by Steve Chisnell | 28 March 2020 | ChizBlog, Culture Criticism, Global Issues, Politics and Ethics
It began very soon after Mama Ka’Kaw was “discovered” by the Europeans when they first “explored” the “New World.” Chocolate, once an indulgence of the elite who could pay for it, fast became accessible and commonplace to everyone once slavery dropped the price.
by Steve Chisnell | 19 January 2019 | ChizBlog, Education, Philosophy, Politics and Ethics
In some important sense, even in this political chaos, there must be an accountability for all composition.
by Steve Chisnell | 30 August 2017 | ChizBlog, Literary Criticism, Politics and Ethics
We can read this deliberate ambiguity in a number of ways: the particular puzzled psychoses of repressed females, for instance, or the dysfunctional power relationships within families; the self-struggling identities of adolescent development or even the unreasonable demands of an outside world to extract simple clarity from complex humanity.
by Steve Chisnell | 25 August 2014 | ChizBlog, Politics and Ethics
The internet’s claim that the Ice Bucket Challenge is “ubiquitous” is understatement, but the use of the term implies its over-reach, its annoying domination. True enough, within hours of its seizure of FaceBook and Twitter, Vine and YouTube, critics... 
by Steve Chisnell | 6 September 2011 | ChizBlog, Politics and Ethics
I’ve been wanting to write for some time about the Sarah Palin-Paul Revere-Wikipedia controversy. You may remember the hoopla last June when former and potential presidential-candidate Palin, then on a historical America tour, was quoted in videos... 
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School. 
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