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Thank you for visiting my academic resource page. Here you will find various documents related to my work as a scholar and teacher. Select a category from the menu bar to visit the desired page.

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Critical reading is really the same thing as critical thinking; its aim it to uncover, unmask, or otherwise discover the assumptions of any given text. It requires training yourself to read – and therefore think – with an open mind and without seeking to agree or disagree with the author. The goal is to discover ideas and information.In order to do so, and to get the most out of the materials

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Links to my publications coming soon ...

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A book review tells not only what a book is about, but also how successful it is at what it is trying to do. Professors often assign book reviews as practice in careful analytical reading.As a reviewer, you bring together the two strands of accurate, analytical reading and strong, personal response when you indicate what the book is about and what it might mean to a reader (by explaining what it

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This is a brief guide to doing research for my classes. The topic that you choose will largely determine the specifics of the paper, but this format offers a general guideline.In academic terms, critical analysis means considering the claims of theorists, governments, authorities, etc., what they are based on, and how far they seem to apply or are relevant to a given situation.The goal of a

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As a rule a work of fiction is a narrative, with characters, with a setting, with some claim to represent 'the world' in some fashion.1. Title.The first indication as to the meaning of a given work of fiction is located in its title. Titles may be direct and obvious, as in the cases of Fight Club or Babbitt, others are highly symbolic, as in the cases of Heart of a Dog, Looking Backward, or The

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EDUCATIONPh.D., University of Southern California, December 2000Dissertation: Ethnic Mobilization and U.S. National Interest: Cuban, Irish, and Jewish Lobbies and American Foreign Policy.M.A., San Diego State University, August 1996Thesis: U.S. National Interest in Post-Cold War NATO.B.A., California State University, Northridge, May 1992ACADEMIC POSITIONSRocky Mountain College, Associate

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