Lack of control over her own life is one of the most striking features of the book. Her hair is cut short (more than once) even though she wants to grow it long. Her name keeps changing –“They stole my name,” she says, “They took me- away from me.” The phrase ‘a new so...
3. The Best-case Scenario: I phrase this timidly as the current state of the Republican Party and its bargaining position is still a bad one. Undercut in the “fiscal cliff” deal by minority leader Senator McConnell, Vice-President Biden and the Senate Democrats, Speaker Boehner had no rea...
Baker (2019, p.122) defines labeling as “any discursive process that involves using a lexical item, term or phrase to identify a person, place, group, event or any other key element in a narrative.” Labeling magic wind provides an interpretive framework for Journey that normalizes the vaga...
SEC Chief Gensler Gives Yet Another SpeechOn September 14 of last year, we wrote this about SEC Chair Gary Gensler: “Gensler’s opening remarks at today’s Senate Banking Committee hearing include seven references to this phrase: ‘asked staff for recommendations…’ If past is prologue, this ...
I keep returning to the phrase Community of Enhancement to describe my philosophy behind my staff development role. It is not astounding but, significantly for me, it is a better than Community of Practice. It reflects and models the ethos of student-centred active learning which is so often ...
immediately threatening to the majority of my students, and it’s a challenge to get them to engage with the concepts, especially when their previous education has emphasized gaming a series of standardized tests. So, for example, when I use the phrase ‘patriarchal society,’ many students ...
Parent conferences are scheduled early in the year, so teachers can meet all the parents and talk about our goals and address any concerns that the teacher or the parent may have. One year, a mother told me during our parent conference that her daughter was really enjoying my class, and ...
This would accord with the phrase "before long" or "in a little while"[625] -- though Jesus describes his Second Coming as "soon" elsewhere (Revelation 22:7, 12, 20). It also is supported by the phrase "the world will not see me anymore." Jesus appeared to his disciples after his...
We have concerns about the use of an SSID dedicated to production, on which are Raspberry pi connected in 2. 4GHz.Users use Raspberry pi to connect to remote desktops, and the slightest disconnection cuts off the session, which sometimes happens every 5 minutes.The Raspberry are fixed but pa...
There are photos of them together at every age. The bond they shared was emotional and physical. He was a perfect match for her genetically as we found out after his death. Because of them I have my own understanding of the phrase “every day is mother’s day.” There is no day that...