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, the melodramatic sentimentality and exaggerated acting. I really enjoy the freshness with which “Güeros” portrays the lives of these funny and endearing characters.   The PLU screening of Güeros and filmmaker discussion is sponsored by The Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education, The Division of Humanities, Department of English, Department of Languages and Literatures, International Honors Program, School of Education and Kinesiology, Department of Communication and Theater, Global

a different topic every week. So, in my first week, I taught imagination, teamwork, and collaboration skills to kindergarten through third graders. And then last week, I was teaching improv to fourth through sixth graders. Then this week, I’m working with 13 through 16-year-olds, just giving them a feast, a cornucopia of different theater styles that they can get into and use in their acting. It’s a lot of fun to do all those different things. Is there anything about your internship that you are

actions rightly timed took on greater significance later and small actions prepared them, got them in the habit of effectively acting and resisting and most importantly, seeing that their actions and resistance could have an effect. “For them it was like having a new beautifully colored bird pointed out, a bird they had not seen before. But now that they saw it, they knew from their own experience that there was such a bird, and it could come back.”7 Second, they responded intentionally, with

think the value of literature and writing is even more paramount as we move forward, because it’s acting as kind of a resistance to forces in our culture that want to reduce or simplify experience,” Barot said. “What literature does is restore complexity to the things that people feel and do and think, and celebrate complex emotional, social, intellectual experiences.” As for the future of the Rainier Writing Workshop, Barot looks backward and forward, always with the founders’ vision—and

, fostered or adopted in non-Indian homes. Officials claimed to be acting in ‘the best interests of the child,’ while critics charged that social workers and court officials were using ‘ethnocentric and middle-class criteria’ to remove children unnecessarily. In fact, writes the author, the removals were acts of cost-cutting disguised as caring: Neither federal nor state governments had to fund the care of American Indian children once private families adopted them.” Jacobs’ 10-year, two-continent

internal conflicts nurses can experience when working in a correctional setting. The innovative, complex topic was of personal concern and interest to Surla. Correctional nursing doesn’t attract as much interest because of the unique internal tensions around ethics, safety and other staff.    “A certified nurse must also be prepared in switching roles from acting as an emergency room nurse to a psychiatric nurse in a matter of minutes because you will never know what is going to come through the

options, and believe and feel we are capable of acting to achieve our desired outcomes. For couples, this sense of connection is so important to regaining a sense of hope for the relationship. Thus, I routinely tell couples to build into their relationship connecting rituals – going on a date each week, ending the day by telling each other what they appreciate about each other. Amidst the busyness that most couples face, connecting must be a priority and must be done purposefully or it may not happen