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Wednesday November 27, 2002
I have decided to ask of all those too young to vote to find and adopt a corporate executive. I would like you to make a personalized Christmas card and explain very VERY nicely that you look forward to a productive working relationship.
For those of you whose parents decide you are old enough for this additional assignment, I would like you to also ask for the list of political prisoners they were given responsibility for by human rights groups.
Friday October 31, 2003
On a related subject, it has been my understanding that my students each want to adopt an endangered species. I think that's an excellent idea. When you do, you must tell President Pooh's Environmental Protection Agency.
But I want you to select carefully. Take a few weeks to think about this.
Eva/Jean educated me to understand that if you want to protect the Panda bear, for example, you might want to think about a plant of its ecosystem, even if the animal does not eat it. You might also want to protect an insect which nourishes it. In simpler terms, you must work with the whole picture.
I would also like you to find and adopt, if this is possible, an artwork stolen by the Nazis, which remains un-recovered. You must remember what Mr. Ceibert taught me, always learn how to identify immediately the age (e.g., impressionistic, classical, etc.), and artist at first sight, even if you never saw the painting before.
2003
January's target country: Korea
target concepts: nuclear weapons
oriental culture
target words: radioactivity
ethnography
January's Animal
Zoological classification; Ursine
concept; environmental impact
word; ecology
January's Stone-Age Culture
Society; !Kung
Location; ?
Issue; Resource Depletion
Question; Do male hunters always have authority over female non-hunters?
February's Targets
Country; China
concepts; political alliances with Iraq and Korea
word; diplomacy
Supplemental country; Saudi Arabia
concept; OPEC
words; acronym
purdah
coverture
Stone-Age cultures; Bedouin
location; choose from selection
concept; animal husbandry
words; nomad
acculturation
Animal taxonomic classification
Order, primates
Superfamily, Hominoidea
Family, Hominidae
subfamily, Homininae
concept; study of supply and demand
word; economics
Research equipment (for current and future use);
works by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Statistical question; What is the ratio of male to female trading partners (e.g., Arab Sheiks, etc.) of your adopted company?
Original February Targets
This is the material I selected before I realized there are children of soldiers who need to contribute to the safe return of their parents.
Country; Ivory Coast
concepts; child slave labor
negative reciprocity
international law
Papio hamadryas
Order, primates
Superfamily, Cercopithecoidea
family, ?
subfamily, ?
words; genus
species
Supplemental animal; Mandrillus sphinx
concept; dominance hierarchy
Paleolithic culture; Netsilik Eskimo
question; Do they have social stratification?
word; culture
Neolithic culture; Papuans
location; ?
question; What is a Big Man?
word; anthropology
Research equipment; any thorough anthropological dictionary.
Statistical question; How much is spent on labor by your adopted company?
Additional February Targets
Extant society; Kwakiutl
Cultural issues; shamanism
Archeological suborder; Plesiadapiformes
Questions; Did primates and dinosaurs coexist?
What does paleo- mean?
What is onto-?
What is -logy?
Research equipment (for current and future use); any thorough work on animal nomenclature.
...see inserts
April's Targets
Region; not fully defined by anthropologists.
words; clitoridectomy PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED
clitoridotomy PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED
DO NOT STUDY BEFORE YOU GO TO BED
Region; Europe
concept; Occidental culture
words; ethnography
ethnology
ethology
question; What are the various marching styles, and how do these compare to that practiced by masked Iraqi soldiers?
Biographical targets
King James
What was his purpose?
Mohammed the Prophet
What was his attitude toward women?
Archeological cultures
Olmec
Ancient Egyptians
Which culture built pyramids first?
Contemporary cultures
Native Hawaiians
Native Marquesans
Nagas (all)
Are they neo- or paleolithic?
What are their holiday rituals?
Animal; Jaguar
What is this animal's role in South American cultures?
Animal; manatee
Is this a real mermaid?
Supplemental words
extemporaneous
invective
impromptu
masochism
sadism
Supplemental concept
socially adaptive pretext
Legal issue
Questions
What legal actions has your adopted company and its executives been a party to?
Were trials held?
Were these bifurcated?
Concepts
civil versus criminal actions
circumstantial versus strict evidence
Words
jurisprudence
preponderance
tort
Supplemental question
Is a fingerprint circumstantial or strict evidence?
Scenario
Your fingerprints were found on the trigger of the gun. Was that the trigger, and did you pull that trigger?
Research equipment
Find a legal library and explore it (such as in your state courthouse).
Find a thorough representation of the Koran.
Political issues
What candidates will your adopted company sponsor in 2003?
How much money will be spent?
September Targets
Target country; Mongolia (I am very suspicious of this nation)
Questions;
What is your adopted company's links to this nation?
Who is this nation's closest ally?
Is there any information on stone-age cultures available? What rituals were performed to honor women?
Target continent; South America
Questions;
Which Nazis fled to live there after World War II?
What dirty wars have occurred since then, and before?
Who was the famous explorer of Tierra del Fuego?
What did he observe about stone-age peoples?
Target biography; select from deck of cards of most wanted Iraqis
Questions;
What direct or indirect links do your adopted company have to your selection?
What actions could they have taken to minimize his/her influence on international political events?
Research equipment; Arabic-English dictionary.
Target animal; Pan
Question;
Who has more neurons per cranial cubic centimeter, Homo sapiens or this genus?
Whose neurons make more connections to other neurons per cc?
Target legal concept; beyond a reasonable doubt.
Question; Does this serve the alleged victim(s)?
First legal scenario
You have just graduated law school and are looking for a job. You would like to tentatively live rent-free with your parents, but unfortunately the law school which conferred upon you your degree did not have an anthropology program, and the Bar association of their state includes a rigorous section on this subject in their qualifying exam. You search and search as your first payment on your college loan will soon be due. You finally find one job. The law firm, which is offering you an adequate salary, is hiring two temporary lawyers. They are promising to convert one position into permanent status. You will each have the assignment of helping the partners prepare their defense of the member of the deck of cards now on trial.
Second legal scenario
You are prosecuting the member of the deck of cards. A long and difficult trial against a well-equipped team is upcoming. What trial exercises should you practice?
Third legal scenario
You are prosecuting the member, and are now at trial. In an unusual move, the defense has called the defendant to the stand insisting he was never associated with the Iraqi regime.
You; "You were politically active in Iraq? Is that correct?"
Defendant; "Yes."
You; "What were your political associations?"
Defendant; "I was active."
You; "Objection, Your Honor."
What was the nature of your objection?
Fourth legal scenario
You are on the prosecution team at trial. You are at the podium. You have failed to extract a confession. You want to continue the cross-examination, but don't know what to do next. You turn around and look at your fellow teammates. You look back toward the defendant, and then at your notes in front of you. You look at the defense table hoping to find something there.
What psychological condition are you practicing?
(Note; I don't know if there is a name denoting the practice.)
Ethological scenario
You are a member of the genus Pan merrily procuring your lunch. You see a banana you would like. You reach for it. You can't access it. You do NOT have in front of you a tool you or any member of your genus has ever used. Behind you is a new potential tool. What happens next? (Hint; look to Elaine Morgan's books for the answer.)
Archeological scenario
You are an animal living in the cold northern regions of Europe many millions of years ago. Immediately to the north is a species similar to your own. But because it is slightly colder there, they are slightly better adapted to the cold. And to their north is another species similar to them, etc. To your warmer south, is another similar species, etc.
Every year you and your similar species migrate in a circular pattern to follow the source of water.
A cooling trend occurs. You have two choices, you can either adapt or move south. You like yourself the way you are and decide to be physiologically unresponsive and move south, as do all the others.
The cooling trend intensifies. You continue to choose the latter, as you do for the next million years.
It is the year 2003, an archeologist excavates the layer of the region you originally stood as well as all the later date layers of this same small region. What is his/her interpretation of the variations in physiology?
December Targets
Country; United States
website; office of professional discipline
exercise; find all your namesakes (last name only) listed in all professions (e.g., accounting, engineering, etc.) and verify both licensure and certification.
vocabulary; epidemiology, nephrology, neurology, psychology, psychiatry.
exercise; select a hospital or medical clinic, go to your local or State supreme court, or Federal Court (whichever is convenient) and research past litigation issues.
research equipment; any book on anatomy
laws; select one hospital regulation and pursue.
select one environmental issue and pursue as it relates to your adopted company.
concept; blue sky laws
archeological culture; Anasazi
20th century culture; choose from those photographed by Edward Curtis:
Do they have a great flood story in their religious text?
Does their religious text have any other resemblance to the Bible?
Do their holiday rituals have any resemblance to ours?
movie; Gone with the Wind
exercise; find a DVD or video, select favorite scene, view in English and the language of your choice repeatedly.
Country; Canada
same questions as above, yet I don't know if Curtis crossed the border, it won't be as convenient to research in courthouses, and Scarlet never visited there.
Country; Germany
find the relatives of the Prussian Generals who were executed by Adolph Hitler, and try to find out what the world wars were about.
Scenario;
Your neighbor is an innocent person who never harmed anyone. Yet one day your father was feeling very mischievous and decided to tell everyone at a local party he killed the Hindenberg baby. This cost the neighbor his job. He hired a licensed female attorney, whose certificate is in effect, who filed a legal action against him demanding damages for the "libelous" act.
What was HER mistake?
2004 Target Leadership
Saudi Royal Family
Target issues; EVERYTHING
(The Pooh Administration won't like it because they are Vice President Richard Cheney's best friends. But my intention is not to sabotage the re-election campaign, but rather to target the largest money source. I believe it is their weakest point. And, of course, I need to target Canaan.)
Target Question
What evidence was recently found in the private life of Sadaam Hussein indicative of Old Testament worship?
January's Saudi Arabian Target
Family
With which family member(s) of this ruling family has your adopted company had direct contact with? Choose one.
Has the United States Vice President had any contact with this member as he (Mr. Cheney) functioned either in the public sector as a United States government official, or private sector as a corporate executive?
What is this Saudi individual's educational background?
In which country was this education acquired?
Did this individual visit or live-in any other country for any other reason(s)?
What is the individual's personal wealth?
How is this money invested?
History target; How was the nation of Saudi Arabia established?
Archeological target; What excavations (if any) are in progress in this nation?
Ethnographic target; What is the ancestral Bedouin culture of this individual?
Other Targets
Economics; Have your adopted company provide an example of a situation in which higher sales rendered lower profits.
Zoology;
Who was Gigantopithecus?
Who is the mythical animal haunting the country of China known as wild man and the counterpart to Sasquatch?
Politics; Find an elected individual new to his/her office, and formulate a letter explaining your priorities including the necessity for financial audits and fiscal responsibility.
Vocabulary;
discommode
exurb
ignominy
serendipity
travesty
Review previous target of Tunisia and suffrage.
Geological target; find the faults upon which the two recent earthquakes in California and Iran were upon.
Hint; I don't believe these exist.
Kennedy Administration target; What is the evidence that the landing on the moon was a fraud?
Aerospace target; What is the purpose of the recently failed mission by Japan to send a rocket to the moon?
Biographical target; Condoleezza Rice
This is my concern with her.
On the day of September 11, 2001, Russia's Prime Minister Putin was the first to telephone President George Bush to express his condolences. Georgie-Pooh used this to attempt to convince me that Russia was not involved. I used it to prove it was.
Rice was hired as National Security Advisor because of her expertise on the subject of Russia.
So what was this? A mistake, I decided. So I let it go.
Recently she made a second very serious mistake and asked of me to prove that a terrorist attack was coming rather than using her position within the Republican party.
Why am I her babysitter?
January Supplemental Targets
City; Los Alamos, New Mexico
subject; development of first atomic bomb
find photos of all scientists and look for resemblances with Adolph Hitler.
find names of all scientists and find who were accused of being a communist.
January Supplemental Targets
Saudi Arabia--Ancestry
How did the ancestors of the Saudi Royal Family procure food?
What was the status of women before British occupation?
Did the ancestral tribe or chieftainship interact with other groups?
Is your adopted company old enough to have interacted with such ancestors?
Other Targets
Countries
Cuba
history of concentration camps.
Ethiopia
history of biochemical attacks.
Leadership
CIA's failed attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro during the Kennedy Administration era.
Finance
How does your adopted company provide retirement accounts for its employees and trustees?
How does your adopted company provide Christmas bonuses for its employees and trustees? Does the anticipated and actual annual utility costs influence these figures?
Animal
Find the reptile(s) which re-generates its own limbs.
Research equipment
Bishop Museum Bulletins
Hint: look for these in older libraries.
Culture
select from research equipment.
Saudi Arabia Target
Politics
Which political leaders does the Saudi Royal Family interact with?
What are their political objectives? How do these compare to that of your adopted company?
Microsoft
2004 Corporate Target
Family; Is there anything we should know?
Political, domestic; What government bureaus use their software? Does Microsoft manufacture software other than what is available to the general public?
Political, international; Who does Bill Gates consider his friends?
February 2004
Saudi Arabia--Relationship with United States
Are U.S. citizens employed by this nation?
Which U.S. company does the most business with this country? What is your adopted company's relationship with this corporation?
Does the Saudi Royal Family make campaign contributions to U.S. politicians?
Have they taken U.S. citizens prisoners?--PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED
Microsoft--Relationship with United States
Who is the favorite politician of Bill Gates?
To which politicians does he give campaign contributions?
What is the historic relationship between Bill Gates and IBM?
Other Countries
Israel
Is this a socialist nation?
What is the British Mandate of Palestine?
Somalia
What is this country's relationship with other nations, particularly those with a history of deploying and employing biochemical weapons?
Kennedy Administration
What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Target review
What is economics?
Corporate issue
Does your adopted company own any patents or copyrights? Which type of patent(s)? For how long is the patent in effect?
Scenario, financial
You have a ten-year certificate of deposit with a balance of $10,000. It is earning 7.2% interest annually.
You have a ten-year loan at the annual interest rate of 14.4%.
Study the relationship.
Scenario, archeological
You are a member of a mammalian species of twenty million years ago. You and your band migrate in a circulatory style to seasonally follow water sources. As a result, you are displaced by one kilometer-per-year.
In 2004, an archeologist finds your fossil remains as well as another nearly identical fossil collection located 5,000 miles away and aged at 10 million years old.
Should the archeologist conclude you two are the same or different species?
Archeology
Trois Frères cave of Europe
What is the first known musical instrument of Europe? Is there a remaining specimen?
Stone-age culture
Tarahumares
How do they keep the dead away?
Debate issue--PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED
Should the Yanomamö be acculturated with occidental civilization?
Animal
Trilobite
What does this tell us about earth's history?
Legal issues
What is the controversy surrounding the herb comfrey?
What are the only legal forms of a business monopoly?
What is the difference between the appellate and appeals courts?
What is a bifurcated trial?
Research equipment
Unknown Mexico by Carl Lumholtz.
Man and his Symbols, Carl G. Jung, editor
Herbal Healing for Women, by Rosemary Gladstar
Vocabulary
archetype
copyright
lexicon
licit
patent
sierra
February Supplements
Choose one country from each of these two lists and research relationship.
Uranium mining countries OPEC & OPEC-friendly countriesAlgeria Algeria Angola Indonesia Burundi Iran Central African Republic Iraq Chad Kuwait Congo Republic Libya Equatorial Guinea Nigeria Gabon Qatar Guinea Saudi Arabia Malawi United Arab Emirates Mali Venezuela Namibia Niger Afghanistan Somalia China South Africa France Zambia India Israel Kazakhstan North Korea Tajikistan Pakistan Uzbekistan Russia United Kingdom Australia Germany Portugal Slovenia Spain Sweden Argentina Brazil Colombia Formulate your own lists of
oil/gas mining countries which are NOT part of OPEC nor its friends,
and your own list of small-sized, consumer-friendly United States oil/gas companies,
and attempt to promote divestiture from this Organization.
Sewing
learn how to hem your own pants.
Gone with the Wind
What was Rhett and Scarlet's relationship with the staircase? Review scenes in English and language of your choice.
Islamic Art
1306 Edinburgh Rashid al-Din depicting Jonah and the Whale
late 14th - early 15th century Jonah and the Whale
March 2004
Saudi Arabia--relationship with United Nations
choose one UN official who has the same, or nearly same name as yours, and choose one who works in a field of study of interest to you, and choose one from a country you have found particularly of interest (excluding Saudi Arabia).
What is the relationship between the Saudi Royal Family and these individuals?
Have these individuals ever visited Saudi Arabia?
Does your adopted company agree with the practices of these individuals?
What is everybody's relationship with the Secretary General?
Microsoft--relationship with United Nations
select three officials: one who has the same, or nearly same name as yours, one who works in a field of study of interest to you, and one from a country you have found particularly of interest (excluding Saudi Arabia).
What is the relationship between all six individuals?
Do the Microsoft individuals agree with the practices of these UN individuals?
Do the UN individuals agree with the practices of these Microsoft individuals?
Has any of the Microsoft individuals ever visited the country of particular interest to you, or Saudi Arabia?
Does your adopted company agree with the practices of these individuals?
What is everybody's relationship with the Secretary General?
Other target countries
Siberia
What resources are available?
What resources have been used?
What stone-age peoples resided there?
Philippines
Who are the Agta? What was the status of women before the arrival of Occidental Civilization?
What is the status of women now?
When were the Tasaday discovered? What is the Eye of Day? If they hear a bird and NOT see it, what does that mean?
Tahiti
What is this country's ecology?
Economic scenario
The business cycle is at its peak.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith want to buy a house. What they have in the bank is inadequate for a down payment.
The business cycle slightly declines.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith find the same houses at lower prices and purchase their selection.
The business cycle slightly rises.
No new people are drawn into the housing market.
What happens next to the business cycle?
Medicine
What is the bubonic plaque? What affect does it have on the lymphatic system?
What are the close relatives to small pox and herpes zoster?
Law
What is a precedent case?
What is the surrogate's court?
Electoral
What is the difference between a democracy and a republic?
Why must a state of the United States have a minimum of three representatives at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and Electoral College?
Art as History
What is Noa Noa?
Archeology
Mixtecs
How are they related to the Aztecs?
What is their literature?
Research Equipment
Any thorough atlas which includes statistics on issues such as mining, population, etc.
A catalogue of the Louvre.
Let's Get Well by Adele Davis.
Gone with the Wind (review in English and language of your choice)
Who is Jonas Wilkerson?
What does Scarlet never forgive Rhett for?
What do the chickens represent?
What does the barbeque tell us about the end of the story?
What is the death of dampness?
What is the significance of the shawls?
What is red of earth?
Sewing
Make a skirt.
Islamic art
Choose a mosque, and study it.
Kennedy Administration
What did JFK's father do for a living?
Debate issues
According to botanists and zoologists, how should species be defined?
Should corporate affiliation with OPEC automatically disqualify a politician from pursuing elected governmental positions?
vocabulary
acquiesce
elixir
estoppels
injunction
panacea
speleology
Animal--Penguin
Who raises the children?
April 2004
??????????
In 448 B.C., this country was at peace with Persia.
In 440 B.C., this country constructed a temple at Sounion.
In 430 B.C., a city of this country experienced a plague.
In 400 B.C., this country evolved from the Classical period.
In 331 B.C., this country conquered the Persian Empire.
The Forbidden City of ?????
Long March
Gate of Heavenly Peace
Red Guards
Special Economic Zones
Gone with the Wind
In language of your choice besides English, formulate an antebellum script in which Rhett approaches Queen Victoria, and blows the whistle on the fact that contaminated blankets cannot be rolled-up and stuffed into canons in a potential war he characterizes as cotton/slaves/arrogance-versus-factories/shipyards/coalmines. While such technology worked in the 18th century against Native Americans, it could not work in this conflict.
The Shipping News
In English and language of your choice, review what Quoyle attempts to blow the whistle on?
Art as History
Jacques Louis David, The Death of Socrates
Law
What laws protect whistleblowers?
Does the whistleblower have to be correct?
Environment
Has your adopted company ever attempted to blow the whistle on any legal violations affecting wildlife or wilderness?
Kennedy Administration
What happened to Apollo I and why?
Animal--Panda Bear
What is its species name?
Before its habitat was eviscerated, did anyone attempt to blow the whistle?
Literature--Oedipus the ????
"O Princes always honoured by our country, what deeds you'll hear of and what horrors see, what grief you'll feel, if you as true born Thebans care for the house of Labdacus's sons. Phasis nor Ister cannot purge this house, I think, with all their streams, such things it hides, such evils shortly will bring forth into the light, whether they will or not; any troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted."
Vocabulary
feasor
malfeasance
minion
misfeasance
nonfeasance
oligopoly
ombudsman
2004 Supplements
April 2004 Supplements
Did Margaret Mitchell suggest between the lines that a family named Schick acted as carpetbaggers?
Why is the international headquarters of OPEC located in the same country where, according to the history texts, Adolph Schicklegruber Hitler was born?
Why did the United Kingdom, one of the winners of World War II, have to surrender its Middle Eastern territories after the victory?
In Gone with the Wind, Scarlet's sisters were asleep "like kittens" while they battled typhoid. When else do we see a kitten in the story? Look closely at Bonnie's last ride. Was the horse jumping when she fell off? What did Scarlet want to name her baby? Where was the Confederate Army's first announced victory?
May 2004
Uranium mining countries connected to Haiti's Aristide ---›
Uranium purchasing countries
Central African Republic Gabon South Africa Cuba?
India
Iran Iraq? Libya North Korea Pakistan Choose a box. Then establish the following:
gross national products,
standard of living of ruling and working classes,
their role in the United States Civil War and World Wars I and II,
diplomatic relationship with each other including United Nations voting records,
diplomatic relationship with Saudi Arabia and Microsoft,
historical relationship as colony.
Kennedy Administration
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
History
What was the quantity of war dead experienced by the Russians as a result of the World Wars?
Was this country an associate of the League of Nations? Was it an associate of the United Nations?
Could the allies be responsible for the high quantity of war dead? What would have been their motive?
Legal question
Is it legal for trustees who receive dividends to also receive bonuses? If not, are these monies recoverable?
Scenario, legal
You are an undergraduate student undecided about your major. Your friend convinces you to become a lawyer and join his/her association with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as a clerk to become a future intern, and eventually attorney. Which of the following does your collegiate counselor advise you to major in?
Acting
Environmental Law
Physics
Scenario, financial
You used your ATM card at the supermarket and received cash back. You proceed to another store and attempt to make a purchase with one of the bills. The clerk recognized it as counterfeit.
How did the clerk recognize this?
Who now owes you replacement money?
Bank
No one
Police
Supermarket
United States Government
Debate question
Should procreating children as financial dependency mechanisms be declared a prosecutable form of child abuse?
Mesopotamian Art
In 1307/8, the temptation of the first male and female in the garden of paradise is exhibited. What is the name of the work and where was it found?
Culture
Who are the Honey Hunters of Nepal? How tall are their ladders?
Review
circumstantial versus strict evidence
Gone with the Wind, in English and language of your choice
In Elaine Morgan's book, The Descent of Woman, she discusses babies. Even though her book was originally published long after Margaret Mitchell's, what scene exemplifies this moment of evolution?
What does the music played in accompaniment with the acting say over-and-over?
Scarlet dons her barbeque-bonnet in her pink dress and is surrounded by her plantation boes. When is this?
What is the relationship between Scarlet and India Wilkes?
After her nap, Scarlet is without her hat and is wearing something she was not before. What is it?
How are the first and last few moments of the story identical?
How are the last few moments of each half of the story identical?
Chronicle, in language of your choice, the life of Dr. Mead.
The Shipping News, in English and language of your choice
What does the theme music say over-and-over?
Where is Newfoundland?
Who feeds Quoyle?
What does the necklace represent?
Sewing
Make a cape.
Animal and Botanical
Which is the biggest bear?
What are the various species of olive trees? How do stone-age peoples associated with them use such in ritual, medicine, and both?
Art
What is the difference between Manet and Monet?
Biography--Zbigniew Brzezinski
What was his role in the Kennedy and Carter Administrations?
Supplements
In addition to focusing on one country and company throughout 2004, I have also decided to do one governmental office. Of course, that is the White House National Security Advisor.
January; Why and when was this office established?
February; What corporate connections has each advisor had?
March; What educational backgrounds has each advisor had?
April; What economic childhoods has each advisor had?
May; How much money has each advisor had to donate?
Supplemental Scenario
You are still working for the law firm defending the captured member of the deck of cards. The other recent law school graduate is still employed there. You are both still temporaries.
You work late at the office to help prepare the firm's case. The other temp. doesn't.
You help with jury selection while the other temp. pretends to have the flu.
Your boss's mother is hospitalized. You send flowers. The other temp. doesn't know about it due to excessive absenteeism.
In the closing argument, you make the case that the government has a look-alike with the same name--an easy mistake in this culture.
In 15 minutes the jury reaches a not-guilty verdict.
The firm converts the other temporary into a permanent associate. You don't know why.
You go home. Your parents blame you. You must have done something to deserve that: "Just look at your father!!! Thirty-years with the same company!!!" They are especially angry because they were counting on you to help pay for your younger siblings' college tuition.
You find a job in retail. Your intelligence and ability to negotiate with customers quickly earns you an entry-level managerial position. Near your place of employment you find a small cottage to rent which enables you to commute to work by bus in the winter, and long walks in the summer. You discard your car payments for rent and bus passes. In your spare time you take the necessary anthropology courses to pass this State's Bar exam. (This was not required in the last State you were employed.)
What should these courses be?
Send your recommendations to the American Bar Association.
All the while, you are furnishing your cottage. You purchase items imported into the United States.
What did you buy at retail cost?
Your landlord notices this, and insists you return everything to the store and buy Made in the USA.
What did you buy at retail cost?
May 2004 Supplements
Saudi Arabian target
relationship with Belgium and Switzerland
Microsoft target
nature of dispute with Belgian government
Countries
Belgium and Switzerland
Is college tuition free?
What is socialized?
Bali
What are rice terraces?
Kennedy Administration
What was JFK's relationship with the author of The Crucible?
Legal target
Practice the death of your family's primary income earner.
Sewing
Make a sun-dress.
Go to the clearance rack. Find something which does not fit and make it fit.
Review
ichthyologic convergence
Gone with the Wind--in English and language of your choice
How long did Scarlet, Melanie, India, and Caroline Mead have to wait for Ashley, Rhett and Dr. Mead to return?
Who are the blockade runners?
What is the date on the check?
Find on the map Scarlet's journey with Melanie, Prissy and the baby.
Will Scarlet have in her lifetime the right to vote?
When Scarlet's mother returns home, what is the object which has to be retrieved from her carriage?
Is Scarlet's green dress in fashion?
Before Scarlet is attacked, she converses with Rhett. What is the significance of her activity during this talk?
In language of your choice,
females; which of Scarlet's husbands is the character type you would like to marry?
males; which of Scarlet's sisters (including Scarlet and her sister-in-law) is the matrimonial character type for you?
How does Scarlet fulfill each segment of her vow (e.g., kill)?
The Shipping News--X-Rated material involved--in English and language of your choice
Who has two heads?
Who is pushed?
Who pushes back?
Is Aunt Agnes looking at Newfoundland as they approach it?
Art
What is the language of a Middle Eastern rug?
Debate question
Does the United States need a Constitutional Amendment decreeing this legal instrument applicable to issues of male impotence?
Research equipment (with parental permission)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sex, but Were Afraid to Ask.
Archetype (The theory I copyrighted as to the definition of this concept is slightly varied from that of C. G. Jung. I believe these are evolutionary adaptations which we still have, but are not in use. Henceforth, these manifest themselves in our artistic expression.)
Witch's cauldron
Ice Age--In English and language of your choice
Does the squirrel represent evolution?
Is it possible that their settlement is in North East Asia?
Compare the feline and hominine predatory technique.
It is my understanding that some of you suddenly achieved proficiency in the language you selected. This is earlier than I expected, which is good. What is not good is that I have to issue your next assignment earlier than I anticipated. You may not be ready for this. You will need to find and adopt a government official in each of the following countries:
Morocco and Senegal of Africa
Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru of South America
These are each corrupt regimes, with petroleum resources. You will have to begin by making a list of your demands before your adopted company can do business with them. You will have to bear in mind that they each speak derived forms of the language you learned, West African French and South American Spanish.
The other related issue is that you will have to begin to put pressure on the Israeli Government that because the Hasidic community refuses to serve in their military, they cannot hold positions in Parliament. This should weaken their international stronghold and provide relief of our welfare bill.
You will also have to find and adopt a corporate executive of a small gas/oil company which is willing to do business with one of the alternate countries. Upon completion of this union, let me know the name of this business. I am willing to invest $100 if it is publicly traded.
In language of your choice, write a script about the relationship you would have established with Johnny Gallagher. Did Scarlet have to give him a free-hand to make money?
What did the sign over Mr. Kennedy's store say?
In language of your choice, explain how would you have acquired money from the man who went to Tara as a refugee from the war.
Green was out of fashion, scarlet was in. How does this translate into the script?
I would like to ask my students to watch, in language of choice withOUT English subtitles, The Recruit starring Al Pacino and Colin Farrell. You may use a dictionary, but your primary such reference tool may NOT be one which translates into English. For example, you may only use French-French, or Spanish-Spanish, NOT French-English/English-French. You may only use the translator-version to help you with the primary dictionary. You must watch three times, with as many scene repetitions as you need, then you may watch the English version.
Because of the damage inflicted by the satellites on my television/DVD player, I am unable to view The Recruit because I am unable to open the menu screen. I have never seen the movie before and purchased this on my birthday with a gift certificate I earned at my place of employment.
June 2004
Saudi Arabia Relationship with Chili and Morocco
Microsoft Relationship with Chili and Morocco
Office of National Security Advisor Relationship with Chili and Morocco
Countries Chili and Morocco
Does your adopted company have any business link(s) with either country?
Did any of these cultures live in either country?
Aeneze Bedouin
Aztec
Bedouin of the Negev
Chaamba
Dahomey
Incas
!Kung
Maya
Mixtec
Olmec
Rwala Bedouins
Swazi
Teda
Tuareg
Kennedy Administration Research JFK's credentials as an attorney.
Research equipment Art books, Collection des Maitres. These are tiny art books printed in France--one per artist. In several languages, these provide a synopsizing biography.
Legal target You need to purchase legal forms. What kind should you buy and where are these available?
Medical fill in the unreadable information of this diagram of the human brain.
Archetype Snake (see Elaine Morgan's book)
Sewing Make a vest using velvet with an un-presentable reverse side, and which has the grain on the presentable side producing a different appearance from each polar perspective.
Biography Alfred Russell Wallace
Review Citation Index
Art Lascaux and Trois Frères
Research equipment Carl G. Jung, Man and his Symbols
J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man
Gone with the Wind In English and language of your choice.
What is Scarlet stirring the soap in front of?
In the English version of the scene when Scarlet approaches Ashley for help with the $300 tax bill, she makes a grammatical error. The same character-error is made by Amy Slattery. What is it?
What do the women of the barbeque do while manatees routinely do?
Who are Katie Scarlet's friends at the barbeque, and how do they dress?
What does Rhett pay for in gold, besides a dance with Scarlet?
When Rhett abandons her at the turn toward Tara, how do their final moments resemble the hospital fund raiser?
The Shipping News In English and language of your choice
What does Billy Pretty cover?
What does Aunt Agnes call Quoyle?
Considering the climatology, should Quoyle have survived the accident?
Ice Age In English and language of choice
Describe the evolution of the sloth.
Does Manni love or hate the baby?
Is the baby dressed for winter?
Humans can't talk. What cranial mechanisms are they missing?
July 2004
Saudi Arabia What was the status of women before British occupation?
Microsoft What is the status of women in this corporation?
Office of the National Security Advisor Look at the whole department and establish role of women. Are they in positions where men can easily sign their names to their work?
Countries Tunisia and Ecuador
(I am not aware that Tunisia has any petroleum resources, but I would be delighted for the opportunity to do such business with them.)
What is the status of women in each of these countries? Has it changed historically?
Kennedy Administration What was the status of women in the family?
Research equipment Any book by Ann Wilson Shaef (I am uncertain of exact spelling of her last name. It was she who said that women are compulsive liars when talking about their emotions. We always hide our anger and frustrations.) And any book written by Peggy Reeves Sanday.
Legal target Do the divorce laws favor women or men, historically? How does the issue of primary wage earner influence the system?
Medical hysteria/hysterectomy
Economics Which countries are most prosperous, those which practice sexual egalitarianism or others?
Archetype mother (see Peggy Reeves Sanday's book)
Biography The life of Eva Braun. Did Hitler sign his name to any of her speeches? Try to reconstruct.
Review Tuareg
Stone age culture Of the many cultures you have researched, find one in which the men have an active role in child rearing, and another in which this is prohibited. Which has the better quality of life?
Art Try to verify the gender of the artist of your favorite painting.
Scenario When I worked at Lord & Taylor, a friend of mine noticed a routine which she told me about. I watched for it and finally confirmed it. On payday, the husband of one of our co-workers would sit in the car as she would go upstairs, acquire her paycheck, run as fast as she could with her three-hundred pound stature to deliver it to him.
Have you ever seen anything like this in your personal life?
Gone with the Wind In English and language of choice
While the South owned slaves, how did the North treat factory workers? Were these workers male or female?
The Shipping News In English and language of choice
Did Guy Quoyle only rape women?
Ice Age In English and language of choice
If this same script had been written at the time of Margaret Mitchell, what would have been different?
Debate question Is gender equality in the best interest of men?
August 2004
The above is a diagram of a chain of events which involve the human brain.
What sequence is this?
Which areas must have experienced evolution from the time of the common ancestor we share with the chimpanzee to the time we evolved into Homo sapiens modern?
Which mechanisms do NOT involve the eye, and which do NOT involve the ear?
Research the taxonomy and ecology.
Is this botanical species a subject of predation?
Is this botanical species a predator?
How does this species reproduce?
Is there any information available on its evolution?
Does this have any remedial purposes in Western or other medicine?
Saudi Arabia Do students on any level learn about cranial structure?
Microsoft What is this company's relationship with Euell Energy?
Adopted company What is this company's relationship with Euell Energy?
Kennedy Administration What is this family's relationship with Euell Energy?
Politics Which politicians have received endorsements and campaign contributions from Euell Energy?
Legal What legal actions has Euell Energy been a party to?
Review Big Man of Papuan culture.
Art The Getty's Museum
Archetype Mermaid
Ongoing scenario You are still working as an entry-level retail manager. You observe one of your cashiers entering prices too low, yet charging correctly. This person's drawer count is always OVER by at least $10. What should you assume?
Gone with the Wind In English and language of your choice Why did author Margaret Mitchell include in the story Ashley's injury after they attempted to clean-out the woods?
What is the significance of the fact that Rhett gives the Captain his assurances as a "gentleman"?
When else in the story do we hear the word gentleman?
Did Melanie know that Rhett abandoned her in unconscious condition?
What is the significance of the fact that Scarlet stirs soap in front of the burned-down barn?
Just before the confrontation Scarlett has with Amy Slattery and Jonas Wilkerson, what is her father doing?
The Shipping News In English and language of your choice How many wives did Guy Quoyle have?
What is Bunny's relationship with the cables?
Why did Quoyle's family leave Newfoundland?
Ice Age In English and language of your choice Write an essay on Doe-Doe philosophy.
What is the purpose of the female participant in the hunting expedition?
Sewing Using stripes which must be aligned, make a dress with sleeves. You must be careful in that the shoulder-to-waist height of the pattern might be different than yours. Henceforth, you might want to avoid complex back designs.
May 11, 2004 Just as I was ready to give-up on our fight to control oil/gas prices, and just as the Dow closed below the psychologically important 10,000 mark, this happens. I awoke this morning, turned-on the computer, attempted to print from my website only to find that my printer would not work until I scrolled the mouse upon the money icon of the MSN Home Page. There I found Jim Jubak's three part article which they had been waiting all month for me to read. It is an attempt to discourage The Bar offensive: "When China brakes, the world slows", "8 ways China affects all our lives now", and "3 big threats to China's economic miracle". "Case in point: On April 28, the Chinese banks reported they would go on a three-day lending moratorium on government orders. The same day, the Reuters news service ran an interview with the premier of China, who promised very strong action to rein in excessive growth. In the United States, shares of companies selling iron ore, aluminum, nickel and copper to China tanked on fears that the Chinese were about to stop buying the raw materials that fuel their economy."
I need you to ask your adopted companies if they could provide a United States market for these raw materials.
I don't know if this will help the stock market immediately. But I want Wall Street to promise me that in the interim, if there is any terrorist threat, the market will jump above 10,000.
July Supplement
Scenario A certain country is at war. A large population of working class, blue collar males are in the military. Who must achieve employment in the factories to build the tanks, weld the machinery, etc?
In this country, the men return home. A second income is nice, they find.
The culture then changes in that the washer/dryer, vacuum cleaner, dishwasher, modern plumbing, etc., becomes an average way of life. What might maintain the monogamous, matrimonial relationship?
Then a deep recession strikes. Many couples recognize that if they want to maintain their standard of living, they must be realistic about the fact that only the wife can find a job with an adequate salary.
What country is this?
August Supplement
Scenario In the post-war/post-dishwasher era described above, a male is composing his dissertation. His sister-in-law is qualified as an executive secretary and through six carbons, types this for him for NO charge. His mother also has such qualifications and helps. His wife has excellent organizational skills and also inputs many hours.
His daughter one day is this age. She composes a manuscript and requires six copies. She goes to the copy store and waits a few hours.
The difference in production price is not considered when this country calculates inflation rates because it is not a bread-and-butter issue.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
chapter drug-rape issue literary issue future issue vocabulary The Prison
Door
burdock, roses, pig-weed, and apple-peru--what are the first two herbs used for? (I don't know if any information exists about the last two.) Upon what type of soil is the cemetery placed?
Who were the Puritans? portal
sepulchers
The Market-
Place
Of what type of fabric would one of the female spectators like to replace Hester's gown with? "her beauty shone-out, and made a ???"
To what other mother-and-child does Hawthorne compare Hester-and-baby to?
What "years" does Hester reminisce upon?
Who is Mistress Hibbins? augured autumnal
malefactresses
mien
phantasmagoric
physiognomies
preternaturally
remonstrance
scourged
sumptuary
The Recog-
nition
With what character traits does the Indian eventually look upon her? What is "unadulterated sunshine"?
How did Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale's speeches affect his listeners?
How did this Reverend's speech affect the baby?
Who has the authority to remove the scarlet letter?
When the Reverend leaned over the balcony and "awaited the result of his appeal", how did he gesture his hand?
furrowed tremulous
The Inter-
view
What is the significance of the fact that her husband is a physician?
Why doesn't anyone know who her husband is?
intimated
peremptory
paramour
rebuke
writhed
Hester at Her
Needle
"There dwelt, there trode the feet of one whom she deemed herself connected in a union...": What does this mean?
How is Cain discussed?
What is malicious alchemy?
"Women derive a pleasure, incomprehensible to the other sex, from the delicate toil of the needle": Which area of the brain is deriving this pleasure?
averred commiseration
emolument
exhortation
fain
guise
ignominy
imbibed
penitence
purport
requite
succor
sullied
voluptuous
Pearl What is Pearl's relationship with witchcraft?
Research the definition of phantasmagoria.
How does Hester perceive Pearl?
acuteness anathemas
caprice
delusive
despondency
flightiness
gusty
inscrutable
phantasmagoric
rankle
reviled
smitten
The Governor's Hall a free-born Englishman converted into a bonded servant--What was his status compared to Confederate slaves? Was this a time in which slaves were brought to this country?
What is the significance of the rose bush?
cabalistic caper
cuirass
dauntless
eldritch
frothy
gilded
imperious
pallid
panoply
pestilence
ponderous
portal
wan
The Elf-Child and the Minister What is Pearl's relationship with witchcraft? Who is Governor Bellingham's sister?
Who is suggested a Pearl's father? albeit
expatiating
feign
parable
sundering
tithe
The Leech According to Elaine Morgan, what is the archetypical significance of a leech. apothecary
appellation
chirurgical
consigned
contagion
elixir
importunate
pilloried
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May 31, 2004 As you already know, I typically post targets a few months in advance. This is because in January of this year, when the snow trapped me in my home, I decided to work through April to emphasize the point that April 08th, Holy Thursday, is National Whistleblowers' Day. Since then, I sometimes have to hasten my month-to-month pace because of the speed with which my students thoroughly work through everything. But since I entered on X-Targets that September is a month in which we will focus on issues of child-abuse in the home, particularly that which my students may experience, there has been "a silence more terrifying than the pounding of the canon." It is a difficult subject for all involved. Parents have to deal realistically with the possibility that relatives they trust and/or need may be systematically abusing their children during holiday visits, such as Christmas. Not a day goes by in which I don't become angry at my mother for everything which happened. But at the same time, I must remember it was her guilty conscience which killed her, and I also must remember it was a different age. Tolerance of abusive behavior was considered pro-family. It was institutionalized. Ours is the generation which must cope with the difficult transition. Productive evolution is an act which can only be accomplished by aquatic apes. Non-aquatic apes develop their acting skills instead--they improve their ability to pretend nothing is wrong, and discreetly live-off of the profitable economy. There is no choice of words I can use to reduce this to a simple mathematical formula. These next few months will be very painful. I posted it before the beginning of Summer vacation because this is when time is available to work through these issues. By Christmas, it must be adequately resolved. |
The following appeared in the June 1st, 2004 issue of The Daily News;
I would like to ask of my students to write a letter to either this woman or any of those involved with the successful litigation, and express gratitude for this development. I would also like you to copy-correspond this to the Saudi King.
I would like to ask of everyone to go to the web-page,
child-abuse.com
for help in this matter.
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On this date of June 25, 2004--six months before Christmas--I have noticed no progress on the self-x-target. I will have to take the next necessary, very drastic step. As you already know, if there is any suspicion of child abuse, it must be reported. And if it is a professional such as a nurse or a teacher who is noticing it, such individual can face prosecution for such failure. The feminists are not going to like me for this, but every domestic rape case I have ever had any knowledge of involved an alcoholic. I would like to ask of anyone who has ever known an alcoholic to report such individual to child protection services, and I would like such agency to proceed on the assumption that a child in such care is in danger. |
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I have decided it is not going to happen that I encourage the victim to initiate the emancipation from the cycle of abuse. I have decided an amnesty to encourage perpetrators might be better. I have also decided that one month probably won't be enough. It should be from Thanksgiving thru Easter. Please contact your Congressional representative and explain this. |
September 2004
How do these ichthyology specimens resemble Homo sapiens?
Are these fresh water or salt water fish?
How are they related to each other?
What is an anomaly?
How are pelvic structures and bipedal-gait interrelated?
What is their relationship with Homo sapiens?
Saudi Arabia Do students learn about evolution?
Microsoft In all your research on this company, have you ever found an employee by the name of Schick?
Adopted Company How do they treat whistleblowers?
National Security Advisor Who was such official of the Kennedy Administration?
Region
Make a list of all the African genocides
all the famines
all the regions visited by former President Jimmy Carter
all the regions visited by Jesse Jackson
&
all the countries as categorized by past or present European colonization.
Look for patterns.
Art The Codex of the Aztecs
Archetype Flying horse
Review Is a fingerprint circumstantial or strict evidence?
Legal Select a local bridge in your area. Find its designer and ascertain if the attorney general's office certified this individual with or without a license.
Ongoing Scenario You are still working as a retail manager. You receive an employment application from a person you believe is 12-years-old--too young. However, she presents her driver's license which proves her age to be 18. So you turn the application over to the human resources manager for an interview. This individual hires her and presents her with some forms to sign in front of him. He does not notice the signature is inconsistent.
As this individual works for the store, you become conversational. You learn about her older sister and brother.
She one day tells you she takes at least three showers-per-day.
What should you infer from that?
Movie The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (view in language of choice using dictionary translating foreign language into foreign language (e.g., French-French). Use English/foreign-language dictionary only as back-up.) And be prepared for the fact that its final twenty minutes are terrifying. Parental Guidance is suggested.
What glass shatters in the beginning and end? Why?
Did this whistleblower have a supportive family? Was this important?
Who was the Biblical Solomon?
What is the game divide-and-conquer?
Sewing Go to the sewing section and find a book of patterns. Open to the bridal section and use one of the patterns (e.g., hat) to make something non-bridal.
Gone with the Wind Convert into different verb tense the script you wrote in language of your choice about Rhett blowing-the-whistle.
Debate issue Should all newborn babies be subjected to a paternity test?
Rituals Describe the cultural role each of these animals has in a certain modern culture, and how it evolved.
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October, 2004

Are these species reproductively compatible? If not, why not?
Different fur coloring, albeit biological compatibility?
Different pre-mating behavior (i.e., engagement period)?
Any other reason?
Does your adopted company in any way interact with these or their close relatives?
Ecology With the help of your adopted company, find a forest designated for defoliation for the purpose of production supermarket paper-bags. Then take the necessary next steps. (As per request of one of my customers to address this issue.)
Kennedy Administration What was Jack Kennedy's educational background?
Adopted Company What was/is their relationship with the Kennedys?
Gone with the Wind In language of choice with foreign-language/foreign-language (e.g., French/French) dictionary only.
$50, $150, $300--How much was each woman worth to Rhett?
When Scarlet's mother returned home, what was the object which had to be retrieved from her carriage?
They dance together for a few seconds, and he demands that she professes her love for him. When was this?
Scarlet and Ashley stand before a window as she demands that he admits he loves her. When was this?
When I was preparing for college, we were required to take three Achievement Tests in addition to SATs. On a scale of 200 - 800, 650 or above is considered good. If this is still required, you may be qualified for the foreign language exam. Completing this at your earliest convenience will give you one less thing to do as a high school upper-classman.
Saudi Arabia What is the geological history of this country?
Art Study the major Occidental artists of the same country as the foreign language you are learning.
Debate Issue Should Islam as a religion be taught in United States grammar schools?
National Security Advisor How has the role of this office changed since it was first established?
Country Tibet
What is the nature of the conflict?
Archetype Great Flood
Rituals Do any stone-age cultures ritualistically remember the Great Flood?
Research equipment The Outline of History by H. G. Wells
Review What is an arboreal Colobine?
November, 2004
How are his ears human?
Why does he have wrinkles?
In which continent(s) does he live?
Kennedy Administration; What are the male/female relationships within the family?
Saudi Arabia; Why is this country no longer part of the United Kingdom?
Country; Switzerland Is college tuition socialized?
National Security Advisor; Choose one of United States history and make a list of all the places s/he traveled to.
Rituals; How do different stone-age cultures of South America request of the deities to deliver a good harvest?
Debate; Should a capitalistic country such as the United States exact a MAXimum wage?
Art; What 1800's painting exemplifies a class struggle, is found at the Louvre, and resembles the statue of liberty?
Linguistics; What does lieben mean in German?
Archetype; Long hair (see Elaine Morgan's books).
Research equipment; Find in your library pre-18th century (i.e., before 1701) maps.
Gone with the Wind (in language of choice)
Why is Scarlet the only female to use the word lick?
Does Melanie know Rhett abandoned them?
How does Margaret Mitchell make reference to herself in the scene following the burning of Atlanta?
Sewing; Using a McCall's pattern, make pants.
Review; Mohammed the Prophet and women.
December, 2004
Sewing; Instead of making something, I would like you to make a list of all expenses incorporated into each item crafted. And focus in particular on the following issues:
Failed projects (I calculate $1/item)
Notions ($2)
patterns
thread
scissors
Fabric bought but not yet used ($2)
Durable equipment purchased ($2)
sewing machine
cutting mats
storage containers
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This is dedicated to the professor who dragged me into the field of anthropology, Dr. Eric Delson.
Country Sumatra of Indonesia
economic relationships with
Mobile Corporation, originally Standard Vacuum Oil Company of New York
Uniroyal, originally United States Rubber Company
Caltrex, joint venture between Chevron and Texaco
Microsoft
political relationships with
Condoleezza Rice, current National Security Advisor
Kennedy Administration
historical relationships with
Holland
England
diplomatic relationship with
Saudi Arabia
linguistic relationship with
other Indonesian countries
Review negative reciprocity
Gone with the Wind
Who is India?
Who is Hamilton?
Who is Kennedy?
Archetype varmint
Research equipment Bock, Carl The Head-hunters of Borneo
Ritual war dance