Kelly
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Stars Over Washington
- Clarafication
- From Cupcakes To Caviar
- Maiya knits. Mayhem ensues.
- Notes by Noon - مذكرات نون
- p e a c e f u l t u r m o i l
- Political Theory - Habermas and Rawls
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Location | Mesa, AZ, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a Master's candidate at ASU (Religious Studies / PoliSci) with a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies / Humanities. I'm hoping, once I complete my graduate degree, to teach at the high school / Community College level. I'd like to develop a curriculum that has a little bit of religious studies, a little bit of cultural studies, a little bit of civics, and a little bit of philosophy / rhetoric / logic. I sometimes also think about running for local office, particularly school board-ish positions, because I think we are doing our young people a disservice by dumbing down our curricula and teaching them to memorize material for tests, rather than teaching them about the way the world works. Additionally, I think there's too much emphasis on tolerance and not enough on engagement; one can tolerate another who is different by simply allowing him (or her) to exist, while still hating. When one engages with another and discovers things in common rather than focusing on things that are different, hatred is a lot more difficult. |
| Interests | Politics, Astrology, Religion, Sustainable/Green Living, Herbology, Crystal and Stone Magic and Therapy |
| Favorite Movies | LOTR (all 3), Star Wars (Episodes IV V and VI), Seven Years in Tibet (the acting wasn't great but the story was), Neverending Story (1 and 2), Mystic River, the Harry Potter films, Memento, Inception. |
| Favorite Music | 80s Rock, Celtic, World Music. |
| Favorite Books | Fiction:, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen King, Frank Herbert, R. A. Salvatore, Anne McCaffrey, George R.R. Martin, Mercedes Lackey, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson, Ray Bradbury., NonFiction: just about anything to do with religion or politics, books on crystal/gem healing, Scott Cunningham, Zechariah Sitchin, God is a Verb, Plato, Nostradamus, Eqbal Ahmad |