In recent years, the College Board, with the aid of many history professors, has overhauled the Advanced Placement curriculum and test to emphasize critical thinking and research skills over rote memorization of names, dates, and events.
During her weeklong campaign at Wellesley, she sought out students in their dorms and campus centers; plastered fliers across campus; posted her platform on her Facebook page; and took part in the Wellesley rite of "chalking" her name in designated areas.
The pinewood derby a wood car racing event for Cub Scouts—has been declared "a celebrated rite of spring" and was named part of "America's 100 Best" by Reader's Digest.
Elsewhere, Catherine Hardwicke was named best director for her rites-of-passage drama Thirteen.
A rite of passage is the name we give to events or ceremonies that form an important stage in a person's life.
She'd told him she'd been named for "The Rite of Spring," a highly sexual ballet that ended with torture and human sacrifice.
The most serious objections to this kind of view are that (i) it fails to make works intersubjectively accessible, since the number of works going under the name The Rite of Spring will be as multifarious as the imaginative experiences people have at performances with that name, and (ii) it makes the medium of the work irrelevant to an understanding of it.
These are rite-of-passage trees.
An article last Sunday about the Marciano Art Foundation, one of several new Los Angeles institutions making use of existing buildings, described incorrectly the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, which gave its name to the foundation's home on Wilshire Boulevard.
Such suspicions, substantiated or not, have inspired many applicants to attempt to avoid detection by partaking in a new rite of passage, changing their Facebook names to alternative spellings or clumsy puns.
Assuming a pen name is a rite of pas sage for a writer in Japan.
