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[THE SELF ADJUSTING FREEDOM MY PHIOLOSOPHY OF AMERICAN FREEDOM A FREE E-BOOK AUTHORED BY MICHAEL JEFFREY SLEBODNICK]

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The Self Adjusting Freedom:

My Philosophy on Freedom3rd Book in a Discourse on Humanity

Michael Jeffrey Slebodnick

Also known as

Mister S

Date: 18 August 2011 Version


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About the AuthorMichael Jeffrey has been many things, and had humble work

beginnings, until finding his true passion, late in life. He started off

working on a garbage collecting crew, something now called in a PC

manner Sanitation Engineer. Later, he worked various summer jobs

doing maintenance and janitorial work, whilst an undergrad student.

After getting his undergrad degree much later than expected, due to

being a lousy student whom suffered from a complete lack of vision as

to what to do with the rest of his life, he was not accepted into Grad

school immediately following his attainment of his BS degree. So, he

had to work, and became interested in field work, most notably a long

experience working as an engineer, a surveyors helper (lousy one atthat), a geologist, and environmental consultant. Yet, he never really

found his calling, until he went back to school for a grad degree and

became a teacher. That has been his passion since his mid 30s, and

continues to fuel his desire to educate the world, with his preference

being working with K-12 kids, geosciences courses, or teachers prep

courses. He has an avid hobby in photography, and has taught for free

with outreach programs in 3 states at the K-12 level.

His most important goal today, is to find his Mrs. S, those whom can

meet his needs to be a first time wife, and start a family with her the

kind he has sought since he was in college his second year, from the

time he turned 18 on. A goal that has been close, but elusively un-

met, especially once he turned 40, which has only proved the search for

the fertility and college aged women he has sought completely affirmed

as his only goal left in life.

The author believes in a FREE Economic system, unfettered by thelimitations the artificial concept of money forces humanity to deal with.

Getting rid of money will free the human soul to pursue their dreams,

and work in jobs they have the passion for, no more will people work just

for a paycheck, often at the detriment of the services provided. As such,


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this e-book, is offered FREE, and if anyone asks you to pay for it, do not

do so, for he will give it to anyone on earth whom wants to read for free !

This offer is his way of walking the talk of a truly free market economy,

unfettered by the concepts of profit, payroll, stocks, or credit/loans.

The work here in, is all original, all mine, except where noted. He

greatest honor of all, though, goes to God for giving me a second life,

and to Jesus, Dr, Martin Luther King, Jr. for his courage and non violent

principles, and to my mom and my dad.


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Wear Not Masks:

This man feared not to show his face. What he stood for he was proudenough of to stand up and not just show whom he was and what he

believed in, but he was man enough to do so, even when beingthreatened with grave and mortal violence. Some men are brave, and on

the right side of morality and the issues. Be brave enough and in theright enough to not be afraid of speaking your voice on the issues, to be

heard, and seen

No great leader ever was afraid to show whom they are - no great leaderever hid behind masks while making a point in a peaceful non violent

manner. It is only those whom do wrong, and know it, whom hidebehind masks.


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Diversity of Color:This is a spectrum of visible light. Wecall it a rainbow, one that exhibits allthe possible shades in between eachcolor. The delineation from one colorto the other is seamless, and in fact,meaningless to me. To me, thisimage, represents humanity. We mayhave different colors, different genders,different ideologies, different ages,

different perspectives on many things, and yet, when you look at theoverall picture, humanity together, in its entirety, is but one solid, visiblelight. Each one of us can be the light that shines to the world, through

our love for one another, and the recognition that all humanity is but arefraction of and a reflection of each other, that in the end, there is littlethat separates us from each other. Those whom understand quantummechanics, human psychology, and the biology of genetics know, deepdown, all that is different in each of us, is the recipe we are built from,the very same 4 letters each of us all have - CAGT. The moleculeswithin us are the same for all of us, and we all bleed the same blood(within the variability of the blood types A, B, AB, O,).

When one sees the human species as I do, that each one of us is but aspreading out of the glorious colors of the greater whole, one wonderswhy we cannot focus more so on what we all have in common, ratherthan the very little that separates us. Whether one is on the blue side orthe red side of the spectrum matters not, for it takes both the red and theblue to make the light we see overall. We all need each other, to be thecomplete whole.So lets stop killing ourselves, when there is but one solitary planet weknow of where all 7 billion of us call home. Imagine how dull the

rainbow would be, if all we knew, were people in our own little part of thespectrum of the greater whole


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Taps:

TAPS:I love musicIve heard all stylesfrom rap to hip hopr & b and soulfunk and discohouse and electrotrance and danceclassical and yeseven operanew age and ambientpatriotic and swingI used to marchto SousaI love jazzrock

popclubdubeach chick Iever loved


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has their own songI sometimes playsongs

just as a reminderof my loveof the good timesand sadsad without that isfor the women I ever lovedwere nothingbut the best of timesI love all sortsof music all

ethnic and culturalfrom all over earthand yetthere is one genreone song typeone songthat has the mostmeaningthe saddest of sadthe hardest to hearand even harder to playI could never actually do itand make it through one playthis songthis one simple tuneplayed by a loan trumpetor buglerrepresentsone thing only

life and freedom yesbut most of alldeaththis songis the last song


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ever playedover the remainsof those so far too many deadthose whom gave their livesto fight and diefor our livesthat songtaps it isis the saddest songthere ever is


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The Bells CrackIf I were asked, what 1 symbol best summarizes up America to me, froma historical philosophical slant, aside from the pride of being anAmerican, born free, like all humanity should be, the image of the LibertyBell comes to mind.

The Liberty Bell, rang forth on our independence declarations, andshortly afterwards, cracked. It has remained cracked ever since. Tome, the bell symbolizes the promise inherent to all of us in our bill ofrights and our constitution. It is a bold experiment, this freedom anddemocracy we have. And yet, over 200 years ago, when this nation was


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founded, it was a foundation and an idea that was born with a brokenshell, a cracked bell, if you will. For the Union was born, with twoopposite views, towards the morality of slavery. When America wasborn, even though "We hold these certain inalienable rights to be selfevident, that all men are created equal," what it did not say, was the littleasterisks at the end of the line - you know, how a "man" was defined -back in those days, one whom owned property, or were "free". And thiswas a nation that less than 100 years after its birth, went to war, dividedabout the issue of owning other people, and using them as indenturedservants - slavery. The crack in the bell, began to slowly heal, but stillthere, very long.

It took another 50 years after the union was restored to offer women's

suffrage - the right to vote to women - those whom interpret words sawthe word "men" created equal, did not see the words "women" and sodid not give them rights do all humanity. It was not until around the firstworld war that women here were constitutionally granted the right tovote..... but they did, and the crack, in my mind, healed some more, yetit is still there.

It took yet another 2 to 3 generations for the next phase in thedevelopment of America to take place. As if the concept of "separatebut equal", equal in name only, had any constitutional basis in realitywhatsoever. People being people actually thought just if you had color,you could not sit next to them, or use the same toilet to defecate andurinate in, or to go to school together. It took the works of a non violentmovement, led by many, including a young Baptist minister, to take it tothe streets, to bring to the mass American mind, the injustice ofinequality, the unconstitutionality, and the affront such conceptions wereto the American ideals. Yet, in the 60s, the civil rights movement mademuch progress, and in my mind, the crack in the liberty bell healed evenmore.

Today, I still see a crack in that bell. Each time I hear of some bigotryabout folks coming across a border, whom might look different, or talkdifferently than those whom themselves were not there decades ago.Each time I hear of intolerance towards those with views other than their


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own, or wear clothes that look different, or kiss someone other than wethink they should, or refuse to support a war that has killed thousands ofcivilians, I see the crack widening. I hear it in our politics, I hear it on ourTV or news, and I hear it in our streets as the cackle of gun violenceerupts, while we simply roll over and go back to sleep. I even read it inmy student's journals, the anger, the lack of understanding, the lack oftolerance, some, not all, but some have, for anyone whom was not herewhen they were born. With each depressing thing I hear on the news,see on TV, read on a blog, my eyes well up, and I think of the libertybell, and I cry.

I see the crack in the bell, and Amy Pond and the Doctor are not here toheal it. Only we can do so, ourselves, each one of us. Be educated

about the world and those around us. Live to improve this great nation,and not tear it down. Our political, social, economic problems may bringus down, yet, we need to rise above these issues, and look elsewhere,where people have yet to shake off the chains of oppressive regimes,whose legitimacy in government ended the moment they kept all rightsto themselves.

America is a nation in progress. Ever since our birth, we had greatideas and aspirations, yet the reality was far from what we held as dear.Yet over the past 200+ years, we have healed many wounds that hurtus, sealed those cracks, and the work continues to do so, each day, witheach of us, in our hearts, to live up to the dream of America - freedom,and equality, for all.

Let us not crack the bell any further, but let us work to recast it anewwhole.


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FREEDOM IS EQUALITYThe truly stronggrant freedom and equal rights to allit is the sign of low self esteemandlack of legitimacy in thought, ideas, or actions

that cause peopleto discriminate against others

above all it may befearfear of losing powerthat drives peopleto be unkind towards others

the great Dr Martin Luther King Jr.,

would want woman and manto stand as equalsin every landon the planet


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Humor:My attempts at writing my own humor this summer (2011)I would rather fart on the run than run from a fart


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Hate is in the AirThere is a new form of hate today. Its blatant, its overt, its intolerant of

others, and its willing to kill others in some delusional self gratifyingmanner. We see it in Norway, where a skinhead neo Nazi like man, aself described "Christian and free mason", whom resembles nothing thatChrist Jesus teaches us.

Those whom have hate towards others, whom are bigots, whom haveintolerance towards diversity, whom believe theirs is the only "true" way,are deluding themselves with their supposed superiority and selfactualization justifying their false beliefs. God did not create the religionsand the races to make people become intolerant, to fight each otherover ideas and ethnicities that have nothing to do with a persons choiceother than whose parents they accidently had, been from, beneficiariesof some birth in a free land, where they sow hatred and fear amongothers.

To me, folks with so much hate they go out and murder others, areinhumane, and yet, throughout all of history, there have been such

people, like Hitler and his gang, whom blamed others, and duped andbullied and manipulated millions into going along with his beliefs. No

true believer or follower of Christ, should support the killing of others, forthe

message of Jesus is quite clear - live in peace, my peace I give you


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Mohammed also teaches peace, such that one is to treat all others as ifthey were guests, and the strangers amongst you whom you treat thebest.

To me, as a Catholic Christian, the best thing all Christians like me can

do, those whom believe in the battles Dr. King fought against (racism,

hatred, war, and intolerance, poverty), it to reach out in peace, and love,

and empathy, towards our Muslim brothers, whom include the very

teachings of Christ in their own version of the bible, the Quran. If

anything, this should be an opportunity for all faiths, including our Jewish

brethren, to come to the table God purposely laid out for us, challenging

each of us, not to hate, but to love one another. To me, that is the very

best way to combat people like this, to act with love towards the verypeople with hate, hates.

Imagine how Nazi Germany under Hitler would have collapsed inwards,

in revulsion of the people, had they stood up to the ideals of racism and

hate, embodied in the events of Crystal Nacht, and instead of burning

the Torah and other Jewish or subversive books, the German people

instead reached out with love. The holocaust would not have happenedat all, if people reached out in love, and protected all Jewish citizens

from persecution, much like Anne Frank was protected for a while,

before being murdered.

People make choices every day to cave in to the insanity of hatred of

others, or, instead, to reach out in love, and understanding. It takes both

sides to wage war, to meet in battle each one makes the choice to kill

others or die protecting others but in reality, it is a choice no one

needs to make, if we all just lived with a policy of love and forgiveness,

rather than so much hatred. There can be an end to war forever, but

only when the human heart and mind come together and decide to love.


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Put the Civil in Civilization:

One wonders how we can call ourselves

a "civilization"

with the root word being "civil"

when there are people burning cars and buildings

blowing themselves up or dropping bombs from planes in the name of

war

enacting hurtful intolerant and racist legislation

An economy system that by design creates have or have-nots

when low core criminals are imprisoned rather than rehabilitated

when using drugs or prostitution is a crime

when millions around the world go hungry while elsewhere people like

me are obese and have health issues related to over-eating

where 30,000 college students are less important than the 75 million

dollars that paid for their food

where nations invade nations and make war

where people think killing is a solution to any problem where intellect

and empathy would work.

To me

There is a lot more "uncivil" about "civilization" than the name would

suggest...


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A Series of Short Poems I have come up with:Ending PovertyIf one wants to end or reduce crimeconsidereradicating povertythen there no longer would behave and have nots

The NewsI find the question of censorshipof music, TV, movies, and so on

to begoofywhen the realityof what is onmy 6 oclock newsis far worsethan any bad wordsever said

Get Your Gandhi On

the concept of money

is often defended

by those whom have plenty

-

those like me

whom have not

see no advantage

to a system

where by design

a system of haves and have nots is created


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The Pen is mightier than the sword:

I write it like the fly trying to unstick from the fly paperIt has been saidthat ideasare stronger than swordsfor the weapons usedin classical concepts of battledeal with tangible elementslike armor, speed, mobility, firepower, protection, numbers or qualityand capricious oneslike

the weather, terrain effects, soil conditions, moisture, the high or lowground (topography), etcas well ascraftsmanship and reliabilityand so on


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to how big of a boom does it makeor how few collateral effectsor fratricideor friendly fireawfully occursyet to methe mightiest weapons of allhave no needfor physical implementsother thanpenspaperscrolls

parchmentzeros and onesa keypador a touch screenaudioor videodoc file or pdfblogor vlogsnail mail or emailit matters notall the commonly thought of variablesoften in battles fought in war on the battlespacewhatI findcompletelyoutclassesand is impregnableto any

military forceisideashopesdreams


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lovesand compassionthat no single bullettankor planecan ever subduedoubt what I say istrue?

just ask the Romansthe mightiest empirethe ancient worldin the Mediterraneanhad seen thousands of years ago

and look how fastit was conquerednot from the outsidebut with lovefrom Christto meideaslike lovepeacetolerance for allequality as opposed to bias and discriminationuniversal freedom and human rightsgender equalityage equalityan end to povertyan end to hungeran end to warfare itselfand the conceptthat triumphs all others

peaceis unstoppableand will win outover any warif humans really want to do battle


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let them do iton the strength of theirargumentstheir logictheir compassiontheir empathyand their love for their fellow human beingsand noton the battlefieldwhich has but one certain outcomedeathideas give lifeit is only people

whom take it


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Fahrenheit 451 RedoxPeople burn or ban books

out of fear of what is written

Yet to me what I fear more

than anything that is written

are those whom would rather burn or ban a book

than let me be enriched by reading it

After reading it

I may no longer agree with those whom burned or banned the books


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When it comes to Flatulence, its in all of us:

What you smell came from inside that person, but you know what?

Many of the molecules and atoms that make up your body, right there,

right now, were once in people like Hitler, Caligula, Shakespeare, Juliet,

Kahn, Gandhi, Jesus, and Moses, as well as perhaps some dinosaur,

some ancient flower, maybe an insect from millions of years ago, even

when life was nothing but bacteria, all those parts, recycled by the earth,

to form your very own tongue, nostril, and eyes, and even, your brain.

remember that the next time you think someone else is an ass, for we all

are made from parts from someone elses very own booty


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The Improper Method of Protest(Sub title there is nothing peaceful or non violent about tossingMolotov Cocktails at Police Officers, whom are here to protect usfrom people throwing flame bombs. (Image from the Recent protests in Greeceover Austerity cuts)

This is how NOT to protest in the honor and manner explicitly inline with the Gandhian and Dr. king Jr., method of non violent,peaceful protest, and change. If anything, when you set policeofficers on fire, you are doing two things, both of which hurt yourability and moral authority to force peaceful change or even tohave your views heard.First, when you throw Molotov cocktails at the police, you pander

to the lowest common denominator, that of violence, anger, andhate. To demonstrate these traits, shows you to be doing the oldskool thought, that of using force to obtain what your intellect andpeaceful civil disobedience failed to do. Only through peacefulcivil disobedience will you not be harmed. For in setting people on


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fire, damaging property, and hurting others, you completely loseall credibility as a peaceful protest, and then it becomessomething else.Second, when you are no longer peaceful and non violent, youlose moral authority, and you severely damage your cause, as youno longer look like the victim, and instead you look more like aninstigator, a troublemaker, or worse, a bunch of criminals. Onlythrough peaceful, non violent, restrained civil disobedience, willyou gain sympathy. Even if you are attacked, beaten with clubs,do not fight back, but sit down, and let those in charge be theviolent ones, let them show how bad they are, compared to yourpacifism, and your moral authority around the world will increase.Word up, lesson is, the moment you are no longer a non violentpeaceful protest, you have already lost your chance at winning thehearts and minds of those in government, those in lawenforcement, and those in media and around the world, whomcould help you, if you simply exercised self control and sat downand joined hands, rather than fight back.


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(Image public Domain Bing Web search stock image)America a PoemIn Honor of July 4, 2011

This nation, under God, non secular in birth, promotes openness andtolerance, in religious ideas, and so on in theory. Yet even today, that isunder attack, with anger and hate towards those different than us, thoseof different faiths, different ethnicities or national origin, differentlanguages, different viewpoints on political and social concerns. Thereis much hope, still, in a nation, where we dare to allow differences to bespoken, where we air our dirty laundry, and we grow from accepting themelting pot we were meant to be. The lady in the harbor, arm on thebible, and hand on a torch, welcomes many new people, with thedreams we all have, to live free, to live with human rights, and to livesome version of the dream. If anything, America becomes stronger as anation, from our diversity, not weaker. Embrace the global diversity andthose whom seek a better life here, and open our arms and our bordersin love, to all peaceful loving peoples whom only want their chance at


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freedom, and the dream. Why exclude any peaceful person, from thegreatest social experiment in modern times?

We have come a long way, as a nation and as a people. While the

dream is still incomplete for many, and our liberty bell still showingcracks of a state/nation born with the sin of slavery, assimilation of firstnations peoples, of having to protest and ride for freedom and civilrights, and still intolerance, and fear, and hate towards those not like us,abounds in some circles, let the word go forth, that this generation ofAmericans, is not like the "me" generation, only concerned with self,greed, independence, but a new idea has taken root, of tolerance for all,a celebratory nature of our global diversity, and a step back from theworld stage, where though but 300 million out of a world of 7 billion, we

have done so much good, and yet, also failed at so much bad.


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Leap the Fence of ImaginationSome folksBuild wallsTo keep others outWhom may lookActOf think

DifferentlyThan they

Still othersBuild walls


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And fencesTo keep themselves inInsideThat familiar placeThat comfort zoneTo ensureThe homogeneousness of thoughtSort of like a 1984 versionOf the thought police

To meWallsHurt both sides

Of the barrierFor it leads toStagnationIntoleranceAnd an eventual dearthOf new ideasAnd eventuallyFailureTo thoseLocked outAnd locked in

To meFar greater success can be hadBy allOn both sides of the barrierIf the fencesThe walls

Came downAnd we joinedOur brethrenAnd so onIn unity


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In sharing of ideasIn celebrating what our differences areRather than try to oppress themAnd to teach and learnFrom each otherRather than liveIn ignoranceAnd fearOf what lies beyondThat fence

To meFences

Act as an unnatural barrierTo developmentOf the mind, body, and soulFor all peoplesOn both sides of the borderGiven thisWhy do we haveAny fences leftAnywhereOn earthWhen all it doesIs make losersOut of each of usTrappedOn one sideOr the other?


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The Power Of Noit is not religions that kill others

it is stupid people being human that use ideology and religion

as a way to legitimize their own offenses

or worse

make someone else do in their name what no human should do

all those folks blowing themselves up

all those folks shooting their very own peopleshould

learn to be tolerant

No war

ever need be fought again

if people

everywhere on Earth

choose life

over death

each and every day


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The Divide:Unless you are exposed to a lifestyle growing up with surroundings likethis, how is any politician in the United States whom grew up uberwealthy, ever going to fathom at all, what differences there are betweenthe wealthy and the poor? To me, the idea of urban areas, ofreservations, and of extremely poor communities, juxtaposed by

wealthy, Nuevo rich elitism, on opposite ends of a lifestyle experience, isas absolutely unconstitutional as the idea of separate and equal was inschools in the 1950s, based upon race. Today we have a new form ofsocial discrimination - one sanctioned by all in government whom donothing about it, that of economic separation, that produces schools,communities, services, and lives, that are anything but equal. I have yetto see a single lawyer have the balls to bring to the US Supreme Court,a case that says schools and governments that are unequal due solelyto economic wealth as being unconstitutional. Why a rich school shouldhave the newest computers and Olympic size swimming pools, and alaptop for every student, while other schools in impoverished areas haveoutdated infrastructure, lack of a budget to even have pencils and paperfor students, and access to extracurricular field trips to museums, or,even busing, I feel is as completely unconstitutional as separation and


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unequal based upon race. Whether separate and unequal is race basedor economic based to me is not the question - the answer to it is, thereshould be no difference in any students education no matter where theylive or how rich or poor they are. Someone somewhere must stand upand make a change. School budgets that are managed based uponlocal assessed property values is unconstitutional in that it createsunequal distributions of surpluses or deficits. No school should get anymore or any less from the government as its base level, maybe that willhelp fix the current educational problems. No kid anywhere should haveto grow up knowing that someone somewhere else lives in a 5,000square foot home, with 4 bathrooms, and a gated community, whileothers walk to school past burned out buildings, or abandoned factories.This form of discrimination cannot be fathomed until and unless those

haves walk a mile in the shoes of the have-nots


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Dedication:

To all whom educated me, either formally as in my teachers, myprofessors, my supervisors, my mentors, and so on, and those whomeducated me informally, like my mom and dad, my friends, global

events, local news, homelessness, poverty, violence, discrimination,racism, bigotry, intolerance, and so on. I see the world and dream likeKennedy why does the status quo have to go on, we all can make thechange away from such old skool thinking, and truly become 21stcentury humans, living in peace.

And to my 3,000 students, whom I ever taught you kept my flame litwith the passion to make a difference, not in my life, but in yours, soyour dreams come true, and you learn to love learning, and make it a

lifelong activity. If anything, I think we are all students here on Earth,struggling to learn the lessons of being humane in an inhumane world.

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