Word: ideas
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...idea that homosexuals should "seek help or go to hell," mentioned by a former member of the ex-gay movement as part of his inspiration for trying to change his sexual identity, is completely foreign to doctrinally informed Catholic thought on homosexuality. Unfortunately, the most informed opinions are not always the loudest...
...Sections at the College are also problematic. First, sections are just too large. If the idea of section is to provide a format for intimate discussion of the minutiae of courses, the reality is that they serve as a forum for students to rehash their "knowledge" of the readings and lectures when they are called upon. With a smaller maximum number of students in each section (say eight or 10), students would have more time to speak and feel more comfortable discussing their questions on assigned texts. Second, the current training of teaching fellows by the Derek Bok Center fails...
Initially pleased, the firemen soon realized the kids were skipping class to hang out in the firehouse. So Engine Company 16 approached Betty Greer, principal of the closest elementary school, with an unusual idea. "These men basically adopted us," Greer says. With profits from the pay phone attached to the firehouse, which had heavy use from local drug dealers, the firemen bought radios to give away each month to children who earned especially good grades. They persuaded police officers and junk dealers to begin dropping off broken bike frames. A local bicycle repairman donated old tires and rims...
Norfleet's anthropological eye shows through in her penchant for natural, as well as human classifications. In her "Manscapes with Beasts" series, Norfleet inverts the idea of the traditional landscape and documents animals in various more-or-less human environments (or "Manscapes...
...That process is always different. Any one of us might come in with an idea and all three of us will start working on it. If it starts to click we'll keep it. Obviously Ben, being the main songwriter, presents most of the music, and it's mine and Robert's job to try and take it as far as it can go. We all have our hands...