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You may have heard professors say that they still feel like students, learning every day. But Visiting Instructor of Chinese Xi Zhu is a true embodiment of this idea. You may have heard professors say that they still feel like students, learning every day. But…
with the students in my class.” Sometimes the knowledge, age, and experience of professors can make them seem unapproachable. But, as a student, Zhu shares the same busy and very well-occupied life as a PLU student. He suspects that students may find him more approachable because of this parallel. Xi Zhu, Visiting Instructor of Chinese What brought Professor Zhu to PLU? The challenge of designing his own course and “the chance to teach both language and literature.” Getting the opportunity to
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As Katherine Voyles’ insightful essay on the discourse around Persuasion (2022) demonstrates, historical inaccuracy has been pegged as one of Carrie Cracknell’s unforgivable misdeeds, especially related to the use of contemporary language and even the protagonist’s bangs . Yet when I finally watched the film,…
cinematographic moments, the camera tilts vertically away from Anne to seagulls flying overhead. These scenes parallel how in Austen’s era women’s association with animals provided a means to laud feminine ideals, although this pairing was also used to satirize women, as Austen herself did—Lady Bertram and Pug will not let us forget. Yet, in trying to understand the significance of these parallels, I was left with the same question that at least fifty-one other people (on Reddit) have tried to answer: Why
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Originally published in 1999 My lifelong commitment to the liberal arts took root in the fourth grade, when I met my classmate and dear life-long friend Sally. During that entire year, Sally rode her bike to my house, and after school, we both rode our…
. It is an identity molded from without. If transposed to the educational front, one might construe professional education in a parallel fashion, as the imbuing of factual knowledge and skills requisite for a career within a particular professional group. In this sense, an English course that might be based upon learning and using the bibliographic guidelines of the Modern Language Association would have a professional orientation. And a language course designed primarily to prepare students for
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Associate Professor of Biology Jacob Egge works with students during a summer semester research project. (Photo by PLU Photographer John Froschauer) Faculty-Student Research Provides a Cornerstone of the PLU Mission By Pacific Lutheran University Marketing & Communications and the Office of the Provost This year’s…
glaciated peak in the contiguous United States, provides an excellent location to study the effects of retreating glaciers on the proglacial sediments. Mapping these proglacial areas we are able to study how rapid retreat is changing the proglacial landforms. Research was conducted in valley transects parallel to the terminus to measure and classify the deposition pattern and origin of the sediments. Fluvial reworking was found to be the major geomorphic process in the deposition of the sediments. It
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