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I enjoy Doctor Sleep for the most part, but once again the mind melting difference in lighting quality between past and present cannot be ignored.
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For the love of god book one good fight between now and January please
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“It’s a remake of The Great Gatsby, Liz, except this time they solve crimes. I play Nicole ‘Nicky’ Carraway, a cop with dreams of becoming a writer”
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Orwell's great observation in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was that to shrink a person's vocabulary is to shrink his capacity to think.
An impoverished version of English removes the mental tools needed to formulate and communicate complex (and dissenting) ideas. Such is the deep, complex relationship between language and thought.
We don't read "difficult books" to say that we've read difficult books. We read them because they expand the boundaries of what we are capable of thinking and feeling — we ascend to their level. Vocabulary helps us to recognize truths otherwise beyond our grasp.
This revelation is worse than you may think. This must be reversed.
I am speechless. Thomas Aquinas College just dropped a study on the rigor of the new SAT.
It compares the 1980/87 test with 2026. The findings should terrify every parent and teacher...
Vocabulary has collapsed.
Old SAT: 70.6% of questions tested vocab.
New SAT: 15%.
The old test forced students to know a wide range of words through analogies, antonyms, and sentence completions. The new test abandoned that. Most vocab questions now just ask students to fill in one blank from context.
Reading passages also got radically shorter (average ~97 words vs 300–340).
The new test uses short expository passages and hands you the necessary background knowledge inside the text. The older tests leaned much more heavily on argumentative and persuasive writing, assumed far more historical, scientific, and cultural knowledge, and penalized students who lacked it.
This is a redefinition of what "college readiness" means.
If you believe that kids should develop rigorous vocabulary, be capable of sustained reading, and possess background knowledge, I have bad news for you. The SAT no longer measures these.
If you want a future where children can actually read difficult texts and construct complex arguments, the SAT must be replaced now.
This cannot go on.
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Tommy Lee Jones and Alice Cooper come from the same school of thought. The key to never looking old is to never look young in the first place.
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Another beautiful to Sir Patrick Steward tribute that I ran across on Reddit
If the creator of this would let me know, I am happy to flag it
Collection of scenes from Star Trek: The Next Generation
I'm not crying, you're crying!
Paying tribute to a great actor and a fine human being
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Electric cars don't pay gas taxes, and the Dems need their tax dollars, so they will try their best to implement mileage taxes wherever they can, starting of course in California but coming to your state soon. If you thought driving your car was expensive now, just wait.
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I will never forget the night this aired in 1990. Our jaws were on the floor in shock.
And we’d have to wait three months to see how it ended.
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RIP Sir Patrick Stewart, he was originally the narrator for Nightmare Before Christmas but the makers decided to go in a different direction but Danny Elfman loved Stewart's narration so much that it was included on the soundtrack. Here's Stewart's closing narration:
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"If you want something done right, do it yourself. Even your eulogy."
No one can deliver a better tribute to Patrick Stewart than Patrick Stewart himself.
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Fun fact this episode potentially cost @TheSimpsons writers the Emmy that year
The writers wanted to submit the widely acclaimed "Mother Simpson" for the Emmy but the showrunners chose this episode instead thinking the 3D animation would give them the edge.
Sadly they lost to the Christmas episode of "Pinky & The Brain:
"Treehouse Of Horror VI" October 29, 1995
#SpookySeason 🎃 #TheSimpsonsGoats #TheSimpsons #SimpsonsForever
