That's an observation informed by a close reading of history.
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Richards—close reading—and make it serve precisely the conception of aesthetic
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Close reading should reveal fairly quickly which headline just can't be true.
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A close reading of my mother's message reveals rich and multilayered depth of meaning.
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That unique close reading of Prince's music is a valuable tool for deciphering Prince's artistry.
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But a little close reading of the sentence in question itself may be helpful too.
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Maybe we can all gather together weekly and do a close reading of his website.
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However, he could benefit from a close reading of a few sentences in Robart's decision.
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His books include "Close Reading: Chuck Close and the Art of the Self-Portrait" (2005).
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Van Hove, meanwhile, was close-reading the text with the actors in the main studio space.
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The book ends with a close reading of plastic as pollution, artistic material, and eco-cultural signifier.
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A close reading of the RAND review of prison education reveals that few studies pass methodological muster.
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It doesn't take a close reading of Katy Perry lyrics to know that plastic bags get little love.
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Its recipes require a commitment to close reading, and to flipping back through the books for deeper explanations.
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Close-reading what Highsmith characters do professionally usually yields psychological insights that operate on almost a Freudian level.
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And here are three examples to prove the point — books full of surface delight that also reward close reading.
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At a certain point, spending hundreds of words close-reading a Christmas song starts to feel a little silly.
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Knowing how unpopular that is, it seeks to hide its true meaning, but a close reading reveals the truth.
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The distinction is impt A close reading of Trump's tweet makes clear what Trump opposes and what he doesn't.
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His poetic sensibility is evident throughout this painstakingly close reading of the events and ideas that inhabit his memory.
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It's a close reading and conjectural study of Paul Thomas Anderson's recent music video for "Daydreaming," the Radiohead song.
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Most literary criticism is grounded in close reading, with scholars poring over individual texts to tease out subtle meanings.
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Through her close reading of Milton's poem, she discovers an affinity between her state and Milton's: My mistake was similar.
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A close reading of the threat shows it remains very much in effect and deserves a firm and deliberate response.
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And he did it based primarily on a close reading of the publicly available, redacted version of the Mueller report.
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Nevertheless, a close reading of the 118-page analysis does raise questions about just how tough this settlement really was.
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The next step is to collaborate with cultural anthropologists to undertake a close reading of all those inter-linked individual pages.
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In this lesson, we suggest four ways to use the column to practice close reading and thoughtful writing across subject areas.
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But when that close reading is itself subjected to a close reading, you realize that Jones's appeal comes not from his attention to details but from the velocity with which he blows past them — the way he hurtles through an asteroid belt of informational debris on his way to explicating the galaxy-scale perfidy of his villains.
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"I probably wouldn't sing it anymore," a young African-American student in the video says after a close reading of the lyrics.
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For example, research published by Stanford found that close reading of a novel increased blood flow to underused areas of the brain.
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Furthermore, a close reading of Bruce's 1941 immigration documents suggests that Grace did in fact know the identity of her real mother.
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But the share reaction cannot really be explained by missed forecasts, because a close reading shows that any shortfall was marginal at best.
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During the close reading and aftermath of the meeting, Cook's dour expression (seen above) at the table became a meme of the moment.
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With a dash of close reading, we can tell that each at-home scene reveals some secret aspect of the characters' inner lives.
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After a close reading on Apple's conference call, Cramer found that 21 percent of its sales have been hurt by the dollar's strength.
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From a close reading of the constitutional language it is clear that "territory" is a kind of property which Congress can dispose of.
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Much of the book is given over to Simone's close reading of the longstanding skirmishes that have taken place in Bay City, Mich.
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Meanwhile, information about this shocker is trickling out, thanks to interviews with the cast and creators, and some close reading of the books.
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In "Having My Cake," a contemplation of her difficulty understanding proverbs becomes a syntax-shuffling close reading of the one in the title.
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The critical vogue was still with New Criticism, an analytical approach that emphasized "close reading," isolating the formal artistic elements of literary text.
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But Cole Cuchna's album podcast, "Dissect," actually attempts to bottom out, close-reading great records with college-lecture authority and autograph-hound zeal.
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But the interludes and jump cuts are almost always jarring, and the book requires close reading to understand how the sequences fit together.
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Memorizing a poem is just as valuable as an exercise in close reading, a chance to observe the exertions of our own brains.
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Critics, as a group, hate Sandler comedies, sometimes fairly, but just as often because the movies undermine the project of close reading altogether.
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That work emerged from his dissertation, and it followed a style of feverish pop-cultural close reading strangely valued in some academic quarters.
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A close reading of India's headline growth number for the three months to September showed public expenditure helped bolster the overall GDP number.
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I get that you took a special 03-credit college seminar on close-reading The Prince or whatever, but I need you to relax.
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You can learn how to do a "close reading" of it, as an English major might say, by noticing and deconstructing all these elements.
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We at WIRED have done a close reading of 2016's line-up, picking the 10 titles we think will get the most people talking.
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Student Double-Entry Chart for Close Reading Columns for recording specific lines or details from a text and noting comments, questions and observations about them.
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His early work was grounded in close reading, and his last book "The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature," included fine-grained analysis of classic works.
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But the arrangement also requires that the artwork be hung fairly high, which prevents a close reading of Satterlee's beguiling painterly details and lushly matte surfaces.
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Among them are casual Catholics, born again Baptists, ordained Rabbis and preachers, secular atheists, and teachers who use the podcast as an example of close-reading.
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This is very clear from a close reading of the 1st Schmidt/Haberman story which was why I tweeted Trump had no clue about the testimony.
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Then, during the rest of the week, they apply the same skill set of close reading, analysis and writing evidence-based paragraphs to a Shakespeare text.
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A close reading of the earliest known transcription of a popular excerpt from the Book of Matthew reveals that the "narrator" is suffering from low blood sugar.
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Comey's farewell letter, decoded An English major uses her skills of close reading to translate ex-FBI Director Comey's farewell letter to his colleagues for the masses.
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But even as Qatar marched through the field, rumors — fueled by a close reading of FIFA nationality rules — swirled about the eligibility of Ali and al-Rawi.
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A close reading of the descriptions of mobile hacking outlined in the documents released by WikiLeaks shows that the CIA has not yet cracked those invaluable encryption tools.
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Judge Warren preferred the term "first principles" to "democratic values," and had pushed for the civics standards to be based on a close reading of the founding documents.
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All this instability makes for a fascinating close-reading experience, but it also calls into question the ostensible finished version of "Pablo" as it has been promoted so far.
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Conspiracy theories might seem silly, easy to dismiss as the work of hardcore obsessives who have taken their high school education in close reading a few steps too far.
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They say that a close reading of the recent credit numbers tells a more nuanced story and that it's too early to call an end to the growth slowdown.
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As a close reading of the lyrics will show you, "Gorgeous" is about one thing and one thing only: a cute dog Taylor Swift recently saw outside the club.
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You can learn more about how this feature teaches close-reading and visual-literacy skills here, and find a slide show of 40 of our most popular images here.
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This is Concourse Village Elementary School, a five-year-old school near Yankee Stadium that has blended playfulness and academic rigor, close reading and classroom conversation, to impressive effect.
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Instead, a close reading shows that the NAHB only asserts that an increase in lumber prices earlier this year was "largely" due to the yet-to-be-imposed tariffs.
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As things progress, the line between their realities and their writing blurs in a way that's sure to inspire close reading, though Parker's talent is as obvious as ever.
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"The lesson of [Trump's] populist message is there is support for someone who is committed to rule of law and a very close reading of statutory authorization," Segal said.
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In the liberal arts tradition, these skills are built through dialogue between instructors and students, and through close reading and analysis of a broad range of subjects and texts.
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I see nothing in Trump's psychology or language that implies his opposition to intervention is shaped by a close reading of constitutional history or the pacifist's fear of causing harm.
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However, a close reading of records of EyeDetect's use, obtained through public records requests, suggest that a reliable, useful, and equitable lie detector is still the stuff of science fiction.
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But a close reading of the text of the press events makes clear that Washington will pursue diplomatic engagement with a willingness to use force in support of diplomatic goals.
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A close reading of the legislative language in the Continuing Resolution reveals that the House Appropriations Committee proposed yet another slush fund for the Pentagon: The National Defense Restoration Fund.
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A close reading of the 2000-page indictment makes clear that the unnamed government is the United Arab Emirates, where Mr. Nader owns a business and advises the crown prince.
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I suspect, based on my own close reading of the text, that the author is an apolitical retired Navy commander who became chief speechwriter for former Defense Secretary James Mattis.
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Just two years after its release, for instance, the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz invested $255 million in a start-up, Rap Genius, that encourages the same sort of close reading.
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In 2006, Washington Post writer Robin Givhan won a Pulitzer for her fashion criticism, including a close reading of a pair of boots worn by then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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Read enough about the presidency or do enough reporting on it, and you find that a huge amount of the day-to-day requires close reading, attentive listening, and measured speaking.
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Though this kind of casual writing offers students real audiences and purposes, it often doesn't require the type of close reading, deep thinking and careful craftsmanship more formal classroom writing demands.
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One of the activities I do with sophomores to encourage close reading of prose is to have students choose a passage from the novel we're reading and do a word inventory.
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The Pentagon has been unwilling to provide many details, but a close reading of the military press suggests that this activity has been particularly focused on northern Norway and adjacent waters.
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But a close reading of insider commentary indicates that what they do is review the votes of the 13,000 people in the voting body and then correct it when they go astray.
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It was not part of a "close reading" exercise in which the emphasis would have been on reading and rereading the text; my intent was simply to share the information with them.
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But on close reading the sum total of his remarks was frightening—a stage-setting, at the very least, for an administration Obama expects will be hobbled by incompetence and likely to fail.
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A close reading of the president's tax returns could show how Trump has continued his father's practices, and how the tax cut giveaway to the rich he signed as president benefitted him personally.
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And judging by the many history-themed poems we receive every year, social studies teachers need little convincing that the contest can be a useful way to spur close reading of primary sources.
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In addition, we offer practical teaching ideas, along with responses from students and teachers, for how you can use these documentaries, or films like them, to teach close reading and critical thinking skills.
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Our mutual hypersensitivities might have yanked us away from enlightening, crucial — and fun — cultural detective work (close reading, unpacking, interpreting) and turned us into beat cops always on patrol, arresting anything that rankles.
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A close reading of her photographs also seems to imply that she does not have the same kind of access Souza had with Obama, something I broke down in a piece earlier this month.
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But a close reading of Alphabet's financial results for the first quarter of 2018, which were announced on Monday, showed that the Silicon Valley giant is accelerating its efforts to diversify into other businesses.
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Looking fab in a poofy one-shouldered gold lamé situation, Dion delivers a feminist close reading of a still from the movie that depicts Rose on the door and Jack floating in freezing water.
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A close reading of their prospectuses reveals blunt language that gives the investment manager every right to halt redemptions under "extraordinary circumstances" to protect the interests of investors with a longer-term investment horizon.
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To help, we also have a companion lesson plan by two teachers who use this contest to "reinforce close reading, experimentation, peer review, self-review and revision" — skills that are valuable across the curriclum.
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But that doesn't mean it's not important—check out Robert Yang's 2013 talk at Practice for both a great example of this sort of "close reading" and also an argument for why it's valuable.
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I wanted to share with you how we use this great opportunity to reinforce close reading, experimentation, peer-review, self-review, revision in our English classes — and writing it out was helpful for me.
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But upon close reading, Trump's brief treatment of international affairs in the speech revealed a blinkered conception of US self-interest that will alienate the world and ultimately render it more threatening to US security.
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North's review of F. T. Prince's Collected Poems, which was "cavalierly dismissed by the New York Times reviewer," is a model of a nuanced response based on close reading: Prince's extraordinary gifts create extravagant expectations.
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It aims to understand an athlete's brilliance by turning his game inside out, flipping and reversing it, conjecturing about and psychologizing him, close reading the repetitive motion, quirks, and kinks, breaking down Mr. McEnroe's breakdowns.
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After all, whether they were analyzing Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" or Luhrmann's or Zeffirelli's, mining their chosen independent-reading texts for "windows and mirrors" or examining these student photos, they were practicing close reading throughout.
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A close reading of Lambda's financial agreements shows the school can take swift action against students who underreport their incomes or fail to make a payment, even auditing their tax returns to find their actual wages.
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To help, this year we also have a companion lesson plan by two teachers who use this contest to "reinforce close reading, experimentation, peer-review, self-review and revision" — skills that are valuable across the curriclum.
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But a close reading of the original legal agreement by new partner Marcus Lemonis revealed a way forward that would unshackle the business from Dane's constraints: Marcus would systematically dilute his shares until they were meaningless.
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But a close reading of the decisions in the case — and the fact that Justice Brett Kavanaugh was recused — suggests that the liberals may not have the votes to turn back the conservative assault on Congress's powers.
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" "Charlie seemed to me like the kind of kid who would really respond to David Bowie, so I had a lot of fun excavating the history of his middle-school years from a close reading of Ziggy Stardust.
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But the three share indisputable similarities: they approach indie rock from a deliberate and plaintive perspective that skews more toward emo, folk, and blues than toward punk, and they write the kind of lyrics that warrant close reading.
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But the public has no real way of knowing why Citigroup passed, and the others all failed, because the public portion of the plans is so generic that only with a close reading can any differences be discerned.
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He based his analysis on a close reading of passages in parts of one of Ms. Ferrante's novels set in the 1960s in Pisa, where one the book's protagonists, Elena Greco, studied classics at the prestigious Scuola Normale.
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Students are then invited to confront these questions through a close reading of the first chapter of "Pride and Prejudice" and a consideration of how it challenges gender assumptions and investigates universal themes of power, money and sex.
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O. 2020 seems to be the year of the hybrid memoir, and Doty's is a masterful example — weaving a close reading of Whitman's life and writings into Doty's own ruminations on art, queerness, humanism, and the American experience.
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On a sunny Saturday afternoon, Donovan stood in a hotel ballroom engaged in a close reading analysis of Trump's two-tweet, 83-word endorsement of his candidacy, lest anyone miss the campaign sign on his podium declaring that fact.
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Essentially, Gamergate systematized a form of online harassment that involved close-reading ancient chats and private messages, as well as public content and social media activity, in search of anything that could be used as fodder for righteous indignation.
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A close reading of this book should also, however, have the effect of cautioning voters not to let their disgust at such fakery push them to the other extreme, searching, above all, for the candidate who exhibits the most spontaneous persona.
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Yet a close reading of Mr. Cruz's policy prescriptions, influences and writings over two decades, combined with interviews with conservative intellectual leaders and Cruz allies, suggest two powerful truths about the man who might yet assume the mantle of modern conservatism.
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We invite teachers and students to use this bank of 40 intriguing images, all stripped of their captions or context, to practice visual thinking and close reading skills by holding a "What's Going On in This Picture?" discussion or writing activity.
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As a novel that attests to the power of this sense of conscience and decency, "To Kill a Mockingbird" continues to reward close reading as a complex and compelling portrayal of the challenges of advancing progressive change within a resistant community.
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LINDA STEWART, NEW YORK To the Editor: After a close reading, I'm unable to discern where Stephen Marche stands on the nurture versus masculinity-is-destiny continuum, nor do I know exactly what men and women are supposed to do next.
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But the love and respect for the source material is just so evident here; you can better impose a new and interesting structure if it comes from deep and close reading of the book and its author and its time.
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Occasionally, Halsey mines other eras of female pop, as in the thick shuffle in the middle of "Walls Could Talk," which recalls Britney Spears's most ornate productions, or in "Angel on Fire," which suggests a close reading of Evanescence's greatest hits.
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But it helped introduce Tokyo-style omakase, in which the chef decided what you would eat based on a close reading of the ocean's seasons and, to some extent, pure whim, to New Yorkers who weren't necessarily students of Japanese culture.
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While it's not immediately clear why the notoriously clandestine and historically impenetrable spy service is now deciding to expand its online offerings to the dark web, a close reading of the release reveals an interest in classic spook pursuits: recruitment and intelligence.
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There is little in the policy portfolio introduced on Monday in Virginia that will strike voters as new or innovative -- a close reading of the Hillary Clinton campaign's voluminous issues hub will turn up many of the same ideas and policy prescriptions.
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A close reading, however, of a lengthy summary of the Turkish investigation, which prosecutors have filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan and which includes excerpts from transcripts of the wiretap recordings, suggests that Mr. Erdogan's objections may involve more than just patriotism.
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It includes a close reading of "Mein Kampf," and considers that book's ideas and impact through many lenses — through Dostoyevsky's consideration of nihilism; Heidegger's yearning for simplicity; the weird and barbed images of the Old Testament, still lurking somewhere in our minds.
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Here are just a few: Making inferences Close-reading Summarizing Annotating Determining the reliability of sources Sorting fact from opinion Listening and note-taking Revising writing _________ The best way to get teenagers to start reading The Times or any other newspaper regularly?
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The publisher of the New York Times issued a post-election statement to his readers that some people took for an apology of sorts, but a close reading of the statement reveals that it's quite a stretch to characterize it as an apology.
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He undertakes a close reading of "Mein Kampf" to see how the trainee dictator's mind works, and reconstructs the intellectual world of pre-war Europe—with its exuberant high culture on the one hand, and its obsession with race and biology on the other.
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A close reading of the show even reveals that the magical Land of Ooo was built on the ashes of an apocalyptic event that killed billions of people a thousand years earlier, and that event continues to cast a subtle shadow for attentive viewers.
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One crucial corrective would be to actually read the original versions of academic political-science texts rather than relying on caveat-free summaries: a close reading of TPD applied to the 2016 Republican race might have been entitled "The Party Hasn't Decided, So Anything Goes".
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Because the federal case is almost entirely built around the supposition that Shkreli knowingly lied to his investors, the trial consists of an unceasing number of excruciating close-reading sessions of his correspondence—the idea being that they essentially offer a window into his soul.
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You can't learn all about American slavery from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, much less from Uncle Tom's Cabin or Huckleberry Finn, any more than you can master contemporary feminism through a close reading of Beyoncé or The Vagina Monologues (or Naomi Wolf).
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Lance points out that our students — especially under his guidance — are adept at close reading of texts and that, throughout the year, he encourages them to "look for a juicy image" in a text or extract a phrase or sentence and explore its figurative potential.
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To be woke in 103 is, in part, to be a critic; whether recognizing the subtle sexism in a TV show or celebrating the political messaging in a music video, it is a form of close reading that has always been aligned with activism.
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On TV, the close reading of match data, such as the percentage of match time each team has the ball, or a player's number of "assists"—a term borrowed from American commentary—adds texture to a game in which the main event, a goal, is notably rare.
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So Sherlock fans, like cultists pushing back the date of a predicted apocalypse after it fails to arrive, used intricate close reading to devise a theory that Apple Tree Yard was an elaborate hoax — a code for the secret Sherlock episode that would air the next week.
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That said, both candidates have already provided very clear hints about what they view to be the other's major weakness, and a close reading of those comments tells us a lot about the ground on which Thursday's debate will be fought between its two most important players.
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O'Rourke entered the Democratic primary Thursday, and a close reading of his policy positions on health care reveals he vacillates between Medicare-for-all as "the best way to ensure Americans get the health care they need" and criticism of the Medicare-for-all plans offered.
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The paper lays down the groundwork of using ELMo for English language systems, but because its power is derived by essentially a close reading of the data that it's fed, there's no theoretical reason why it shouldn't be applicable not just for other languages, but in other domains.
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It's because there are many, many women, especially women of color, sitting in their cubicles (there are far more men with doors that close) reading about how this man lied his way from assistant to executive editor in a few short years while no one even questioned him.
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What Google's CEO told Congress about China — and what he didn't Colin Lecher performs a close reading on what Sundar Pichai said about Project Dragonfly during Tuesday's hearing: Pichai also made it clear that, whether the company currently has no "plans" to launch the product, Google certainly hasn't halted work completely.
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Murnane's life, his fiction and the landscape he inhabits — the beauty and isolation of the Victorian interior, calm seas of yellow grassland that conjure schoolbook images of the veld — are so inextricably entwined that to visit him in Goroke feels at once like a field trip and a close reading.
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But a close reading of it, when considered alongside existing reporting and previous filings in the case, gives us some insight into what Manafort is in trouble for purportedly lying about — topics involving his ties to a Russian associate, as well as financial matters and his contacts with the Trump administration.
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As a way to connect with my students at the beginning of the school year, and additionally to provide an engaging topic for a pretest writing assignment as a diagnostic tool for assessment, I found the selfie reading selection to be a perfect springboard for close reading of a complex text.
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Activity Sheets: With any of the teaching ideas above, students might take notes using one or more of the three graphic organizers (PDFs) we have created: • Comparing Two or More Texts • Double-Entry Chart for Close Reading • Document Analysis Questions For at least a century, "Frankenstein" has influenced popular culture.
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In a history as ambitious as its name implies, Powers follows the intertwined themes of race, gender, and sexuality through more than 200 years of American pop, beginning with the mythical "quadroon balls" of antebellum New Orleans and concluding in the only way imaginable in 193: with a close reading of Beyoncé.
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Well, this new method has all the literacy goodness of the previous format — the same need for close reading, experimentation with language and attention to detail — but it also celebrates the "daily miracle" that is the print paper, at a time when fewer and fewer young people read the news in print.
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But his vague promise to "in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses" drew an immediate rebuke from legal and ethics experts in Washington, who said that a close reading of the actual words in the posts suggested that Mr. Trump was not planning to take sufficient steps to eliminate conflicts.
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But based on details revealed in a close reading of its dozens of pages, which have not been made public, investigators quickly determined that the fabricated messages were inserted into the electronic records of Russia's antidoping agency more than two years after Rodchenkov, the former director of Russia's antidoping laboratory, had fled the country.
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Interviews with dozens of current and former administration officials, congressional aides and others, previously undisclosed emails and documents, and a close reading of thousands of pages of impeachment testimony provide the most complete account yet of the 84 days from when Mr. Trump first inquired about the money to his decision in September to relent.
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Some other interesting questions have been posed by independent journalist Marcy Wheeler, who has been doing some of the best and most interesting coverage of the Trump-Russia scandal at her site EmptyWheel — work that combines a mastery of the underlying facts with deep subject matter expertise and a talent for skeptical close reading.
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Such sweeping pronouncements always lead to trouble, and "symbols of mass production that stand for the victory of capitalism, social control, and the construction of the individual," if anything, lack subtlety in their imaginings of a hegemonic, lockstep corporate culture — a picture that a close reading of the news, for better or worse, belies every day.
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School: Phoenix Country Day School Grade Levels: 9-12 Why we chose it: We really can't put this any better than Ms. Avery did herself: I wanted to share with you how we use this great opportunity to reinforce close reading, experimentation, peer review, self-review, revision in our English classes — and writing it out was helpful for me.
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New Criticism is based in close reading, in delving deeply into a text and unpacking every word, without having to worry too much about what was happening when it was written — which means that when you embrace New Criticism, you can get a lot of good, solid analysis done over the course of a single class period or a single student paper.
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How we know: Interviews with dozens of people, including current and former administration officials and congressional aides; previously undisclosed emails and documents; and a close reading of thousands of pages of impeachment testimony provide the most complete account yet of the 84 days from when Mr. Trump first inquired about the money to his decision in September to release the aid.
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Activity Sheets: As students read and discuss, they might take notes using one or more of the three graphic organizers (PDFs) we have created for our Text to Text feature: • Comparing Two or More Texts • Double-Entry Chart for Close Reading • Document Analysis Questions _________ Text 19303: "Comparing Jewish Refugees of the 1930s With Syrian Refugees Today," Daniel Victor, The New York Times, Nov.
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This is a not-so-subtle suggestion that the "best" kind of Game of Thrones fan is the one who's spent hours on Reddit soaking up trivia, or to go back even further, the dedicated Song of Ice and Fire fan who has spent over two decades at this point playing the game by close-reading the canon, often developing theories from these close reads that ultimately proved correct.
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Russia's Other Troll Team The Digital Forensics Research Lab does a close reading of special counsel Robert Mueller's indictments of Russian agents and concludes that there's a second group waging information warfare on social networks beyond the Kremlin's famous Internet Research Agency: The GRU campaign appears to have had two main goals: to mobilize American opinions, especially African-American opinions, against Clinton, and to spread propaganda which served Russian military interests.
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Cott's close reading of "Outside Over There" — given a big assist here from Kushner (himself the author of a book on Sendak) and the art historian Jane Doonan — leaves us with a lucid understanding of how Sendak's words and drawings came together to create an immensely layered story, at once a dark fairy tale, a heroic quest narrative and an elaborate homage to the many artists Sendak loved.
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Reynolds has advanced two theories to argue that the 50-year-old Age Discrimination in Employment Act shouldn't apply to Villarreal: that the Georgia salesman didn't "diligently" pursue why he'd received no response to his application, even though there was little to spur such pursuit before the whistleblower surfaced; and that a close reading of the law suggests that in cases of indirect bias it doesn't protect job applicants like Villarreal, only employees.
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Activity Sheets: As students read and discuss, they might take notes using one or more of the three graphic organizers (PDFs) we have created for our Text to Text feature: • Comparing Two or More Texts • Double-Entry Chart for Close Reading • Document Analysis Questions _________ Text 25: Excerpt from "Bring Moral Imagination Back in Style," Jennifer Finney Boylan, The New York Times, July 210, 22017 I came back from the beach one day to find my grandmother and her nearly deaf friend Hilda playing gin and drinking vodka.
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" Similarly, in "Man Versus Corpse," the discovery of a "forlorn little hardbacked book" about Italian masterpieces on a table in her lobby leads to a close reading of Luca Signorelli's painting "Nude Man From the Back Carrying a Corpse on His Shoulders," which in turn opens up into a rambling discussion of existence, inequality ("the unequal distribution of corpses"), Rothko, Warhol ("an enthusiastic proponent of corpse art"), iPhones and her own inability to imagine herself as a corpse, before ending at a dinner party with talk of Knausgaard and his multivolume "cathedral of boredom.
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All this, finally, brings us to the main event, by far the finest thing in this strange book and, in my experience, the best thing Knausgaard has written, marked by enormous intellectual panache and quite different from anything else in the novel (it's amazing how lively the writing suddenly is when he's not writing about himself): a nearly 400-page close reading of "Mein Kampf," complete with detours through related texts, in which the author tries to recover and reproduce the lived experience of the frustrated, depressed and impoverished young man who would become the Nazi tyrant.
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