by Jake Pelini | Feb 1, 2016 |
As part of my online class this weekend, I had to post an introduction of myself to a discussion forum so that my virtual classmates could gauge who I am a little bit. Since I have not been asked to do this sort of thing, and since it was fun, I have decided to...
by Jake Pelini | Jan 24, 2016
Given the madness of my final semester in college, I’ve decided to use this blog to meditate on one of my current stresses, my current coping mechanisms for this stress, as well as strategies I might explore to improve said mechanisms. The stress that I would...
by Jake Pelini | Jan 18, 2016
I still remember the first few times that I heard a song by Amy Winehouse. I was younger, probably thirteen. Both my parents would work on Saturday mornings, so I would often spend the early part of the morning home with my older siblings. Growing up, our household...
by Jake Pelini | Dec 4, 2015
In one of my first blog posts for the PLA some years ago, I referenced “What Is Education For? ,” the graduation speech given to the University of Arkansas’s class of 1990 by David Orr (current Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College). At...
by Jake Pelini | Nov 29, 2015
After visiting the American South this weekend, I would like to share with everyone a portion of our group’s paper from last fall, since the exploitation of migrant workers is still very prevalent in our country. In her 2011 article “Why Americans Won’t Do Dirty...
by Jake Pelini | Nov 8, 2015
As a continuation of last week’s (and, indeed, last year’s) blogs, I’ve included some research that I’ve been doing on the network of prisons in Communist Romania. The Romanian gulag system was a network of symbolic, isolated micro spaces that...
by Jake Pelini | Nov 8, 2015
Before I begin my discussion of ethical leadership, I should clarify the terms I will be using throughout this essay. Personally, I differentiate between morals and ethics. For me, morals signify a person’s individual code of values, culled from personal beliefs...
by Jake Pelini | Nov 1, 2015
As the semester’s work piles higher and higher, I find myself wanting to escape to happier landscapes. As such, I figured this week I would blog reminiscences about one of my favorite trips–that which I took to Romania in February 2014. Below you’ll...
by Jake Pelini | Oct 25, 2015 |
I’m particularly missing summer right about now, and I noticed that many fellow PLA students have been proffering creative reflections not necessarily pertinent to leadership. And so I figured as brief respite from the literary analyses swamping my computer...
by Jake Pelini | Oct 11, 2015
If I blog about the Writing Center a lot, it’s because the experience tutoring has had a profound influence on me. I’ve therefore attempted to craft a story that would aptly describe some of my thoughts to readers of this blog post. “Dhimmitude,” I...
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