Referring to people as non-native speakers “defines, confines and reduces” them by referring to their culture in a way that evokes “images of deficiency or superiority – divisive associations with competence, knowledge and race – who can, who can’t, and what sort of people they are”....
Merriam-Webster defines humility as "freedom from pride or arrogance: the quality or state of being humble." For further depth into this definition, let's look at the three senses in which humble is defined: 1: not proud or haughty: not arrogant or assertive 2: reflecting, expressing, or...
Oxford defines it amongst other things as "the quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's own importance" This may be related to one's own abilities or achievements, positive characteristics of friends or family, or one's country. Confidence The feeling or belief that ...
“I’m 74 and I don’t think that defines me at all. In all modesty, I feel like I’m at the top of my game.” For more on healthy aging: What’s happening inside an 80-year-old brain? Gen X is on track to have more cancer than baby boomers—and these 9 cancers are to ...
In that sort of context, where disco and Caribbean musics are seen as threats to hegemonic white rock masculinity, embracing those sorts of influences is an obviously counter cultural move. As Haddon argues, it’s this embrace of disco and reggae (specifically, dub) that defines “post-punk”...
In the corporate world, the “tactical” part of a business strategy defines the nuts and bolts of how the task will get done. Managers executing the business strategy have a firm grasp of what must be done to ensure the plan’s success, preventing unnecessary expenditures of time and energy...
What is the mood of bulul? The figure bul-ul is highly giventhe respect and praisebased on a belief that spirits of their dead ancestors reside on it. And if the figure is not being properly treated with such modesty the spirits may response in return with such undesirable hostile mood. ...
Ingram and Fraizer (1980) and Wiseman, (1982) lay the grounds for a stream of research that focuses on the firms’ behavior and defines greenwashing as the gap between symbolic and substantive actions (Walker and Wan, 2012; Donia and Tetrault Sirsly, 2016). In a similar way, Steiner et...
1. A Suspicion of SchoolSchool has subtly but powerfully teached us that those who most faithfully follow its dictates will prosper - and, correspondingly, that those who insist on doubting, rebelling, cursing and defying it will founder.School curricula are not necessarily designed by people who...
This article defines character strengths and summarizes a framework for understanding them. As adults who model character to kids each and every day, it’s helpful to begin by taking inventory of our own character strengths! Character Strengths Count Throughout Life ...