Understanding Ojalá and the Language of Hope in Spanish

12.8K In case you’ve ever traveled to the Dominican Republic, you have been doubtless greeted with full of life music, breathtaking surroundings, and welcoming locals. In case you stepped exterior the boundaries of the standard vacationer locations, nevertheless, you’ll have seen rural communities struggling to overcome the powerful realities of conventional farming. Dominican singer Juan…

After the election, hope and ache within the classroom (opinion)

In a current opinion piece in Inside Larger Ed, Austin Sarat wrote that universities have been unprepared for the potential of a Trump win. Now, along with his victory a actuality, we discover ourselves dealing with the implications. A lot of our college students and colleagues are despondent, devastated and fearful for the long run….

Trainer Tom: The Cynics are Flawed: Hope is Not Weak

Typically, folks, even depraved folks, are much more naive and simple-hearted than one usually assumes. And so are we. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky Cynicism is mostly outlined as the idea that our fellow people are motivated purely by self-interest and is characterised by skepticism, mistrust, and suspicion. One among my faculty professors, a self-confessed cynic and all-around…