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Mr. Wolf bounces back
With three cubs of his own, Mr. Wolf decides to give up being the neighborhood bully. But what other type of career would suit his qualifications?
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Cohort Succession Explains Most Change in Literary Culture
Many aspects of behavior are guided by dispositions that are relatively durable once formed. Political opinions and phonology, for instance, change largely through cohort succession. But evidence for cohort effects has been scarce in artistic and intellectual history; researchers in those fields more commonly explain change as an immediate response to recent innovations and events. We test these conflicting theories of change in a corpus of 10,830 works of fiction from 1880 to 1999 and find that slightly more than half (54.7 percent) of the variance explained by time is explained better by an author's year of birth than by a book's year of publication. Writing practices do change across an author's career. But the pace of change declines steeply with age. This finding suggests that existing histories of literary culture have a large blind spot: the early experiences that form cohorts are pivotal but leave few traces in the historical record.
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London and the South-East
Paul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life- professional, sexual, weekends, the lot. He only wishes there was something he could do about it. And 'something' seems to fall into his lap when a meeting with an old friend and fellow salesman, Eddy Jaw, leads to the offer of a new job. But when this offer turns out to be as misleading as Paul's sales patter, his life and that of his family are transformed in ways very much more peculiar than he ever thought possible.
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Editor's Note
Kuebler discusses the service of fiction editors Jennifer Bates and Janice Obuchowski. While they've decided to move on from this role independently, they have both worked diligently toward the same ideals. They have read and evaluated thousands of submissions, worked with volunteer readers, and met with Middlebury College students, introducing them to the process of evaluating manuscripts and publishing a literary journal. It takes a whole lot of patience, open-mindedness, and curiosity to do this work as well as, and for as long as, each of these editors has.
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LIBRARIES THE COMMUNITY LEARNING HUB
Libraries change lives, but many people may not be aware of how the library may be a life changing agent because individuals do not understand the real work of the institution. Most people think of the library as an antiquated house of dusty, old books where a few people may go from time to time if they are need of a book to learn about a specific topic for a high school or college research paper; however, the library has changed and continues to innovate meeting the needs of its community each and every day. Local and school libraries offer children an additional learning space to enhance their love of reading through a wealth of books individuals may or may not have at home. Library professionals take care to get to know their library community to select the perfect books children desire. In most cases, these specialized curated collections offer kids the ability to see a world beyond the one they currently know and experience.
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Transmissions from a Friend
In her youth, Ursula K. Le Guin set her first novel manuscript in an “unimportant country of middle Europe” called Orsinia. This invented country became a near-constant in her career, providing the setting of two novel manuscripts, thirteen stories, and three poems written over four decades. To correct scholarship’s neglect of the Orsinian corpus, this article offers two possible explanations for Le Guin’s sustained use of Central Europe as setting. The first pertains to her curiosity about the challenges of real socialism in Eastern Europe, and the second to her evolving perception of cultural difference as narrative fodder. Through their work as anthropologists and authors, her parents (Alfred and Theodora Kroeber) gave her a model for retelling others’ stories that Le Guin later contested and revised. Drawing from postcolonial critiques of “worlding” as a literary operation with real consequences, the article explores ethnology and fiction as relatedly fraught ways of knowing the Other. The Orsinian fiction, however, can ultimately be read as a reparative project within which Le Guin developed fair protocols for transmitting others’ stories.
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Engineering attitudes: an investigation of the effect of literature on student attitudes toward engineering
The growth of STEM career occupations is outpacing the college enrollment of STEM students in the United States. There have been many research projects investigating this issue. There has not however been a study which investigated the impact non-fiction literature has on student interest in studying STEM (specifically engineering) content. The purpose of this study was to investigate the change of student attitudes toward engineering after reading literature involving non-fiction engineering centric narratives. The study used a modified version of the PATT (Pupils Attitudes Towards Technology) called the TEAS (Technology and Engineering Attitudes Scale) to measure student attitude change. The students were high-school aged students in the United States (ages: 15–17) who were enrolled in an English Literature course. The students completed the TEAS before and after reading and studying two engineering and technology centric non-fiction books (The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind and October Sky). The data revealed that student attitude after reading and studying the two books did not statistically change.
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Project Hail Mary
Since they offer teacher resources, I will try and give ideas that are more directly tied to the high school science curriculum, but do check out the teacher resources; they are great! Along the way, Grace makes first contact with another interstellar explorer whose own planet shares the same issue of a slowly dying star, and they must work together to save both of their worlds. Because of the nature of the story, an invasive species, interstellar space travel, a slowly dying Earth, and meeting another form of life, there is barely a high school science topic that is not covered in this book. Environmental scientists will love the climate change take in this book, which will turn what may be a controversial topic in their classrooms into an engineering issue that requires both lowering AND raising the temperature on Earth by changing the structure of the atmosphere. While career-based standards are rarely a part of the state science curriculum, students' exposure to the real world of scientific discovery is critical to filling STEM careers in the future.
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Writing to Heal: Viewing Teacher Identity through the Lens of Autoethnography
This autoethnographic work explores my experience with illness (specifically anti-N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor encephalitis), recovery, and career change all in the span of a few months. Through reflexive interviews and a first-person narrative, I analyzed the shifting nature of my identity, specifically my teacher identity as I moved from struggling teacher, to patient, and back to teacher again. I also analyzed how the act of writing, and writing the narrative of this autoethnography, assisted in the healing process. My story shows that in moving from pre-illness to post-illness, I shifted from a strict, content-based teacher to a constructivist facilitator with a focus on critical thinking.
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