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CONFERENCE UPDATE:  CCHA NATIONAL CONFERENCE Baltimore, MD: 11/9 - 11/11

The Community College Humanities Association’s 2017 National Conference: Breaking Boundaries: The Humanities Reimagined still has general registrations available!   

Speakers include:
D. Watkins, former drug dealer and now Salon columnist and Johns Hopkins Professor
Janine di Giovanni, Edward Murrow Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Affairs and former Newsweek Middle East Editor 
Bert Phillips, former Dean of Students at the Tuskegee Institute and chair of the Africa United States Partnership Fund

Plus, speakers and sessions focusing on NEH opportunities, ACLS opportunities, the Library of Congress, Fulbright, and more. 

Learn about how to publish your work in CCHA’s Community College Humanities Review Journal. 

For more: https://www.cchumanities.org/conferences/national/ 

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On Oct 19, 2017, at 12:00 AM, ATEG automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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Topics of the day:

 1. McSweeney's piece on making the active passive

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Date:    Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:39:49 -0400
From:    Nick Carbone <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: McSweeney's piece on making the active passive

This might be fun to teach from or with:


An Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar
by Vijith Assar

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-ambiguous-grammar

The writer walks through a series of edits to "The quick brown fox jumps
over the lazy dog," each edited, with explanation, making the sentence more
passive and unaccountable.


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