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![]() ![]() “Narrative Authority: Performing the Postcolonial Self.” Social Identities 13.3 (2007): 411–419. “ ‘I Know What a Slave Knows’: Mary Prince’s Epistemology of Resistance.” Women’s Studies 35.5 (2006): 453–473. Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African-American Literature. ![]() ![]() Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. “The Myth of Authenticity.” The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006. Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women’s Narratives of Slavery. Annual Conference of MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 12 April 1991. “Gender Issues and the Slave Narratives: Incidents in the Life and Narrative of the Life Compared.” The University of Minnesota. Oxford English Dictionary, September 2011. ![]() Writings on Black Women of the Diaspora: History, Language and Identity. “The Body as Evidence: Resistance, Collaboration, and Appropriation in The History of Mary Prince.” Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters 24.1 (2001): 253–275. “Portraits of Piety: Authenticating Strategies in Slave Narratives and Two Antebellum African-American Novels.” The Free Library 1 January 2009. Telling Our Stories: Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() ![]() Yes, doing the same thing over and over again will build experience, but it’s still the same experience that you’re building. This happens when you stop improving, because you’re doing good enough of a job. We all know someone who’s worked at the same company, doing the same job for decades, which means they never improved to the point where they wanted to take on new things or received a promotion. ![]() ![]() You can make pizzas for 20 years, and still make crappy pizzas (please don’t do that, I love pizza). ![]() ![]() It’s because practice and experience are two different things. So not only did they have no inborn talent or capacity for greatness, they also needed just as much practice as their friends.īut if they all built up the same amount of experience and no one was particularly talented, how come there were such big differences in how people performed? If you want to save this summary for later, download the free PDF and read it whenever you want.ĭownload PDF Lesson 1: Practice and experience are not the same thing.Ī 1990 study in the UK among 257 musicians showed that none of the top performers were:Ī.) showing signs of great achievements before picking up serious practice with their instrument.ī.) improving faster when practicing, than their peers. ![]() ![]() Dumbing-down varies according to subject matter, and usually involves the diminishment of critical thought by undermining standard language and learning standards, thus trivializing academic standards, culture, and meaningful information, as in the case of popular culture. ![]() Originated in 1933, the term "dumbing down" was movie-business slang, used by screenplay writers, meaning: " revise so as to appeal to those of little education or intelligence". ![]() Deliberate oversimplification of intellectual contentĭumbing down is the deliberate oversimplification of intellectual content in education, literature, and cinema, news, video games, and culture. ![]() |