(Source: Matt Scott; CC BY 2.0) With my considerable gratitude to its author for passing it on, I'll let the following email speak for itself: ...As a foreign woman married to a Korean man, myself and my husband face a unique set of cultural obstacles in
But for all her flair, I think it was a little misdirected. “I am very interested and concerned about hatred and discrimination, which hang as prevalent and thick in Korean society as air.” Basically, she criticizes the controversy for being only the latest example of the ‘feminist check...
What is Figurative Language? The use of words in ways that deviate from their literal interpretation and sound devices to achieve a more complex or powerful effect. Examples of figurative language Metaphor:Comparing A to B so that A will embody the characteristics of B. The characteristics are i...
Reported neurobehavioural and neuropsychological health effects associated with fume events include disorientation, dizziness, confusion, lethargy, altered behaviour, personality changes, anxiety, depression, difficulties with problem solving, concentration, memory and writing, and euphoria [14, 16-27, 31-34...
. . are tied to the experience of social exclusion and to thehistorical‘impossibility’ofsame-sexdesire”(4).Whilethehistoricaldis-courses surrounding sexual stigmatization cannot be undone, render-ing them visible and writing back at them may reclaim agency in theface of present-day discrimination...
It appears that typical tasks transposed to VR do require more working memory resources, and this includes reading and writing with a keyboard. However, VR allows information spatialization. Despite requiring higher working memory resources, such spatialization seems to promote high performance when ...
The land is naturally fruitful, and capable of supporting a large population, if it were judiciously allotted according to location. The air is pleasant here, and more temperate than in the Netherlands. The winds are changeable, and blow from all points, but generally from the southwest and no...
Those two and a half hours fly past as we chat, joke, talk about our research and writing projects, and—most importantly, perhaps—have very intensive discussions about the strike itself and the broader issues at stake. . That being said, none of this is a lark. Everyone is concerned ...
Which only married people can even ponder really, so daunting remain the stigmatization and legal problemssuffered by single mothers, as well as the strong taboos against having children if the parentshave no intention to marry? Is it any surprise that on the day of writing,a poll revealedthat...
It’s such a cop out…problematic is just lazy-speak for ‘there is something bad about this and I can’t be bothered to figure out what’. It’s bad writing. Lizzie’s comment was made in a different context,but it resonated with what I’d just been reading inCultural Imperialism: ...