Word: mentality
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...not.Akiyah B. Francis-John, a high school junior and 8GA alum, says she believes in the impact of Citizen Schools. Francis-John has returned to the program as a mentor and serves as a deputy team leader for an apprenticeship examining women’s physical and mental health. She says that many of the students at her high school who did not participate in Citizen Schools are lacking in the skills that she developed through the program. Since its establishment, the organization has grown to serve 3,000 students and has branched out to 30 programs in five states...
...love” and tries to explain what the brain is really doing in everyday situations. “Instead of searching for simple explanations,” Minsky writes, “we need to find more complicated ways to explain our most familiar mental events.” He does just that in “The Emotion Machine...
...would be a good read for anyone interested in psychology, artificial intelligence, computer sciences, or looking to understand his or her own mental processes...
...Professor of Aesthetics (the attractiveness of the former self-evident, the exalted status of the latter self-assumed), whereas there is considerable and vivid promise extended by the protrusion of a soft sail, a furred white triangle—what that same observer would with private amusement (and a mental note to repeat at the first available social occasion) remark as the dog-eared appearance of a dog’s ear—from the lap-held purse of the same esteemed professor, who herself is just now remarking how much the first tuning exertions of an orchestra?...
...taboos about sex, drugs, mental illness, and ethnic slurs have vanished. Comedians like Dave Chappelle and Carlos Mencia frequently joke about these things. In public. Loudly. Chappelle, who is African American, and Mencia, who is Latino, specialize in joking about ethnic groups—their own and others—but they aren’t universally denounced as racists...