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jackal, I agree with you about Accounting for Lawyers, but personally disagree on Latin American History. I studied LA politics and history (predominantly covering the 19th and 20th centuries) and found it very interesting.
One of the best books/socialogy books I ever read was Emile Durkheim’s Suicide. I boiled the whole book down to Catholic culture vs Protestant culture — although he did talk about Japanese and suicide. But the Catholic cultures with tighly knit social communities had a much lower cultural acceptance of and occurance of suicide. Protestants more individualistic and prone to offing themselves. Japanese on the far end of the scale — suicide is good is you get backed into a corner where the honorable thing to do happens to be impossible.
all of my classes in college were mad easy. college was much much much easier than high school was. but then again i majored in psychology and visual arts..
Aaaaaaargh! I think this must be why I instinctively dislike and rabidly disagree with most of what you day, Lech. I have a degree in Sociology and it is most certainly a “real” subject. And while I ultimately pursued a different path, it is an extremely important field of study. Jesus.
Noki: Oh the places you’ll go isn’t even by Dr Suess. It’s by his daughter. It’s probably my least favorite children’s book ever written. People keep buying it for my kids. I have all of our copies hidden in the back of a closet if you want them.
I must put in a plug for dr. seuss. First, one MUST go back to early writing and should understand that he was a passionate humanist and environmentalist who used his work, even (or perhaps especially) his childrens books, as allegories for what he viewed as mistreatment of one another,ourselves and our planet, and for horrid political regimes. Horton Hears a Who, Star Bellied Sneetches, the Butter Battle Book (!) and so on. He was amazing. And one of my favorites for the kids is Oh the Places You’ll GO! Beautiful.
1. Business Law: You were probably in b-school at the time, so they gave you the dumbed down version for business people. They probably taught you what a corporation is and didn’t touch things like the regulation of securities and financial services. Sort of the reverse of accounting for lawyers.
2. Latin America doesn’t have much history, and what they do have isn’t very interesting.
jackal, I agree with you about Accounting for Lawyers, but personally disagree on Latin American History. I studied LA politics and history (predominantly covering the 19th and 20th centuries) and found it very interesting.
One of the best books/socialogy books I ever read was Emile Durkheim’s Suicide. I boiled the whole book down to Catholic culture vs Protestant culture — although he did talk about Japanese and suicide. But the Catholic cultures with tighly knit social communities had a much lower cultural acceptance of and occurance of suicide. Protestants more individualistic and prone to offing themselves. Japanese on the far end of the scale — suicide is good is you get backed into a corner where the honorable thing to do happens to be impossible.
all of my classes in college were mad easy. college was much much much easier than high school was. but then again i majored in psychology and visual arts..
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Aaaaaaargh! I think this must be why I instinctively dislike and rabidly disagree with most of what you day, Lech. I have a degree in Sociology and it is most certainly a “real” subject. And while I ultimately pursued a different path, it is an extremely important field of study. Jesus.
Noki: Oh the places you’ll go isn’t even by Dr Suess. It’s by his daughter. It’s probably my least favorite children’s book ever written. People keep buying it for my kids. I have all of our copies hidden in the back of a closet if you want them.
I must put in a plug for dr. seuss. First, one MUST go back to early writing and should understand that he was a passionate humanist and environmentalist who used his work, even (or perhaps especially) his childrens books, as allegories for what he viewed as mistreatment of one another,ourselves and our planet, and for horrid political regimes. Horton Hears a Who, Star Bellied Sneetches, the Butter Battle Book (!) and so on. He was amazing. And one of my favorites for the kids is Oh the Places You’ll GO! Beautiful.
DIBS, of course those were easy:
1. Business Law: You were probably in b-school at the time, so they gave you the dumbed down version for business people. They probably taught you what a corporation is and didn’t touch things like the regulation of securities and financial services. Sort of the reverse of accounting for lawyers.
2. Latin America doesn’t have much history, and what they do have isn’t very interesting.
3. Logic is just that.
4. Sociology isn’t a real subject.
I can’t do the math for derivatives pricing 🙁
Oy I know way too much about Dora and Pooh but don’t want to go off on a tangent and start typing stuff away only to then be in a public domain :o).