- Are U.S. Universities Discriminating Against Asian Students? | About.com Race Relations
- …an increasing number of Asian Americans say that admissions officers at the nation's most elite universities have what's been dubbed an "Asian ceiling." This prevents the Asian population of the student body from exceeding 20 percent.
At Harvard, for example, the number of Asian students has remained relatively static over the past five years, according to the Globe. …
Admissions officers deny capping the number of Asian-American students at schools, but a 2009 book called No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal posited that Asian Americans needed nearly perfect SAT scores to gain entrance to a top private university and that whites were three times more likely than Asians to be accepted into any U.S. university.
- Storytelling As A Resume Strategy | Tim’s Strategy • by Karen Siwak
- Good marketing is good storytelling. And a job search is all about good marketing. But if you wait for the interview to tell your stories, you may be missing an important opportunity to distinguish yourself from the crowd. Stories, when told in the right way, to the right audience, can be a terrific resume differentiator, the key to standing out in a pool of qualified candidates.
So, what are the critical success factors to making a story-telling strategy work?
- Topics in Feminism | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy • by Sally Haslanger, Nancy Tuana, and Peg O’Connor
- Feminism is both an intellectual commitment and a political movement that seeks justice for women and the end of sexism in all forms. However, there are many different kinds of feminism. Feminists disagree about what sexism consists in, and what exactly ought to be done about it
- The Kitty Genovese Myth and the Popular Imagination | Open Culture • by Sheerly Avni
- The Kitty Genovese parable is no less morally instructive for being not quite accurate. The bystander effect is still real, the McDonald’s worker’s decision to tape the beating last week rather than stop it is still reprehensible.
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- ensconce | English Spelling Rules
- You might think of "sconce" as a type of candleholder or lamp, but the word can also refer to a defensive fortification, usually one made of earth. Originally, then, a person who was "ensconced" was enclosed in or concealed by such a structure, out of harm’s way. The earliest writer to apply the verb "ensconce" with the general sense of "hide" was William Shakespeare.
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