Today the film Me Before You, based on a 2012 novel of the same title, opens in theaters throughout the U.S. and Britain. It centers on a talented man, Will Traynor, whom a motorcycle accident made quadriplegic; he no longer finds life worth living and commits suicide calmly, with a bit of help, after much
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The petition starts out polite enough. “We, undergraduate students in the Yale English Department, write to urge the faculty to reevaluate the undergraduate curriculum.” Then it gets a little chippy. We oppose the continued existence of the Major English Poets sequence as the primary prerequisite for further study. It is unacceptable that a Yale student
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Russell Kirk argued that to engage in politics and ideas we must “draw the sword of imagination”. By that he meant, we must imagine all the ways in which a policy or an idea may do either good or harm. Recently, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants announced that they will be working with
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Mark up another victory for the “everyone-gets-a-trophy” mentality. The latest victim of this mindset is a high school honor student from Texas. A local ABC news affiliate reports: “National Honor Society (NHS) stoles are frequent sight at high school graduation ceremonies around the country, but one Plano Senior High School student is frustrated that he
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Business Insider ran a list of 13 things parents can do to turn their child into a successful adult. The first item on the list was to make a child do chores. Given the fact that only 28 percent of parents require their children to do chores, it seems that we’re destined for a generation
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When I was still in high school, a local private grade school invited me to become one of their piano teachers. Needless to say, I was nervous, but quite excited about the opportunity. I soon found out that while some of my students loved piano and entered wholeheartedly into practicing, others absolutely did not. In
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