"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."
#IAFOR#COVID19
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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.
https://t.co/PpoeStkZi6
#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 https://t.co/2yio3vXofc
Dr Paul Lowe opines in THINK:
“Photographs are temporal objects, they project forwards and backwards; they re-present the past into the present.” #IAFOR#photojournalism#documentaryphotography https://t.co/2FRi0AETvK
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 https://t.co/6mhs06Nvle
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 https://t.co/nvhvvdUkgr
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 https://t.co/ZQ1f5OC5Hx
"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 https://t.co/hOLPbdDTEo
"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 https://t.co/8pPTskgEq4
"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 https://t.co/CMcLJJzrtP
The IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, now in its eighth year, is open for submissions. Have you started writing yours yet? #poetry#haiku https://t.co/eTwM0jwQzO