Word: enlightenment
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...Kidd and Counter. At their meeting last week, according to Yasin, the parties present quickly agreed free speech prohibited any punitive action against the Salient. But they also brainstormed two proposals to mitigate the effects of similar articles in the future. The first, a more specific goal, was to enlighten students about the Fulla doll—especially that the doll does not say what the Salient claims it says...
...freshman year spent at UCLA and his ex-girlfriend from high school who is now a student there (wonderful first date conversation I might add), proceeded to ask what the differences are between Harvard and UCLA men. Using my best first-date behavior, I proceeded, uncensored, to enlighten him with the following...
Like an impatient teacher itching to enlighten a classroom of sleepy students, fall is a season that snaps, "Pay attention!" Summer's over, school's in, and popular culture gets a little more serious. It's the antisilly season, when people want challenge as much as comfort. The seasonal adage may be "Fall back," but autumn is the time for great leaps forward. And late August is the time to hope for them...
Like an impatient teacher itching to enlighten a classroom of sleepy students, fall is a season that snaps, "Pay attention!" Summer's over, school's in, and popular culture gets a little more serious. It's the antisilly season, when people want challenge as much as comfort. The seasonal adage may be "Fall back," but autumn is the time for great leaps forward. And late August is the time to hope for them...
...life, was the civil-rights movement. So that comes quite naturally to me. To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain. I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey...