Word: differents
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...take Science Core classes even when they have passed A.P. tests in science that are recognized by the science departments as comparable to their introductory classes. Furthermore, though it is undergoing change, it is often unclear what the objective is for a science Core class and how these goals differ from A to B. This lack of clarity often leads to either a very limited or very facile reach in a class meant to show essentially the breadth of science to non-science concentrators...
Whiteness studies is the study of what it means to be white in America. But how does whiteness studies differ from studying the canon, which is essentially comprised of white history and white literature written white men? History and English departments, for example, that teach the (American) canon, do not necessarily answer the question, what does it mean to be white in America? Blacks, Asians and native Americans--unlike women--have all been historically marginalized in American society in part because they are minorities. But the study of a majority is as legitimate and interesting, for social scientists at least...
...music appears to express something," Igor Stravinsky once wrote, "this is an illusion and not a reality." Scientists at the Music Research Group at Britain's University of Leicester would beg to differ. They maintain that music conjures up images that can have a powerful, if subliminal, influence on our choice of products...
...exciting place to go to school is because it's located smack in the middle of a small city. There is always action going on somewhere in Harvard Square and a variety of good restaurants, movies, plays, bookstores etc. to keep you busy (although New Yorkers might beg to differ...
...brilliant, tormented novel, The Autobiography of My Mother), Kincaid displays the wounds of her unhappy childhood as a poor, bookish black girl in Antigua. Her new volume, an irritating navel contemplation titled My Brother (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 198 pages; $19), repeats the pattern of familiar, well-written complaint. (Opinions differ; in what appears to be a makeup call for earlier, fresher books overlooked, My Brother has been nominated for a National Book Award...