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...symbolizing by this centuries-old ritual the city's marriage to the sea. For a long time, the union was a splendid and prosperous one. Thanks to its sprawling trade network, Venice became a wealthy imperial power in the 13th century, its institutions later mimicked by the Dutch and English. The city-state's mighty fleets patrolled the Mediterranean, while its merchants haggled at the far reaches of the Silk Road, dispatching the wonders of Asia back to an awed Christendom...
...deficit?SP: I think it’s an impressive trait. I think we do it through cognitive metaphor—that is through recognizing the similarity between a novel abstract thought and a known concrete idea and transferring one known structure to the other.4. FM: My high school English teachers always hated it when I used the word “stuff” but you just put it in your book title. As a word expert can you verify or negate the legitimacy of the word once and for all? SP: Yes, in my case I was using...
...across this yard for hundreds of years.” If the term “Indian College” makes you think of stuffy Puritans brandishing Bibles and spreading smallpox to the native population, you’re only half right. Founded in 1655, the Indian College educated English and native students side by side as part of an effort to teach English and Protestantism to local tribes. Unfortunately, seventeenth-century graduation rates weren’t what they are today; of the five attendees, one dropped out, two died of disease, and one was murdered. The only graduate...
Justine R. Lescroart ’09 is an English and American literature and language concentrator in Quincy House, and is currently studying abroad in Granada, Spain. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...American history to the extent that I would have liked,” says Welton E. Blount ’09, an African-American Linguistics concentrator with a focus on African-American studies. Coles notes that, while he was taught Charles Dickens and Emily Bronte in his high school English class, classic works by African-American writers such as Ralph Ellison and James Weldon Johnson were missing from the curriculum...