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...tele-epic will be fascinating, indeed, to literary scholars, for the fact that the characters are bigger than the “authors.” Sure, David Chase created “The Sopranos,” but every episode has a different writer, director, etc. How will we talk about the idea of a single, unified work when there are so many creators? Do we give authorship to the actors? Who knows! There will no doubt be hours of fascinating literary debate on the idea of authorship in the tele-epic, and I can’t wait...
Today, the term “conservative” is generally applied to so-called “Republican values”: anti-abortion, pro-abstinence, anti-taxes, pro-religion, etc. It represents the people who are outraged by America’s crumbling nuclear family and are disgusted by society’s tolerance of meaningless sex. And Wisse uses this definition of conservatism when she connects students’ aversion to change with their supposed moral values...
...have to admit, I find the entire process of finding a summer job very intimidating. Last summer, as my friends’ internships led them to conquests on Wall Street, launchings of their 2024 presidential campaigns, establishments of new religions, etc., I found myself coaching 10-year-olds at a youth football camp (Motto: “No! Run the other way!”). At night, while my classmates were in Chile discovering extrasolar planets, I was in my pajamas discovering the identity of the Half-Blood Prince. While some students were interning at hospitals learning how to save...
...exercise in which students make “a habits grid” in which they “work on something specific they wish they were doing (workout every day, do yoga, practice painting, meet someone new, don’t bite their fingernails, do something altruistic, etc) everyday for 21 days...
...meaning that it is not only happy people that take the course,” he writes in an e-mail. “I’d say more than half [are] people who are struggling with depression, fighting alcoholism, dealing with a breakup, coping with a disease, etc...