Check out my buddies…...

So, I’ve got to refer you to my friend’s blogs, since they are pretty amazing: 1) www.iboughtamac.com – This is my husband’s blog & it’s all about his journey to the ‘dark side’ and how it’s turning out to be an alright journey! 2) www.whatablogger.com- This is another one of my husband’s (many, many) blogs. It’s all about his strange interests. 3) www.paulhatesmac.com – Hate is such a strong word Paul, but it’s highly marketable! 4) www.girlsguide101.com – An up & coming guide for us...

A little something I wrote on suffrage&#...

Teamwork: Rethinking Votes for Women In her article, “Three Questions about Womanhood Suffrage,” Carole Pateman argued that there are three critical questions political scientists have not answered about women’s suffrage. These three questions included: (1) “Why did it take so long to get the vote for women?,” (2) “Why did women themselves organize against their own enfranchisement?,” and (3) “Why was the vote won in the end?” (Pateman, 194). Pateman argued that the “tenacious resistance of opposition” was only part of the reason why it took women so...

A Convenient Flick Delivered Called An I...

Netflix conveniently delivered my husband and I another batch of movies last week. This led me to finally see An Inconvenient Truth this past weekend. I was certainly impressed and alarmed. I have, of course, been attempting to make my home and lifestyle a little greener, but this DVD has helped me kick it into high-gear. Gore provides strong evidence supporting his case that America and other “developed” countries are destroying the environment because of our careless actions and apathy. The phrase, “we are living in a time of consequence,” became...

A Neat Little 3-D Flick...

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National History Day...

On March 4, 2006, I had the opportunity to volunteer as a judge for the Arizona National History Day regional competition held at the Arizona Historical Society in Tempe, Arizona. I was placed in a group of three judges to analyze, interview, and judge the youth division’s fifth grade individual poster submissions. This year’s theme was “Taking a Stand in History,” and the topics that the students selected certainly illustrated this emphasis. The three topics of the fifth grade students that we approved to move on to the ...