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What detail surprises you in this painting? Stephanie from A Tribe for Jazz noticed the softness of Bacchus's face and fingers. What story can you imagine to explain this surprising softness? |
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Autobiographical novelist and WWII internment camp survivor Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston was born on September 26th, 1934. |
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A shared place takes a father's life and launches his daughter's own. Two opposing things occurring at the same time. That's the heart of a riddle. Riddles evoke curiosity— how can both these things be true? And when the riddle has been solved, when the two contradictory things are proven to both be true —here, when Jeanne admits that her own life did begin where her father's ended — you experience something deeper. Something many have called spiritual experience. You experience awe. |
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Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928. |
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How to Bear Witness Part I: The End Night, Elie Wiesel's autobiographical account of Auschwitz, is described as “undoubtedly the single most powerful literary relic of the Holocaust.” In 1986, Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to defend human rights and peace around the world. Part II: The Beginning A young Auschwitz survivor wrote a horrifying account of the Holocaust that no one wanted to read or publish. This prompt works best if you pause here and try to imagine the middle — what did Wiesel have to do to go from having no audience to becoming a seminal voice in the global fight against hatred and prejudice? Part III: The Middle Wiesel had to stay the course. Why? Because his environment had not fundamentally changed. Wiesel understood that the world in which he found himself living as a free man was the same world that had allowed the Holocaust to occur. And so he remained steadfast in his belief that his story needed to be heard. Wiesel kept at it, later saying, “after all, one doesn't write to be published. One writes because one writes….It may sound a little bit arrogant, but believe me, it's not arrogance. It's sheer lucidity. It is simply a perception of reality, that we must do what we can do and what we do, and do it well, as well as possible.” According to Wiesel, survivor communities rejected Night because they didn't want to burden their children with memories of their past. Yet it was those same children who eventually “discovered” his autobiography…and brought it home to share with their parents. Wiesel stayed steady, committing himself to the truth he had seen about human nature and his belief that the world had not changed. It took a generation for the world to catch up. |
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These prompts grow your ability to: — identify emerging possibilities. — develop your true EQ (hint: it's knowing what you feel, not deducing what someone else does). — boost your commonsense so you get better at matching your course of action to the change in your environment. |
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