Michael Ernest Sweet's Books

Down to Earth

By: Michael Ernest Sweet, Editor

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Down to Earth with astronaut Roberta Bondar and environmentalist Justin Trudeau is a poignant student-written anthology of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and drama in response to global warming and environmental destruction. Down to Earth is a publication of the award-winning Learning for a Cause project at Lester B. Pearson High School and is edited by Teachers Wall of Fame inductee Michael E. Sweet.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

155

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

055703065X

ISBN 13

9780557030651

Raising Humanity

By: Michael Ernest Sweet, Editor

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Raising Humanity

By: Michael Ernest Sweet, Editor

Raising Humanity with Martin Sheen and Marc Garneau is an anthology of more than 125 young authors writing in response to what it is to be human. Students from Montreal, New York and Vancouver join hands to bring us a glimpse into the raw materials of the human condition. ""Be ready to be moved. Be ready to be unsettled. Be ready to see how much our young people care."" - Marc Garneau, The First Canadian in Space.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

185

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

0557064686

ISBN 13

9780557064687

The Financial Wizards

By: Michael J Kollins

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Financial Wizards

By: Michael J Kollins

Pioneers of the U.S. Automobile Industry uses four separate volumes to explore the essential components that helped build the American automobile industry - the people, the companies and the designs. This volume offers a look at the financial minds who drove the early automotive industry. These financial wizards are portrayed through unique stories and more than 180 photos. Pioneers covered in this volume include: Allison/Fisher/Newby/Wheeler and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Benjamin Briscoe Hugh Chalmers Frederick Chandler E.L. Cord Harry Jewett Henry Leland Charles Matheson David Parry Albert Pope Edward Rickenbacker Thomas White John Willys

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

216

Publisher

SAE International

Published Date

ISBN 10

1468603361

ISBN 13

9781468603361

Dances with Love

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Dances with Love

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

This is Montreal poet michael ernest sweet's second volume of poetry. A book of breathless contemporary love verse. Michael Sweet writes with words we all know, all understand, but arranges them to create a masterpiece with the very essence of love. This is the book for anyone in love, or wishing to get a glimpse of her.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

1411651685

ISBN 13

9781411651685

A Mind for Murder - Rethinking the Exalted Imagination

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Mind for Murder - Rethinking the Exalted Imagination

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the Present, grade: none, Concordia University Montreal, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: "My eyes are cameras. My mind is tuned to more television channels than exist in your world. And it suffers no censorship. Through it, I have a world and the universe as my own. So, save your sympathy and know that only a body is in prison. At my will, I walk your streets and am right out there among you." -Charles Manson (Convicted Cult Leader) Maxine Greene and Kieran Egan, two prominent educational philosophers, have championed the importance of the imagination in education for decades. Greene (1995, 1998, 2001, 2003) essentially claims that the imagination "allows people to think of things as if they could be otherwise; it is the capacity that allows a looking through the windows of the actual towards alternative realities" (2003, p.63). Egan (personal communication, March 11, 2007) believes the imagination to be central to education because "imagination involves the capacity to be liberated from the constraints of literal and conventional thinking; it gives us the power to conceive of new possibilities". As we can see, both Greene and Egan share a closely related understanding of why the imagination is important in education; it frees the mind. In recognition of this shared vision I have partnered these two philosophers and will proceed to examine their thought in tandem insofar as they both project a generally similar view of the benefits of imagination. Not wishing to diminish the very real distinctions in their thought, my examination does centre on where these two scholars converge in relation to their philosophy of imagination. I will refer to their conception as the 'exalted imagination', borrowing the term from Maguire (2006) which denotes a modern, highly positive understanding of the faculty which has also collected various aspects of its ontology from the depths of it

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

GRIN Verlag

Published Date

ISBN 10

3640126165

ISBN 13

9783640126163

The Social Justice Imagination

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Social Justice Imagination

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Pedagogy - School Pedagogics, language: English, abstract: The Social Justice Imagination (a term coined by award-winning educator and writer Michael Ernest Sweet) refers to the notion that creative writing can be a significant opening toward strengthening the imaginative process implicit in social justice compassion and understanding. That is, through the literary imagination we come to understand others, unlike us, and develop empathy for their plight. The literary imagination informs our understanding of the human condition and with this we are better enabled to be motivated toward social justice. The book uses specific student-written creative writing samples to elucidate this notion.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

GRIN Verlag

Published Date

ISBN 10

3656051763

ISBN 13

9783656051763

Plato's Philosopher King: A Potent Object of Hope?

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Plato's Philosopher King: A Potent Object of Hope?

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Philosophy - Philosophy of the Ancient World, grade: A+, Johns Hopkins University, course: Western Political Philosophy, language: English, abstract: In this essay, Michael Ernest Sweet examines the concept of Plato's philosopher-king as found in "The Republic". Is the concept a paradox and a pragmatic impossibility, or is the concept a rhetorical device and a potent object of hope on the quest to uncover the meaning of justice? Perhaps Plato's aim in constructing such a paradox is to show us the impossibility of the perfect political regime?

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

GRIN Verlag

Published Date

ISBN 10

3668269254

ISBN 13

9783668269255

Standardized Testing - Unmasking a Threat to Democracy

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Standardized Testing - Unmasking a Threat to Democracy

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Scientific Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Pedagogy - School System, Educational and School Politics, grade: A, Concordia University Montreal, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the debate surrounding educational reforms concerned with standardized testing. The theoretical framework I use to analyze this debate is based on theories of democracy and capitalism and unmask the real motives of the various stakeholders involved in the development and implementation of standards reform; that they are not concerned primarily with student learning. Additionally, I demonstrate that the deleterious effects of this shift in the assessment paradigm, and schooling in general are, unfortunately, of dyer consequence to our democratic state. The paper is a concise overview of standardized testing, its history and the dangers in its continued implementation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

GRIN Verlag

Published Date

ISBN 10

3640108728

ISBN 13

9783640108725

The Portable Obituary

How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died

By: Michael Largo

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Portable Obituary

How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died

By: Michael Largo

No matter what your station in society, everybody has to go sometime. Even the wealthy, powerful, and world-renowned must ultimately meet their Maker—though some have departed this life more ignobly than they might have wished. From Mozart to rock and roll, which performers ended their lives on the wrong note? What famous U.S. bridge is named after an explorer who was eaten by cannibals? Everyone wants to hit the lottery, but does Lady Luck visit winners with deadly fangs? Plus: Learn the real fate of Gilligan's Island castaways and all your favorite TV actors as well as famous writers, senators, saints, dictators, and philosophers, among many others. Michael Largo, the man who illuminated readers on the myriad ways of death in Final Exits, has compiled a fascinating, off-beat, and darkly humorous necrology that provides the grim, often outrageous details about the passing of influential persons. Meticulously researched—employing archaeological records, published obituaries, official documents, and forensic evidence—this authoritative, one-of-a-kind reference presents the unabashed truth about a multitude of celebrity deaths, while examining the various deeds, misdeeds, and lifestyle quirks that hastened the demise and determined the departed's role in history and popular myth. The Portable Obituary has the skinny on what made our late icons—whether through overindulgence or neglect: on the john, in the sack, or in some spectacular accident—what they are today: dead!

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

308

Publisher

William Morrow Paperbacks

Published Date

ISBN 10

0061231665

ISBN 13

9780061231667

Cosmopolitanism: World citizenship and the imagination

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cosmopolitanism: World citizenship and the imagination

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Scientific Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: none, Concordia University Montreal, language: English, abstract: This paper examines the idea of world citizenship and if it is both possible and desirable; if it is to be understood as an abstraction or a framework for action. I consider a number of common notions of world citizenship and then, supported by Nussbaum’s theory of public rationality from the literary imagination, I illuminate how the cosmopolitan vision of Diogenes, kosmopolitês (cosmopolitanism), may present the most promising construct of world citizenship to act as a counter hegemonic citizen-based force to neoliberal globalization. Additionally, a review of the world citizenship teaching model Learning for a Cause elucidates the potential for my vision of kosmopolitês in practice. I find world citizenship to be crucial to contemporary society, but in need of (re)understanding.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

GRIN Verlag

Published Date

ISBN 10

3638801144

ISBN 13

9783638801140

Beyond Germs. Examination of the "virgin soil" theory focusing geographical, ethnological and demografic causes

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Beyond Germs. Examination of the "virgin soil" theory focusing geographical, ethnological and demografic causes

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject History - America, grade: A+, Johns Hopkins University, course: The Rise and Fall of Empires, language: English, abstract: In this paper, I will examine both the theory of "virgin soil" epidemics, as well as those that complicate it. In doing so I will look at a broad range of scholarship spanning multiple geographical sites, numerous Amerindian tribes, as well as various colonial powers - England, France, and Spain. Although a concentration of attention will be placed on the Spanish conquests, the aim is to extract a generalized “macro view” of the germ-centered narrative of European conquest, rather than to examine any one battle, tribe or oppressor. As a result of my investigation, I will dissent from the growing popularity of the theory of "germ-dominated colonization" and offer a broader, more complex, understanding of how widespread depopulation of America’s aboriginals, and the ensuing European hegemony, might have more realistically unfolded. Ultimately, the reason behind the success of European colonialism is likely not to be the neat dramatic stuff of a "major PBS television special" but rather, in Livi-Bacci’s words, "The unsettling normality of conquest".

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

GRIN Verlag

Published Date

ISBN 10

3668377286

ISBN 13

9783668377288

Wilsonianism Then and Now. Would The Real Woodrow Wilson Please Stand Up

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Wilsonianism Then and Now. Would The Real Woodrow Wilson Please Stand Up

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: A+, Johns Hopkins University, course: American Political Theory, language: English, abstract: In this paper, Canadian writer and educator, Michael Ernest Sweet, explores the topic of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States of America. The paper seeks to uncover Wilson's thought, his influences (with a detailed look at Hegel's influence) and his impact on American government then and now. Additionally, his legacy is examined in terms of what he actually inspired in American political science, and what he is often, wrongly, attributed to him and his administration. Both foreign and domestic policy is considered. The paper concludes that Wilson's legacy is, most correctly, that he opened the American mind toward a new political era - an era that is not fixed and static like that of the founding and its confining Constitutionalism, but rather one with an eye toward the inevitability of progress in history and, ultimately, a new freedom.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

GRIN Verlag

Published Date

ISBN 10

3668374465

ISBN 13

9783668374461

The American Promise, Combined Volume

A History of the United States

By: James L. Roark,Michael P. Johnson,Patricia Cline Cohen,Sarah Stage,Susan M. Hartmann

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The American Promise, Combined Volume

A History of the United States

By: James L. Roark,Michael P. Johnson,Patricia Cline Cohen,Sarah Stage,Susan M. Hartmann

The American Promise appeals to all types of students and provides the right resources and tools to support any classroom environment. A clear political framework supports a vibrant social and cultural story that embraces the voices of hundreds of Americans — from presidents to pipefitters and sharecroppers to suffragettes — who help students connect with history and grasp important concepts. Now in its fifth edition, The American Promise does even more to increase historical analysis skills and facilitate active learning, and its robust array of multimedia supplements make it the perfect choice for traditional face-to-face classrooms, hybrid courses, and distance learning.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1245

Publisher

Macmillan Higher Education

Published Date

ISBN 10

1457605600

ISBN 13

9781457605604

The American Promise, Volume C: Since 1890

A History of the United States: Since 1890

By: James L. Roark,Michael P. Johnson,Patricia Cline Cohen,Sarah Stage,Susan M. Hartmann

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The American Promise, Volume C: Since 1890

A History of the United States: Since 1890

By: James L. Roark,Michael P. Johnson,Patricia Cline Cohen,Sarah Stage,Susan M. Hartmann

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

535

Publisher

Macmillan Higher Education

Published Date

ISBN 10

1457626632

ISBN 13

9781457626630

Cosmopolitanism

World Citizenship and the Imagination

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cosmopolitanism

World Citizenship and the Imagination

By: Michael Ernest Sweet

Scientific Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: none, Concordia University Montreal, 23 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper examines the idea of world citizenship and if it is both possible and desirable; if it is to be understood as an abstraction or a framework for action. I consider a number of common notions of world citizenship and then, supported by Nussbaum's theory of public rationality from the literary imagination, I illuminate how the cosmopolitan vision of Diogenes, kosmopolites (cosmopolitanism), may present the most promising construct of world citizenship to act as a counter hegemonic citizen-based force to neoliberal globalization. Additionally, a review of the world citizenship teaching model Learning for a Cause elucidates the potential for my vision of kosmopolites in practice. I find world citizenship to be crucial to contemporary society, but in need of (re)understanding.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

GRIN Verlag

Published Date

ISBN 10

364010871X

ISBN 13

9783640108718

Book's by Michael Ernest Sweet

Down to Earth

Down to Earth

Raising Humanity

Raising Humanity

The Financial Wizards

The Financial Wizards

Dances with Love

Dances with Love

A Mind for Murder - Rethinking the Exalted Imagination

A Mind for Murder - Rethinking the Exalted Imagination

The Social Justice Imagination

The Social Justice Imagination

Plato's Philosopher King: A Potent Object of Hope?

Plato's Philosopher King: A Potent Object of Hope?

Standardized Testing - Unmasking a Threat to Democracy

Standardized Testing - Unmasking a Threat to Democracy

The Portable Obituary

The Portable Obituary

Cosmopolitanism: World citizenship and the imagination

Cosmopolitanism: World citizenship and the imagination

Beyond Germs. Examination of the "virgin soil" theory focusing geographical, ethnological and demografic causes

Beyond Germs. Examination of the "virgin soil" theory focusing geographical, ethnological and demografic causes

Wilsonianism Then and Now. Would The Real Woodrow Wilson Please Stand Up

Wilsonianism Then and Now. Would The Real Woodrow Wilson Please Stand Up

The American Promise, Combined Volume

The American Promise, Combined Volume

The American Promise, Volume C: Since 1890

The American Promise, Volume C: Since 1890

Cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email