Word: parallelisms
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...with the educational cutting-edge. But test scores still lag behind neighboring communities, and the school will lose its second principal in five years this spring. The school’s façade, with its paintings of children in shades of blue, fuchsia, and orange, offers an artistic parallel to the challenges facing today’s CRLS. The colorful design pays tribute to the school’s commitment to diversity, but the odd color scheme also points toward the difficulties in coordinating resources for 1,800 students with a vast range of needs.“We?...
...forward Dave Watters said. “We knew what we had to do in the third period.” Fifty-nine seconds in, junior winger Ryan Maki attempted a shot from the bottom of the left circle after swinging around from the end boards. Despite being almost parallel to the goal-line, Maki somehow managed to find the right side of the net. “That was just a great individual effort,” said Donato of the goal. “It was nice to see [Maki] get rewarded for all his hard work with...
What I propose is by no means a complete solution; For starters, I’ve completely disregarded the parallel concern of improving and expanding the pool of faculty advisors, who would and should continue to offer formal academic guidance to freshmen, to sign their study cards, and so on. There’s no question that progress must be made here as well, but a successful advising relationship with a faculty member would complement the far more important relationship between freshmen and their upperclass advisors and big siblings...
...empathize. If not for Hood’s unique investigation into the nuances of life, Tsotsi’s complex psyche and troubled human interactions could have overwhelmed the film’s slow dramatization. Tsotsi’s often awkward interactions with the kidnapped baby parallel his painstaking personal development, as he reflects on aspects of his own difficult childhood. Chweneyagae’s features show no sense of tenderness during the rather violent opening sequence, but with his gradual growth of affection for the baby, his young face animatedly begins to embrace the necessity...
...challenging one’s spirituality in the name of Christianity. By all counts, CSA and HRCF are of the same mind, but for some reason, these two bastions of Christianity at Harvard don’t walk their journeys of faith together. Call them parallel lines; it’s not that they never meet, it’s that they both have things to do. That won’t last, if the current leadership has anything to do with it.LIKE LOOKING IN THE MIRROR?“The lynchpin” of HRCF, Bryant says...