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art-any-road: Dear God by XTC Dear God Hope You get the letter And I pray You can make it better Down here I don’t mean a big reduction in the price of beer But all the people that You made in your image See them starving on their feet ‘Cause they don’t get enough to…
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A white man and an elderly Native man became pretty good friends, so the white guy decided to ask him: “What do you think about Indian mascots?” The Native elder responded, “Here’s what you’ve got to understand. When you look at black people, you see ghosts of all the slavery and the rapes and the…
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elmerseason: Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts There’s no way to structure this coherently. They are random observations that might help explain the mental processes. But often, I think that we look at the academic problems of poverty and have no idea of the why. We know the what and the how, and we can…
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theatlantic: Your Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions In August, Science published a landmark study concluding that poverty, itself, hurts our ability to make decisions about school, finances, and life, imposing a mental burden similar to losing 13 IQ points. It was widely seen as a counter-argument to claims that poor…
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rudygodinez: Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting, (1974) Gordon Matta-Clark’s 1974 piece, Splitting, depicts each phase of his first large-scale and most celebrated Anarchitectural project. In it, the artist physically and metaphorically tears through spatial and structural barriers to reveal social and cultural obstacles as well as those between human and natural environments.
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Mexico’s Not-So-Favorite Son
Mexico’s Not-So-Favorite Son fylatinamericanhistory: The painter José Clemente Orozco has always been less revered than his countryman Diego Rivera, but now many scholars are pushing for Orozco to be seen with fresh eyes.
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The humanities and social sciences are an essential part of undergraduate education. Most successful careers, including in technology and engineering, do not result simply from technical knowledge. They require leadership skills, social and emotional intelligence, cultural understanding, a capacity for strategic decision-making and a global perspective. Put another way, success in life requires a sensibility…
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kinetay: A man and two women lost at sea in a drifting small boat while remembering their past via flashbacks… Sometimes cited as the greatest of all Brazilian films, this 120-minute silent experimental feature by Mário Peixoto, who never completed another film, was seen by Orson Welles and won the admiration of everyone from Sergei…
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cinoh: An envelope Emily Dickinson used to jot down thoughts is displayed in “Dickinson/Walser: Pencil Sketches.” It exemplifies writing meant to be legible to the person who produced it, not necessarily to others.