Tag: history
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Remembering a black substitute teacher who taught us about Black English Vernacular
I don’t remember the scholar’s name, but she was a black woman who substitute taught at our school (the Mabel E. O’Farrell School of Creative and Performing Arts in Southeast San Diego, which was a black neighborhood) one day in AP English in 1985. Although her last name escapes me, I remember when she introduced…
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Veterans Day 2019
Thank you, veteran, for your sacrifice and service!
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society movie review
Overwhelmingly beautiful! I rated The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) 10/10 #IMDb https://t.co/rTQaJ2aDgJ — Daniel Greene (@danielgreene) August 13, 2018
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How I met my husband fourteen years ago at the Claire de Lune Coffee Lounge
as I watched him walk to his table, I thought he would be good for me… I never heard from my mystery man, but I went to a Memorial Day pool party two days later and there he was!
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MLK on education
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Daniel Greene 