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A few months ago, Nicole sent us an Excel spreadsheet of movie trivia, consisting of a bunch of film scenes with the persons (but not clothing) digitally erased. You had to guess the movie title from the scene. Unfortunately, some of the answers were frustratingly mispelled and the answer list was password protected by the [...]

Assignment 4.

Copyright Karen Clement, May 2004. Submitted 10:00pm CST. Despite the leaps made in gender equity over the past few decades, sexual discrimination continues to hinder female achievement in school and work. In the workplace, female degree-holders still earn $20,000 less than their male counterparts (Sadker, 1999). This workforce inequity can be traced to gender bias [...]

I hate having writer’s block!

Can’t finish my ed psych assignment. All I have is the introductory paragraph. It is sooooo frustrating to know it in your mind but to not be able to lay it out on paper/screen. Bah. Back to work…

Househunting begins.

Tonight, I started to look around the web for our future Vancouver home. We plan on living in the West End, which is in my opinion the most beautiful area of downtown Vancouver. Check out the photos and description on this page, if you haven’t been in the West End before. Found a really good [...]

When did Fantasia cry?

I’ve searching for two hours for a video of the song Fantasia Barrino sang, crying at the end. I only caught the last few notes and the judges called it spectacular, but argh! No audio/video references online that will let me see the performance. I think I’ll have to sit down tomorrow and watch everything [...]

Assignment 3.

Copyright Karen Clement, May 2004. Submitted at 6:30pm. The nature of intelligence has been extensively debated in the 20th century, separating theorists into two contrasting schools of thought (Paik, 1998). One camp states that intelligence stems from a single general factor. The other camp argues that an individual possesses multiple intelligences. By comparing the theories [...]

It’s a miracle!

Kurt has a WHAT?! A blog?! What a loser! Only geeks have blogs, pfft! Say hi to Kurt, his angry rants always amuse me. BTW…I have been online since 7pm. To my credit, I’ve been working on my paper for the majority of the time. Stupid online courses. Bah.

I need a break…posted this on FirstClass.

I’ve been in front of this computer too long. I stopped my drafting for a bit to post this on FirstClass, which is the online forum where students in my course meet to discuss and submit assignments. Is anyone else finding this course as relevant as I am? My application of the theory is slightly [...]

Help me!

If you have keen eyes, you may have already noticed my other blog. Tonight, I’m polishing up a little paper due by tomorrow midnight. If you have the chance, and if psychology doesn’t bore you to tears, please take a look at my most recent draft (whichever you see, there’ll be a few) and post [...]