guess I’ll start with a confession – better known as a “public secret!” I love words! Especially words that have more than one meaning (double or triple entendres), words that betray you (faux amis), words that can be nouns and verbs (sometimes called anthimeria — did you know that?) or words that are just fun to say (like onomatopoeia– who cares what it means?)
n the history of American education, religious, economic, political and, most recently, scientific theories have provided theoretical models for general education. Few, if any, theoretical models, however, have been derived from the arts or aesthetic theories. This dissertation develops such an aesthetic model, derived from the theory of symbols presented by Nelson Goodman in Languages of Art and from the subsequent research of the Harvard Project Zero.
esearch in the field of family enterprise is entering its second generation –the earliest scholarly research being in the late 1980s with the publication of the first volume of Family Business Review. Since then, research in the field has moved back and forth from almost exclusively conceptual research at the beginning, toward empirical and statistical research in the mid-1990s, and now, in the early part of the 21st century, trying to find new paths into qualitative research.
imagine everyone grows up with subliminal, or even overt, ideas of what is acceptable at a dinner party. My ideas on this topic undoubtedly emerged from family gatherings, and maybe that’s where I went wrong!
It has been a minute since you heard from me directly and I figured now was as good a time as any to inform you both of my learnings and exploits, my truths and lies, and my reckless abandonment of youth that has occurred so far during my time in college.
