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31 year-old female/perpetual adjunct instructor and student. By day I try my best to be Supermom; at night, I become the typical Grey's Anatomy junkie. I just discovered- to my happy delight- the difference between a pinot grigio and a pinot noir.

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Politics, News & Issues > Food & Agriculture Assessing the success of the organic food movement: 2 of 13

Old MacDonald had a farm, and on this farm he didn't use chemical pesticides or growth hormones, and all his animals played outside, E-I-E-I-O As a consumer, I have developed a habit of using the word "organic" to mean "natural" when I encounter the labrythine world of aisles and labels that is my local supermarket. And I co...
Arts & Humanities > Writing Tips How to write a pantoum poem: 2 of 6

Otherwise known as the swirling vortex of terror, the pantoum differs from other kinds of formal poems because it does not adhere to any specific line length...pantoums can go on and on ad infinitum, which can seem daunting to poets who prefer strict line length guidelines. According to The Making of a Poem: A Norton Antholo...
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Poetry explication: Guide to writing an essay about poetry: 5 of 9

An essay on feminist perspectives in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew? Got it covered. A five-page paper on your experience learning a foreign language? No problem. But delving into a that strange sphere known as poetry, trying to explicate a logical rationale for why someone who lived a hundred years ago and wrote with...
Computers & Technology > Website Reviews Website reviews: Stopglobalwarming.org: 4 of 7

Driving hybrid? Check. Recycling? Check. Buying organic? Well, sometimes. With Earth Day 2007 just around the corner, I thought it might be a good idea to visit one of the leading websites devoted to the environment and efforts aimed at its conservation, www.stopglobalwarming.org, to evaluate my own efforts and those of my c...
Home & Garden > Cleaning Products Product reviews: Swiffer Wetjet: 5 of 8

Finally, no more getting down on my knees, scrubbing away at the kitchen floor, breaking a sweat over hardened ketchup and dried up coffee stains. Even though I love a clean floor, the idea of dipping my hands into an increasingly nasty pail of dirty water disgusts me, so when the Swiffer Wetjet made its appearance in the lo...
Pets & Animals > Cats (Other) Website reviews: MuttCats.com: 2 of 3

Because of its name, I assumed this website would be solely devoted to cats, so I expected to see pages on cat care products, where to buy cats, different types of cats and their temperaments, that sort of thing. What I found was a kind of mega-website with all kinds of information, more information than I could possibly tak...
Entertainment > TV Show Reviews TV show reviews: Grey's Anatomy: 17 of 20

Compared to Season Two's finale, a heart-wrenching tearjerker that had me searching the South Korean peninsula for anything about the series I could find to share with my husband, this year's finale was less than stellar. The future of Meredith and Derek's relationship is questionable once again; Christina and Burke literall...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Family life when serving in the U.S. military: 22 of 22

During my husband's five-year commitment to the United States Army, our family enjoyed traveling all over the United States and beyond. From Huntsville, Alabama, to Olympia, Washington, and all the way to Pyongtaek, South Korea, we learned a great deal about tolerance, diversity, and culture. And because we were always far f...
Education > College Courses & Majors The politics of studying dead white men in colleges and universities: 5 of 5

Textbooks and anthologies used on college and university campuses haven't caught quite on to the idea of multiculturalism, which is why most students can still expect the bulk of their studies to be focused on dead white men. This doesn't mean that culturally sensitive instructors, myself included, can't change that trend, h...
Education > College Courses & Majors Colleges taking over where high schools fail: Patterns in freshman writing: 3 of 3

Check out a list of course offerings from just about any college or university and you're bound to find a few classes in Developmental English; additionally, most English departments have also established Writing Centers. Both courses and centers are designed to help students effectively master the challenges of college-leve...