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Chris JusticeAbout Chris Justice Chris resides in Owings Mills, Maryland and is the Director of Expository Writing at The University of Baltimore. He is a freelance writer and editor and previously taught at The Community College of Baltimore County as an Assistant Professor of English and Mass Communication. He holds a master's degree in Modern Studies from Loyola College and a bachelor's in English from Rutgers University. He earned teacher certification in secondary English education at the University of New Mexico and is currently finishing a Certificate in Online Journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Once a staff writer for Greater Media Newspapers in New Jersey, his words have appeared in The Baltimore Sun, Senses of Cinema, Classic-Horror, Bay Weekly, Ground Report, and Blue Ridge Country. Columns The Tackle BoxMyth-Making Dolphins[10.Jul.08] :. They're transporters of the souls of the dead, per Dante, transporters of tools and messages, per the US military, and friends to man, per the popular dolphinariums.  The Tackle BoxThe Real Creel[30.Apr.08] :. Creels contain volumes of wonderfully imaginative “catches” that, unlike the box’s contents in the myth, unleash a swarm of positive stories and memories that continue life’s flow.  The Tackle BoxShad: An Undeniably American Icon[27.Mar.08] :. Emerson spoke of it in a eulogy for Thoreau, not long after, it fueled Doherty and his cavalry in their relentless pursuit of Booth -- no wonder McPhee calls it America's "founding fish".  The Tackle BoxTrout Fishing in America[22.Feb.08] :. Richard Brautigan’s minimalist prose wove hallucinations into social commentary, pastoral meditations into cultural satire, and journalistic reports about mundane existence into nihilistic, punkish sirens.  The Tackle BoxSome Thoughts on the Holiday Season's Über Pop Icon[21.Dec.07] :. Imagine sitting down to a fish dinner with Ernest Hemingway, Izaak Walton, Norman Maclean, and the ultimate Fisher of Men. The Tackle Box Hooked by Antique LuresThe Tackle Box Fishing, Fathers, and SonsThe Tackle Box Beware the Kraken from the DeepThe Tackle Box Giant Catfish…Only a Noodle AwayThe Tackle Box Predatory NatureThe Tackle Box The Kings of CrabsThe Tackle Box Ed Zern: The Fisher King of DrollThe Tackle Box Defying Extinction and Celebrating the StrangeBlog postsSources SayTable Scraps #2 – Mr. Edwards, Stop Blaming the Media[29.Jan.08] :. Leftovers and scraps from the media’s round-tables. I’m so tired of John Edwards. Apparently, in another act of campaign desperation, with interest in his presidential bid... Sources SayThe Golden Rule #7[14.Aug.07] :. Musings on the Ethics of Contemporary Journalism As author and UCLA Professor of Social Research Methodology Mike Rose once wrote in Lives on the Boundary, “Mistakes are the... Sources SayThe Campus Beat #6[1.Aug.07] :. The tug of war continues over students’ free speech and press rights. Sources SayThe Golden Rule #6 - To Catch A Predator[17.Jul.07] :. Musings on the Ethics of Contemporary Journalism I abhor online predators like any ordinary parent, teacher, police officer, or citizen. They represent a fissure in our society that... Sources Say The Campus Beat #5Sources Say The Golden Rule #5Sources Say The Campus Beat #4Sources Say The Golden Rule #4Sources Say The Campus Beat #3Sources Say The Golden Rule #3Sources Say The Campus Beat #2Sources Say The Golden Rule #2Sources Say The Campus Beat #1Sources Say The Golden Rule #1 |
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