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Buddy Remembers - Then and Now

A Personal History of My Parents' Lives

By: Joseph N. Muzio

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Buddy Remembers - Then and Now

A Personal History of My Parents' Lives

By: Joseph N. Muzio

This book is a memoir, the description of my parents’ lives based on my remembrances, conversations with relatives, reviews of family photographs, as well as examining remaining personal documents of our family. This memoir started as a brief description, and was something I had planned for a long time. Initially, I thought it would be perhaps a few dozen pages. Instead, it grew organically and became a much more detailed recollection of my mother and father’s lives, their marriage, their approaches to life, how they raised my sister and me, and their continuing influence upon me. They came to America as immigrant children; they developed here within their cultural boundaries as Italian Americans; they struggled, thrived and pursued their personal goals. They are still with me today. It has been simultaneously an exhilarating and exhausting process as the writing expanded. This is far beyond any sort of genealogical charting or the identification of distant relatives. Rather, it provides perceptions about my feelings and beliefs regarding my parents, their positive qualities and flaws, as well as how I perceive them now that I am an older adult. This process is one that I urge other children to engage in, writing about their parents so that there will be descriptions of the roles they played. I call such writing a critical component of the collective humanity, tracing the historical journeys that would then be available to the remaining family members and their ancestors. Conceivably, such continued writings could become an endless documentation of family behaviors and interactions. It might even provide a greater clarity and understanding of one’s parents through a long-range lens.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426991320

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9781426991325

Buddy Pays Attention

A Collection of Personal Essays

By: Joseph N. Muzio

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Buddy Pays Attention

A Collection of Personal Essays

By: Joseph N. Muzio

This book, Buddy Pays Attention: A Collection of Personal Essays draws on his observations and analysis on current and controversial subjects topics: violence/hatred; education; politics; social issues, ethics; discrimination; the Vietnam War Memorial and family and friends. As an Italian-American raised in Brooklyn and Queens, Dr. Muzio attended parochial and public schools; achieved his master’s and doctoral degrees from Columbia University’s Teachers College. He served as a councilman and police commissioner in Leonia, N.J. where the family lived for 46 years. The father of grown sons, he lives in Rockport, Massachusetts with his wife Lois, also a retired professor.

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1698711921

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9781698711928

Biology

CUNY Panel : Rethinking the Disciplines

By: Bonnie Spanier,Sue V. Rosser,Joseph N. Muzio,Edward B. Tucker

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Biology

CUNY Panel : Rethinking the Disciplines

By: Bonnie Spanier,Sue V. Rosser,Joseph N. Muzio,Edward B. Tucker

This collection of four essays examines the ways in which biology, as a discipline, reflects ongoing scholarship on gender, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation. In "Natural Sciences: Molecular Biology," Bonnie B. Spanier examines common ideological distortions in biology, including superimposing stereotypical gender attributes and language onto animals and plants, creating hierarchies of organization with assumptions about power relationships, and claiming that biology determines behavior. In "Feminist Critiques of Biology," Sue V. Rosser discusses the inequities of scientific research and education and ways in which feminist perspectives can be introduced into biology courses. In "Balancing the Curriculum in the Biological Sciences," Joseph N. Muzio discusses the teaching of a Biology of Women course and offers insights on how it affects students' understanding of women's issues and feminist perspectives of science. In "Women in Science and Engineering," Edward B. Tucker points out that while the number of women in science and engineering has increased significantly over the last decade, women have tended to attain degrees and academic positions in life science and psychology rather than in earth science, environmental science, mathematics, and engineering. Each essay contains references. (MDM)

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