#Contemporary

Thinking about that tweet that was like “joss whedon’s ‘give your audience what they need not what they want’ advice broke a generation of writers brains” and what that “eat
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watched "the last jedi" tonight as part of a current project to watch all of the recent popular properties so that i can actually write on them with authority. feel
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Did you receive an invitation to complete the Center for the Army Profession and Leadership Annual Survey of Army Leadership (aka CASAL) in your email this week? Not sure what
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The #NoFlyListKids issue is approaching resolution, a story that absolutely everyone in #GCdigital should drill into their minds. It's a service failure we can never allow to happen again. https://twitter.com/sulemaan/status/13297853361
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I think this helps illustrate the 'why' problem of analytic jurisprudence. 'Why', as in 'to what purpose', do we care about the conceptual boundaries of law. [A thread on contemporary
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Neoliberal approaches to development are generally premised (explicitly or implicitly) on a denial of colonial legacies.One example is the 'financial repression' thesis -- a big part of the basis for
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WHY STUDY HISTORY? WHAT’S IT GOOD FOR? 1. Good history should exist if for no other reason than that bad history already exists. People often use history-telling for political ends—selecting
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[Thread]It's time for you to read the actual IHRA definition of antisemitism. It does not prohibit any kind of speech. What it does is to offer some help in understanding
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Learn the difference between enemy & rival. An enemy is someone you fight against with an opposing goal. A rival is someone you compete with toward the same goal. Russia,
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Re-upping this thread in light of news that China's number of registered newborn babies dropped 15% in 2020. Chinese women are increasingly rejecting government efforts to push them into marrying
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#PiApproximationDayHere is the Indian story of Pi-Yajnavalkya 2000BCE->339/108=3.1388..(.09% error)Baudhayana 1700BC 3.08Jainas 400BC 3.16Aryabhata 499CE 3.1416Govindaswami 800CE 3.14159265Madhava,1370 3.14159265358Nilakanta 1480, 'F
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THREAD OF THREADS Here’s an easy to follow (hopefully) Thread of Threads we’ve put together to help followers learn more about general trends in contemporary & historical fascism
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James Ming Chen, After Agrarian Virtue, 53 Indiana Law Review 1-34 (2020). Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=3449558. The rest of this thread reports the abstract.Fernando Amorsolo (1892-1972), Winnowing Rice (1946). Other paintings
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Some people have said they think it's "tasteless" for people to compare real-life events with those portrayed in fictional media, but I think people should remember that the narratives people
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I've been able to get back to writing this week, but I am still bogged down in this chapter section on Gregory of Nazianzus and Maxiums the Cynic.#amwriting The chapter
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So, putting this out there as a way to understand me better as a thinker. I think that genres are contextually dependent. I don't think the neo-Swing music I danced
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