Word: understandings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away from the typical biography in which the life of a single person is the subject of the book. Instead, these biographies tell readers about a larger phenomenon through a smaller lens, funneling the world of professional wrestling and technology into personal stories that readers can relate to and understand. Given that biography is used here as an enticement into an otherwise dry text, it seems that ever-problematic truth might not be the most important thing in writing biography...
Though it may be impossible for outsiders to understand, the amazing solidarity of the A&M student body explains why mauled Aggies being carried away on stretchers from the collapsed bonfire repeatedly told reporters that they wanted the school to continue the tradition. To non-Aggies, the notion of using 7,000 trees and 125,000 man-hours to build a 55-foot bonfire for a football game is ludicrous, if not downright insane. But to Aggies, the bonfire represents the whole reason why they are at Texas A&M. Tradition is the very essence of Aggiedom...
...have a new breed of sophomores." He recalled one recent toga party during which a fire alarm sounded. "The toga party they had was very interesting. All the girls were half nude, in their bras and panties, and it was about 40 degrees outside." He continued, "But I understand you've got to let loose some time...
Chall also helped shape one of the most heated arguments in elementary education. Educators have argued for decades about whether children should first learn to generally understand texts that they read or if they should concentrate on phonics, or sounding out words...
...situation at Harvard is definitely worse than in most places, but for reasons that are not difficult to understand," he says...