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Susan Jones

“These Are the Words that Moses ”©

Dan Lukiv, M.Ed.
English and Creative Writing
McNaughton Centre, Quesnel, BC, Canada
E-mail: lukivdan@shaw.ca

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Grumbling in the shade of tents!—
You forgetful sons of Abraham.
How you wailed over these giant-boned
Men, whose city walls pierced clouds,
Who had walked beneath waves
And bobbing corpses,
Who loved mountains—Images of their
Own glory!—who trampled grasshoppers,
Whose crunching they barely heard.

O Anakim! Was Philistia, who shared your
Salty winds, your cousin or merchant friend
Or both?

Surely if you had survived the flood, you could
Send off mere grasshoppers
Leaping into the Red Sea.

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Students and Communication Competence:
A Call to Professors for Establishing Appropriate Communication Boundaries

Keith T. Hardeman, M.A.
Professor and Chair
Communication and Fine Arts Department
Westminster College
E-mail:  Keith.hardeman@westminster-mo.edu

Most professors have encountered them: students who don’t seem to grasp basic expectations for social interaction, those who demand immediate attention or special treatment from their teachers.  There’s the student who telephones her professor at home late on a weeknight because she’s having difficulties with a paper due the following day, or the student who frantically asks to speak to his professor as class is about to start, wanting to know why the professor hasn’t responded to an e-mail he sent the night before—he was unable to complete his assignment as a result and expects an extension (Walmsley and McManemy, 2008, p. 51). 

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Predicting the Haves and Have-nots within Society:
Theoretical Concept of Power vs. Oppression

Nicholas D. Hartlep, M.S.Ed.
PhD Student – Urban Education and Social Foundations of Education
Advanced Opportunity Program (AOP) Fellow
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
E-mail:  nhartlep@uwm.edu

This article encompasses the works of Drs. Joel Handler, Yeheskel Hasenfeld, Ann Winfield, John Rury, and Jean Anyon.  These professors have each created their own theoretical framework.  

Handler and Hasenfeld

Handler and Hasenfeld’s research examines the “welfare state.” Handler and Hasenfeld (2007) assert plainly, “Women are more likely to be poor than men” (p. 39). They extend their argument by discussing the glass ceiling effect, showing that “gender discrimination continues to play a large role in the difference in earnings between men and women” (p. 40). The “glass ceiling” is most certainly a phenomenon we must treat with care and tackle head-on. The conjecture is that work done by men is highly valued, whereas work done by women is devalued. Consequently, men possess power within society, while women face oppression. One of many examples is the false assumption of the “welfare queen,” which not only unjustly stigmatizes, but also demonizes African-American women. This unjust balance of power and oppression merits more focused attention. Gender equality will only take place when and if this imbalance of power is corrected. As one can ascertain through the facts presented hitherto, a person’s gender is a critical component within Handler and Hasenfeld’s theoretical framework of welfare—informally a theory of empowered persons versus oppressed persons. Of similar importance within this welfare theoretical framework is a person’s race.

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