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...pester her constantly to read to me." When she was in college at Colgate, Edwards studied with Frederick Busch, who became a mentor. After earning her MFA in fiction and an MA in theoretical linguistics, both from the University of Iowa, she and her husband spent five years teaching English in Southeast Asia - Malaysia, Japan, and Cambodia. "It was a time of great learning and great growth and great excitement," she says. "The chatter of everyday life fell away, and it allowed me to listen more fully to the stories I wanted to tell. It also allowed me to take...
Remele explained that his collection was inspired by the vogue Mitford sisters of the 1930’s English upper crust...
...Western and the more traditional Vietnamese gender roles are being broken down. Here, more and more women defy social conventions, stepping beyond family and farm to create their own economic opportunities. Try telling Trang, a woman I met who works six days a week in a bar and studies English and computer science all seven, that she would be better off at home with her rice-farmer parents; or Minh, a business student working twelve-hour shifts as a waitress six days a week. It’s not easy for them to confront social norms that would limit them...
...Tupac”; and Literature and Arts B-20, “Designing the American City: Civic Aspirations and Urban Form.” Other courses include Quantitative Reasoning 48, “Bits,” taught by McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis, and English 125, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture,” taught by Visual and Environmental Studies Department Chair Marjorie Garber. Students taking these classes through the Extension school pay $650 to take the class for no credit or Extension School credit, and $1,575 for graduate credit. The one exception...
...Despite the broad scale improvement of all subgroups, the Asian students improved 9 points in [English Language Arts (ELA)] versus a 1 point improvement for the lowest scoring group, special education students,” Fowler-Finn wrote in an e-mail...