Word: validation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite some valid insights into the realities of a welfare recipient's daily existence, reading A Welfare Mother is an excrutiatingly frustrating experience. The text ambles through external description without dropping any clues to the humanity behind the name Carmen Santana. It is written as a newspaper article, in crisp, clear, objective, unemotional prose, and from start to finish the journalistic facade never cracks...
...acutely conscious with each sentence that I write that I am, with each sentence that I write, providing ever stronger grounds for the assumption that the context in which the article was written is valid. It is not valid. I was never told that "All Flesh" had been "accepted" by the Advocate. Hence I can hardly be labelled "irresponsible" for not telling them it had been accepted by Padan Aram. Och, I did not invite the rivetters in. I am reminded of Richard Nixon's political technique of discrediting opponents by, e.g., asking them to wriggle their...
Bloch said there are few valid parallels between the two societies. However, the history of Rome can still serve as lesson for America...
...erosion of the General Education program has not been orderly. But there are intelligent and valid reasons for why such a distortion has taken place. First, Faculty members have never shown a wide-spread willingness to teach the type of basic introductory courses the General Education program originally envisioned. Second, students have consistently pressured administrators to offer a program of free choice. They have shown a stubborn resistance to requirements that run counter to their academic interests. If anything, the program now is a vivid demonstration that students favor a freely elective system that gives them the option to choose...
...real issue, however, is the effect of this new policy on the freshman class. We feel that freshmen receive the most valid perspective on University life by being exposed to as many upperclass houses as possible, and that this exposure is best availed by rotating assignments for weekend meals. All of us were freshmen under this previous policy, and feel that it was an invaluable aid for choosing housing in the spring and for learning more about University life in general...