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  2. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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    Elaine Aron, Ph.D., author of The Highly Sensitive Person (1996), responded to Quiet and its related Time cover story [17] by stating that Cain was in fact describing highly sensitive persons (HSPs, defined [42] in terms of sensory processing sensitivity) and not introverts (which Aron says is recently becoming defined [43] more narrowly in ...

  3. We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live - Wikipedia

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    We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction is a 2006 collection of nonfiction by Joan Didion. It was released in the Everyman's Library , a series of reprinted classic literature, as one of the titles chosen to mark the series' 100th anniversary. [ 1 ]

  4. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    The key thesis of the book: "However many characters may appear in a story, its real concern is with just one: its hero. It is the one whose fate we identify with, as we see them gradually developing towards that state of self-realization which marks the end of the story.

  5. Bullock Report (A Language for Life) - Wikipedia

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    Front cover of the Bullock Report - A Language for Life (1975) A Language for Life, better known as the Bullock Report, was a UK government report published in 1975 by an independent committee, chaired by Alan Bullock, set up by the government to consider the teaching of language. [1] Its primary recommendation was that "every secondary school ...

  6. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Wikipedia

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    Carver's widow, Tess Gallagher, fought with Knopf for permission to republish the 17 stories in What We Talk About When We Talk About Love as they were originally written by Carver. [5] These original versions eventually appeared in Beginners, published by Jonathan Cape in 2009, and in the Library of America volume Collected Stories. [6]

  7. Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] The first and third seasons of Mother Goose Stories were directed by Brian Henson, in one of his earliest directorial efforts for The Jim Henson Company, while Michael Kerrigan directed the episodes in the second season.

  8. K-5 (education) - Wikipedia

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    K-5 (pronounced "kay through five") is an American term for the education period from kindergarten to fifth grade. It receives equal amounts of criticism and support in the educational industry. It receives equal amounts of criticism and support in the educational industry.

  9. Sonnet 123 - Wikipedia

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    The meter demands a few variant pronunciations: line 10's "wondering" functions as two syllables, and line 12's "continual" as three; line 11's "records" (although it is a noun, not a verb) is to be stressed on the second syllable. [2]