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Legal Learning, GED/HiSET Lesson Plan Day 37/67, and Ancient Greek?

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Adapting requires many different types of flexibility as with Day 37/67, Five Month GED, adaptations, and Adulting.
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     Studying, or even mere exposure to, various languages helps people to become and to stay flexible both intellectually and even emotionally (in learning to see from other perspectives).
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are all crucial to the democratic process, as well.

Language exposure is known to increase adaptability, but why, then, have we abandoned the teaching of classic historical languages that explain the bases of western society, like Ancient Greek and Hebrew?  How can one adapt to changing situations without knowing how things got to be this way, and how can that be understood without some modicum of understanding of the originating ways of thinking that got us to this point?  A language, especially one which has been studied by those considered to be ‘cultured’ for many years…

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WHAT A WASTE!!! — Filosofa’s Word

The total annual salaries for the 435 members of the House of Representatives is $76,300,300.  That’s just the salary, not including benefits, travel, and other perks, and not including all their staff!  When you add it all up, the total budget for the House of Representatives is $1.715 billion!  We the Taxpayers are the ones […]

WHAT A WASTE!!! — Filosofa’s Word

कवियित्री / Poetess

Kaushal Kishore

हमने बहुत से श्रेष्ठ कवियों को
पढ़ा, सुना और सराहा है,
पर एक कवियित्री है,
जो सर्वश्रेष्ठ है,
जो न बोलती है,
न कोई शब्द लिखती है,
बस व्यक्त कर देती है
अपनी भावनाएं,
सुंदरता और सुगंध के रूप में…

🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

We have read,
heard and appreciated
many outstanding poets,
but there is a poetess
par excellence,
who doesn’t use words,
written or spoken,
but expresses her feelings
with its beauty
and fragrance…

–Kaushal Kishore

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♫ Don’t Stop Believin’ ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

It’s hard these days to keep a positive attitude.  I find myself in a dark mood more often than not of late, despite my friends’ efforts to convince me that Trump will lose in 2020 and order will be restored.  I once was considered an optimist, but these days … I’m anything but.  So, this […]

♫ Don’t Stop Believin’ ♫ (Redux) — Filosofa’s Word

Bye-Bye Little Birdie — Filosofa’s Word

He paid $44 billion to buy a toy that he didn’t know how to play with.  Last night I closed my Twitter account, so I have one less ‘pinned tab’ taking up space at the top of my browser screens!  I’ve been considering such a move ever since Elon Musk started threatening to buy Twitter, […]

Bye-Bye Little Birdie — Filosofa’s Word