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The Recovery & Renewal of the Liberal Arts of Language - The Imaginative Conservative

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The liberal arts allow us the freedom to become more fully human by sharing as fully as possible in that which makes us distinct, and the freedom to flourish through the reality of our nature, our humanity, and, yes, perhaps even our divinity. Why My Favorite Nun Was Right:  The Recovery and Renewal of the Liberal Arts of Language for a Liberal Education Dedicated to my Students in The Trivium I.  Introduction I should say up front that I don't have the right to have a favorite nun: I am not Catholic (or even Christian). But I studied under a teacher who, one year short of ordination as a Jesuit priest, decided to leave the Church and teach instead (because he wasn't sure he believed in God, but was quite sure he was gay); eventually, he ended up a professor of English at a state university, where he labored to enlighten young, slacker barbarians (that's where I came in), and he gave a number of us, who could not get enough of his classes, an edu...

Online Course Providers Market to see Booming Business ... - Digital Journal

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PRESS RELEASE Published February 28, 2023 Advance Market Analytics published a new research publication on "Global Online Course Providers Market Insights, to 2028" with 232 pages and enriched with self-explained Tables and charts in presentable format. In the study, you will find new evolving Trends, Drivers, Restraints, Opportunities generated by targeting market-associated stakeholders. The growth of the Online Course Providers market was mainly driven by the increasing R&D spending across the world. Major players profiled in the study are: LinkedIn Learning (United States), EDX (United States), Plural sight (United States), Udemy Inc. (United States), Udacity (United States), Coursera (United States), Hubspot academy (United States), Khan academy (United States), IT pro TV (United States), CBT nuggets (United States), Get Free Exclusive PDF Sample Copy of This Research @ https://www.advancemarketanalytics.com/sample-report/89282-global-online-course-providers-...

The Dangers of Dogmatism | Higher Ed Gamma - Inside Higher Ed

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Ours is the golden age of creative nonfiction—a genre that recounts personal stories, memories, experiences and observations using the literary techniques typically associated with fiction—voice, style, language, imagery, narrative and more. Personal essays written with grace and literary flair aren't, of course, new. Montaigne's 16th-century Essais certainly put the lie to any sense that creative nonfiction represents something novel or original. Montaigne's writings constitute a literary self-portrait of the essayist's inner life, exploring topics as wide-ranging as cannibalism, child rearing, politeness, repentance and suicide. By combining the historical, the philosophical, the topical and the intensely personal (including his naps and bowel movements), he invented a new literary form, one that dominates writing in our time. Creative nonfiction is manifest especially vividly in The New York Times ' popular "Modern Love" column—with its raw, revealin...

Julia Quinn's Comments on Black Characters in Historical Romance ... - The Mary Sue

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Following the success of Netflix's adaptation of Bridgerton , Shondaland and Nexflix announced an expansion of Queen Charlotte's story. Over the past year, they revealed this would include a prequel show and book with Harper Collins. Written by Bridgerton creator Julia Quinn and executive producer Shonda Rhimes, this series is set about 52 years before the main Brigerton series. The story follows the beginning of Charlotte's quick marriage to King George III. Between Julia Quinn's past comments on writing ethnic and sexual diversity in historical romances and the lack of support for Black romance writers in publishing, many readers are taking issue with the choice to publish this book—especially without a Black historical romance writer at the helm. (Rhimes writes contemporary romance for TV.) do not buy this book. julia quinn in her own words said "she doesn't write books with black characters because she doesn't write struggle". this book is an ...

Five More Extremely Unscientific Methods for Picking Your Next Book - tor.com

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Many of us want to read All the Books; most of us lack the time to do so. How, then, to select the next work to read? Way back in 2021 I suggested five possible methods to help make the decision slightly easier. Here are five more. I won't claim that any of these are guaranteed to make you happy with your choice, but they do offer ways to sift through the vast mountains of possibilities. One can deliberately select books by authors who for reason of native language, nation of origin, ethnicity or some other issue seem likely to have had barriers to publication in North America in English. For their book to be on the shelf at all, it must have evinced qualities that convinced a publisher to set aside systemic bias. It is an interesting question whether this method is evidence of a laudably open mind or of a tendency to exploit systemic injustice for personal pleasure. Translated SF is an obvious example. Case in point: the DAW edition of Arkadi and Boris Strugatski's Har...

Of Mice and Men: Could new findings about oxytocin change the ... - CMU The Tartan Online

For the past year, I have been involved with a laboratory that exclusively uses mice to study the brain. This is extremely common in the world of neuroscience — mice and other rodents boast a neural structure that is similar enough to ours and a physiological system that is different enough that we can justify tinkering pretty heavily with their neural function in a laboratory setting. A few months ago, my lab attended a talk by another lab that studied the role of dopamine in the brain. Now, the state of neuroscience and genetics are such that it is pretty standard to be able to turn on and shut off specific neurons or neurotransmitters at will. That is why it didn't surprise me that the lab giving the talk on this particular day told us that they'd attempted to completely silence dopamine in the brain in their experimental mice population. The result was something that would stick with me for a long time — whatever the state of a brain without dopamine is, it was so traum...

RSMSSB REET Question Paper 2023 PDF: Download Grade 3 Primary, Upper Level 1 and Level 2 Paper Here - Jagran Josh

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RSMSSB REET Question Paper 2023: The Rajasthan Subordinate & Ministerial Services Selection Board (RSMSSB) conducted the written exam for Level 1 and Level 2 Posts on 25 Feb from 09:30 to 12 AM and from 03 PM to 05:30 PM . The candidates can download the REET Question Papers 2023 PDF from this page of all sets. Candidates who are preparing for the RSMSSB Teacher Exam can download papers to analyze the paper pattern, difficulty level, and topic-wise weightage of questions.   RSMSSB REET Question Paper  PDF Download  Candidates can download Rajasthan Reet Question Paper from this page. The RSMSSB Teacher Question Paper provided here is from the Primary and Upper Primary Teacher examinations. Download the free PDF Rajasthan 3rd Grade Question Paper from the link below.  Candidates can download RSMSSB Question Paper Set Wise from this page. The RSMSSB Level 1 Question paper 2023 consisted of multiple choice objective questio...

Lynda T. Pheasant | In Memoriam | wenatcheeworld.com - wenatcheeworld.com

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Lynda T. Pheasant April 29, 1940 - February 9, 2023 Copy article link

Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, and Academic Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous

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An undergraduate student in philosophy has been wondering whether their dyslexia gives them a strong reason to avoid pursuing graduate study and a career in academic philosophy. The student asked their professor to write in to see what the readers of Daily Nous thought. Here's what the professor said: My situation is this: I have an extremely bright, creative and highly motivated undergraduate student. The student is also dyslexic, to the extent that reading text is much more difficult for them than it is for the average student. In my view, the student is otherwise clearly capable of succeeding at the graduate level in philosophy, should they be admitted to a good, supportive program. They have a great deal of intrinsic motivation to teach and research, and great ideas. However, they're wondering whether their dyslexia might be a decisive reason to avoid this career path. I hadn't encountered this question before, so I was wondering if your readers might have opinions ...