Sports are part of every culture past and present, but each culture has its own definition of sports. The most useful definitions are those that clarify the relationship of sports to play, games, and contests. “Play,” wrote the German theorist Carl Diem, “is purposeless activity, for its...
Reading about Aly Raisman’s life and experiences through her autobiography, I began to appreciate the vulnerability of public figures. When reading a series called Flawed, I saw a girl turn her grassroots efforts into a revolutionary movement against her dystopian government. One day, when I ...
Feminism, the belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. Although largely originating in the West, feminism is manifested worldwide and is represented by various institutions committed to activity on behalf of women’s rights and in
Best practices dictate that you should use a high-res image of your logo in order to improve brand recognition and keep all of your social media profiles on brand. However, solopreneurs and public figures often use headshots, and that’s a perfectly acceptable alternative. For brands with a ...
still be understandable when currently popular syntaxes inevitable fall out of favor. Nevertheless, for newcomers that are interested to learn how these theoretical concepts are implemented in practice, in this repository we provide concrete code implementation of the examples and figures of our paper....
Tagged definitions, examples, figures of speech, rhetoric, trope, tropes Paragoge Posted on September 24, 2024 | Leave a comment Paragoge (par-a-go’-ge): The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word. A kind of metaplasm. I’m goin’ to the rodee-odee-o. I’m...
Some organizations have argued that dark money protects political donors from harassment, and that disclosure laws can have the effect of chilling speech. Those in favor of more stringent transparency argue that the general public is entitled to full information about the political messaging they encou...
When public companies report theirquarterly earnings, two figures that receive a lot of attention are revenues and EPS. A company beating or missing analysts' revenue and earnings per share expectations can often move a stock's price. Revenue may also be referred to as sales and is used in ...
High-profile figures make for such perfect sources in deepfaking because their public profiles provide plenty of source material for an AI to learn from, but with the number of selfies the average person takes in a lifetime and rapid technological advances, perhaps soon anyone could be used as...
If it’s impolite to fart in public, it’s polite to keep your butt cheeks clamped shut in public. Right? Of course it’s right. It’s like if something’s small, it’s not big, or even medium sized. I’ve built the mental mansion that is my mind on this way of thinking. I...