Word: note
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...introductory note for Encyclopedia of Appalachia, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. wrote, “Appalachia never leaves us.” While the Appalachian region refers to the mountains of Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Virginia, the values have no borders; they stay with the people, not necessarily with the land...
...five or ten years it’s really hard to say. I hope I’m still a professor here. We live in a very different era now where people move around so much because of their careers.” Branche, however, is quick to note Fullwiley’s staying power. “She’s very well versed in the material that she presents us, definitely always on top of her game and always challenging us and encouraging us to look at things from a different perspective and understand different views...
...beautiful writer and a wonderful speaker.” It’s no surprise then, that even Jasanoff’s 10 a.m. lectures are consistently full. Furthermore, students in Jasanoff’s lectures aren’t often found Facebook stalking or Gchatting, but listening and note-taking. Jasanoff enjoys using narratives and stories in her lectures, explaining, “I try to tell stories because I think it’s important to capture something about human experience in the past.” William C. Quinn ’10 calls Jasanoff...
...lecture a few weeks ago, I observed a guy sitting in the row in front of me watching three-fourths of the movie “Twilight.” Two seats down from him, two people were going through Google images of Beyoncé. I turned to note this to my neighbor, who nodded while scrolling through her BlackBerry...
...reason for the ambivalence is wariness toward Obama's diplomatic overture. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei recently took note of Obama's kind words for Iran, but he questioned whether the new U.S. President was simply concealing an iron fist with a velvet glove. Although revolutionary ideology animates Iranian actions and rhetoric, Parsi believes that geopolitics is the main factor driving the Iranian regime's attitudes toward Israel and the U.S. In his book Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the U.S., Parsi details a 2003 peace plan in which Iran essentially agreed to abandon terrorism and support...