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Dentists rank No. 2 in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Jobs report
Dentists leaped up to No. 2 in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the 100 Best Jobs, the magazine revealed on its website Jan. 7.
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Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism, by Franklin Newton Painter
“As a rule,” urges Franklin Newton Painter in his critically acclaimed classic, Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism, “we should read only books of recognized excellence, and read them with sympathetic intelligence. Trashy books, whatever pleasure they may give, add but little to knowledge or culture; and immoral books often leave an ineradicable stain upon the soul.”
The ideas of “recognized excellence,” “sympathetic intelligence” and “ineradicable stain upon the soul” make one wonder about the criteria by which Painter determines and advocates such notions. Although the criteria for evaluating literature are as old as Homer, they have undergone massive expansion in the 20th century. Besides, in view of new trends in literary theory and criticism, it is also worth pausing for a moment to reconsider the meaning of "theory" itself. According to the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, today the term "theory" entails a mode of questioning and analysis that goes beyond the earlier criteria of "literariness" of literature. To an earlier generation, it seems that theory is more of an advocacy rather than a disinterested, objective inquiry into poetics of literature. Because of the effects new social movements, especially the women's and civil rights movements, theory now entails skepticism towards previously taken for granted systems, institutions, and norms. Now theory shows a readiness to take critical stands and to engage in resistance, an interest in blind spots, contradictions, and distortions, and a habit of linking local and personal practices to the larger economic, political, historical, and ethical forces of culture. How and why did that happen in the world of literature?
Please join us at Brooklyn Book Talk, as we compare Painter’s classical criteria from the beginnings of the 20th century to newer perspectives such as formalism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, post-structuralism, reader-response , feminism, deconstruction, queer theory, cultural studies, new historicism, post-colonial, race, and ethnicity studies, etcetera.
The electronic version of Painter's Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism is in the public domain and can be accessed from Project Gutenberg online at:
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Massachusetts Ranks Second on Quality Counts Annual Report Card
The state, which earned a B-plus, led the nation in K-12 achievement rankings and outperformed other states in several key academic indicators, but fell short on funding equity.
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Federal Watchdog Finds Risk of Head Start Fraud, Ranking Republican Seeks Hearing
Officials have not done enough to prevent fraud in Head Start programs, the GAO said. The findings prompted Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., the ranking member of the House education and labor committee, to call for a hearing on the federally funded preschool program for low-income children.
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Lion's Share of Ohio Districts Rank No Teachers as 'Ineffective'
About 94 percent of Ohio school districts did not rate a single teacher as "ineffective," the lowest rating on the state's four-rung teacher-evaluation scale, according to the 2016-17 state report card.
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Oklahoma Ranks 49th on Quality Counts Annual Report Card
The state, which earned a D-plus, has struggled with school finance issues and endured teacher strikes and battles over pay, but also earned B-plus for funding equity.
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Nevada Ranks 50th on Quality Counts Annual Report Card
The state, which earned a D-plus, was weak on socioeconomic factors that can affect the educational environment, and also in the school finance area.
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Maryland Ranks Fourth on Quality Counts Annual Report Card
The state, which earned a B, saw its educational strength buoyed by strong performance in areas that measure socioeconomic factors that can affect the educational environment.
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Colorado Earns a B on Chance-for-Success Index, Ranks 11th in Nation
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
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Arkansas Earns a C on Chance-for-Success Index, Ranks 44th in Nation
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
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Connecticut Earns a B+ on Chance-for-Success Index, Ranks Fourth in Nation
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
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Connecticut Ranks Third on Quality Counts Annual Report Card
The state, which earned a B, is one of the nation’s wealthiest and turned in strong performances in the school finance arena and in areas such as preschool and kindergarten enrollment.
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Georgia Earns a C+ on Chance-for-Success Index, Ranks 33rd in Nation
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
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Delaware Earns a B- on Chance-for-Success Index, Ranks 25th in Nation
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
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Thor's Ranked UDFA Signings by Position
Thor Nystrom ranks the top UDFA signings by position, plus CFL draft picks and the best available unsigned prospects. (Getty Images)
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The big heat : Earth on the brink / Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank.
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Diagnose und Therapie der Krankheiten des Menschen : mit Zugrundelegung der Lehren und Recepturen der ersten medicinisch-chirurgischen Autoritäten, und Anführung von 1500 Receptformeln im metrischen Gewichte, nebst einem Anhange über Balneo
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Diagnostik der Harnkrankheiten : zehn Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Pathologie der Harnwege / von C. Posner.
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Diagnostik der inneren Krankheiten auf Grund der heutigen Untersuchungs-methoden : ein Lehrbuch für Äerzte und Studirende / von Oswald Vierordt.
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Diagnostik der inneren Krankheiten auf Grund der heutigen Untersuchungs-methoden : ein Lehrbuch für Äerzte und Studirende / von Oswald Vierordt.
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Diagnostik der Krankheiten der Verdauungsorgane / von Hans Leo.
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Diagnostik der Krankheiten des Nervensystems : eine Anleitung zur Untersuchung Nervenkranker / von A. Goldscheider.
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Diagnostik der Rückenmarks-Krankheiten / von Dr. Schuster.
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Diagnostik und allgemeine Symptomatologie der Lungenkrankheiten ... / von Albert Fraenkel.
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Diätetisches Koch-Buch : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf den Tisch für Magenkranke / von Josef Wiel.
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Die Abstinenz der Geisteskranken und ihre Behandlung : für Anstalt und Praxis dargestellt / von Hermann Pfister.
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Die Augenkrankheiten des Kindesalters und ihre Behandlung / von Emil Guttmann.
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Die äusseren (sc. chirurgischen) Krankheiten der Arbeiter / von Ludwig Hirt.
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Die Behandlung der Lungenschwindsucht im Hochgebirge : und über das Zustandekommen von Ernährungsstörungen in den Lungenspitzen, welche die Disposition zur primären tuberkulösen Erkrankung derselben darstellen / von A. Volland.
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Die Behandlung der Wuthkrankheit : eine experimentelle Kritik des Pasteur'schen Verfahrens / von A. von Frisch.
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Die Bekämpfung der Infectionskrankheiten : Hygienischer Theil / von Oberingenieur Brix, Professor Dr. Pfuhl und Hafenarzt Dr. Nocht ; herausgegeben von Stabsarzt Professor Dr. Behring.
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Die Beziehungen der krankhaften Zustände und Vorgänge in den Sexual-Organen des Weibes zu Geistesstörungen / von C.E. Louis Mayer.
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Die chirurgischen Krankheiten des Kindesalters / von Ferdinand Karewski.
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Die chirurgischen und medizinischen Krankheiten des Schädels und Gehirns und Psychiatrische Klinik / von Hans Locher.
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Die Choleraerkrankungen in der Armee 1892-1893 und die gegen die Ausbreitung und zur Verhütung der Cholera in der Armee getroffenen Massnahmen / von Dr Schumburg.
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Die Coccidienkrankheit der Kaninchen / von R. Pfeiffer.
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Die Diagnose der Blasen-und Nierenkrankheiten mittelst der Harnleiterpincette / von M. Tuchmann.
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Die Diät in den acut-fieberhaften Krankheiten / von Julius Uffelmann.
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Die durch anderweitige Erkrankungen bedingten Veranderungen des Rachens des Kehlkopfs und der Luftrohre / von Eduard Lori.
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Die Elektrotherapie und deren besondere Verwerthung in Nerven- und Muskelkrankheiten : ein Handbuch fur praktische Arzte / von Moriz Rosenthal.
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Die Entstehung der Gefahr im Krankheitsverlaufe : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Diagnose der Gefahr, ihrer Prophylaxe und Therapie / von L.M. Politzer.
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Die Entzündung und Verschwärung der Schleimhaut des Verdauungskanales, als selbständige Krankheit, Grundleiden vieler sogenannten Nervenfieber, Schleimfieber, Ruhren u.s.w., und als symptomatische Erscheinung vieler acuten und chronischen K
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Die Erkenntniss und Heilung der Ohrenkrankheiten / von Wilhelm Kramer.
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Die Erkrankungen der Mundhohle und der Speiserohre / von F. Kraus.
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Die Erkrankungen der Nase, deren Nebenhöhlen, des Nasenrachenraumes und des Kehlkopfes : ein kurzgefasstes Lehrbuch für Aerzte und Studierende / von Carl Fr. Th. Rosenthal.
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Die Erkrankungen der weiblichen Harnröhre und Blase : mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der Endoskopie und Cystoskopie dargestellt / von Gustav Kolischer.
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