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Day 20/67 GED lesson, the power of Zero, and Adulting Education…

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

Scheduling tasks by breaking large projects into smaller chunks, using a spreadsheet to organize your project from 0 to Finished, and supporting our public infrastructure is all part of Adulting Education for our modern society as an adult in any democratic nation.

Day 20 Lesson Plan
Scheduling sheets: use a spreadsheet to plan big projects
punctuation
Exponents: Pwrs of Zero and 1, -1
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Action Items:

1.) How would you find out what the three branches of the US government are, besides looking at the PDF of the lesson plan from today? Any primary sources, and from where?

2.) Share your ideas with us, and why you think that way,

3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses one of the ideas, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it…

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MERCHANTS of GOLD – The DEATH of NATURE for Gold and Diamond Merchandise – The ART of Greenwashing by the Merchants of the Death of Nature and Indigenous Peoples…in their own words… PLEASE BOYCOTT GOLD! | Barbara Crane Navarro

Photo montage:  “Pas de Cartier” series – Barbara Crane Navarro – with advertisement for Cartier, photo of gold mining site in indigenous territory by João Laet and Cartier® LOVE gold ring In Thomas More’s “Utopia,” published in 1516, gold and precious stones have no value. Indeed, they carry the weight of blood, slavery and human…
— Read on barbara-navarro.com/2021/10/01/the-death-of-nature-gold-and-diamond-merchandise-the-art-of-greenwashing-by-the-luxury-merchants-of-the-death-of-nature-and-indigenous-peoplesin-their-own-words/

Wet’suwet’en solidarity

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As happened with last year’s violent attacks on the Wet’suwet’en by militarized Royal Canadian Mounted Police, many other First Nations peoples are taking actions in solidarity and support.


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How To Deal With Failure

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Accept Failure.

The first step in dealing with failure is to accept that failure is natural. We all have bad days and weeks. Days that nothing seems to go right and our brain has nothing left in it. Failure hurts, at least for the first time. Failure is absolutely normal and acceptable. Its ok to fail sometimes. Most days, I feel like my life is a test I didn’t study for. And it’s like I’m being huddled into getting an F with a deserving ass whooping. But mind you, failing an obstacle course or a test over and over again is not normal. You’re not just a failure, you’re a dull head. If you can’t succeed at the little things you do, then skydiving is definitely not for you. In a day when you don’t come across problems, then you are definitely travelling on the wrong path or probably lost…

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I don’t know what our Prime Minister is doing

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I don’t even know where to begin with our Prime Minister of Australia. I think he think’s, he’s a mini Trump or something?

He put forward a Religious Discrimination Bill, which short wise means, Religions get extra protection against discrimination (mainly Christian/Catholic)? Like, I don’t even know what the problem is. He came out saying that basically the LGBTQIA community don’t have to worry, this isn’t about them. It’s just adding extra protection to Religions…

Everyone was like …

Wha …

We already have Laws and Rules in place about Discrimination. You already cannot discriminate against someone because of their Religion.

Most Religions are multi-billion industries. I will call them that, they also got extra payments from the Australian Government during COVID. Some Churches were getting hundreds, thousands when there was only one or two people there. Since, just like other first world Countries, Religions don’t get taxed. The public…

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Nguyễn Văn Gia | AN ANTHEM FOR THOSE WHO LOVE (1) — SONGNGUTAITRAM

by Gia Nguyễn, translation by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm _____ Your steps are those of a sleep walker Hands still in hands though shattered is faith A long road without a journey’s end The co-travellers — Chân bước đi như một kẻ mộng du Tay vẫn nắm tay mà niềm tin rạn vỡ Con đường xa chưa thấy một bến bờ Đồng hành cùng ta

Nguyễn Văn Gia | AN ANTHEM FOR THOSE WHO LOVE (1) — SONGNGUTAITRAM