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Why Work is Heathly
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Growing up as a kid, while I listened to my parents discuss my dad’s doctor visit from my bedroom, sorting baseball and football cards, I overheard my mom say, “The doctor said if you had gone back to work, you would be much healthier.” That was the day I decided and committed to working…
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Catalogue of the Officers, Instructors and Students of the Jackson Union School, for the Year Ending January, 1857.
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Published in Detroit by the Free Press Book and Job Printing House in 1857, and originates from Jackson, Michigan. The document is part of the collections at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan, where it has been digitized (likely by Google, based on the markings in the image). It’s a 27-page…
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Sometimes Marines Need a Good Laugh!
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My time serving in the United States Marine Corps was a lot of fun, and it was the deep laughs that helped me get through the toughest of days. I’m not sure Marine Officers had ever seen an NCO love his job so much. Hell Yeah! I was at war at the age of…
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Debunking Myths and Redefining Foundations
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The Strategic Legacy of America’s “Founding Feathers” In the grand narrative of American geopolitics, control over land has always been the ultimate strategic imperative—a principle echoed in Halford Mackinder’s Heartland Theory, which posits that whoever commands the pivotal territories shapes global power. Yet, when we apply this lens to the United States’ own origins,…
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Natural Intellegence
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Let’s try not to forget the power of Mother Nature and Natural Selection. A mother bird will choose which offspring to feed first. Typically, this is accomplished through the natural intelligence of natural selection and the migrations of life within the environment’s geographical and survival needs. As humans, we make mistakes more so than…
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Mackinder Farm
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Gainsborough and Historic Bunkers Gainsborough, a market town in Lincolnshire, England, has a rich history tied to World War II, including bombings and the use of air raid shelters—often referred to as historic bunkers in modern contexts due to their underground or semi-underground design for protection. These structures were essential during the war, as…
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Historical Lines of Communication
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Joseph Dodge and Halford Mackinder were influential figures in geopolitics and economic policy, respectively, in the early 20th century, though they did not collaborate directly. Mackinder’s theories shaped strategic thinking about world power, while Dodge implemented economic plans that had a profound, practical impact on post-war recovery. These crossroads are like two trains passing…
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Michigan 1961
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Ten years before I was born, Michigan was undergoing a pivotal transformation with the drafting of a new state constitution. 1961–1962 Constitutional Convention On October 3, 1961, 144 delegates from every walk of life assembled at the Lansing Civic Center to draft a new Constitution for Michigan. The delegates’ task was difficult. Michigan’s existing…
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Made in the USA
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Picking up aluminum cans and glass bottles at a local park as a kid was one of the best economic lessons I ever learned. Simple as it was, working for dimes helped pay my way through public school, trying to keep up with the social trends that my parents could not afford. I took…
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Common Roads of Education
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I woke up this morning, grabbed a cup of coffee, and began thinking about my studies over the past decade. The bitter feelings of rejection from misinterpretations of my personal and professional character have subsided, while my writing skills have seemed to fall into place just at the right moment. The effort of sharing…