“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”
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“We tend not to choose the unknown which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. In so many ways this”
― Gift from the Sea: 70th Anniversary Edition
― Gift from the Sea: 70th Anniversary Edition
“Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
― Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
― Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works
“It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals in order for people today to recognize their potential agency as a part of an ever-expanding community of struggle. What”
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
― Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
1A Mythology 2017
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— last activity Jan 30, 2017 07:54AM
This is a place for Mr. Hawes' Mythology 1A class to share and discuss their independent reading novels with the rest of the class. ...more
1B Mythology 2017
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— last activity Feb 03, 2017 05:11AM
This is a place for Mr. Hawes' Mythology 1B class to share and discuss their independent reading novels with the rest of the class. ...more
Hawes 4H H ELA I
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This is a place for Mr. Hawes' 4H Honors ELA I class to share and discuss their independent reading novels with the rest of the class. ...more
Hawes 5H H ELA I
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— last activity Feb 03, 2017 07:28AM
This is a place for Mr. Hawes' 4H Honors ELA I class to share and discuss their independent reading novels with the rest of the class. ...more
Hawes 6H H ELA I
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This is a place for Mr. Hawes' 4H Honors ELA I class to share and discuss their independent reading novels with the rest of the class. ...more
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