I'm a life long learner myself...

I'm trying to post a little snippet of my grad school papers (each time one is due), and well... this paper isn't really about teaching. It's about Native Americans (our week's theme). So, without further ado, I afford you this tidbit on casinos:

Over the break, I had my first gaming experience at a tribal casino. A novice to gambling, I was astounded by the sheer number of people who were at the casino as well as the obvious flashiness that went into the casinos development. As I steadily lost my money (on two separate occasions) I could not help but consider the profits the tribe must be making. Therefore, reading, “Most gaming enterprises provide only modest returns—revenues that are used primarily to support essential tribal government services and needs. … The erroneous perceptions surrounding Indian gaming also have opened up the tribes to attacks from certain political quarters. For example, in 1997 former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton of Washington proposed the implementation of ‘needs-based’ analysis for tribes to receive federal funding” (Indian Tribes As Sovereign Governments, p. 77), certainly gave me deeper consideration and reflection on exactly where my lost money went. (Particularly when fish-stick mogul Slade Gorton seems to falsely think the Native Americans are pulling in a haul – as if!) Overall, tribal gaming strikes me as an area I would like some further study on.

Again, this poses very little correlation to teaching at the moment. Hmmm....