Word: belief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...host of new superstitions have cropped up,and this is our way of criticizing them byassociation," Araujo said. "In particular,widespread conspiracy theories, belief in alienabductions and faith in alternative medicineprovide evidence that superstition is still apowerful force in America, and even Harvard...
Cathy Collins' first memories are of knowing that she was adopted. The hardships of childhood--the difficulty of communicating with her parents, the cruelty of other children--all fed her belief that she was unwanted, her sense of being alien and unreal. She began abusing drugs and alcohol as an adolescent, but by freshman year discovered a better release. Using a knife or a razor, she would methodically slice open her arms. "A main part of it was to know I was real," she says. "With the blood flowing down my arms, I was real...
Blame it on the decentralization of media. The belief in a singular "system," and a "counterculture" in opposition to it, comes from a time when there was a consensus reality constructed of centralized media, personified by the three TV networks. We were all tuned in to the same narrative, one involving a war, a President, blacks vs. cops and narcs vs. hippies. Today's counterculturalists, raised on 60 channels of cable TV, the Net and the Web, have less impetus to fix their attention on the main event. Youths who pay attention to politics today form a subculture almost...
...geniuses, but nobody made these kids better students--they were born that way. Each one is self-motivated and can obviously grasp any task at hand. Each could have been left in a box with a book and would have ended up self-taught. You did, however, confirm my belief that most teachers are only capable of imparting information to ready-made A and B students. Of course, there are a few good teachers, but they cannot overcome the inept system we have. After nine years of watching my dyslexic son feel dumber and dumber, I am taking...
...accept the fact of unpopular speech on campus is also to accept the reality of society. As Kors and Silverglate write, "What an astonishing expectation to give to students: the belief that, if they belong to a protected category, they have a right to four years of never being offended...