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Stephen Florida : a novel
\"Follows a college wrestler in his senior season, when every practice, every match, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane, manic, and tipping into the uncanny, it's a story of loneliness, obsession, and the drive to leave a mark\"-- Adapted from publisher summary.
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Claims of Heritage: Restoring the English Country House in Wide Sargasso Sea
Since the publication of Jean Rhys's novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), two critical positions have persisted: one that considers the novel in the context of Jane Eyre (1847), ignoring the way it represents English identity and history in its own right; and another that focuses on the novel's West Indian contexts and divorces it from the English traditions that inform its structure and plot. However, the novel sutures these dual inheritances through a critical representation of the English country house that adopts mid-century preservationists' nostalgia for such historic sites in order to problematize this nostalgia. Wide Sargasso Sea represents Thornfield Hall as a space in which post-imperial racialization takes place. Examining the text as a country-house novel allows one to rethink its position in both a British and a postcolonial canon, as well as considering the political possibilities and perils of preservation in English fiction.
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The perfect alibi
\"A new legal thriller starring Robin Lockwood. A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he's sent to prison. Not long after, there's another rape and the DNA test shows that the same person committed both rapes--which is seemingly impossible since the man convicted of the first rape was in prison at the time of the second one. Now, the convicted athlete, joined by a new lawyer, is granted a new trial and bail. Shortly thereafter, his original lawyer disappears and his law partner is murdered. Robin Lockwood is a young lawyer with a prestigious small law firm and a former MMA fighter who helped pay for Yale Law School with her bouts. She is representing the victim of the first rape for her civil lawsuit against her rapist, who is now convinced the rapist is stalking her and trying to intimidate her. At the same time, another client is up on a murder charge--one that should be dismissed as self-defense--but the D.A. trying the case is determined to bring it to trial. Now she has to mastermind two impossible cases, trying to find the hidden truth that links the two of them\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Period, place and mental space: using historical scholarship to develop Year 7 pupils' sense of period
What is a sense of period? And how can pupils' sense of period be developed? Questions such as these have troubled history teachers for many years, often revolving around debates over the role played by empathy and imagination in coming to know a period on its own terms. Rather than adopt a comparative approach, Dan Smiths decided in his teaching to go for the depth and the detail. In this article he outlines an approach that he used to help pupils gain a richer sense of the fourteenth century through a study of the village of Walsham. Smith draws on this to reflect on the different ways in which pupils' sense of period might be understood as developing
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How Physical Education Teachers Can Help Encourage Students to Read
The pressure to ensure that all children learn to read and become lifelong readers has never been as strong at it is now. For this to become a reality for all students, including those that are not motivated to read, teachers must use any and all appropriate strategies. With this in mind, literacy teachers should enlist assistance from other teachers, including in particular the physical education teacher/coach. The role of guest reader is an ideal way to include the physical education teacher/coach in the literacy classroom. This teacher has high visibility in the school--all students know the physical education teacher/coach even if they have not had him or her as a teacher. Often, literacy teachers are female, so there is particular value in inviting a male coach to read in the classroom. Many struggling readers are boys who think that \"men do not read books\" or \"it's a girl thing.\" It is important for them to see a man reading. Female physical education teachers/coaches should also be invited to read to the class, since girls need good literacy role models as well. Members of high school athletic teams can also be invited to read to students. This article provides several recommendations on how physical education teachers can effectively encourage students to read.
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Teaching the Sociology of Sport: Using a Comic Strip in the Classroom
Observes that contemporary sociology pays little attention to the narrative and graphic aspects of comic strips. Presents classroom experiences using \"Gil Thorpe,\" a comic strip with an ongoing storyline about suburban high school athletics, and gives reasons for the effectiveness of this instructional tool in the sociology of sport. (DSK)
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Standhardinger reflects on milestone
March 04--All college basketball players seek out precious pockets of time to rest their bodies. Fourth-place UH (19-9, 8-6 Big West) must negotiate an unusual final week of the regular season, then it's off to the conference tournament in Anaheim, Calif., next week.
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ATHLETE FOR HIRE
In Saulino's sports novel, a team owner attempts to create an all-around sports celebrity for his city.
Book Review
Author set to spread Wooden legend to Sycamore fans
Wooden was not welcomed by all immediately, getting rid of several local stars to make way for his personnel from South Bend Central and adding on Clarence Walker, the school's first African-American basketball player, but the coach quickly earned the respect of those in the area, earning the team two consecutive postseason births to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics tournament.
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