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Classifying Disability: Interpreting Jonathan Mooney’s The Short Bus

Anna Chiles
Biology 103
Professor Grobstein
Book Commentary due 12/18/09
Classifying Disability: Interpreting Jonathan Mooney’s The Short Bus
"Blaming kids for their academic failures leaves our culture's definition of intelligence unquestioned.
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Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid: The Role of Class and Institution in Obesity and Diabetes

Anna Chiles
Biology 103
Professor Grobstein
Web Paper 3 due 12/2/09
Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid: The Role of Class and Institution in Obesity and Diabetes
            Recently, a traditionally black Pennsylvania university, Lincoln University, has made news due to a new school rule: any freshman with a Body Mass Index (BMI)[1] of 30 or above has until graduation to take ‘Fitness for Life,’ a health and phy
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