Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course race and ethnicity can have a profound impact on shaping one's character and perspective. But it is the manifestation of this perspective which we should seek, not the race and ethnicity in and of itself. For Chicano students, this could entail growing up in a bilingual household, not just the fact their last names are Rodriguez, Fernandez or Lopez. For black students, it might come about through participating in black youth leadership conferences. But race by itself as an intrinsic fact should not be used to relax admissions criteria...
...does not play a central role in the formation of identity. What I am arguing is that no single characteristic is the pivotal shaper of self. People are much more complicated amalgamations of the infinite forces, nurtured and natured, that have molded them. This personal complexity translates into a profound diversity that exists even among seemingly homogenous groups...
...quickly had their suspect, the son of a county probation-department employee. "Our impression was that she was very aware she was leaving something behind," says Carluccio. He will not comment on LaSane's side of the conversation except to say, "When you hear the tape, it will raise profound questions about what is happening in our world with juveniles and our society. It goes beyond materialism...
...Hensel twins love to share a joke. A puckish sense of humor is one of their best tools for contending with all the other sharing they must do day in and day out--a sharing of a more profound and intimate nature than most of us can imagine. The two hands that meet in a high five, offer fingers for counting and clasp their adored parents in an embrace belong to a single body. Abby controls the right limbs, Britty the left. Although they have separate necks and heads, separate hearts, stomachs and spinal cords, they share a bloodstream...
...first thing people do when they get in trouble is to ask if we're doing things right," Smith said. "But the far more profound question is are we doing the right things...