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In Jiang’s Canadian context, a negative label meaning pushy, rule-breaking, or too aggressive.
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ambitious
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"...I wanted grades too much. So, the word they use is ambitious. They thought I was ambitious. Ambitious. Ambitious is a dirty word in..."
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"...to Pope Adrian, who said that as Pope he was extremely ambitious, he did whatever he could to climb the ladder of power, and..."
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"...favorite, by the way. And Lincoln knew that he Lincoln was ambitious, confessed it in an interesting notebook entry to himself, and in other..."
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"...is Banquo the the ordinary um you know um not over ambitious uh Warrior alongside Macbeth just saying this is all very strange but..."
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"...strategist uh of pisa and um eventually because he is so ambitious he's a very machiavellian figure um he will change alliances always and..."
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"...this seminar. So you can imagine these are pretty enthusiastic, pretty ambitious students. My ambition is to train the next generation of Dante scholars...."
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"...rest my laurels. I'm not that sort of person. I'm very ambitious. I love learning. I love teaching. And as I go on, I'm..."
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"...the americans were much harder harder working they were much more ambitious so a lot of the money went to america now at this..."
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"...from becoming gods. Shouldn't that be a good thing? To be ambitious. The gods are first and that advantage used on our belief that..."
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"...to keep us ignorant. So we have a responsibility to be ambitious, to rebel. Okay? To rebel. Rebel, rebellion is honorable and just. Okay?..."
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"...where America is so vast and people are so energetic and ambitious that once a civil war starts, it's very unlikely that it will..."
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"...trading. Power. And so they were very expansionist. They were very ambitious. We know about the two because of the Persian Wars. So the..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
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A farewell class becomes a compressed world model: empire is a game with no friends, collapse is survivable if imagination and community survive, AI is funded for control rather than liberation, and the deepest...
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Jiang reframes the Iran-Israel-U.S.-Russia conflict as a long-horizon contest in worldview and political systems, where structural elites, narrative control, and religious grammar shape strategy more than leaders changing seats.
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The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
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