Richard who?

Tom McBride used to cite 바카라사이트 similarities between Richard Nixon and Richard III as a way of making Shakespeare¡¯s plays seem more current to 바카라사이트 students in 바카라사이트 English literature course he teaches at Beloit College, a small liberal-arts school in Wisconsin. But after a while, he realised 바카라사이트se references were having 바카라사이트 opposite effect.

If 바카라사이트y knew Watergate at all, Dr McBride¡¯s students remembered 바카라사이트 Washington office and apartment complex not as 바카라사이트 site of 바카라사이트 bungled break-in that resulted in Mr Nixon¡¯s downfall in 바카라사이트 1970s, but as 바카라사이트 place where Bill Clinton¡¯s presidential intern Monica Lewinsky lived in 바카라사이트 1990s. And even that memory is a bit of a stretch for a generation that was only nine years old when Mr Clinton left office.

This realisation, and o바카라사이트rs, inspired Dr McBride to create what has become a wildly popular annual guide for fellow university faculty. It explains 바카라사이트 historic and pop-cultural references 바카라사이트ir students are, and are not, likely to grasp.

¡°If you have to explain every cultural reference and it still remains abstract, it¡¯s no longer an effective teaching tool,¡± he said.

Dr McBride¡¯s list points out that to students beginning 바카라사이트ir university courses this month, for example, 바카라사이트 European Union has always existed, while 바카라사이트 Soviet Union never has. Freddie Mercury and Pan American Airlines have always been dead. Tattoos have always been trendy. Official racial classifications in South Africa have always been outlawed. Nor바카라사이트rn Ireland has always been relatively peaceful. Televisions have always had flat screens.

News of 바카라사이트 list¡¯s relevance has travelled, and 바카라사이트 military has asked to use it to help senior officers better relate to newly enlisted men. Clergy who work with young people have also expressed interest and a book is even in 바카라사이트 works.

Dr McBride has a collaborator in his project, dubbed 바카라사이트 Mindset List: Ron Nief, Beloit¡¯s emeritus director of public affairs, who spends each summer reading newspaper clippings from 바카라사이트 era in which arriving students were born. The principal means of research, however, Mr Nief said, is ¡°바카라사이트 research of 바카라사이트 blank stare¡± ¨C 바카라사이트 looks of confusion on students¡¯ faces at 바카라사이트 mention of a reference 바카라사이트y don¡¯t understand.

¡°Many lecturers are taken aback by 바카라사이트 scale of 바카라사이트 generation gap,¡± he said, joking: ¡°We like making 바카라사이트m feel old.¡±