Here is a snippet from McGuffey's Eclectic Readers as this one is from the Primer. Quite a while ago I was going to start offering readings and maybe lessons in the subject, but other projects and ideas came first. Please comment on this and let me know if you or anyone would be interested in learning and reading more in Gregg shorthand. I have all the textbooks dealing with Diamond Jubilee Series. Also, I am planning on writing more from the McGuffey's and other textbooks that I have collected from my other studies. I know that Gregg shorthand is an obsolete course, but to me it's like figuring out secret code.
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Mark Graham
I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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Teacher & Child
Dr. Haim G. Ginott wrote an academic book entitled 'Teacher & Child' which is a book that I had read for a teacher education course in the late eighties or the early nineties. The course was believe it or not 'Teaching Reading in the Elementary Classroom. This is a book that covers various ideas that a teacher should do and not do in their various classrooms. There are various vignettes throughout the book explaining proper procedures and policies that all teachers must follow liking them or not. After re-reading this book again and seeing it from the angle of a writer it brought back a few memories of my early education. There was a vignette about a social studies teacher Mr. R (I also had a teacher Mr. R) that seemed to compare his class to another easier class if you did not like his way of teaching, which was lecture and discussion versus drawing maps and completing study guides in that other class. In the end I am glad I had his class and learned a lot. 'Teacher & Child' is really all about communication in how and how not to communicate with other teachers, parents, students and administrators. This book may be old but I believe it can still hold up in today's classrooms.
By Mark Graham2 years ago in Critique
Who Is Clavicular? The Looksmaxxing Streamer Who Ran Over A Stalker In His Cybertruck
What is so damaging to this current culture is the ant-intellectualism which pervades nearly every element of it. Clavicular, real name, Braden Peters equivocates physical form with getting women, making money, and overall being a strong “man.”
By Skyler Saunders20 days ago in Critique
Angry People Click More: The Economics of Manufactured Dissent
(Ideas from the book The Economic Policy of Online Media: Manufacture of Dissent, Routledge, 2024) Abstract This article examines the formula ‘angry people click more’ as a core logic of contemporary online media and as a structural transformation of propaganda in the digital age. It argues that the defining feature of the current attention economy is not only the circulation of misinformation, but the systematic deployment of openly implausible claims designed to provoke moral outrage and sustain profitable engagement cycles. The analysis links Oxford’s 2025 Word of the Year ‘rage bait’ to earlier lexical markers of epistemic crisis such as ‘truthiness’ and ‘post-truth’, and situates this trajectory against the older ‘manufacture of consent’ model of Herman and Chomsky. While classical propaganda in totalitarian and mass-media systems sought ideological unity through censorship and the Big Lie, the emerging Propaganda 2.0 model, articulated by Peter Ayolov, monetises anger by manufacturing dissent and deliberately populating the public sphere with absurd, polarising narratives. The article interprets this dynamic through the allegories of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ and Václav Havel’s greengrocer, showing how the move from fearful silence to permanent online rage changes both the psychology and political economy of propaganda. Drawing on Evgeny Morozov’s critique of fake-news moral panics, Frances Haugen’s disclosures about Facebook, and the documentary The Social Dilemma, it concludes that anger has become a tradable asset and that blatant lying has shifted from an authoritarian instrument of control to a market mechanism in a global ‘free trade in slogans’.
By Peter Ayolov7 days ago in Critique
Comments (3)
I learned shorthand in high school and the cool thing about learning it is you can usually read others shorthand. It has been so long since I have written it though that I can't remember very much! 😉😢🙂
I mean, it is very intriguing. I'm sure many people are interested as well
Lovely critique.