incorporated by opponents of the program. Primary sources by the state’s Attorney General Tom
Horne and school board Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal are examined for
rationales used in the elimination of a pedagogically empowering program for Latina/o students
within Tucson Unified School District. Repetitive paradoxes in arguments against Mexican
American Studies are found to have implicitly formed a threat to the majority. Reasoning in
public statements by the aforementioned politicians and frames for discussion of the program are
concluded to have appealed to mainstream audiences as a decoy from alternative motives of
maintaining current power structures with Latina/os subjugated to lower socio-economic statuses
compared to White counterparts
Soulmates in The Quran and Prophetic Tradition
Just like letters that go together in a word, there are soulmates who came in the symbolic “Be.” Spiritual partnership found in soulmates are far from foreign to Islam: to the contrary The Quran and Prophetic Tradition are replete with them. The need for heart based self-study and self-discovery beyond (including but not limited to) family of origin, into the Muslim meta-history is evident in the erasure of this truth from mainstream narrative. When applied with intellect The Quran and Prophetic Tradition stand well on their own for depth in understanding relationships. Guidance from the Quran and Prophetic Tradition simultaneously make connections to the perennial wisdom of all faiths and spirituality of the Prophetic inclination to love and the Divine Reality of simply being
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