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During the four months of Expos, most students exhibit a marked improvement in their writing, and those who write well even before Expos tend to gain confidence in their ability to write at the college level. Expos teaches students a methodology and lexicon that they can apply broadly to writing assignments. These techniques, outlined in the Harvard Writing Center’s “Strategies for Essay Writing” hand-outs, can be used to dissect essay prompts, analyze texts, develop a thesis, and construct an argument...
Look up "Japan" in the dictionary and you may be surprised to learn that the country gets second billing. In some dictionaries, the first definition of the word is lacquer: it joined the English lexicon after European traders began importing richly varnished and decorated cabinets, trunks and coffers from Japan in the 16th century...
...race, gender, and class. Hip hop serves as a medium for conversation of all people because of the diversity of its audience; it is reported that over 80 percent of the purchasers of hip hop music are not black. Hip hop dominates media outlets, fashion, sports, artwork, and popular lexicon. Hip hop also serves as an effective tool to politically engage and mobilize youth, as evidenced by Russell Simmons’ Hip Hop Action Network and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ Citizen Change project. We have also seen the emergence of hip hop cultures...
...fear over-intellectualizing a Hollywood project that likely spent far more time and money on fight scenes than philosophical inquiry, but Constantine ups the ante in the messianic-action genre by grotesquely overloading the film with hijacked symbolism and lexicon from established religion. In a society that is obsessed with both political correctness and pushing the envelope, Constantine treads dangerous ground with its less-than-reverent appropriation of Roman Catholic rites and faith...
...America, and Unilever, with grass-roots campaigns like storefront tastings for brands such as Hellman's mayonnaise and Rag?? spaghetti sauce in Hispanic neighborhoods, are also active. But P&G spent $107 million on Spanish-media advertising in the first nine months of 2004, tops in the U.S. (excluding Lexicon Marketing Corp., which sells products that teach English to Spanish speakers...