Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...personal commitment to education did not diminish this summer, but my ability to evaluate my service efforts within a social and cultural context certainly increased. The kids at Atitjere weren't looking for someone to help them read. They were looking for someone to understand them. Daniel B. Baer '00 is a social studies and Afro-American studies concentrator in Quincy House...
Lindquist expressed a different view, nothing the importance of context. In the '40s, he said, "There was a much greater interest in rivalry," although he said he sees the rivalry in a milder from among students today. The importance of the rivalry, alumni said, is linked to the strength of The Game as a tradition...
...rather infamous counterfeiter in his time. He is considered the preeminent reproductive engraver, "the first and the best." For Pon the show began as a meditation on Marcantonio's copies of Durer, but evolved because she wanted to put those prints (the ones in the hallway) into a historical context...
...Arriving at the Museum, I discovered that few of the films listed in the program booklet had anything at all to do with what most consider the watershed experience of Jewish culture. "Jewish themes" went beyond the Holocaust to examine universalisms of love, death, and family within the specific context of Judaism...
...still uneasy. I knew love and death and family; it was the specific context of Judaism part that discouraged me even before I got to the Museum. I expected to be one of few Christians intruding into an event meant to galvanize a culture of which I was not a part; while I could appreciate all that I saw, I could never really belong. My grandmother gave me a delicate gold crucifix on a chain when I made my First Holy Communion (the gift is a tradition on the Italian Catholic side of the family), and it crossed my mind...