"Pollak, Edward" wrote:
> Other scholars (including the Rambam (Maimonides) have argued that many of
> the mitzvot were included to keep the People from adopting customs of the
> Canaanites. Thus, if boiling meat in milk was a pagan custom or part of a
> pagan ritual it would be forbidden. Simi
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Pollak, Edward wrote:
> >
> Agreed. Many's the time I've had a student explain his/her answer to a MC
> question and wound up saying, "yeah, I guess if you were reading the
> question from that perspective, your answer is reasonable." I then give
> everybody an extra point.
Michael Renner wrote
> The "lousy exam" message is easier to diffuse with MC exams if you use
> some
> form of machine scoring. In my case, I spend
> about two minutes after each exam explaining this and giving the results,
> including any adjustment to the exam scores based on what I le
Linda wrote
> While a number of the Mizvot seem to have no logic behind them, the
> prohibition against the above is speculated as follows - It would be too
> cruel for the mother to endure having their young killed in front of
> them (something else you are not to do) and then to have them play
Apologies to all - I forgot to include the URL for the article about the
"Islam hotline."
Since this is a daily archived paper, I'm not sure if the URL will work for
longer than today, but here goes:
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/04/06/fp7s2-csm.shtml
Beth Benoit
Jeff (&all)
I somewhere have a nice NYTimes Sunday magazine article about
lottery winners. The writer visited a meeting of lottery millionaires (kind
of a get-together to provide photo-ops for the lottery folks, IIRC). The
stories were a very mixed bag - there was clearly nothing that woul
Title: Islam questions?
I found the following piece in today's Christian Science Monitor very interesting. It describes a 24-hour hotline for questions about the Koran. With the recent threads about some religions' decisions about "things you should do and shouldn't do," thought this might br
Dear Friends,
I am creating a graduate-level class online in "theory-based research." I am quite
lost though because I cannot find any syllabi for such a course online, and the
text-based and online materials on theory, conceptual models and other concepts I am
supposed to teach about don't pr
Hi Y'all,
Paul did a great job with his discussion of Judaic theology what I would
probably refer to as Judaic law.
Paul Brandon wrote:
> I'm not aware of any such category as "ceremonial laws" in Judaism.
There are laws which are specifically for the Kohanim (Priests) in
regards to runni
David Myers states in his Psychology 5th edition (1998) from Worth
publishers that, "despite the realities of triumph and tragedy,
million-dollar lottery winners and paraplegics report similar levels of
happiness". (p. 410) I don't see a citation for that particular claim but it
is in the midst of
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Renner, Michael wrote:
>
> The "lousy exam" message is easier to diffuse with MC exams if you use some
> form of machine scoring.
There's no exam that couldn't be improved, and item analysis can
certainly help make exams better, for those lucky enough to have
it. But the probl
In a recent chapter on causes and correlates of happiness,
Michael Argyle cites Smith, S., & Razzell, P. (1975)
_The Pools Winners_. London: Caliban Books as discussing
the fate of lottery winners.
This chapter has lots of other stuff about income and
happiness as well.
TT
==
> Jeffry P. Ricker write:
>It seemed to me that he was asking if big winnings make people
> happier or more satisfied with their lives; or if, instead, they had
> such a difficult time coping with the life changes brought about by
> large winnings that they experienced decreases in happiness and
I have a student in my intro-psych course who is trying to decide on his
career options. While considering this issue, his thoughts apparently
wandered to state lotteries, and he began to wonder whether or not
psychologists have ever studied individuals who win large lottery
prizes. It seemed to m
I'd rather hoped that someone more knowledgeable in Judaic theology would
deal with this, but here goes:
> There are other offenses you omitted, such as adultery. I'm not a
> biblical scholar, but let me say a few things. For one, homosexuality is
> not only condemned in the Old but also th
I missed the fist part on Mother Theresa. I'm not an expert on her "charity"
work, but I do know one thing about her and her "work." She was not a social
worker, and to judge her by traditional social work standards is missing
the point. (When she was alive) if you showed up on her doorstep askin
Title: RE: darwinian slip and a thought
Try this link for more back and forth on Mother Teresa:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/judith_hayes/happy_heretic/1998/march.html
On Thu, 05 Apr 2001 09:34:23 -0500 Stephen W Tuholski
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...do people tend to get the "lousy exam" message more often from
>essay/open-ended or multiple choice exams?
The "lousy exam" message is easier to diffuse with MC exams if you use some
form of machine scoring.
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