Oregon Gov. Kate Brown privately signed a bill last month ending the requirement for high school students to prove proficiency in reading, writing, and arithmetic before graduation. Brown, a Democrat, did not hold a public signing or issue a press release regarding the passing of Senate Bill 74...
Writing for the Smithsonian Magazine (October 2011), Senior Editor Megan Gambino notes that publishing houses regarded Stein’s writing style as incomprehensible (Gambino writes that shortly after her arrival in the U.S., “psychiatrists speculated that Stein suffered from palilalia, a speech ...
White concluded with these parting words, tinged with world-weariness, writing “More seems likely to happen.” One wonders if he imagined The New Yorker at 100, which in our day is just around the corner. Like White, many us have grown weary of this angry world, where indeed more seems...
supervised by Cinda May and Kendra McCrea and worked with them for about a year. Samuel received his Master’s Degree in Computer Science on Saturday, December 17th. He’s from Telanger, Hyderabad, India and his work in Special Collections was focused mostly on revamping the department’s ...
"Never discount the idea of a state university," says Kathi Moody, president of the New England Association for College Admission Counseling and department head of school counseling atLynnfield High Schoolin Massachusetts. "There can be an assumption that a s...
As dawn painted the sky anew, the cowboys awoke to find a snow-white bull calf standing proud among the cows—fiery blue eyes that sparked with the promise of a bovineious legacy. This new leader, born from the mystique of the canyon, would guide the way back to the Flying Menorah, a...
(2019). Open knowledge interface: a digital assistant to support students in writing academic assignments. Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSOFT International workshop on education through advanced software engineering and artificial intelligence—EASEAI 2019, Rodrigues, C., Reis, A., Pereira, R., ...
Coping style represents the cognitive and behavioral patterns to manage particular demands appraised as taxing the resources of individuals. Studies report associations between certain coping styles and levels of adjustment of anxious symptomatology and
Writing in the Sept. 7 “Talk of the Town,” Bernard A. Bergman described plans for the long-awaited opening of a new Delmonico’s in a skyscraper bearing the same name… RICH DESSERTS…Dinner in honor of French Navy Admiral Paul Campion at the old Delmonico’s in 1906. (Wikipedia/...
Writing in The New Yorker, critic Richard Brody (“Chaplin’s Three Hundred and Forty-Two Takes,” Nov. 19, 2013) noted that “Chaplin didn’t have a mental template that he wanted Cherrill to match; he approaches the scene not quite knowing what he wanted.” Brody observed that the ...