Unit 1: Selection Vocabulary 1

To liken TV shows to novels suggests an odd ambivalence toward both genres.

If today’s best TV feels Dickensian, that may be because the conventions of filmed storytelling themselves derive from Dickens—who in turn, Eisenstein points out, was influenced by the stage melodramas of his day.

Its visual idiom tends to be conventional even when its subject matter is ostentatiously provocative.

Television is more capacious. Episode after episode, and season after season, a serial drama can uncoil for dozens of hours before reaching its end.

But a crisis can be an opportunity. It incites change.

Another choice is a technical school, also called a vocational or trade school.

It may also provide technical training for a specific job, such as emergency medical technician (EMT) or paralegal.

It usually takes a transfer student an extra (fifth) year to obtain a bachelor’s degree.

Walla Walla Community College, faced with a decline in local industries such as agriculture, food processing, and lumber, and a rise in the numbers of workers needing to be retrained, expanded the number of programs it offered.

Hundreds of thousands of wine tourists visited, and hotels and restaurants sprang up to accommodate them.

Essentially, people with impostor syndrome do not internalize their success.

In fact, impostor syndrome is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is the main authority on psychiatric diagnoses published by the American Psychiatric Association.

This can be a result of discrimination, stereotype threat, or microaggressions that potentially lead marginalized groups to internalize feelings of fraudulence and not belonging.

Thought strategies. These are ways you use your mind to regulate emotions, like visualizing a successful outcome or reframing everything you do as a learning experience.

You might find your own ways to manage your impostor syndrome, but whatever you do, the goal is to develop strategies to promote your personal growth, enhance your wellbeing, build positive relationships, and contribute to your desired goals.