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Lesson #24 : Travelling to NYC
Due to my traveling to New York City, I have been quite busy. Therefore tomorrow’s JuicyLesson will continue the discussion which I began last Thursday, (#22) on the American political system and the shutdown of the U.S. government. Today, before heading off to see the winless New York football Giants play the Philadelphia at the…
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Lesson #23 : Comparative Government — Part II
The appointed Senate has less power than the elected Commons and this is as it should in our democratic political system. That being said, the Senate is also referred to as the Upper House. Why?;
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Lesson #22 : The Juice on Parliamentary (Canada) and Presidential (U.S.A.) Political Systems.
Before we can understand how this shutdown of the American government was allowed to happen, we have to look at how their system of government is structured
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Lesson #21 : Entitled Students — Part II
Yesterday’s JuicyLesson discussed one case of a student being empowered by his own impertinent behaviour coupled with administrative know-towing to it in the face of a potentially unpleasant situation as far as this student was concerned … Today we will be looking at a different type of empowerment. This kind of enabling goes hand-in-hand with…
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Lesson #20 : The entitled student — Part I — Student Gall
Those of you familiar with my daily JuicyLessons know that I taught high school for thirty-four years in both the public and private sectors.
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Lesson #19 : Heroes and Nothings
Every Monday, Gazette sports columnist Jack Todd, one of my favourite writers regardless of how bitter and discontented with his life he may be
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Lesson #18 : Wisdom
Written by Andy Rooney, and revised by me
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Lesson #17 : Images Live to Learn, Learn to Live
A sec. 5 student, let’s call her Susan, following an argument with me, her teacher, had left class in a huff, and in so doing had countermanded my direct instruction not to do so.