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69The Universal Unconstant
I'm supposed to be studying for finals. Instead, I'm thinking about the universe. (I've already cleaned the kitchen, watered the houseplant, walked the dogs, walked the dogs again--all the things we do when we want to avoid studying for finals--so...
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71Why Do I Have To Study Poetry?
It can be difficult to see why poetry is important, sometimes. It's 11:15 a.m., classes are dragging, we've just had an hour of geometry, and now we have to read about some dead white guy's frilly interest in floral arcades and green pastures? ...
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69Why Some Teachers Can't Teach. . .
We can all agree that there is much to be done to help the US education system--from grade school through to graduate school--achieve better results. Those results, however, are not numbers or letters on a report, they are students. Educating kids...
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68How the U.S. Judiciary Corrupted the English Language
This Hub was not written by a lawyer; it is the work of a first-year law student. Everything here is fictional, speculative, badly researched, and beneath your dignity to read. Any similarity to laws, lawyers, law professors, law schools, or...
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80Middle Classlessness
I realize that this is such a bad sociological or anthropological interpretation of class structure that it muddles every aspect of respectable research. Social stratafication is a useful way to categorize people if you need to study trends in...
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57Boxing Day Breakfast
It used to be Boxing Day, anyway--that's probably a politically incorrect name for it, now, as it refers to the day after another holiday we shouldn't name (which celebrates the birth of someone who was born at a completely different time of year...
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77Famous First Sentences: The Great Gatsby
Some novels are itching to be made into movies. Tightly written and deceptively straightforward, The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one such masterpiece. I don't often use that last word -- masterpiece -- but Fitzgerald crafted a...
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63Found; as in, not Lost
Now that we have seen that we create our own nightmares, our own versions of hell, and our own failed attempts at meaning/ success/ rescue/ redemption/ love/ revenge/ power/ _____ (insert your preference here); now that our heartstrings have been...
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58Stargate Blues
Oh dear. I have had nothing but respect for the many and various writers, producers, directors, lighting and camera visionaries involved with the Stargate franchise over the years, from the early shows right through to the final splashdown of...
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