In the classroom, Parks teaches an undergraduate course on current debates in media, which grapples with topics ranging from surveillance to net neutrality and media conglomerations.
Directors must grapple with topics such as data security and cyber risk, issues that are in a constant state of flux as technology advances and the legal landscape develops.
An alternate-universe version of Blood and Oil would grapple with topics like politics, climate change, and pollution, which are inherent to the oil industry, but also issues specific to a boom.
The administration of President Bill Clinton had grappled with such topics, but the Bush White House previously argued that they could not be raised until a series of incremental confidence-building measures had been addressed.
In the session that followed, "Beyond Bullying: Dealing with Trolling & Social Cruelty," panelists grappled with this topic, with one of the student panelists (kudos to the organizers for including young people in the conversation) saying that "teenagers act different online".
The assessment was predicted to allow students to also participate in a metacognitive process as they grappled with the topic and how to explain it to others (Baddeley and Hitch, 1974).
Both are formidable writers who grapple with thorny topics in their lyrics.
The authors of the study believe that the key to breaking through to young people on such critical issues is for Americans to grapple with those topics as neighborhoods and communities, with various adults taking on particular issues with groups of young people in a way that sounds almost utopian.
Cutting congressional staff, especially those with technical backgrounds, could weaken lawmakers already poor ability to understand and grapple with difficult topics, such as financial markets and climate policy, says William Hooke, director of policy programs with the American Meteorological Society in Washington, D.C. "This is a really negative thing," he says.
Twenty three-year-old illustrator Kevin Niggeler's designs do just that, but with a colorful vibrancy that sucks you into simple illustrations grappling with complicated topics.
