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Sep 14th, 2010 | By Timothy McGettigan

Robert S. Dornsife, PhD Creighton University [email protected] Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be. –Walter Benjamin I wish I could say that this paper results from the scholarship I have
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Sep 14th, 2010 | By Timothy McGettigan

In the 1990s, Bill Clinton ended welfare as we know it. After three full decades of the War on Poverty, Americans were sick of federal handouts to the poor. After all, what incentive was there to be an upstanding taxpayer if the feds were doling out cash to idle scroungers? Thus, with a mighty stroke
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Sep 14th, 2010 | By Timothy McGettigan

Why bother with space travel? As America’s terrestrial problems escalate (e.g., budget deficits, financial crisis, war on terror, healthcare, etc.), critics have charged that space flight is little more than a futile and expensive hobby. After all, what hope is there that NASA programs will ever resolve practical problems such as winning the war on
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Sep 14th, 2010 | By Timothy McGettigan

Cory S. Wanamaker Fulbright Fellow Master of Fine Arts Educator www.airyhillstudio email:  [email protected] I write this as a Fulbright Fellow who was fortunate to receive a Fulbright Scholarship for International Teacher Exchange. I was imbedded in an assessment-based system of another country.   I was able to experience first hand where the U.S. is heading by linking
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Sep 14th, 2010 | By Timothy McGettigan

BOOK REVIEW: Science, Evolution, and Creationism, 2008. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. In an effort to extol the virtues of evolution, the National Academy of Sciences has published an updated version of Science, Evolution, and Creationism (2008). In this brief, but colorful book, a coterie of prestigious scientists take readers on a whirlwind tour of the triumphant and tumultuous
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Sep 14th, 2010 | By Timothy McGettigan

In 2010, American consumers rang up billions in credit card transactions. Thus, there is little doubt that credit cards make an enormous contribution to the overall vitality of the US economy. However, whether or not credit cards are “good” for the average consumer is far more debatable. As a long-time credit card user, I can
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