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Glamour Shots

The Bowtie Professor — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:24:11 +0000

No old glamour shots please. It is amazing when one is chatting with individuals on the Internet, how they start sending pictures of themselves. The problem that I have with this is that, usually the pictures that they send are not current. In other words, when a woman starts sending me pictures of herself, I do not want them to be photos of her 20 years ago. I want them to be photos of what she looks like right now. Sending me glamour shots of how she looked 20 years ago, is just not going to get it. No high school glamour shots please. I am not concerned that she weighted about 118 in high school and about 127 in college. I want to know how much she weights right now. Anything less than this is deception. No old glamour shots please. What one use to look like and what one use to could do, does not cut it. My question is, ” what does one look like now and what can one do now ? “ I am pretty sure that there are a lot of ladies out there, who feel the same way about the guys that they meet. Can you imagine ladies some guy sending you pictures of himself, being six feet-two and about 185 pounds, and when you finally meet him, he is five feet-nine and 320pounds? More than likely ladies, you all will be highly dissappointed. Yes, I am very much aware that looks are not everything, but, one should not lie about his or her appearance or profession. Individuals should be honest with themselves, and not conjure up images of themselves which do not exist. No old and out dated glamour shots please.

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Dangerous Temptations

The Bowtie Professor — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:05:04 +0000

Men who are in positions of authority, such as pastors, professors, police officers, managers and CEOs of businesses and corporations, and medical doctors, are in professions of dangerous temptations. I believe that the most dangerous profession of them all, is that of the professorship for the following reasons:

(a) The male professor is constantly around large groups of young beautiful women on a regular basis, especially if he teaches at a junior or community college, which usually requires a course load of five or more classes and out of those classes, at least two of them my have a hundred or more students in each class;

(b) No matter how many female students that a male professor resist, in his course of teaching, there will be a few that are irresistible. Therefore, the male professor has to constantly stay prayed up. Society’s always assumes that if a male professor gets involved with a female student, it was the professor who went after her. When sometimes it is the other way around, depending on the attractiveness of the male professor. Yes, I am very much aware that even though females students may come on to their male professors, it is up to the professors to reject them. In some cases this is easily said then done;

(c) The profession of the male professorship is a dangerous temptation because he has to be very careful about everything he says, because anything can be misconstrued, and he could have a sexual harassment claim against them;

(d) The male professor must constantly be aware of not to fraternize too much with his female students, because they may perceive it as a come on. This happened to me at my church with some of the Christian sisters. They started claiming me as their own.

Any heterosexual male professor who has taught over a certain period of time will usually see females students that he is attracted to, and if he says he doesn’t, he is either lying or he is gay. Now just because one may be attracted to the opposite sex, does not mean that he or she has to act on his or her feelings. The professorship at times can be a dangerous occupation of temptation.

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Not Wise To Become A Teacher

The Bowtie Professor — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:29:57 +0000

In our present day and time, I do not believe that becoming a teacher is a wise decision, for the following reasons:

(a) As a teacher one will not be able to use his or her gift of teaching, due to the fact that he or she is going to be bogged down with a lot of paper-work, as well as spending a great deal of time in meetings;

(b) Our society as a whole does not respect teachers, and this can be seem in the salaries they make;

(c) Due to attending so many meetings and doing a great deal of paper-work, being able to actually teach will be very limited and when one does teach, he or she will spend a lot of time preparing students to pass the state exam. Therefore, many teachers are teaching to the test;

(d) There is not any classroom civility in many schools today, especially in large metropolitan areas, where the kids are practically raising themselves. Students curse teachers out and even threaten some of them and they sometimes even vandalize their vehicles, and what is so bad about it is, parents either condone or make excuses for their actions;

(e) Administrators and school boards make hasty decisionswithout teacher input, such as cutting programs and closing down schools abruptly;

(f) Everybody and their mother think that they can tell a teacher how to teach, but yet such individuals themselves have no teaching experience and school administrators are more willing to take their view over the teacher’s perspective;

This analysis may sound both negative and pessimistic, but young college students who are inspiring to become teachers, should consider the above factors before going into this profession. If teaching is one’s passion, he or she may want to consider the professorship.

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On The Down-Low Brothers In The Church

The Bowtie Professor — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:23:10 +0000

When I was coming up, if a heterosexual male or female were not married at a certain age, he or she would be labeled as either being gay or a lesbian. However, this is not the case anymore, due to the fact that so many married men are on the down-low, meaning married men who have affairs with other men. This is becoming very prevalent in the church, according to many of it’s leaders. Some women are beginning to turn their spouses in to their church pastors and leaders, while others are keeping it a secret, because they are so embarrassed to let others know. Even some of the church leaders are a bit shaky, like Bishop Eddie Long. A few sisters at the church where I attend are currently dealing with this issue. I would like to say to all the down-low brothers, inside and outside of the church, ” don’t go and date or marry a woman, messing up her life, as well as putting it in danger. If you want a man than get you a man, and I will say the same to closet lesbians, who have husbands, but knowing in their hearts, they possess sexual desires for young women. Stop messing up people’s lives.”

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Educational Politics: Is A College Degree A Scam?

The Bowtie Professor — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:01:09 +0000

It should be a federal law that institutions of higher learning must find jobs for their graduates in their respectable disciplines. It is a shame that students spend all of their money as well as tax payers fundings, to attend these institutions but still cannot find work. These colleges and universities are making millions of dollars off of these students and when they graduate, many of them cannot find decent work within their respectable fields. Which causes me to raise the question, ” is a college degree a scam ” ? If colleges and universities do not find work for their graduates, then I believe that a college degree is not too far from being a scam. Students take out several loans in order to acquire an education, and when they graduate several of them are unemployed, or they have mediocre jobs that they did not go to school to be trained for. Many of the core curriculum classes have nothing to do with the professions that most of these students are going into, but instead, are in the curriculum just to make money off of students. Believe me, I should know, since I hold five degrees. Let’s think about it for a moment, if we are so serious about education in America like we pretend, why are educators paid peanut salaries from pre-K, up to the college level? Also, what about the proliferation of online schools and classes popping up all across this country? Who is on the other side of the computer? Who cares? As long as we can make a profit. A great deal of these online educational institutions, are nothing but diploma mills. The point that I am making here is that education in the U.S., is more about making money than about individuals truly being educated and productive individuals in our society. It is all about the money. We tell individuals to go to college and acquire an education, then we turn around and give individuals who constantly have illegitimate children, free houses and food stamps, who make no effort to get an education, and thus, undermine those who work hard to get their college education. What a scam. Is getting a college education really worth it today, or is it a waste of time? Some will argue that a degree is still valuable, while others will argue that it is not. I will let you be the judge.

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Heart Broken/Broken Heart

The Bowtie Professor — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:45:59 +0000

The sad thing about a broken heart is that, one cannot do anything about it. The heart broken person must go through a great deal of emotional pain. Some get over it quicker than others. Nevertheless, the pain is still real. When one’s heart feels like it is aching, and chest seems to constantly be on fire and one’s stomach feels like it has knots in it, along with constantly being upset, the ” Broken Heart Syndrome “, has taking place in that person’s life. People’s hearts are broken for a variety reasons. The lost of a love one, due to death, a love relationship that did not workout, or a betrayal of a family member or best friend. Regardless of how an individual’s heart has been broken, being heart broken can emotionally drain an individual and it can wear the person out. It can also affect one’s health. I have even read a few studies whereby a person could actually die from being heart broken, because of the affect that it has on the body. Many physicians say that the symptoms of a broken heart are similar to that of a heart attack, such as chest pains, the shortness of breath, fatigue and dizziness. A broken heart cannot neither be taken lightly nor as a joke. One type of heart-break that most of us have probably experienced, is the breakup of a girlfriend or boyfriend or a husband or a wife. Especially when that person has lefted you for someone else, and it does not matter whether you are 22 or 62, the pain will still be there. Now I know that their are a lot of individuals out there, who think that after a certain age, one’s heart cannot be broken romantically, but this is simply not true, because love does not stop at a certain age. A broken heart can happen at any age, and those who either have gone through it, or who are going through it, know exactly what I am talking about. When an individual is going through a heart-break, after his or her mate has left them for someone else, making the follow statements to the heart-broken person does not help:

(a) There are more fish in the sea;

(b) I could have told you that he or she was no good;

(d) When you first introduced me to that person, I could tell that he or she was not right for you;

(e) I am glad you two are not together anymore, because you were involved with a loser;

(f) Maybe God is trying to tell you something;

(g) This shall passed too, things happen in life for a reason.

The above statements really do not help the person who is heart broken, in fact such statements may exacerbate the pain that the individual is going through, because logic is dead when feelings are involved. The only solution for one with a broken heart, is allow time to heal one’s heart, and I am not speaking just from head knowledge, but, I have had my heart broken a few times in my life, and believe me, it is no joke.

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They Are Not In The Classroom

The Bowtie Professor — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:35:12 +0000

Some administers, at two-year colleges, have a romanticized perception of students. They constantly make excuses for many of these students, who from the get go, should not be in college in the first place. Several of these administers, along with many elected officials have pompous ideas about what is suppose to take place in the classroom. Even though they themselves have either very limited or no teaching experience at all, and if so, they have never taught a hardcore subject such a psychology, history, political science or government, mathematics, or any other core curriculum requirements. Yet, they think that they are authorities on what needs to be taught in the classroom environment. This to me, is the number one problem with America’s educational system, from K-12,up to the college level. We have too many unqualified and non-educators setting the agenda for educators who do not know what the hell they are doing or talking about. One would not have a plumber setting the curriculum for medical doctors, or a school teacher setting the agenda for pharmacists. Yet, everybody and their mother are setting the techniques and strategies for those of us within the educational system. This should not be. However, the reasons for America’s educational system operating this way is because of the followings:

(a) There is a notion in our culture that anyone can teach, which is not true. Teaching is a gift like anything else:

(b) Many people believe that educators teach general knowledge material that everyone already knows and therefore, does not require any serious expertise:

(d) America as a nation pretends she values education and she really does not. America lets us know how much she values something by placing a price tag on it. For example, America values sports and we know she does, because there are very high price tags on athletes and coaches. What does America pay her teachers or professors?

(e) Finally, many believe that teaching as a profession, is really an easy laid-back job which does not cause a great deal of stress, when in reality it is just the opposite.

Administrators, elected officials, parents, and the general public, are not in the classroom, and therefore, need to sit down somewhere and be quiet, because the educational system in the U.S., has gone through a serious transformation that many of these individuals and groups do not truly understand.

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Confusion

The Bowtie Professor — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:32:57 +0000

The majority of Christians, probably do not know God like Moses, Elijah, Paul, or Job. However, if one were to do his or her biblical research, he or she would notice that each of these men, at a certain point in their lives wanted to face death, rather than life. Their lives became so difficult until they actually asked God to take their lives. I would argue that, until Christians have gotten to this point in their walk with the Lord, they really have not reached the apex of their Christian journey. Think about it for a moment. If you are a Christian, do you think that you are closer to God than Moses, Elijah, Job, or Paul? At a certain time in your life, quoting biblical scriptures, will not solve your problems, listening to this minister and that minister, will not solve your problems, running from this Christian conference to that Christian conference, will not solve your problems, Watching this Christian DVD and listening to that Christian CD, will not solve your problems, and confusion and perplexity will overtake your life, and you will not be able to understand what God is doing. Yes, I know that I Corinthians, 14:33, states that God is not the author of confusion, but a God of peace and order. In this particular scripture, however, the Holy Spirit is referring to the church, and not your personal life. God can cause things to happen in one’s life, that will make his or her head do flip-flops, and He will have your problem setup in such a way whereby, others will not understand what you are going through. Even though they say they do, deep down in your heart you know they really don’t. You will try to explain your problem to them, but it won’t make sense neither to them nor to you. When something like this happens to you, or you are currently going through some major difficulty, you may be experiencing a Moses, Elijah, Paul, or Job moment. A moment which cannot be explained neither through poetry nor pose. A moment in which you feel like King David, when he said in Psalms, “ if I had wings like a dove, I would fly away.” It’s the moment when the most popular Christian answers, will not satisfy your soul. It is a moment of anguish and emotional pain, and you feel helpless, while you are waiting for Jesus to give you a breakthrough. For those Christians who have not experienced, a Moses, Job, Elijah, or Paul moment, just keep walking with the Lord, because your day is coming. For those Christians who have had one of these moments, you know exactly know what I am talking about. You may think that you are strong, until all of a sudden, out of nowhere, something drastic happens in your life which causes you a great deal of pain and sorrow. Then, you will understand what I mean by such a moment.

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Rate My Students.com

The Bowtie Professor — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:47:36 +0000

Rate My Professors.com, is a site in which students give their opinions concerning the performance of their professors. One complain that students regularly make is that, professors do not go over or cover the chapters. Well first of all, I wonder how students could tell whether or not professors are going over the chapters, because most of them do not even bother to read the course syllabus, less more read the chapters. I know this to be true, because many of my colleagues and I complaint how students constantly harass us about such things as, which chapters will the test cover or how many exams will there be this semester? Approximately 95% of the questions that students ask their instructors, the answers are already in the course syllabus. The educational system in the U.S., has been dumbed down, due to the fact that high school counselors, parents, and others, have made many students to believe, that they are intellectual giants, when really they are intellectual midgets. Being able to work on computers, and use all types of technology, does not make one smart or a genius. It just makes one a technological drone. Technological drones usually lack analytical and critical thinking skills. If one were to take away all the technological gadgets from most students today, and ask them a simple question such as ” what is your philosophy of education? ” They would either stare out in space or look at you like you were crazy. Why? It is very simple, they lack critical and analytical skills, and cannot think outside some type of electronic device. What we as professors need, is something like Rate My Students.com., so that we can have a public network, to discuss the performance of our students. Such as coming to class unprepared, neither reading the course syllabus nor the assigned chapters in the text, and no scan-trons, pencils or pens on examination day. Also, some of them are usually playing with technological devices in the back of the classroom, while the professor is giving a power-point presentation, and when the instructor asks them questions about the assigned materials that they supposed to have read, they can’t tell the instructor anything, or they just flat out admit, that they did not read the materials. I thought that this was just a community or junior college thing, but a few of my colleagues who teach at large universities, claim to experience the same thing, but, not on such a large scale, as we do at the two-year institutions. Finally, too many of the two-year colleges in large metropolitan areas, are becoming more and more ghetto, due to the fact that we have open door policies and that we are trying to teach individuals who have had no parental guidance. Several students missed their basic skills, somewhere along the line between k-12. Therefore, we are trying to teaching individuals who have 5th and 6th grade reading levels, which exacerbates the problem when they possess negative attitudes. I have only given a few examples what many professors face, at several of the two-years institutions, across the U.S. . However, let it be understood that the community and junior colleges, also have a great deal of good students, who transfer to universities, after completing their basics at the two-years colleges, and become very successful in their fields of study, as well as gaining employment in their respectful disciplines. Rate My Students.com, would be great for professors, so that we can give our views concerning students.

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Despised

The Bowtie Professor — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:02:36 +0000

I am the most despised man on planet earth. I am looked down upon by many, including my own woman. I am laughed at, joked about, and others only come to me as a last resort. I was forced from my homeland and brought to the New World. Since my arrival, I have had to constantly prove myself to others, and no matter what I did or accomplished, it was never enough. I was told that I was not smart enough to do this and smart enough to do that, and through it all, I have been able to overcome all the road blocks and obstacles that have come my way. I was told that I was not intelligent enough to became a doctor or lawyer, but I succeeded in that. I was told that I was not smart enough to be a professional quarterback or become a head coach, but I accomplished that, and have even won a few Super-bowls. I have helped to built America, not only through the sweat and pain of slavery, but also through my great inventions such as the traffic light, lawnmower, clothes dryer, elevator, clock, fountain pen, street sweeper, horseshoe, riding saddle, and the list could go on. All other ethnic and minority groups look down upon me, even those who have come across the waters from the continent from which I originated. My woman has ambivalent feelings towards me, parts of her loves me and parts of her hates me. I am the only man in America, in which my woman publicly denounces me and spreads her evil poison about me, among other ethnic and minority groups. I live in a political system which regularly gives her a job over me, in order to try to degrade me. If I become highly educated, those within my own group, claim that I am too white, while the oppressor, still sees me as being too black. I am the man who has gone through slavery, racism, segregation, unemployment, poverty, imprisonment, and injustice. However, through it all , the Almighty God, has blessed me to move from the slaveship to the White House. Who am I? I am the black man.

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