Word: unorthodox
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...political foibles. The story is told by Junan’s daughter Hong, who assumes an omniscient tone as she pieces together her family history. As Chang explains, Hong “can enter the thoughts of her mother and father apart from herself.” This unorthodox use of the first person constitutes an “imagining and piecing together of [Hong’s] family history as an adult.” Chang’s work is structured in a unique, specific style. Immersed in a story that she knows little about, Hong?...
...Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford. "[You have to teach them that] they are in charge of their intellectual growth." Over the past couple of years, Dweck has helped run an experimental workshop with New York City public school seventh-graders to do just that. Dubbed Brainology, the unorthodox approach uses basic neuroscience to teach kids how the brain works and how it can continue to develop throughout life. "The message is that everything is within the kids' control, that their intelligence is malleable," says Lisa Blackwell, a research scientist at Columbia University who has worked with Dweck...
Although the billboard is in an obscure location, Bates said the applications—most of them not evidently jokes—have been streaming in from around the globe since the Associated Press reported on the unorthodox campaign last Friday...
...fellow students conquer the rarified air of Goldman Sachs, right wrongs at the International Monetary Fund, and campaign against blind illiteracy, I am a camp counselor at a, to put it delicately, unorthodox children’s summer camp based in Maine. Its name: Camp Chunder Camp...
...party lasting good. In May 1865, the Republican editor Josiah Holland interviewed the President's law partner William Herndon at length. When the subject of religion came up, Herndon told him, "The less said, the better," doubting that the pious Holland would want the details of Lincoln's unorthodox history. How, for example, Lincoln had doubted the divinity of Christ and the infallibility of the Bible. "Oh, never mind," Holland said. "I'll fix that"--and his book made Lincoln a model Christian...