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Mental Cultural Elements

The Province School

A account of the transformation of a GED program in Milwaukee, WI, described in the oratory manner of Caesar’s Gallic Wars.

The Province School Abstract with Chronology

Download the abstract, supported by a detailed chronology of the 30-month history of The Province School, in MS Publisher format.

OW Holmes Elementary

Read about the exploits of justice and leadership training at this stereotypical urban school.

Moral Cultural Elements

Essay on Morals and Ethics

Ethics: rules you can break; Morals: rules that get broken…

Barbara and the Dalai Lama

or, How To Kiss The Dalai Lama On The Cheek…

Read Urban Poetry

Raw, brilliant poetic expression from the forsaken youth of the underclass…

Read Summaries of Actual Dialogues

Violence dialogues with urban youth.

Political Cultural Elements

What’s Wrong in Palestine?

A Shopkeeper’s Perspective

That Ghetto Cinderella

An urban retelling of the classic story of Cinderella

Untying the Gordian Knot

Purging the Influence of Secular Religion on American Politics

Read Essays

Student essays made from standard prompts

Economic Cultural Elements

The In-Man

Romance set in the fields of the Todd Weir Nature Conservancy.

The Last Prison

A fiction about the primacy of underprivileged, ghetto society.


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