This includes the experiential learning that accompanies volunteer service, immersing students, three-dimensionally, in the lives and worlds of society’s marginalized.
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Michael Serazio,
Time,
28 May 2025
This heartbreaking but optimistic memoir urges readers to confront inequality and consider their role in the struggle for justice; a call to action for a more just society.
The belief was that an alien being in outer space would come across the Voyager, be curious about what civilization sent out the spacecraft, and then play the phonograph.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
Opened in 1974 by billionaire oilman J. Paul Getty, the museum honors the arts and cultures of various classic civilizations from the ancient Greeks to the Romans.
On a sunny April day, a gathering of Furries (the friendly subculture known for dressing up as anthropomorphic animal characters) were fittingly hanging out in what was once a polar bear cage.
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David Allan,
CNN Money,
17 May 2025
The moment was meant to be provocative—to leverage a bit of verbiage, once used almost exclusively by a minority community and its subcultures, for clicks and likes and 15 seconds of social-media attention.
Eagerly drinking the Kool-Aid is Simone DeWitt (Alcock), a formerly impoverished but deeply ambitious upstart from Buffalo who gets a taste of the lifestyle of the rich and famous as Michaela's uppity assistant.
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Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
But as gorgeous as the buildings are, there’s so much more to Barcelona: its lively beaches and promenades, its maze-like neighborhood steeped in history and its quintessentially Mediterranean lifestyle.
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Jennifer Fernández Solano,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
Celeste Dalla Porta stars as the titular Parthenope, a young woman attending college who starts an illicit relationship with a professor that leads to a number of striking choices in her life.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
30 May 2025
Narrating this account of her brief life, Emily provides a sharp perspective on the penury and isolation that created such anguish — and such inspiration — for the Brontë sisters.
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