HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS COMMUNICATE WITH OTHER INTELLIGENT LIFE

THOUGHTS – HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS COMMUNICATE WITH OTHER INTELLIGENT LIFE The physicist Stephen Hawkins is putting $100 MILLION Dollars in the game of finding other intelligent life in our universe. Universities are sure to get in the game; but WHY NOT HIGH SCHOOLS IN URBAN AREAS. High school SCIENCE TEACHERS could join hands with other high schools and take up the challenge. Middle Schoolers could start now - when they're seniors they will be expert hunters. By urban public school administrators, teachers, and students taking up this challenge other benefits would awaken a science vocabulary and interest far beyond that that ever existed in public schools anywhere in the country. Students would come to know what it takes for humans to live and thrive on earth – what other intelligent life forms might need to live and thrive: personal energy consumption (example, water, food, oxygen); collective energy consumption (example, fuel, habitats, social systems, and methods of communication). It is not only possible but likely that a high school student will develop a unique and effective method of communicating with other intelligent life. Public school boards and administrators and teachers and students, don’t just think about it; DO IT! http://www.amazon.com/author/adolphusward http://www.adolphusward.net

THOUGHTS ABOUT THE POLITICS AND BLOOD OF WAR

Once more THOUGHTS ABOUT WAR POLITICS and BLOOD Just sharing a thought I’ve had about the politics and blood of war. Although I served just over 4 years in the Marine Corp during the Korean conflict I didn’t have to kill anyone and my writing these thoughts ought to tell you no one killed me; the truce was signed shortly after my enlistment. I met combat hardened marines who had reuped just to go back to the killing fields. They were angry when the truce was signed and cursed the coming peace. These were professional soldiers – professional killers. Whether one likes or despises professional killers we need them. There are people and governments around our beautiful globe who don’t like Americans – any kind of American – and will send professional killers to do us harm. So for bad people we need our own bad people to stop them. The politics of war is what a war is really about – the real reason we (any country) goes to war. Wars are fought for control and dominance of resources; that can be power, land, wealth, natural resources, and even people. Our country won’t just come right out and tell us that so the politics allows leaders to give us a palatable reason; one that we can accept. We’re going to war to defend DEMOCRACY – that word has a good sound to it; it’s full of all short of good feelings like saving other people and spreading God’s will. The Blood of war is something quite different from the Politics of war. The blood of war is more about taking more lives than we give; it’s about winning at all cost. In the heat of battle, a fighting soldier (killer) isn’t thinking about democracy, he’s too busy taking blood and trying to keep his own. So, I’ve learned to separate the politics of war from the blood of war – I often condemn the politics but always honor the blood. http://www.amazon.com/author/adolphusward http://www.adolphusward.net

THOUGHTS ABOUT THE POLITICS AND BLOOD OF WAR

THOUGHTS ABOUT WAR POLITICS and BLOOD Just sharing a thought I’ve had about the politics and blood of war. Although I served just over 4 years in the Marine Corp during the Korean conflict I didn’t have to kill anyone and my writing these thoughts ought to tell you no one killed me; the truce was signed shortly after my enlistment. I met combat hardened marines who had reuped just to go back to the killing fields. They were angry when the truce was signed and cursed the coming peace. These were professional soldiers – professional killers. Whether one likes or despises professional killers we need them. There are people and governments around our beautiful globe who don’t like Americans – any kind of American – and will send professional killers to do us harm. So for bad people we need our own bad people to stop them. The politics of war is what a war is really about – the real reason we (any country) goes to war. Wars are fought for control and dominance of resources; that can be power, land, wealth, natural resources, and even people. Our country won’t just come right out and tell us that so the politics allows leaders to give us a palatable reason; one that we can accept. We’re going to war to defend DEMOCRACY – that word has a good sound to it; it’s full of all short of good feelings like saving other people and spreading God’s will. The Blood of war is something quite different from the Politics of war. The blood of war is more about taken more lives than we give; it’s about winning at all cost. In the heat of battle, a fighting soldier (killer) isn’t thinking about democracy, he’s too busy taking blood and trying to keep his own. So, I’ve learned to separate the politics of war from the blood of war. http://www.amazon.com/author/adolphusward http://www.adolphusward.net

THOUGHTS ON BOOKS AND OLD LOVE

THOUGHTS ABOUT BOOKS AND OLD LOVE I was one of many authors selling and promoting their books at the Leimert Park Village Book Fair Saturday 1 August 2015. The venue was the Crenshaw Plaza in Baldwin Hills. Authors were located in a spacious inside mall area well suited for walking traffic. I’m a self-published author; most of the authors attending also published their own works. It’s a good time for anyone with a story they’ve wanted to share to do just that. It’s also a good time for readers. If you like reading there’s more for you to choose from – not only the subject but story format: print, ebook, audio book. If you don’t like to read, read anyway. You don’t need to have a hard book in your hands; you can download ebooks to your smart phone, tablet, or computed; or you can download audio books in the same way. If you don’t read your world is very small. I sold and gave away more than a few books at the fair. I gave books to students and people who serve students or groups of people. I’m truly an agent for literacy. READ READ READ – for a better view and a better you. The climatic occurrence of my day was meeting the sons of an unforgettable love in my life. One of her sons stopped by my table and listened to my summary of each book – hearing my second book is set in Milwaukee he said he was born there. I asked his family name, he gave it – it was the same as my unforgettable love; I ask if he knew (my love’s first name), and he replied she was his mother who died of cancer in 1989. I could feel her sprit wash over me and had to pause before telling him I knew his mother, him and his brothers – she had four young boys when we met. One of his brothers also lives here in California and just happened to be in the mall. He found my table and spent a little time with me. After 30 years, the grown men, now, and I will stay in contact. http://www.amazon.com/author/adolphusward http://www.adolphusward.net