pohnpei397
pohnpei397
Male
October 1, 2009
Teacher
Community / Jr. College
History, Social Sciences
University of Chicago - Chicago, IL, US (1986 - 1990)
University of Washington-Seattle Campus - Seattle, WA, US (1991 - 1997)
Sports, reading, chasing the kids around, learning languages.
Biography
I grew up in Micronesia, went to high school in Hawaii. College at the U of Chicago, Ph.D. from U of Washington. I taught four years of high school then quit when my first daughter was born so I could teach part-time at a community college and stay home with her (and later another daughter).
New Activity for pohnpei397
Answered a Question in Sonnet 18
There are at least couple of different images that the author uses to show that...
Answered a Question in History
I would argue, for the most part, that the Progressive Era was not a failure. In...
Answered a Question in History
Civil liberties refers to the rights that people have as individuals -- rights...
Answered a Question in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
I assume you are talking about the revenge that Injun Joe talks about in Chapters...
Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
To me, there are a couple of major points about this imagery. First, it is warm,...
Answered a Question in Great Expectations
I assume you mean "dynamic" in the sense that he undergoes some major change in...
Answered a Question in History
Domestic policy is stuff like health care -- things that mostly happen within the...
Answered a Question in Because I could not stop for Death—
In this poem, death is not personified as something scary like the usual "grim...
Answered a Question in Fahrenheit 451
To me, the main thing that these three books have in common (or the societies in...
Answered a Question in History
If you start with the idea that slavery is legal, then fugitive slave laws make...
Answered a Question in Grammar
For question 1, I agree with you that the bottles are countable and you should ask...
Answered a Question in To Kill a Mockingbird
There are two main things that she says to explain this. One of the things she...
Answered a Question in Henry David Thoreau
I assume that you are talking about the incident in the book Walden where Thoreau...
Answered a Question in Law
The only way to say that the US is not justified in doing this is to say that it...
Answered a Question in Law
I do not really understand your question because the government does not conduct...
Answered a Question in Frankenstein
I think that the monster does want love. But that does not mean he prefers a...
Answered a Question in Macbeth
By the end of the play, I do not feel much sympathy for Macbeth at all. After...
Answered a Question in My Side of the Mountain
This is a very hard question to answer because I have no idea where in the book...
Answered a Question in Business
Of course, this depends a great deal on the quality of the bus. I have traveled...
Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men
This depends a great deal on what you mean by the beginning of the book. I'll...
Answered a Question in History
The two systems are pretty much opposites of each other -- that's how they...
Followed a Topic
Answered a Question in So Far from the Bamboo Grove
Yoko's family lives in Korea because Japan has conquered and occupied Korea and a...
Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men
I agree with the first answer. I think that you are talking about when Lennie...
Answered a Question in Lord of the Flies
If you are talking about the very first reaction that Ralph has, look at the part...
Badges
Fan of these educators:
247 Friends
See All »eNotes Employee, Expert, Instructor, Scribe, Whitman, Poe, Dickens, The Bard, Churchill, Einstein
224,206 points
Following 1164 Topics
See All »1 others following
32 others following
7 others following
7 others following
2 others following
2 others following
2 others following
2 others following
1 others following
7 others following










