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A Closer Look at the San Pasqual Battlefield by Briana S. Brigham

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This paper will focus on various aspects of the San Pasqual Battlefield, located in Escondido, California. The notion of public memory, which emerges from the intersection of official and vernacular cultural expressions, will be explored through the history the San Pasqual Battlefield portrays (Bodnar 13). At a California State Park, such as the San Pasqual Battlefield, it is fair to say that visitors expect an unbiased assessment of the battle between the Californios and the Americans.

Teaching Writing with YouTube by Michelle Barbeau, San Diego State

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Watch the YouTube video “Did you know 3.0.” What does it all mean? We are living in exponential times and information technology’s effects on society, globally and on the individual level, are real. These changes are noticeable in today’s college students, because they are the first generation to have grown up with computers. For these digital natives, a large portion of written and verbal communication occurs through e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, instant messages, forums, blogs, etc. Shouldn’t these social practices and their resulting discourse have a place in the college classroom? We have no choice if we want curriculum to remain current and relevant to our students.

Working with the Ideas from The Procrastinator’s Handbook of Rita Emmett by Albert Moorin

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Fallacy: Dreaders fear that projects will take too much time.

Truth: It will almost always take less time than you thought. Process: devote one uninterrupted hour, a so-called time crunch, to the task