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Both schools also provide advocacy services for college and high school students in the US, Europe and Asia.
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Champions of Justice
by Sheryl McClellan LC Class of '11
US Attorneys
Soaring With Angels or Walking With Devils
It seems we have a lawyer problem in the United States.
Although at the conclusion of this article I will suggest some of the wonderful things lawyers could do with their degrees to both earn good (as opposed to regal) livings, and, at the same time, make simply living better for others, the first part of this article will be devoted to outlining what others have termed America's "lawyer problem."
I am not going to name names or divulge the sources of the numbers quoted here. It is a very basic exercise to find those names and numbers with simple Google searches, for those really interested in the subject.
And, it is my hope that, after reading this article, the reader will be sufficiently intrigued to look into the problem himself.
So, with that caveat, let's turn to the first unnamed individual, the Japanese Minister of Justice who has warned his fellow countrymen as follows, "I do not wish to see this Nation become another United States, with "freedom" simply a word to use in speeches, while a million two hundred thousand attorneys at every level of our society does his or her best every day to amass personal fortunes at the expense of civility."
Said differently, evidently this good minister doesn't wish to live in a Japan in which, like his American brothers, lawyers by the hundreds of thousands are allowed to define the law in such a dramatic way, passing society's norms through their own, some would say, skewed value systems.
The Minister, with a sense of emphatic condemnation, continued "American law schools are as I speak designing and presenting feminist and race based sensibility courses whose goals are to make illegal many forms of conversation throughout the United States of which they, the ministers of justice, do not approve. Do we want this for Japan? I say an emphatic, no! America is now a Country without anything but rules, rules and more rules, beyond the power of our Gods to reme....
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07/29/2010
The United States High School Accreditation Conspiracy
This Article Explains:
1) Why graduates of high school programs accredited by agencies recognized by the United States Department of Education lose out to graduates of unaccredited programs by a four-to-one margin when applying to elite colleges;
2) Why graduates of high school programs accredited by agencies recognized by the US Department of Education are not prepared to compete on an equal footing with graduates of unaccredited high school programs during their college years, eventually, by a three-to-one margin, dropping out of competition for graduate school assistantships in the fields of engineering, mathematics, physics and chemistry;
3) Why dropout rates from programs accredited by agencies recognized by the US Department of Education top those of unaccredited high school programs by a six-to-one margin;
4) Why graduates of high school programs unaccredited by agencies recognized by the US Department of Education are, by a five-to-one margin, more likely to be happy with their chosen profession;
5) How the US Department of Education eschews responsibility for the performances of accredited public high schools.
Do We Need Yet Another Conspiracy Theory?
CONSPIRACY!
Don't we have enough folks shouting conspiracy when it comes to oil or aliens, the Kennedys, 9/11, or, my gosh, Elvis?
Well, of course we do!
Do we need one more pseudo intellectual like myself developing yet another conspiracy theory? Of course not!
However, when conspiracy is used in reference to aliens or Elvis, it really does require someone with investigative talent to put the pieces together, and, even then, experts like Dr. Michael Starbird of the University of Texas at Austin, will tell you that, with the millions of interactions going on every day, everywhere, if one wishes to focus on a few, then it is possible to conditionally prove just about anything.
All that aside, in the case of the high school accreditation conspiracy in the United States, the results have been so disastrous for so long, and "arrangements" between education officials and what am....
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Opiates in America
JILL'S WALL OF HEROES
Congressman Dr. Ron Paul
Nobel Laureate, the late Dr. Milton Friedman
CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com (YouTube video)
[Ed. Note] Linda Christas College does not encourage the use of drugs of any kind, including alcohol or opiates. However, this student article contains a point of view that the College administration believes worthy of being heard.
Marcus Aurelius
In literature, the name Charles Dickens is synonymous with championing the downtrodden. Without exception, Dickens' name appears when respected literary critics are asked to identify a "top ten." Several leading sociologists have cited Dickens' work as the greatest influence for social good of the past two hundred years.
Florence Nightingale, known to the world as the "Saint of the Crimean War," worked well past the point of exhaustion for several years, sacrificing herself in order to treat wounded military personnel. She also established nursing procedures and standards, many of which are still in use today.
Elizabeth Barret Browning and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are perennially named to lists of the West's greatest poets.
We indeed are familiar with these household names, even though, as in the case of Marcus Aurelius, two millennia have passed since his death.
However, one interesting reality with which many of us are not familiar is that all of these individuals were life-long opiate users, finding comfort in them at a time when others were, as today, ruining their lives, and the lives of their families, with another drug, alcohol.
This essay is not a call for the abolition of alcohol. We in the US tried that from 1919 to 1933.
We learned much as a result of the social experiment referred to as the 18th Amendment of the US Constitution. For instance, the overall consumption of alcohol actually increased during Prohibition. In New York City alone there were upwards by one estimate of 100,000 speakeasys.
Upon the ....
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The Principles of Principals
Why Both My Parents Were Fired From US Public Schools
by Parker Stellman, LC Class of '12
Since my parents have always been very clear about why the public schools in the US do not, cannot, and never will support innovation, I thought I would write this article for the Linda Christas student blog explaining exactly why I believe that to be true. (Please excuse me if I ramble a bit. I am going to tell you this story from my heart without necessarily being too concerned with style. I hope you will be patient with me.)
Just as a plug for Linda Christas, my chosen college, everything I am about to tell you about why my parents were fired, would get every single teacher at Linda Christas fired as well.
As a matter of fact, I have the impression, if a teacher wouldn't be fired by a US public school, he or she would never be hired by Linda Christas Academy or College. But, that's a subject for another essay. This one has to do with my parents' stint in the US public schools, schools that they thought would be their destination after their own college experiences, even though they themselves had been home schooled.
To start, I just want to say my parents are the best people on this planet from my point of view. They have always provided me with a safe, secure and loving home, and they are the world's best teachers. That they were not able to make a career in the US public school classroom as far as I am concerned is to their eternal credit.
With that as preliminary then, please allow me to provide you with my (obviously biased) view of why the public schools, especially the high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools in the US will continue to provide children with one of the worst experiences possible, and why my parents were cast out of that system.
We, the US, are currently virtually dead last in the developed world educationally. That is, of course, below the graduate school level (grad schools are populated 60% by foreign nationals, so they don't count), and there is a reason for that, a reason that has to do with power, and the 100 billion dollars per year that supports that power.
I titled this essay The Principles of Principals because the entire public school system in the US (I am speaking of those schools t....
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Linda Christas College
Undergraduate, Graduate, Continuing Education
Unlike traditional colleges that maintain large academic departments whose accreditations are granted automatically as a result of campus-wide cursory inspections and evaluations, Linda Christas College creates majors in a dynamic way, recruiting top academics in fields of study as student demand requires.
Each degree is designed to capture the most from a student's aptitudes, interests, skill levels, and learning style.
There are no auditorium-size classes in a Linda Christas College experience. Rather, the Linda Christas College student studies with the same format as he or she would be presented at a traditional university such as Oxford or Cambridge.
Linda Christas is not limited in the sense of having to depend on a small group of academics who may or may not be the best in their field. Linda Christas can and does employ first-tier academics as point in time consultants to design and present courses to both undergraduates and graduate students.
Linda Christas offers a full range of accredited degrees in the same variety and quality as would be found at a prestigious university, often employing the same professors who have delivered classes at Harvard, Juniata, Oxford, Beloit, Georgetown, Berkeley, Williams, Pomona, Grinnell and the Sorbonne. Forward | The Linda Christas Student Advocacy Group >>
