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CSEM #5
Leigh Raphael
September 29, 2008
Anorexia Athletica
“The college years are highly influential in shapingadult behaviors... particularly with regard to diet, physical activity, andother lifestyle habits” (Redorbit). Exercising for many is a great lifestyle habit to acquire, because itkeeps a person...
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 Mark Buchanan, Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks, W.W. Norton and Co., 2002
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Sports and Gender: Separate and Unequal
September 20, 1973 Billy Jean King took on Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes”. Riggs believed that he could beat King in tennis because even though she was the best woman tennis player, she was “just a woman.” That day in Houston, King came out on a gold litter carried by four brawny men while Riggs came out in a rickshaw pulled by scantily clad models whom he called “Bobby’s Bosom Buddies” (Schwartz). This visual display...
Dyslexia
The word dyslexia comes from the Greek root dys, which means difficulty, and lexis, which means word. Oswald Berkhan first identified dyslexia in 1881. Six years later, Rudolf Berlin coined the term “dyslexia” in Stuttgart, Germany.
Dyslexia is a learning disability that results from differences in how the brain processes written and spoken language. Dyslexic individuals experience difficulty reading, spelling, among...
I really like the idea of following a theme of villains. It definitely offers a lot of possibilities for things that we can read/watch. I don't know if anyone would be interested in reading East of Eden as the novel, since a majority of the class probably has in high school, but its antagonist was meant by Steinbeck to be "pure evil" (she was modeled after his ex wife haha).
During the course of my internship in Pre-College Science Education, we (people involved in the Summer Institutes) discussed the use of metaphors and stories to convey information to an audience. In the case of education, Lad Tobin writes about how students and teachers utilize...
One of the most interesting and important aspects of spending such a long time in Indonesia was forming close friendships with many people my age who I never would have met otherwise. It always surprise me when people hear about me living in Indonesia, or see pictures from my time there, and make comments about how I must have done such good, important, helpful work with the people I met. This couldn’t be further from the truth: although I felt like my friendships were for the...
I thoroughly enjoyed Butler's talk tonight. It was also my first time in the Goodhart Auditorium, which is gorgeous! I think it will take me a little time to form some more complete thoughts, so for now here are some musings. I think my favorite moment of the evening was when Jane McAuliffe was mediating the questions and requested that speakers "identify themselves." While Butler emphasized that relaxing norms/categories/definitions is not the same as transcending them, it seemed somehow...
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