The night after you break up with me (or whatever we're calling it)

Help me make it through the night.

‘ You Can Always Look It up ’ . . . or Can You ?

Auntie Mame with its Park Avenue version of my progressive experience, you will know that progressive theories in the 1940s were mainly confined to private schools; they hadn't seeped very far into the public school domain. At Metairie Park, my entire ninth-grade curriculum consisted of two " integrated, " " multidisciplinary " projects, as they would now be called. They were: participating in ...

Mining Social Deliberation in Online Communication - If You Were Me and I Were You

Social deliberative skills are collaborative life-skills. These skills are crucial for communicating in any collaborative processes where participants have heterogeneous opinions and perspectives driven by different assumptions, beliefs, and goals. In this paper, we describe models using lexical, discourse, and gender demographic features to identify whether or not participants demonstrate soci...

After the Break-Up

How much help do people need after a divorce? Plenty of advice is available on how to save a marriage but what about the problems of restructuring life if it cannot be saved - a Divorce Counselling Service may be needed.

Everyone Is You... Or Me

In my youth I used to wander in the mountains. I would gain a "feel" of the terrain and gradually build up a reliable intuition of how to get from here to there and back again. Always, on these expeditions, I would discover special places a tiny area, the only one, where fairy slippers grew; a pool in a rushing stream that was deep enough to swim in. Invariably I would find myself excitedly cli...