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'Adventure,' wrote Alexandra David-Neel who trekked through the Tibetan Highlands, 'is my only reason for living'. Her words read as a feminist slogan.

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'Adventure,' wrote Alexandra David-Neel who trekked through the Tibetan Highlands, 'is my only reason for living'. Her words read as a feminist slogan.

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Dea Birkett
Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers

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Choose a first line that appeals to you. Read it closely.

What does the line tell you about the book?

Complete the handout for Unit 0: SHIFT Your Perspective.

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The way into the underland is through the riven trunk of an old ash tree.

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The way into the underland is through the riven trunk of an old ash tree.

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Robert McFarlane
Underland: A Deep Time Journey

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Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general Favor; a long Habit of not thinking a Thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of Custom. But the Tumult soon subsides. Time makes more Converts than Reason.

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Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general Favor; a long Habit of not thinking a Thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of Custom. But the Tumult soon subsides. Time makes more Converts than Reason.

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Thomas Paine

Common Sense, January 10, 1776

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The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws.

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The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws.

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Charles Duhigg & David Barboza
(2013 Pulitzer, explanatory writing)

“In China, Human Costs Are Built into an iPad”

New York Times, January 25, 2012

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Jenny Odell

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

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As this dismal year draws to a close, we fix our eyes on images of rescue: A vaccine. An inauguration. A spring that might bring reopenings instead of shutdowns. May we once again see crowded restaurants, empty hospital beds, peaceful streets, kind faces.

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As this dismal year draws to a close, we fix our eyes on images of rescue: A vaccine. An inauguration. A spring that might bring reopenings instead of shutdowns. May we once again see crowded restaurants, empty hospital beds, peaceful streets, kind faces.

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Robert Greene
(2021 Pulitzer, opinion writing)

“What We Now See, with 2020 Vision”

Los Angeles Times, December 30, 2020

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The hordes arrive with the sun. First bell, the warning bell for first period at Largo High, rings at precisely 7:19 a.m.

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The hordes arrive with the sun. First bell, the warning bell for first period at Largo High, rings at precisely 7:19 a.m.

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Thomas French

South of Heaven, 1989

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The scientist had forgotten all about the radium.

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The scientist had forgotten all about the radium.

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Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

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There are no other Everglades in the world.

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There are no other Everglades in the world.

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Marjory Stoneman Douglas

River of Grass

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One evening, in September 2010, I was in the stands at a high school football game in Nashville, Tennessee, experiencing a powerful sense of déjà vu.

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One evening, in September 2010, I was in the stands at a high school football game in Nashville, Tennessee, experiencing a powerful sense of déjà vu.

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danah boyd

It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens

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José Antonio Rey María had no intention of making history when he rowed out into the Atlantic from the coast of Andalusia in southwest Spain on April 30, 1943. He was merely looking for sardines.

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José Antonio Rey María had no intention of making history when he rowed out into the Atlantic from the coast of Andalusia in southwest Spain on April 30, 1943. He was merely looking for sardines.

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Ben Macintyre

Operation Mincemeat

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It is August 1854, and London is a city of scavengers.

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It is August 1854, and London is a city of scavengers.

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Steven Johnson

The Ghost Map

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I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before.

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I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before.

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William Faulkner, December 10, 1950

Acceptance of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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How you have felt, O men of Athens, at hearing the speeches of my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that their persuasive words almost made me forget who I was - such was the effect of them; and yet they have hardly spoken a word of truth. 

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How you have felt, O men of Athens, at hearing the speeches of my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that their persuasive words almost made me forget who I was - such was the effect of them; and yet they have hardly spoken a word of truth. 

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Socrates (via Plato), 399 BC

Apology (trans. Jowett)

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This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean.

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This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean.

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Greta Thunberg, September 23, 2019

Address to the UN on Climate Change

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Friends and Fellow Citizens:  The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to  a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made.

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Friends and Fellow Citizens:  The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to  a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made.

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George Washington, 1796

Farewell Address

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My Fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a man whose honesty and -- and integrity has been questioned. 

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My Fellow Americans, I come before you tonight as a candidate for the Vice Presidency and as a man whose honesty and -- and integrity has been questioned. 

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Richard M. Nixon, September 23, 1952

Checkers Speech

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In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.

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In this grave hour, perhaps the most fateful in our history, I send to every household of my peoples, both at home and overseas, this message, spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself.

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King George VI, September 3, 1939

First Radio Address

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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

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Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863

Gettysburg Address

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Carrie Chapman Catt, November 1917

Address to Congress on Women’s Suffrage

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It is a fact of the human condition that each shall, like a meteor, a mere brief passing moment in time in space, flit across the human stage and pass out of existence.

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It is a fact of the human condition that each shall, like a meteor, a mere brief passing moment in time in space, flit across the human stage and pass out of existence.

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Nelson Mandela, June 26, 1990

First Address to a Joint Session of the U. S. Congress

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Houses are built for you to hold councils in. Indians hold theirs in the open air.

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Houses are built for you to hold councils in. Indians hold theirs in the open air.

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Shawnee Chief Tecumseh, 1810

Address to Gen. William Henry Harrison

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Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

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Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

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Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939

Farewell to Baseball Address

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I have come this evening to talk with you on one of the greatest issues of our time -- that is the preservation of human freedom.

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I have come this evening to talk with you on one of the greatest issues of our time -- that is the preservation of human freedom.

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Eleanor Roosevelt, September 28, 1948

The Struggle for Human Rights

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Less than three months ago at platform hearings in Salt Lake City, I asked the Republican Party to lift the shroud of silence which has been draped over the issue of HIV and AIDS.  I have come tonight to bring our silence to an end.

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Less than three months ago at platform hearings in Salt Lake City, I asked the Republican Party to lift the shroud of silence which has been draped over the issue of HIV and AIDS.  I have come tonight to bring our silence to an end.

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Mary Fisher, August 19, 1992

1992 Republican National Convention Address

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Is it a right of life, when the young children of this country are being reared into a sphere which is more owned by 12 men than it is by 120 million people?

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Is it a right of life, when the young children of this country are being reared into a sphere which is more owned by 12 men than it is by 120 million people?

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Huey P. Long, February 23, 1934

“Every Man a King” Radio Speech to the Nation

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I’d like to say for the record that -- and also for the men behind me who are also wearing the uniform and their medals -- that my sitting up here is really symbolic. I’m not here as John Kerry.

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I’d like to say for the record that -- and also for the men behind me who are also wearing the uniform and their medals -- that my sitting up here is really symbolic. I’m not here as John Kerry.

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John Kerry, April  22, 1971

Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

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Good evening, my fellow citizens.  This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba.

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Good evening, my fellow citizens.  This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet military buildup on the island of Cuba.

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John F. Kennedy, October 22, 1962

Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation

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I want to thank the Mills College Class of ’83 for offering me a rare chance:  to speak aloud in public in the language of women.

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I want to thank the Mills College Class of ’83 for offering me a rare chance:  to speak aloud in public in the language of women.

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Ursula K. LeGuin, May 22, 1983

A Left-Handed Commencement Address