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June 15, 2009 — skybluedreamer
Sky Blue Dreams
Cheong-Shim International Academy
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Contents

The Rectification of Names… by Confucius
Language Screens … by Nur Abdur Rashid

On the Difference between Luck and Fortune
By Carlton Johnson (Faculty Advisor)
 
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So you want to make it into a top university, you say?   “Good Luck?” — or should we prefer “Good Fortune”? What IS the difference between luck and fortune, anyway?  The former is empty chance, almost irrespective of any precedent. Luck resembles a ‘numbers game’ of sorts: statistics played out. Fortune, on the other hand, is on the higher end of the spectrum (from luck). Here is where the goodness we have invested and the suffering we have endured begins to yield returns (sometimes in the form of “good” luck, some times in the form of some deep understanding, or even in the form of profound revelations) …

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In Light of Huxley’s Brave New World
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Beginning in elementary school?
https://www.baycitizen.org/news/education/parents-clash-over-gay-curriculum/
After a lesbian student at Jesse Bethel High School in Vallejo joined with the American Civil Liberties Union in 2008 to accuse the local school district of discrimination, district officials agreed as part of a settlement to show films and assign homework depicting same-sex families, beginning in elementary school.

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As a keynote speaker at the TED 2010 conference, Gates laid out his rationale for an international effort towards global depopulation.  He said, “If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that [projected to 9 billion people by 2050] by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.“  New vaccines for depopulation?  What Gates might be referring to by “new vaccines” is the creation of new generation sterilizing and/or aborting vaccines with an ingredient or genetically engineered component that can go undetected.  Vaccines to prevent pregnancy already exist; in fact, they have been with us for a long time. One area of vaccine research the Gates’ Foundation is funding in its Grand Challenges Explorations is the use of nano-particles.[14] Such engineered vaccines, with no gold standard for long term safety and efficacy, could virtually go undetected without highly advanced and expensive technologies to identify their presence…
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Carlton Johnson (CSIA English Department)

Social Anthropology Major
The Anthropology of Values : An Intro to Social Anthropology

Fantastic ! … What a day! What a day!
Silver and Gold ! … A Father hopes, laments ! …

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Some useful rhetorical and literary resources:

Hyperdictionary/Thesaurus … Good for Poetry
A Korean/English/Korean Dictionary … by dic.impact.pe.kr
On Line Hanja Dictionary … by Chicago Korean Language Group
A real D. O. double Gizzle Urban Dictionary … slang and such
zhongwen.com … Dictionary of Chinese Characters
WordReference.com … roots

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Definite and Indefinite Articles … by Purdue U. Writing Lab
Planning and Invention … just don’t know what to write?
Tagmemics … a true bridge for meaningful change
other “Common Errors in English” … Washington State U.
A Student Editorial Contest… The New York Times

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Korean Proverbs … by Galbijim
HT News … and other Homeostatic Truths (Reload for latest page)

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And then, there’s 10th grader
Bradley Vandermerwe — for a short stay with us, from South Africa!

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Cheong-Shim International Academy ! … CSIA Official Home Page

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