Podcast and post by HLTD50 student KAKhalfan In this first episode of the KamKast, KAKhalfan recollects stories of his experiences as a first-generation Canadian transitioning between cultural expectations. Through discussing certain characters in Catherine Hernandez’s award-winning novel Scarborough, he connects aspects of their stories to those of the significant individuals within his own life. He… Read More
Post by HLTD50 student Shining_Diamond_17 What is an outlier and what makes them so special? Malcolm Gladwell, in his best-selling book Outliers, takes two definitional approaches to defining this term: In mathematics, an outlier is “a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample.” In other words, it’s a point… Read More