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I am Jeff McMahon. I teach college English, I'm married to a middle school English teacher, and we have a "rescue" dog, Gretchen, with special emotional needs, though I imagine we're now just as dependent on Gretchen as she is on us. herculogical@frontier.com
Interests: reading, kettlebell workouts, ketogenic diet, religion.
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Replace veggie burger essay in 1C with “Cream” by Haruki Murakami.
Replace veggie burger essay in 1C with “Cream” by Haruki Murakami. Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Lesson Plan Über Alles
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Spring 2020 Remainder Semester Schedule for Both 1C and 1A
Here is 1C Schedule for remainder of Spring 2020: Essay #2 (1,000 words) Minimum of 2 sources for your MLA Works Cited page. Choice A Watch Netflix documentary Ronnie Coleman: The King. Considered to be the greatest bodybuilder of all time, Coleman is now on crutches, faces a lifetime of... Continue reading
Posted 6 days ago at Lesson Plan Über Alles
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Study of "Workism Is Making Americans Miserable" with Thesis Strategies
Study of “Workism Is Making Americans Miserable” by Derek Thompson Workism Cult Defined Thompson observes that Americans have been suckered into becoming members of an identity cult. This cult he calls workism. Thompson writes: The economists of the early 20th century did not foresee that work might evolve from a... Continue reading
Posted Mar 24, 2020 at Critical Thinker
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More Essay Strategies for Deleting Social Media Accounts Essay #2 Due March 30, 2020
More Essay Strategies for Deleting Social Media Accounts Essay Due March 30, 2020 Writing Question: Using Your Homework to Support Your Essay's Thesis Can I as a student use my homework assignments for my introduction and/or body paragraphs of my... Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2020 at Breakthrough Writer
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"How America Ends" Essay Strategies
“How America Ends” Essay Strategies Part 1 Choice C Essay #2 (1,000 words) Due April 7 Minimum of 2 sources for your MLA Works Cited page. Read Yoni Appelbaum’s essay “How America Ends” and develop an argumentative thesis about the role of massive demographic shifts on American democracy. I will... Continue reading
Posted Mar 19, 2020 at Critical Thinker
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Should Community Colleges Use Their Parking Lots to House the Homeless?
Should Community Colleges Use Their Parking Lots to House the Homeless? Choice B for Essay 2, Due April 7, 2020 Read LA Times editorial “Why not let homeless college students park in campus lots?” and develop an argumentative thesis that addresses the claim that community colleges are acting in students’... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2020 at Critical Thinker
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1C Agenda 3-17-20: Should Community Colleges Use Their Parking Lots to House the Homeless?
Should Community Colleges Use Their Parking Lots to House the Homeless? Choice B Read LA Times editorial “Why not let homeless college students park in campus lots?” and develop an argumentative thesis that addresses the claim that community colleges are acting in students’ best interests by providing sleeping spaces in... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2020 at Critical Thinker
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1A Agenda 3-18-20: 3 Thesis Statements for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts
Three Sample Thesis Statements That Address the Argument That We Must Delete Our Social Media Accounts Overview of the Essay Topic Essay Assignment For a 1,000-word essay, develop an argumentative thesis that addresses Jaron Lanier (Ten Arguments for Deleting Your... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2020 at Breakthrough Writer
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1C Agenda 3-17-20: Essay Options & Strategies for Essay #2, Deadline of April 7, 2020 (Includes Bonus Options for Fans of Black Panther Movie)
Essay Options & Strategies for Essay #2, Deadline of April 7, 2020 (Includes Bonus Options for Fans of Black Panther Movie) Essay #2 (1,000 words) Minimum of 2 sources for your MLA Works Cited page. Choice A Watch Netflix documentary Ronnie Coleman: The King. Considered to be the greatest bodybuilder... Continue reading
Posted Mar 16, 2020 at Critical Thinker
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1A Agenda 3-16-20: Writing Essay #2 About Deleting Your Social Media Accounts: Two Strategies
Essay Assignment 2 due on March 30 with 2 sources for Works Cited: For a 1,000-word essay, develop an argumentative thesis that addresses Jaron Lanier (Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now) that social media compromises personal... Continue reading
Posted Mar 15, 2020 at Breakthrough Writer
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1A Agenda for 3-11-20: Social Media Addiction, Power Primer for Signal Phrases
Essay Assignment 2 due on March 30 with 2 sources for Works Cited: For a 1,000-word essay, develop an argumentative thesis that addresses Jaron Lanier (Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now) that social media compromises personal... Continue reading
Posted Mar 9, 2020 at Breakthrough Writer
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1A Agenda 3-18-20: Delete Your Social Media, Lesson 4
Essay Assignment 2 due on March 30 with 2 sources for Works Cited: For a 1,000-word essay, develop an argumentative thesis that addresses Jaron Lanier (Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now) that social media compromises personal excellence, degrades one’s core humanity, and accelerates the disintegration of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 4, 2020 at Lesson Plan Über Alles
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1A Agenda 3-16-20: Delete Your Social Media, Part 3
Essay Assignment 2 due on March 30 with 2 sources for Works Cited: For a 1,000-word essay, develop an argumentative thesis that addresses Jaron Lanier (Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now) that social media compromises personal excellence, degrades one’s core humanity, and accelerates the disintegration of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 4, 2020 at Lesson Plan Über Alles
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1A Agenda 3-11-20: Delete Your Social Media Accounts, Part 2
Essay Assignment 2 due on March 30 with 2 sources for Works Cited: For a 1,000-word essay, develop an argumentative thesis that addresses Jaron Lanier (Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now) that social media compromises personal excellence, degrades one’s core humanity, and accelerates the disintegration of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 4, 2020 at Lesson Plan Über Alles
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1A Agenda: 3-9-20: Delete Your Social Media Accounts, Signal Phrase Power Primer, Lesson 1
Essay Assignment 2 due on March 30 with 2 sources for Works Cited: For a 1,000-word essay, develop an argumentative thesis that addresses Jaron Lanier (Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now) that social media compromises personal... Continue reading
Posted Mar 4, 2020 at Breakthrough Writer
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1C Agenda 3-5-20: Noble Savage Myth, Harari's Bias, Signal Phrase Review, Logical Fallacies; Essay Option 1 Outlines
March 3 Cover the Agricultural Revolution. Homework #5: Read Sapiens to page 159 and in 200 words explain how “imagined orders and hierarchies” resulted in “unfair discrimination.” March 5 Logical Fallacies and Signal Phrase review; Go over Sapiens to page 200. March 10 Chromebook In-Class Objective: Write first half of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 4, 2020 at Critical Thinker
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Sorry, Stan, after my twins were born and I saw them snapping antennas on my vintage radios, I backed off the hobby. Then I started filling my rooms with Amazon Echo products, and now the only radio I use everyday is my kettlebell workout garage: Sangean U1 Worksite radio, over 10 years old and going strong.
Commented Mar 1, 2020 on Take the Watch Addiction Questionnaire to See If You Need to Go to Rehab at Herculodge
Take the Watch Addiction Questionnaire to See If You Need to Go to Rehab
Watch guys, how is the hobby going? Has it taken a turn for the worse? Or is your watch hobby making you happy? Take the Watch-Addiction Questionnaire to see if you need watch rehab. If you answer yes to 10 or more of the following, you may need an intervention. Do you find yourself thi...
1A Agenda 3-2-20: In-Class Writing Goals for Passion Trap and Homework Trap for Essay Due March 9
Essay Option A: Suggested Outline with Sample Thesis: Paragraph 1: Write a cautionary tale of someone who followed the Passion Hypothesis or simply define the Passion Hypothesis. Paragraph 2: Make a claim or argument in defense or refutation of Newport's... Continue reading
Posted Mar 1, 2020 at Breakthrough Writer
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1C Agenda 3-5-20: Noble Savage Myth, Harari's Bias, Signal Phrase Review, Logical Fallacies; Essay Option 1 Outlines
March 3 Cover the Agricultural Revolution. Homework #5: Read Sapiens to page 159 and in 200 words explain how “imagined orders and hierarchies” resulted in “unfair discrimination.” March 5 Logical Fallacies and Signal Phrase review; Go over Sapiens to page 200. March 10 Chromebook In-Class Objective: Write first half of... Continue reading
Posted Mar 1, 2020 at Lesson Plan Über Alles
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1C Agenda 3-3-20: Was the Agricultural Revolution a Crime Against Humanity? Should We Return to the Cave? Signal Phrases Review
March 3 Cover the Agricultural Revolution. Homework #5: Read Sapiens to page 159 and in 200 words explain how “imagined orders and hierarchies” resulted in “unfair discrimination.” March 5 Logical Fallacies and Signal Phrase review; Go over Sapiens to page 200. March 10 Chromebook In-Class Objective: Write first half of... Continue reading
Posted Feb 29, 2020 at Critical Thinker
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"Richard Lewis, Leave My Boyfriend!"
I finally started dating when I was in my mid-twenties. My first girlfriend noticed that I was enamored by a particularly neurotic comedian named Richard Lewis. He specialized in neediness, desperation, alienation, pessimism, and general morbidity. My first girlfriend noticed that not only did I have a special fondness for... Continue reading
Posted Feb 27, 2020 at Leaving Anhedonia
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Meaning Quest That Doesn't End Well
A young man in his early twenties goes to the beach, looks up at the sky and says, “God, help me find meaning.” God says, “Look at the rocks about you and pick them up, study the bottom of them, and eventually you will find that one of them has... Continue reading
Posted Feb 27, 2020 at Leaving Anhedonia
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1C Agenda 3-3-20: Was the Agricultural Revolution a Fraud?
Essay #1 (1,000 words) You need minimum 2 sources for your MLA Works Cited page. Choice A Read Tad Friend’s New Yorker online article “Can a Burger Help Solve Climate Change?” and look at two opposing camps on the role of alternative protein sources as a viable replacement for meat.... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2020 at Lesson Plan Über Alles
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1A Agenda 2-26-20: Are We Giving Young People Too Much Homework? Signal Phrases, In-Text Citations
Essay 1 Options for Essay 1 Due on March 9 and needs 2 sources for Works Cited Option 1: In an essay of 1,000 words, defend, refute, or complicate Cal Newport’s claim from his book excerpt from So Good They... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2020 at Breakthrough Writer
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1C Agenda 2-27-20: Sapiens Covers Limited Liability & Imagined Realities
Essay #1 (1,000 words) You need minimum 2 sources for your MLA Works Cited page. Choice A Read Tad Friend’s New Yorker online article “Can a Burger Help Solve Climate Change?” and look at two opposing camps on the role of alternative protein sources as a viable replacement for meat.... Continue reading
Posted Feb 26, 2020 at Critical Thinker
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