Word: deconstructions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...received a lot of support. We held campus-wide discussions, leafleted outside the clubs, contacted campus media, did research on the clubs at City Hall, met with club presidents, and spoke with the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. But as we faced the task of trying to deconstruct a system that has existed for over a century (including a time during which the clubs received financial support from the University), it became clear that, since we had no money of our own, the only way we to get rid of the clubs was to convince guys to stop...
...study of fiction, history, science, economics and politics. In a form of dirty-fingernail "experiential learning," some 45 universities and colleges, from Maine's Bowdoin to Minnesota's St. Olaf, have started campus farms. And courses like Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California at Santa Cruz deconstruct relationships between producers and consumers, with such readings as The Maturing of Capitalist Agriculture: Farmer as Proletarian...
Although writing “Thirteen and a Day” seems to have helped Oppenheimer deconstruct the bar mitzvah ritual, I did not find his conclusions profound, perhaps because the idea of the bat mitzvah as a way to proclaim cultural affiliation seems natural to me, based on my own experience. One hopes that Oppenheimer’s tour of unique b’nai mitzvah services and parties will generate an idea for some readers of what the bar and bat mitzvah mean to Jews in different locations and of different sects. For others, Oppenheimer?...
...late 1970s the Harvard Law School (HLS) campus has been taken over by far-left “Crits,” or followers of the Critical Legal Studies school of thought. As “postmodernism [applied] to law,” Critical Legal Studies aims to deconstruct the biases inherent in the legal system...
...They programmed the software to seek out words in the closed captioning such as ‘Iraq,’ and they had a counter tallying how often those words appeared,” Rivers says. “The idea, generally, is to deconstruct the media...