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Earth, Water, and Fire: Elemental Representations of Feminist Force In Stories by John Cheever, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Tobias Wolff

  John Cheever Earth, Water, and Fire: Elemental Representations of Feminist Force In Stories by John Cheever, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Tobias WolffRichard C. KaneAbstract John Cheever, T. Coraghessan Boyle et Tobias Wolff sont bien connus pour leurs oeuvres qui se cristallisent autour de protagonistes masculins, comme l'illustrent "The Swimmer" et "The Country Husband" de Cheever, ainsi que "Greasy Lake" de Boyle ou encore "Hunters in the Snow" et This Boy's Life de Wolff. C'est certainement en réaction à la prévalence du thème masculin que ces auteurs ont été déboutés par nombre de critiques féministes après avoir été soumis à leur examen. Cependant, il ne faudrait pas céder à la tentation de classer ces auteurs de manière hâtive dans des typologies...

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Thorner: Doctors question vaccine mandates as US employees are forced to choose jobs or jabs

By Nancy Thorner -    Peter McCullough is not alone. There are over 10,000 doctors who have joined over 1,000 lawyers in a lawsuit to prosecute, in a Nuremberg-style trial, those who have pushed the Covid shot.    Dr. McCullough is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and clinical lipidology.  He cares for advanced patients with common medical problems including heart and kidney disease, lipid disorders, and diabetes.  He has become an expert on COVID-19 illnesses and welcomes recovered patients into his practice.     The Nuremberg Code on informed consent – not that this will matter to the intellectually dishonest - is here:  The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person...

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Back to School with Book Clubs and a Giveaway

An interview with Lesley Roessing, the author of Talking Texts   Our guest today is Lesley Roessing, the author of Talking Texts: A Teachers’ Guide to Book Clubs Across the Curriculum.  As students head back to school, Book Clubs can be an important tool to promote social and emotional learning and to foster a love for reading and for learning. Parents as well as educators can use the techniques in the book to start and facilitate Book Clubs.  Thanks so much, Lesley, for joining us at the Mixed Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors!  I love how Talking Texts  provides practical guidance about how to use Book Clubs to engage students more fully. Your book also provides templates for doing exactly...

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Concept Maps and Learning

Clark Quinn, Learnlets, Aug 06, 2021 The useful bit of this article is the distinction Clark Quinn draws between mindmaps and concept maps: " the main separation between mindmaps and concept maps is labels. Specifically, concept maps have labels that indicate the meaning of connections between concepts." Labels, he says, are important, because otherwise "the terms and connections don’t necessarily make sense." He also links to Jerry's Brain, a huge mindmap. Quinn's concern in this post is that the use of mindmaps or concept maps in a class does not ensure coverage. He is also concerned that they don't lead to comprehension. "History isn’t about learning facts, it’s about learning to think like a historian. You may need the cultural literacy...

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