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Landscape and cultivation
Building a Country Setting
Read the choices that distinguish rural atmosphere, garden work, and a living environment.
About 10 minutesOpen lesson
YOUR LEARNING PATH
Learn a little. Keep coming back.
Each lesson pairs two reading sections with two short quizzes. Start anywhere, or work through the collection in order.
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Flavor and restraint
A Tasting That Goes Too Far
Notice the difference between pleasure, purity, and excess as a tasting menu develops.
About 10 minutesOpen lesson
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Claims and attribution
Following the Evidence
Separate an unproved assertion, a confident affirmation, and the assignment of a source or cause.
About 10 minutesOpen lesson
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Standards and completion
Finishing the Model
Use a reference measurement, a judging standard, and careful final work to complete a commission.
About 10 minutesOpen lesson
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Knowledge and interpretation
Reasons Worth Examining
Follow a seminar from abstract inquiry to a careful reading of what a scene reveals.
About 10 minutesOpen lesson
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Choosing under constraints
An Exhibition Changes Course
Follow a difficult choice through a timely decision and practical arrangements.
About 10 minutesOpen lesson
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Time preferences and objectives
What a Later Reward Is Worth
Distinguish a choice to wait from models of delay and from practical investment objectives.
delayed gratificationexponential discountinghyperbolic discountingcapital preservationliquidityrisk mitigation
About 10 minutesOpen lesson
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Rank and rules
Authority Aboard and Ashore
Distinguish organizational rank from overbearing behavior and formal legal authority.
About 10 minutesOpen lesson
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Freedom and acceptance
A Charter for the Imagined Town
Examine a political discussion and the everyday conduct that can support or undermine openness.
About 10 minutesOpen lesson
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Loyalty and departure
Changing Allegiances
Track different kinds of departure and distinguish dependable commitment from betrayed trust.
About 10 minutesOpen lesson
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Wrongdoing and responses
The Depot in the Novel
Follow dishonest conduct, coercion, compensation, and retaliation without treating them as interchangeable.
About 10 minutesOpen lesson
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Conflict and protest
Two Ensembles, One Rehearsal Room
Observe when disagreement becomes prolonged conflict and how different forms of objection work.
About 10 minutesOpen lesson