Students should be poking and prodding at the assumptions and dogmatic beliefs of American society and encouraging those around them to think about those things as well. Each student should be a little Socrates: thinking about big topics and ... I still have a chance to help them become the future gadflies of America.
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; Lord of the Gadflies ; In some ways, The Nation, 1865-1990 (*) is a typical venerable old magazine collection. ... Noun 1. D. H. Lawrence - English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930); ... later, Nelson Algren reflected on an American Christmas.
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This section is from "The American Cyclopaedia", by George Ripley And Charles A. ... The gadflies attack not only man, but cattle, horses, camels, and various ruminating animals. The most common species in the United States is the T. atratus (Fabr.), of a black color, with a whitish bloom on the back, like that of a plum;
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Wenner retreated and published nothing new on bees until 1986. Instead, he turned to marine biology and helped organize the Crustacean Society, ... Wenner took some of his findings to the annual American Bee Research Conference in Tucson last month, ... Beesource Beekeeping > Point of View > Adrian Wenner > Lord of the Gadflies...
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NAS was founded in 1987, soon after Allan Bloom’s surprise best-seller, The Closing of the American Mind, alerted Americans to the ravages wrought by illiberal ideologies on campus. The founders of NAS summoned faculty members from across the political spectrum to help defend the core ... The Cardinal Newman Society...
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Parents pinpointed glaring mistakes in science textbooks. Are they nitpickers or gadflies? ... And 46 years later, the first black American took his oath: President Barack Obama. ... “If the gadfly keeps at it, society will react in some fashion,” the BBC homepage essay adds. “It may swish its tail to drive off the gadfly.
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"If you serve in government, everybody and anybody has the right to ask questions. When you're spending my money, you should have patience, tolerance and respect for gadflies. They can be a pain ... ... Common Cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to restoring the core values of American democracy,
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The officers of ASI rely on many people: committee heads, board members, chapter leaders, bean counters, just plain hard workers, and even a few gadflies. They work for little personal return and provide ... Whereas the American Society of Indexers did, at its 2000 convention, associate itself with the vegetable, kohlrabi,
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While one would think that quality of life should be the paramount reason to assimilate, in the crazy and wacky world of American politics, the assimilation of the undocumented immigrants into the mainstream of American society must proceed immediately for the ulterior motive of political expediency.
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