#Contemporary

Welcome to the Top 40 countdown from this week in 1984! Making its debut this week at #40, is Talk Talk with It's My Life. It peaked at #31 on
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This is the west shore of Stromness looking across to the islands of Graemsay and Hoy.In 1846 this was the site of a remarkable discovery. The rocks here are Old
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Prof. Kanika Samuels-Wortley (@KanikaSamuels) just did an awesome interview for our Contemporary Issues in Criminology course on her work (on the syllabus of course) mobilizing critical race studies & data
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Never before in the history of HUMANKIND was there architecture that didn’t have gaudy ornamentation and historicist references. Never ever This guy has done the minimum viable Wikipedia research to
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This isn't the first Passover Jews will be celebrating during times of affliction and pain. What the wisdom of our ancestors can teach us about this moment. 1/x Thread. This
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With regards to the anti-identity politics section of the left, it must be remembered that many involved in new social movements (term used before idpol) broke with the organised left
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@TheBookerPrizes I am a proud supporter of the Booker Prizes and was delighted to host your showcase @southbankcentre in 2018. I wonder if you feel the behaviour of @Baroness_Nichol is
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I am just finishing up a graduate seminar on the Japanese Empire where we read a book a week for 15 weeks, and have noticed some trends in Anglophone/English-language writing
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i think a lot of american writers (probably artists but its more clear in narrative art) are dishonest about their class origins right now and that its translating into the
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Today, on #TheoryThursday, (I know it is Friday but as I wrote the text yesterday, I refuse to change it) allow me to say a few words on musical theory
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So I'm catching up on Doctor Who, and since s11 I have had thoughts. I keep meaning to write them but these thoughts are bigger on the inside.Anyway, here we
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I try to keep my discussions of this kind of thing off my main feed, but this one’s a punch to the gut. My kids don’t need this kind of
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Hey cool wanna read a fun classic introductory text on decolonization for no reason at all?Tuck & Yang 2012 - Decolonization Is Not A Metaphorhttps://clas.osu.edu/sites/clas.osu.edu/files/Tuck%20and%20Yang%202012%20Decolonization%20is%20not%20a%2
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jimin watched “boss baby” to try and learn english,he calls himself diminie when he gets drunk,his favorite movie is “the notebook”,he has a necklace with “army” written on it,he knows
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Thread ahoy! First of all, THANK YOU for an incredible release day yesterday. I'm truly blown away by everyone's kindness. Release day went better than I ever could have imagined
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Christians and the freedom of conscience in politics. The Bible binds my conscience to care for the poor, but it does not tell me the best practical way to do
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