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Ngl I'm proud of my international relations grades this year/ this term. <3 I'd have a great academic record/ GPA if it wasn't for Korean, which I reallyyyy need to study for. I am seriously dreading the exam...let's hope I don't fail it :/

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taken by me

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the day i get rid of my crazy fear of failure and my procrastination, it will be over for you all.

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Having to explain to way too many people that no, Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons.

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Spent the entirety of Babel going "omg this reminds me of this" and the thing it reminds me of is a long list of jstor articles I've read at some point.

I enjoyed the book but I think I enjoyed it more because it wasn't anything new conceptually to me. I think it's an excellent tool for getting people to confront their relationship with colonialism and its violence, but with that comes the stages of grief. If you have never or never fully confronted this, sometimes you do need a moment to catch up.

If this book confronts you, I think reading it again after you have come to the acceptance stage of your relationship with colonialism enhances the ability to enjoy the book because you spend the entire time going "oh my god so true Rebecca"

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My aesthetic is like dark academia but the medieval Iranian / Islamic golden age version. Shop on Etsy

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"This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances which demanded it."

- R.F Kuang, "Babel, or the Necessity of Violence"

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Searching best practices on JSTOR

Hi Tumblr researchers,

As promised, we're going to dive into some best practices for searching on JSTOR. This'll be a long one!

The first thing to note is that JSTOR is not Google, so searches should not be conducted in the same way.

More on that in this video:

Basic Search on JSTOR

To search for exact phrases, enclose the words within quotation marks, like "to be or not to be".

To construct a more effective search, utilize Boolean operators, such as "tea trade" AND china.

Advanced Searching on JSTOR

Utilize the drop-down menus to refine your search parameters, limiting them to the title, author, abstract, or caption text.

Combine search terms using Boolean operators like AND/OR/NOT and NEAR 5/10/25. The NEAR operator finds keyword combinations within 5, 10, or 25 words of each other. It applies only when searching for single keyword combinations, such as "cat NEAR 5 dog," but not for phrases like "domesticated cat" NEAR 5 dog.

Utilize the "Narrow by" options to search for articles exclusively, include/exclude book reviews, narrow your search to a specific time frame or language.

To focus your article search on specific disciplines and titles, select the appropriate checkboxes. Please note that discipline searching is currently limited to journal content, excluding ebooks from the search.

Finding Content You Have Access To

To discover downloadable articles, chapters, and pamphlets for reading, you have the option to narrow down your search to accessible content. Simply navigate to the Advanced Search page and locate the "Select an access type" feature, which offers the following choices:

All Content will show you all of the relevant search results on JSTOR, regardless of whether or not you can access it.

Content I can access will show you content you can download or read online. This will include Early Journal Content and journals/books publishers have made freely available.

Once you've refined your search, simply select an option that aligns with your needs and discover the most relevant items. Additionally, you have the option to further narrow down your search results after conducting an initial search. Look for this option located below the "access type" checkbox, situated at the bottom left-hand side of the page.

Additional resources

For more search recommendations, feel free to explore this page on JSTOR searching. There, you will find information on truncation, wildcards, and proximity, using fields, and metadata hyperlinks.

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The Bodleian Library at Oxford University

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essay writing with a view <3

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Happy First Day of Spring 🌿🪻🌱

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Tribute to my late grandma who was born in the year of the dragon. It’s my first Chinese New Year without her and I miss her so much.

When my parents divorced and essentially abandoned me for their new families, it was my grandma and grandpa who made sure I still felt loved. Without their care and guidance I probably wouldn't be here today. 

Thank you, Grandma, for everything and more. 

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healing involves a lot more grieving than you’d expect. progress hurts. you’re moving on from things that happened but also things you wished would happen and never did. mourning does not mean you are not getting better.

#you can mourn people who have not passed

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I think about how hayao miyazaki said that love is two people inspiring each other to live. and to live doesn’t just mean to be alive. living involves finding beauty in the simple moments of being. so to inspire someone to be in awe of the simplicity of living? that’s special

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I'm really looking forward to spring- the grey English weather is making me even more depressed.

#student #london #studyblr

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I got allocated to SNU for my exchange uni! <3

#snu #Seoul National University #student #studyblr #korea #seoul #exchange year #year abroad