culture. education. literary studies.
Neurodiversity is a relatively new term, used to refer to diversity in cognitive functioning. As with other aspects of human experience, it was long assumed that there is such a thing as โnormalโ within a given culture; everything outside the norm was (in many places still is), met with stigmatisation and intolerance. Neurodivergent people have …
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This poem is a wonderful ode to the first month of summer. Read it and practice your vocabulary with a few simple exercises!
Instead of writing a proper book review, in this post I will share a few memorable quotes from this lovely novel that have stayed with me after Iโd recently read it for the first time. They might give you some idea of Anne Brontรซโs writing style and her views on things.
In this post weโll read a wonderful short poem by Walt Whitman. Titled after its first line โA Noiseless Patient Spiderโ, itโs a two-stanza, free verse poem, in which Whitman likens his own soul to the tiny creature. Just as the patient little spider cautiously weaves his web, so does the poetโs soul make connections …
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