Designated Doodler

This summer I have spent my time working with students to improve their SAT scores, specifically, their essay scores. We read source texts, articles written by scientists, activists, visionaries, historians and just typical writers. Some of the most interesting source texts to analyze are those speeches or addresses given to our nation in times of crisis. Speakers we've focused on include Lyndon B. Johnson, Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X and William Faulkner. Each of their speeches is different, each of their topics is different, each of their time periods contains different difficulties - but each speech is meant to inspire. These days, I feel like our country desperately needs that inspiration and those words of wisdom, because nothing is more dangerous than slipping into the depths of chaos, anger and violence. It's hard to believe that these recent violent atrocities are taking place in 2016, a year that more closely resembles 1964. Has our so...

Oh what a year it's been. Rather than summing it up in poetic verse, I simply offer these gifs as a representation of my experience of 2015. Much has transpired in these months. Some of it good. Some of it bad. But there is always entertainment to be found. Such as Donald Trump running for president or Steve Harvey totally screwing up the most important pageant ever. Oh and you can't forget that Texas' open carry law has passed. I'm sure we'll all be just fine though... People be goin' to Walmart like... We said goodbye to The Soup.  And hello ( ) to the beautiful reality that the X-Files and Twin Peaks will be returning. Bonus Duchovny Crossover Photo Justin Bieber won't go away, he just keeps saying he's sorry. Adele set fire to the rain and her album selling record. Unfortunately for the human populous, Kim and Kanye reproduced again. People got steamed over Starbucks cups. The oil business tanked. And of...