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"An opportunity is simply a possibility, but a crucial point in time that signifies the beginning of change demands action. It demands urgency for adaptation or change. In this particular crisis it demands adaptation on a global scale."
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Read in THINK: “What Peace Linguistics can do is to make us more sensitive to the ways in which some of the most powerful people in the world use language to manipulate people, spreading fear and hate, based on myriad lies.” #PresidentTrump
Now published in @ThinkIAFOR, Dr Andy Curtis unpicks the linguistic quirks of Donald Trump. He describes how the 45th President of the United States uses "the language of lies" for manipulation.
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#Trump #IAFOR #linguistics #manipulation #TESOL #DonaldTrump
In THINK: Dr Katie Fitzpatrick discusses Thoreau’s rare moral vision in his essay ‘On the Duty of Civil Disobedience’. Yet according to Fitzpatrick, it's Arendt’s account of the practice of civil disobedience that is ultimately more promising. #protest think.iafor.org/change-the-w…
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“Photographs are temporal objects, they project forwards and backwards; they re-present the past into the present.” #IAFOR #photojournalism #documentaryphotography think.iafor.org/testimonies-…
From Daniel Reast in THINK: “US satire wants to change things, whereas the British know that nothing ever will change”. #TV #comedy #humour #goldenage #Netflix think.iafor.org/us-televisio…
In THINK, Sara Legrandjacques discusses Vietnam's tertiary education, its historical legacy, and how this has impacted Vietnamese higher education from the colonial period to the present day. #Colonial #Vietnam #VNU #Education think.iafor.org/to-hanoi-uni…
In THINK, Edward Kolla, a historian at Georgetown University, Qatar, discusses self-determination, as well as the controversy it can engender, and its links back to the French Revolution. #REVOLUTION #history #rights think.iafor.org/the-french-r…
Less than two weeks left to send in your submission! #haikupoem #words #haikus #creativewriting #prose xitter.cf/IAFORHaikuAward/status…
Have you sent in your entry to this year's IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award yet? Submissions close: March 1
#haiku #poetry #japan #haikuaward
"While sleep-learning, also referred to as hypnopaedia, has been debunked, neuroscientists in my lab and others are now discovering ways to use stimuli such as sound cues during sleep to strengthen memories." #sleep think.iafor.org/how-sound-an…
Read Volume 3 – Issue 2 of the IAFOR Journal of Language Learning. #secondlanguage #students #classroom #TEFL #Linguistics xitter.cf/iafor/status/956041880…
IAFOR Journal of Language Learning: Volume 3 – Issue 2 now published. Thanks to Guest Editor, Dr Bernard Montoneri. #Languages #Education #LanguageLearning #EFL #multilingual iafor.org/journal/iafor-jour…
"The American model of hard-boiled fiction has been enormously influential around the world ... There are, no doubt, thickets of fictional detectives gumshoeing the streets of every city on Earth." #fiction #Rankin #SherlockHolmes think.iafor.org/crime-fictio…
"Is it really important to know that booty is funnier than hooter? The answer is a resounding yes. People often say that laughter is the best medicine, but medicine for what?" #Psychology #humour #Freud #Plato think.iafor.org/porridge-is-…
"Documentary journalism: The preeminent home for investigative journalism in our modern era." #MesAynak think.iafor.org/brent-e-huff…
The IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, now in its eighth year, is open for submissions. Have you started writing yours yet? #poetry #haiku xitter.cf/IAFORHaikuAward/status…
We're delighted to announce that the IAFOR Vladimir Devidé #Haiku Award is now accepting submissions: iaforhaikuaward.org/ #haikucontest
"The #comedy of discrimination made fun of separations in British #society and was as a marker of #identity" #UKTV
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“Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica have come a long way since their debuts in the 1960s and 1970s.” #StarTrek think.iafor.org/star-trek-ba…
“Teacher is almighty God, Tsar and Ruler. Student is a humble believer, a subordinate, a slave.” #language #russia think.iafor.org/the-three-ba…
Read Volume 5 Issue 2 of the IAFOR Journal of #Education #highereducation #ICT #adultlearning #narrativeidentity iafor.org/journal/iafor-jour… xitter.cf/iafor/status/904516237…
IAFOR Journal of #Education Volume 5 Issue 2 now published #highereducation #ict #teachers Thanks to Ed Dr Montoneri iafor.org/journal/iafor-jour…
Kenneth Houston & Jason Briggs on (re-)interpreting US & UK domestic-international politics #populism #globalization think.iafor.org/interpreting…