Word: inners
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...intriguing step is the possible creation of a new class in the Core Curriculum that would focus on the Silk Road. Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History Mark C. Elliott, co-teacher of Historical Studies A-13 “China: Traditions and Transformations,” has said that he and Shelemay want to lead such a course together...
...Worlds”—Steven Spielberg, so knowledgeable about the “human condition,” our callous inner nature, and how to make gajillions and quadrazillions of dollars, knows about powerful questions. He’s asked us about slavery, the Holocaust, being kind to space aliens, and most importantly about the very fabric of our lives, and whether or not that fabric can be purchased with the “Indiana Jones” DVD box set. He certainly left me with a powerful question at the end of his current summer blockbuster...
...recently got an e-mail from a friend who is teaching in an inner-city public school in Philadelphia. The e-mail was pages long and full of stories about children whose only siblings had been killed, or whose parents were unable to care for them, and about a school system that was unable to do anything for them other than shove them, 30 or more to a class, into a room with a 25-year old teacher who doesn’t even have her master’s degree yet and who doesn’t understand what...
...realize the truth—the ills of poverty were, and continue to be, a big deal in my rural town and other not-so-publicized rural parts of the country. When the public thinks of extreme poverty in America, images of the ailing inner city come to mind. Due to the extensive concentration of poverty in these heavily populated areas, the complex problems of these segments of society are markedly more visible. Even in these places, where problems are evident, solutions have been sadly lacking...
Observe the small towns of our nation, where there are no ghettoes. In some sparsely populated areas there are barely enough houses clustered together to be considered neighborhoods. Still, these people face many of the same problems that residents of the inner city face—teen pregnancy, drug use (particularly concerning methamphetamines), and low-quality education. Here, not only are there few solutions for the problems of poverty, many people are not even cognizant that the problems exist...