Browsing Oakland Journal Number 20: Winter 2011 by Issue Date
Now showing items 1-20 of 22
-
The End of the World As We Know It
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)Review of the movie "The Road", based on the Cormac McCarthy book of the same name, -
Interview: Regina Carter
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)Jazz violinist Regina Carter ranks as one of Oakland University’s most talented and justly famous alumni. Her Reverse Thread was chosen by NPR as one of the top 50 albums of 2010. Her touring schedule covers America, Europe ... -
Statement of Purpose
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)Oakland Journal Issue 20 statement of purpose -
What We Think About When We Think About Thomas Jefferson
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)Thomas Jefferson is America’s most protean historical figure. His meaning is ever-changing and ever-changeable. And in the years since his death in 1826, his symbolic legacy has varied greatly. Because he was literally ... -
New Day in a Troubled Land: Cambodia Rising
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)Recollections of a three-day trip to Cambodia in February 1999. -
Ironic Pedagogy: Teaching Sacred Texts in an Academic Setting
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)If one of COI’s charges is the supervision of academic borders between the academic units, it is surely a responsibility of any practitioner of the humanities to ensure that boundaries between disciplines are not only ... -
Offbeat on Campus
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)From hippie urban and rural communes emerged a lifestyle imitated on college campuses, in dorm rooms and rented houses decorated with concert bills and art nouveau-influenced poster art, and filled with various musical ... -
University Students with Disabilities
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)Recent campus events concerning disability inclusion suggest the time is right for a meaningful discussion. This article presents an overview of the legal context of disability inclusion. It also summarizes the published ... -
Monster and Empire: Bong Joon-ho’s The Host (2006) and the Question of Anti-Americanism
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)Film analysis -
The ABC’s of Law School
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)Although the juris doctor degree opens many doors and allows for the exploration of many different areas outside the basic study of the law, as a recent law school graduate, I would caution the uninitiated that law school ... -
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)To better understand SuperFreakonomics, it is useful to have some background on Steven Levitt’s unconventional career in economics. -
An Acorn No More
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)Why, after reading and grading countless college and high school composition papers lo these many semesters, would I become a “reader” for the College Board Advance Placement (AP) English Language and Composition exam? -
Beyond the Secret Decoder Ring: Guidelines for Constructing Assignments That Fulfill Rather Than Frustrate Student and Teacher Expectations
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)Are there ever cases when we faculty frustrate even our most diligent students’ efforts to perform? This discussion is designed to help my colleagues more fully demonstrate our role as rhetoricians when we compose and ... -
Anatomy of a Failure: The Detroit Public School System
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)For a few short years in the 1920s, a remarkable coalition of the city financial elite, politicians of all stripes, and the unions, united behind school improvement, and the system flourished, at least financially. Then ... -
Medical Matters: “When They Are Us”
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)I never took a class that told me how to be the person on the other side of the bed, how to balance being the squeaky wheel advocating for my child with avoiding at all cost becoming ‘that family’ that everyone avoids ... -
Opinion Forum: Making Teaching a Priority
(Oakland University, 2011-01-01)There appears to be a disconnect between OU’s stakeholders—its students and taxpayers—and the institutional attitude to improving instruction.