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Created: September 13, 2002
Latest Update: September 13, 2002
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On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, Marlene Whitaker wrote:

Sorry Jeanne, you've got me hooked. Please excuse all these things, I know you have tons of other students, but you have been the only resource of intelligence I have encountered in a long, long, time. Although I did have a super Humanities Professor that I enjoyed. If you would be so kind as to explain your sentence, under, Course Description, for Soc. 595-01, I think this should apply to Soc. of Justice. It is in paragraph 2. Line 2:

"Marx's concept of labor explotation is with us today as we consider jobs disappearing without adequate new employment."

Does this mean we should go back to an era that is only as -- un-definable for human interest, as, opposed to what goverrment might think them able? That Government speaks, that a Brahms, Beethoven, Heifitz, should be told they Must be what the Government tells them to be, (punished) in my view, for excelling. That others that do not have, or work for such accomplishments, should be able to glide on the others laurels? This is not to say Gender, still needs a huge Look at me, I'm as Human as You, category, but the lazy, should not ever be given the fruits, and the glory of the true people that are so "giving." Some that will, last forever in our humanity, some that will learn to appreciate their gifts, and some that won't. We should all be given the chance to have these gifts, but as you said in another of your works, a gift horse shouldn't be looked at in the face with contempt, if it is ignorance, then it is of their own chosing. I think that sounded a bit pompous, I know how hard it is to dig yourself out of something, I know how people have a way of making you feel you can't achieve, I know I am as feisty as you, and this is what we need to give to everyone. However, it should be for a unified goal, not one that is for our own personal achievement alone. If this happens, then we are left only with ourselves again. Reaching out, touching someone, communication, with our smiles, our art, then we can unite.