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Extra Credit-Robert Waller

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attend lecture 5/4/12 2-3pm, and blog. please email me to let me know that you've posted, so i can check your post and get you your extra credit (10pts)

 

University Book & Supply to Host Author Robert James Waller

Friday, May 4    2:00 - 3:00 PM

 

Cedar Falls, IA, April 23, 2012 - University Book & Supply will host world-renowned author Robert James Waller as he presents and holds a book signing for his recently released, "The Summer Nights Never End...Until They Do." This 12th book by Waller is not about covered bridges. Instead, it delivers on his profound, academically-based understanding of pursuing goals and ideas from a mindset of logic and reason.

 

This is the first published work to deliver on Waller's many years of innovative, intellectual pursuit on the way the human mind can use logic and reason, and how these can be taught in academia, says Traders Press President Karris Golden. "Our trader and investor audience has responded resoundingly to the kind of movement of ideas and culture that Robert James Waller has had great success in developing from his sophisticated, international corporate consulting life," she reports. Waller has a great deal more research and work on the subject that business leaders are anxious to tap, she says.

 

Among Waller's non-academic publications is the bestselling novel, "The Bridges of Madison County", with over 12 million copies in print in more than 40 languages (plus it's a major film and has been presented as a theatrical production in several countries, including a long-running production in Japan, a recent successful run in Paris, and forthcoming productions in other countries). Waller has six other novels published, five additional books on various topics, and has completed a photography-poetry book. The novel "Puerto Vallarta Squeeze" was made into a motion picture starring Harvey Keitel and Scott Glenn and is available on DVD. Altogether, his books have sold approximately 17 million copies.

 

"The Summer Nights Never End ... Until They Do:

Life, Liberty, and the Lure of the Short-Run"

On a perfect summer night when the breeze wind is warm, fireflies are blinking and all seems just right, you might be lulled into the belief that everything is easy. Get real! Ease, comfort and good times don't just happen. Success requires sound judgment, hard work and the willingness to forego immediate gratification. In his new book, Robert James Waller covers topics that will help you improve your trading and investing-as well as all areas of your life: love and money; choices and consequences; vicious circles and social traps; getting into-and out of-trouble.
 

 

This week's topical blog will be devoted to your analysis of the movie Billy Elliot.

This movie has concepts from Chapters 14-15.

Watch the movie. Take notes.

Next, write your comment. Your comment does not need to provide an overview of the movie (we have all seen it). Your comment should be an in-depth analysis of one or more principles from your text. You should use scenes and characters to provide examples of textbook concepts. Your comment should reflect that you are in an upper division, university level Motivation and Emotion course and clearly link elements from the movie to the textbook.  This is a comprehensive assignment (linking course lectures, textbook, and the movie) and you cannot do that in just a few short paragraphs.

BE SPECIFIC. At the bottom of your comment, please put a list of the ME terms you used.


ch 15, last reading blog, you can do it!

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Based on your reading from Tuesday (Chapter 14), choose one specific topic from the chapter you read that you would like to know more about. Do some intensive googling to find high quality information about your topic. Provide a detailed summary of your topic, and include 3 high quality links to more information.

Read and summarize chapter 14.

What will you remember about this chapter even years from now? Why?

list your terms as usual.

a little extra time since this is being posted late:

Your reading blog for this week is over Chapter 13. Your blog should summarize this chapter.

Next, go out on the internet and research a topic of interest to you that you found in chapter 13. Report on what you found, and include at least 2 links to that information.

Covering chapters 10-13, you know what to do!