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Well, skip what Alex Jones is saying for the time being…I think the photos on that page I linked to were taken from a variety of other sources. One of the photos has a picture of where that boy was who died in the blast.
This site has some of the most interesting photo analysis of the bombing site.http://www.infowars.com/boston-bombing-culprits-found/
I would still disagree with such an assertion, or at least the premise of the assertion. I think a humanities degree can help with meaningful employment after graduation. The fact is that most people, upon graduation, will be entering the field of business – not history, not biology, not literature, etc. When I was getting my MBA, I recalled thinking that many of the concepts of the business world seemed like the codification of common sense; that is, the rules that guide businesses aren't necessarily esoteric, but accessible and understandable once laid out in basic form. In my opinion, one does not need to be a business major to succeed in the business world.So where does the humanities come in? I think humanities degrees help greatly in the business world in the writing of grants, in the arguing of taking one course of action over the other, in editing position papers. These are skills that college students probably will not learn much of with non-humanities degrees. The bottom line is that a humanities degree can prepare students for meaningful employment. However, humanities courses need to give students the proper skills. If the criticism of the humanities is that some programs have been watered down and don't teach the concepts and skills that they should be teaching, then I would probably agree, but I don't think this trumps the basic fact that humanities degrees can be valuable.
The trail for the bomber has now gone cold. It still seems like it's an Islamicist who did this based on the weapon type, but I still fear that unfounded allegations against conservatives are going to be cast into the public eye because of this. It has happened with previous national tragedies, and it seems to be happening already. Tragedies are blamed on conservatives/conservative thought, but when the blame turns out to be erroneous later on, do we ever hear apologies?
I think there are different ways to look at this. To begin, we need to separate the politically-energized college courses (which get all the press) from the others which are not all about off-the-hook professors lecturing on the evils of Republicans and the White Man.So, are these other humanities classes "worth it"? I would say yes, they can be. Today isn't really much different than decades go; there weren't jobs for "hired philosophers" back then, and there aren't any today. So why would humanities degrees be any more "worthless" today than yesterday? I can say this - the humanities has never been solely about the direct application of skills to one's field (unless, for example, one is going into academia).A humanities degree (ideally) teaches students how to think which can then be applied to a variety of fields. I recall hearing back when I was in college that philosophy majors actually scored higher on the LSATs than pre-law majors. Why? Because philosophy is about logic, about applying rational thought, and following the arguments of others. Similar things can be said about other fields within the humanities - literature, history, theology, etc. Humanities degrees can also teach students how to write. Often times, humanities fields involve the writing of essays, which is a different skill set than analyzing business charts or software code. Writing is one of the most basic skills needed across a variety of fields, and the humanities can help foster this.Humanities courses fail when they do not teach the correct skills necessary to approach the field. Universities need to realize the importance of basic skills which students can use in the humanities which can later be transferred to other fields. I recall a year or two ago when something like 1/3 of an entire business class in Florida was caught cheating on an exam. As an employer, would I rather hire someone who might know how to create a SWOT analysis but cheats on exams, or a philosophy major who can think and write and knows a thing or two about ethics but may not know the ins and outs of the business world? For me, the answer is not all that difficult.
They are also saying it is right-wing home grown terrorism.
WHO is saying that? The media? The same media which tried to link two previous killers to the Tea Party?
Yes, this is sad. I wonder who is responsible for this. Could be any number of people. I have a strange feeling – hopefully unfounded that there may be a claimed “anti gay” motivation behind this. Hopefully I am wrong.
Right now it's said that North Korea is targeting Tokyo as its #1 target. If that were ever to come to be, what would the likely results? Would there by large-scale economic turmoil due to global markets responding? Would it be a financial mess as nations race to come to the aid of residents of Japan harmed by the explosion and fallout? Or in dealing with damaged nuclear reactors? Would the fallout potentially move across the Pacific to the U.S.? I could see how this could be catastrophic all over and quickly put the world onto the path of a very strange and dire course of events.
Thanks – now everyone else in the world knows which garage to park in, so many it will be full next time you try to park there. ;DI wouldn't mind living in New England at some point in my life. Probably not Boston proper, as I would prefer a place a bit less urbanized (and a place without so many voters who would vote those Senators into office). I suppose it is nice to have a large city to get to once in a while, though.
How so? It's hard to tell just how big of a threat North Korea is right now, but it sounds bad. But say they launch a missile that hits Seoul. How would the world change? How would the U.S. change?
It looks like a good information site, but yeah, the photos don't get very large, unfortunately. Also, I have really only been to Boston twice in my life so I would not be familiar with many places that the blog discusses.http://historyofmassachusetts.org/photo-gallery/?locale=en_US&wppa-album=1&wppa-cover=0&wppa-occur=1
Yes, that is true – the intent to go to war is separate from the good/bad that results from the war. I don't think the two are necessarily connected in a way that we can clearly assess them at this point in time. Historians of the future will have a better view of the positives and negatives that have resulted from the war.
