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"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."
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"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."
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Personal Development
"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."
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"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."
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"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"
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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."
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"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."
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"I am a WomanPhenomenally.Phenomenal Woman,that's me."
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"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."
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"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."
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"Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents."
Cultural
"Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant."
Friendship
"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible."
Progress
"There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research."
Research
"If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research."
Research
"Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life."
Life
"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
Identity
"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."
Cultural
"I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future."
Education
"In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed."
Education
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