Word: section
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When the enrollment in a section exceeds 15, a student is deprived of a beneficial learning experience. Moreover, a teaching fellow can't give as much attention to each student," said proctor and teaching fellow William Carroll. Since the Core acquaints students with schools of thought, it undoubtedly teaches best in discussion sections when students are allowed to share their ideas. A large number of students in a section keeps students from sharing in that experience...
...case has also left doubt as to whetherjuvenile offenders can check off "no" on theCommon Application section that asks whether anapplicant has been placed on probation, beensuspended or voluntarily left school. The initialscrutiny of the case focused on Grant's decisionto mark...
...modern gay and lesbian community from Walt Whitman's poetry through the Bohemias of the 1920s to the Homophile movement of the 1950s and the age of AIDS, concluding with the first two years of Bill Clinton's presidency. Flipping through the book, you might see the section on the bizarre "Fruit Machine," a device used to detect homosexuality in Canadian civil servants during the 1950s by measuring the how wide a man's pupils dilated when he was shown a picture of a naked man. Such seemingly archaic trivia is engrossing, but most of the text focuses on major...
...brief career (Hendrix was a solo act for the four years preceding his death in 1970, at age twenty-six), Hendrix assumed many guises. Perhaps the most serious and introspective version can be found on /Band of Gypsys. The band on this album features a rhythm section that consists of Hendrix's childhood pals, Billy Cox on bass and Buddy Miles at the drums and supplying many of the vocals. Although Miles is perhaps not so exciting and virtuosic a drummer as his predecessor Mitch Mitchell, Cox is definitely a better, funkier and less egotistical bass player than Hendrix' long...
...left eye is swollen from a blow with a club. He is still living in his old neighborhood but says, "I am so afraid. We have seen too many people gunned down.'' Bujumbura is now mainly Tutsi, its Hutu residents forced into a few ghettolike areas like the northern section of the city called Kamenge. Out in the countryside, Hutu gangs roam the hills around Tutsi encampments, preying on those who venture...