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Playing video games can help change the world

 I found this on Tumblr today and thought it would be appropriate for GIST. Perhaps even one of the books we should read?...

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Changing Society or Changing Sexuality?

              Throughout the ages, the topic of homosexuality has ranged from socially acceptable to taboo. Even in modern day society, while some people have tolerant views of it, there are those who find homosexuality to be immoral and unnatural. But is it fair to call homosexuality unnatural when it is a phenomenon that not only consistently reoccurs in humans, but also in other animals such as bison, penguins, dolphins, and apes?

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sorry, wrong class. please disregard

testing images

opinionated...

and working....

 

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Emily Balch in the 21st Century: The Influence of Facebook in a New Era

 

 Hillary Godwin

March 3, 2011

GIST

 Emily Balch in the 21st Century:
The Influence of Facebook in a New Era

 

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Everything Includes the Container for Everything

  I was just reviewing my class notes on the Library of Babel.

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Margaret Price's Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life

I just started reading Margaret Price’s Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life.   It came out a few weeks ago and I quickly ordered a copy on Amazon after a professor at Haverford who specializes in disability studies suggested that it would be an interesting read for my independent study.  Price is a professor of English at Spelman College and is interested in expanding disability studies to include those with mental disabilities or what she also calls “psychosocial disability” (a term she likes because "it bumps psych (soul) against social context", br

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From Bones to Beliefs: Evolution of Anthropology and its Stories

                                                 

                          (Hilazon Cave)

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Batwoman vs. GIST

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