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		<title>Ralston Updates</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/08/17/ralson-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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A lot of my students will recognize Aron Ralston&#8217;s story, since I like to use it to investigate ideas involving heroism and what it means to be a hero.  I found the video above from  The New York Times to be interesting.  The report mentions that Ralston&#8217;s book, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kesey’s Modernized Combine</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/08/17/keseys-modernized-combine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times seems to be preparing for Ray Bradbuy&#8217;s 90th birthday by publishing his most recent angry remarks. This one caught my eye (I love it when people pluralize &#8220;Internet&#8221;):
“We have too many cellphones. We&#8217;ve got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gatsby’s Green Light</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/08/15/gatsbys-green-light-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago the The New York Times published an article about Gatsby&#8217;s dreams and how these relate to our own.   The article brings up ideas about how we connect to this abstract and dated story, arguing that teachers think that their &#8220;students see in &#8216;Gatsby&#8217; glimmers of their own evolving identities and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misplaced Intentions</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/06/25/misplaced-intentions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misplaced Intentions Staff</dc:creator>
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We are pleased to announce that the first issue of Misplaced Intentions is now available as an online Google Document, and in a PDF format for download.   In keeping with our attempts at remaining a carbon neutral publication, we ask that if you download the PDF, you keep it as such on your computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pi (Faith in Chaos)</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/05/19/pi-faith-in-chaos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 15:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been enjoying Aronofsky&#8217;s first movie Pi as a nice starting point for our exploration in TOK of Mathematics as an &#8220;Area of Knowledge.&#8221;

After viewing, students will respond to one of the following questions in the comments below, incorporating an idea from Pi into their responses:

How do the knowledge issues in Pi relate to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>English 9 Practice Response to Text</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/05/19/english-9-practice-response-to-text/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2010/05/19/english-9-practice-response-to-text/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 05:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the following linked article from The Boston Globe titled &#8220;Caught in the act: Juveniles sentenced to Shakespeare&#8221; (the text), and then post a comment below on my site intended for the &#8220;Letters to the Editor&#8221; section of the newspaper (this will be your response).  You will need to analyze and evaluate ideas and details [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music and Emotions</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/04/27/music-and-emotions/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2010/04/27/music-and-emotions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In TOK class, we have been investigating Emotion as our fourth and final way of knowing (according to IB), and using music as a guide.  I wanted to provide a couple links to what we have been listening to and viewing.  We began by watching and listening to cLOUDDEAD perform their song &#8220;Apt. A, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lord, what fools these mortals be!</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/04/26/and-now-for-something-completely-different-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article from CNN titled &#8220;Was Shakespeare&#8217;s Ghost Writer . . . Shakespeare?&#8221; on the authorship of Shakespeare&#8217;s plays, and James Shapiro&#8217;s new book Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare:

To the anti-Stratfordians, Shakespeare &#8212; who left behind, by modern standards, relatively little in the way of personal records &#8212; was too unworldly, too unromantic (in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misplaced Intentions: Call for Submissions</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/04/16/misplaced-intentions-call-for-submissions/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2010/04/16/misplaced-intentions-call-for-submissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Misplaced Intentions Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As students, we know that we produce a lot of work only because we are assigned to complete it by our teachers. Most of this work is left unshared and, most likely, never looked at again after it has been graded. Misplaced Intentions is an opportunity to collect these unshared works&#8211;and to give opportunities to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plays in Plays (What happens when fiction lives in fiction?)</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/04/14/plays-in-plays-what-happens-when-fiction-lives-in-fiction/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2010/04/14/plays-in-plays-what-happens-when-fiction-lives-in-fiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Borges to Cervantes to Shakespeare to Velazquez, many artists have produced works that center around the question of &#8220;what happens when fiction lives in fiction?&#8221; and experimented with the play-in-play, or painter-in-painting, or novelist-in-novel, and so on, ad infinitum.
Shakespeare&#8217;s A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream is no exception, and in class we have been drawing conclusions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American War Writers Abroad</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/04/05/american-war-writers-abroad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times Sunday Book Review Section included this piece titled &#8220;Reading Tim O&#8217;Brien in Hanoi,&#8221; where the writer, Matt Steinglass, investigates American War writers and their lack of popularity in Vietnam.  An interesting read:
“Vietnamese authors should learn to tell their war stories the way O’Brien does,” Hieu said. “With parody, nonlinear plot exposition. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/03/24/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2010/03/24/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This movie might prove to be a cool bridge between Reason and Emotion as &#8220;ways of knowing.&#8221;  At the very least, my TOK class gets to see a great Kaufman / Gondry collaboration.  And check out the website for Lacuna Inc. 
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		<title>Primer: What Happens if it Works?</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/03/23/primer-what-happens-if-it-works-again/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2010/03/23/primer-what-happens-if-it-works-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
I have included some cool links concerning the movie Primer.  First and foremost is the movie&#8217;s website, Primermovie.com. But beware: it only becomes more confusing, and I would recommend finishing the movie before you play around there.  Below are two interviews that I enjoyed reading:
A Primer Primer&#8211;An interview with Shane Carruth for The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reason and Statistics</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/03/09/reason-and-statistics/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2010/03/09/reason-and-statistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mrquale.com/?p=1080</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In TOK we began to investigate how statistics relates to Reason as our Way of Knowing.  Two people came to mind:
Hans Rosling and his website Gapminder.org


Chris Jordan and his Running the Numbers (An American Self-Portrait) Project.  On his website he describes the project:
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlinale Reflections</title>
		<link>http://mrquale.com/2010/02/17/berlinale-reflections/</link>
		<comments>http://mrquale.com/2010/02/17/berlinale-reflections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Quale</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of attending the Berlin International Film Festival where I was able to see the world premiere of Arvin Chen&#8217;s first feature-length film Au Revior Taipei. Last year he came away from the festival with a Silver Bear Award for his short film Mei, which you can watch below in its entirety.  [...]]]></description>
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