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Tinanam0102 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

strike out / enterprise

Your experience, your unique point of view, is what attracted you to study subjects in the social sciences in the first place, and it will go on to fire your interest in certain topics, drive you to find explanations that work and challenge you, when you have done that, to strike out for the next island. Your desire to make sense of the world and your own place in it is the point of the whole enterprise.

Hi teachers,

1. What is 'to strike out for the next island'?
2. What is 'enterprise' in the text?

Thanks
  

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1. In this context, it means to advance your education or career. 2.

— Vorpar

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  • In this context, it means to advance your education or career.
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  • Endeavor, goal, everything you are working towards.
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1. In this context, it means to advance your education or career.

2. Endeavor, goal, everything you are working towards.
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Hi Vorpar,

Is 'strike out for the next island', in this case, a metaphor?

Thanks
TN
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A strange one, but yes. Perhaps it's meant to illustrate that it's a lonely "journey"?
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