Word: meaningful
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Sartre's novel Nausea, the main character Roquentin is unable to finish his biography of a historical figure. Roquentin ultimately ends up questioning his own life as well as the life of his subject. Sartre's philosophy deals with the problem of viewing another life and one's own very...
Slowly, and almost unconsciously, banal daily events take on a greater depth of meaning, because not only is Rosetta poor, she and her mother live in a near-animalistic state. Rosetta earns paltry sums of money by selling repatched clothes to a local second-hand shop, catches fish with a...
In the book, Chall wrote that schools need to teach both meaning and phonics. Despite the changing views about phonics, Chall never changed the conclusion she reached in Learning to Read, said Lecturer on Education John D. Strucker '66.
In the second and third grades, most students acquire "fluency," meaning they decode the words more quickly.
Mr. Starbucks was in the bathroom at a branch of the coffee chain and somehow managed to become stuck, if you get my meaning, in between the toilet and seat. (I'm somewhat embarrassed even to be recounting or summarizing this story.) As a result of the incident which led...