Oakland Journal Number 16: Winter 2009
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Item Item Statement of Purpose(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Nixon, Jude V.Oakland Journal Issue 16 statement of purposeItem Table of Contents(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Nixon, Jude V.Oakland Journal Issue 16 table of contentsItem Editor's Notes(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Nixon, Jude V.; Nixon, Jude V.Oakland Journal Issue 16 editorial notesItem Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Presidential Politics in 2008 and 2009(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Dulio, David A.; Trumbore, Peter F.; Nixon, Jude V.In this article, as the title suggests, we will take a brief look back at the 2008 election and consider why it turned out the way it did, and look ahead to 2009 and beyond to consider the prospects for the new Obama Administration in both domestic and foreign policy.Item He Dressed the Part(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Horning, Alice; Nixon, Jude V.He dressed the part of the consummate English professor, but more than that, he lived the part and taught me most of what I know that really matters about what makes great teaching, what is important for students and how to achieve excellence in the classroom. Though I still find his talent somewhat mysterious, my four years of college study with this gifted teacher have inspired my teaching and shaped my career.Item Hello Sociology(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Shepherd, Gary; Nixon, Jude V.The story of all success is typically sprinkled with good fortune—being in the right place at the right time or knowing the right people who can help. But prior to being in that right place and time, there has been a preparation process, an accumulation of knowledge, skills, insights, attitudes, and values that you have picked up along the way.Item Memoir Construction(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Shepherd, Gordon; Nixon, Jude V.Advice on writing memoirs, and reflections on the author's own memoir, created as a response to a survey.Item Brushes and Rushes(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Byrne, Bill; Nixon, Jude V.My wife reminds me, whenever I mention my brushes with the famous, that I am “star struck.” It’s her way of keeping me from making too much of myself or parlaying my brief encounters, my space and timeshare with some newsheadliners, into anything more that what it is—mostly happenstance, “a mere bagatelle,” or more appropriately, a series of them.Item Deconstructing Collaboration(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Smydra, Rachel; Miree, Cynthia; Nixon, Jude V.Corporations acknowledge that products and solutions generated collaboratively are often successful because team players must consider diverse opinions and options from an array of contributors. The reaping of these same types of benefits found in the workplace is why collaboration is an important part of academia.Item Item A Teacher’s Reflections on Artistic Intelligence(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Wermuth, Mary L.; Nixon, Jude V.An essay on the relationship between various forms of artistic expression.Item RachThree Rocks Meadowbrook: A Retrospective Review(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Brockman, Chris; Nixon, Jude V.If aesthetic experiences ever come up in a conversation (and they do occasionally), I am ready to recount my greatest one of all. It happened at the Meadowbrook Music Festival, August 30, 1969, and it was hearing and seeing Andre Watts play Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Detroit Symphony, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.Item In between Where It Started and I Began(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Butwin, Carla; Nixon, Jude V.PoetryItem Item Cosmology, Doom, and Gloom: Some Copernican, Anthropic, and Malthusian Musings(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Garfinkle, David; Nixon, Jude V.If population growth is unchecked, or not sufficiently checked, there are any number of things that could cause a catastrophic collapse and extinction of the human species. These include (but are not limited to) worldwide famine, pandemic disease, global warming, all out nuclear war, and mass extinction of species leading to large scale collapse of ecosystems. Human history would thus consist of three periods, a long period of very low population, followed by a short period of exponential growth, followed by extinction.Item Poems: Olives, Oil, and Bread, On Becoming, Peaceful Complexity, Spicy Spaces(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Hay, Kellie; Nixon, Jude V.PoetryItem The Nursing Shortage: True or False? Notes from the Dismal Science(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Folland, Sherman T.; Nixon, Jude V.Item Item Religion and Science: Two Peas in a Pod or Fruits of Different Vines(Oakland University, 2009-01-01) Dow, James W.; Nixon, Jude V.This essay deals with the difference between religion and science. Émile Durkheim and other nineteenth century social philosophers thought that science was a child of religion and that the two belonged to the same family of collective representations. I would like to offer an opposing opinion from the point of view of cultural anthropology.