http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/ The database houses documents, photographs, audio, and visual resources for the course at Boston Latin. Browse materials as well as submit materials to be filed in the cabinet. en-us 2010-01-06T08:28:17-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003423.html The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network has launched a war against the phrase "That's so gay," and the group says it's winning. A press release sent out Thursday announced GLSEN's campaign against the saying was entering its second phase,... Sexual orientation and discrimination freemanjud 2010-01-06T08:28:17-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003422.html Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we may soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may also enable... Eugenics freemanjud 2009-12-08T21:22:36-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003421.html If what I.Q. tests measure is immutable and innate, what explains the Flynn effect-the steady rise in scores across generations? One Saturday in November of 1984, James Flynn, a social scientist at the University of Otago, in New Zealand, received... Eugenics freemanjud 2009-12-08T21:13:40-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003420.html THE fate of the twentieth century was largely forged in the West. It may be the last century for which this will hold true. Inventions have changed our ways of doing most things, but the greatest changes have taken place... War and Violence freemanjud 2009-11-23T10:09:32-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003401.html The 36 bus begins its route at the Forest Hills MBTA station every half-hour with a cloud of exhaust fumes and the rhythmic sounds of a revving engine. Last Wednesday night, it made a journey into the depths of hell.... Bystanders freemanjud 2009-09-13T22:44:09-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003400.html For more than half an hour 38 respectable, law-abiding citizens in Queens watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks in Kew Gardens. Twice their chatter and the sudden glow of their bedroom lights interrupted... Bystanders freemanjud 2009-09-13T22:31:57-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003399.html It flashes through Margaret Swinchoski's mind, each time she walks past the Kew Gardens, Queens, train station: This was where Kitty Genovese met her killer. Even in the small town in Vermont where Miss Swinchoski grew up, Catherine Genovese's case... Bystanders freemanjud 2009-09-13T22:24:28-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003398.html THE punch that ended Rob Viscome's life has now been called a crime. Ten days ago, Patrick Rukaj, 16, was charged with misdemeanor assault in the death of the 17-year-old Westchester football player whom he tangled with at an impromptu... Bystanders freemanjud 2009-09-13T22:22:28-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003397.html I'm glad there are more gay characters on TV these days. But I don't want to single the gay ones out, because that would imply that I think gay people are different than everyone else. They're not different! Gay people... Race, class, ethnicity, and stereotyping freemanjud 2009-09-13T09:40:52-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003394.html It was a hot August day in Detroit. I was standing on a street corner downtown, looking at the front page of The Detroit News in a news rack. I remember a streetcar rattling by on the tracks as I... Nuclear, chemical, and biological weaponry and war freemanjud 2009-08-09T19:20:11-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003393.html Demonstrators at a 'tea party.' Demonstrators in Santa Monica, California on tax day, April 15, 2009. The "Tea Party" movement has deep roots within the Republican party. (Photo: Getty Images) There are dangerous currents running through America's politics and... fascism freemanjud 2009-08-09T19:04:44-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003392.html An internet petition has been launched in Turkey, apologising for the "great catastrophe of 1915" when hundreds of thousands of Ottoman Armenians died. Many international historians say the massacres and deaths of Armenians during their forced removal from what is... Armenian genocide freemanjud 2009-08-07T17:01:37-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003391.html The word "gay" is now the most frequently used term of abuse in schools, says a report. How did it get to be so prevalent and why do children use homophobic insults to get at each other? Every generation of... Race, class, ethnicity, and stereotyping freemanjud 2009-08-07T16:47:41-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003390.html “We Ourselves Are the War:” Understanding the Relationship between the First World War and the Holocaust Brian E. Crim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History, Lynchburg College Europeans from every walk of life rejoiced at the prospect of war in 1914.... World War I freemanjud 2009-08-07T15:56:20-05:00 http://www.learntoquestion.com/resources/database/archives/003389.html Transcript of the President’s Remarks Days of Remembrance Address (Applause) Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Please, be seated. Thank you very much. To Sara Bloomfield, for the wonderful introduction and the outstanding work that she’s doing; to... Nazis, Hitler, and the Holocaust freemanjud 2009-08-07T14:45:59-05:00