Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...liked how he presented both his work and personal background," said Tien-Tien T. Chen, a sophomore at Brown University...
...some ways it was inspiring to see someone from your same [ethnic] background achieve such a high status," said Belinda S. Chen, a Brown first-year...
However, Fitzsimmons says the "competitive edge," or the level of achievement necessary for admission, does not vary much from year to year, regardless of whether the most qualified students apply in the early process or the regular one. Nor does the more affluent background of the early applicant pool mean that the diversity of the class changes, he says...
David S. Bennahum '90 reflects that same sense of serenity in technology with his new memoir Extra Life: Coming of Age in Cyberspace. He portrays technology as the safe haven for teenagers whose lives might not be picture-perfect. Family and societal turmoil fades into the background while they take refuge in a computer lab. Complex but logical strings of programming code restore order and sense to otherwise tumultuous lives...
...phrase easily distracting a reader who might be on the point of rebellion. Her novel is both powerful and quite simple. It is also angrier and more direct than her earlier books, Animal Dreams and Pigs in Heaven, in which social issues involving Native Americans remained mostly in the background. The clear intent of The Poisonwood Bible is to offer Nathan Price's patriarchal troublemaking as an example in miniature of historical white exploitation of black Africa. Kingsolver, 43, lived in the Congo in the early '60s, and fondly remembers the people and the terrain. But this is a novel...