Word: backgrounders
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...Meadow and Meredith Rowe of the University of Chicago, who published a study in the Feb. 13 issue of Science. The researchers found that at 14 months of age, babies already showed a wide range of "speaking" ability through gestures, and that those differences were correlated with their socioeconomic background and how frequently their parents used gestures to communicate. High-income, better-educated parents gestured more frequently to their children to convey meaning and new concepts, and in turn, their kids gestured more to them. When researchers tested the same children at 54 months of age, those early gesturers turned...
...with CPS, knew Duncan well before working under the CEO. The two were raised one block away from each other in Hyde Park. “He grew up in the unlikely scenario,” says Wilkins, “of a kid from a solid middle class background going across the very real racial lines of Chicago to tutor kids eight blocks from where he lived...
...available money. “It’s not explicit, but I’m still seen as someone who is kind of outside the dominant culture here at City Hall,” Yoon said. “It’s a mix of my background but also kind of the way I think.” Susan Y. Yao ’09-’10, a Boston-area resident who worked as in intern in the press office of City Hall last summer, said that Yoon “wasn’t really...
...House and in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) during his time in Cambridge.As a student himself in the late sixties and early seventies, Schrader did not plan to become a director. He received a late introduction to the world of film, prevented by his strict Calvinist background from seeing a movie until the age of eighteen. He made up for lost time by watching an average of three movies a day while studying at UCLA and earning his MA in Film Studies. While viewing Robert Bresson’s “Pickpocket,” though...
...Escobedo said. “But I didn’t just want to paint him the way he looked. Our hands convey our personalities.” A song created by Michael C. Soto ’09 as part of his piece provides background for the whole exhibit. His exhibits features his song, a mosaic of 16 silk-screens, and a rhythm machine with corresponding buttons featuring samples of music by the subjects in his silkscreens, such as Sufjan Stevens and Bill Collins. Soto has always been enthralled by hip-hop music and the hip-hop community. Silkscreening...