Author: Noah Arney
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Starship Troopers Review
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 5 of 5 stars Starship Troopers is, in my opinion, one of the three best military sci-fi novels ever written. It shares that distinction with Ender’s Game and Old Man’s war. It’s also a good primer on, in the books own words, “moral philosophy”. Though it’s main…
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Review of The Forever War
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman My rating: 2 of 5 stars The Forever War may be a Sci-Fi classic but it shouldn’t be. Throughout the book we follow the main character as he goes through a series of unconnected scenes, like a bad documentary. Seeing a bit of everything the author imagines about the…
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What I wish someone said to me in teachers college
Welcome to education. I’m not going to say that you are potential teachers, because many of you will not pursue that as your careers. You are however educators. I once thought that was a buzzword but it means something very specific. You are embarking on a career in education. That might be teaching at the…
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“Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don’t ever forget that! And don’t say “I’ll never be good”. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson