PAPERS WORTH KEEPING
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| Course | Date | Topic | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| On Reality | SAT Exam, 1993 | Reality Is More Than First Meets The Eye | "Reality was no longer something obvious and measurable but something dependent on the observer's point of view." |
| Hiring the Right People | Joe Blum | An H.R. Paper on Interviewing (NOVA 1995) | The technique Disney uses for finding the right person for the right job. The new trend in interviewing. |
| Tolstoy as GOLOVÍN | Joe Blum | A Creative Writing Research Paper, VCC (1994) | "No other great master of literature has felt and depicted death as he has . . . felt it with such frightful penetration, depicted it so insatiably often." |
| The Hypocrisy of Right to Life | Joe Blum | Article/Book Review on Ethics (UCF, 2003) | Using the "Utilitarian Formula" for determining where one actually stands on an issue. |
| Richard's Best Lesson Ever | Joe Blum | Discourse is not enough. | ". . . confidence. It certainly has not improved mine . . . and I spent a lot of time and money already!" |
| COACHING: The Big White Lie | Joe Blum | A remarkable true story (Written about Jerry Lindgren for NOVA) | "You are not trying to tell us that all champions were at one time handicapped?" |
| Outdoor Marriage | Joe Blum | Project: "A Place I Know" | You should see them: they are like luscious rainbows lilting to the music of the spheres . . . their hissing noises barely noticed or ignored. |
| NOT SO FAST | Joe Blum | A rebuttal to "The Absent Professors" in U.S. News ... | The only wasted energies I see, are those expended in bickering about imbalances that are out of balance for a good reason. |
| Connectionism via a 6+1 WEB | 2003 for UCF | a conscious distributed constructionist network. | "In our 6 + 1 WEB model, universal corpus is a relative term—a term that refers to the corpus of the individual rather than that of the universal collective." |
| Critical Thinking | 1995 for NOVA | What It's All About | ". . . I arrived at some brilliant conclusions: some are sort of clear, some fuzzy, and some perfectly confusing." |
| ECLECTICISM: A New Kind Of Dogma | 1994 for NOVA | To make a distinction between eclectic and unity-in-diversity, | ". . . Though often labeled to be both, Walt Disney would probably classify EPCOT as a project that harmonizes diversities." |