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The Stoutsville native is a member of the US Navy Submarine Force
Petty Officer 1st Class Patricia Rodriguez | Office of the Navy Community Outreach NORFOLK, Va. – A Stoutsville native serves aboard the USS New Mexico, one of the world’s most advanced nuclear-powered submarines. Petty Officer 3rd Class Timothy Sahr joined the Navy five years ago. Today, Sahr serves as a torpedo boat mate. “My family …
How My Class Hosted Our Own National Book Awards ‹ Literary Center
On November 17, 2021, as juries were meeting to select the National Book Awards winners ahead of that evening’s awards ceremony, similar meetings were taking place in my 9th grade English class in Brookline, Massachusetts. After a month of reading the five finalists for the 2021 National Book Award for Children’s Literature, the students were …
Teach For America Educator Profile: College Writing Teacher Started Career With TFA
Denae Dibrell – Teach for America Educator Denae Dibrell joined Teach For America in the fall of 2014 and taught English II, English AP, and language composition at IDEA College Prep Pharr for four years. While there, she also coached UIL Ready Writing, Literary Criticism and Number Sense. She currently teaches in the writing program …
NYT Crossword Answers: Frasier’s Brother on “Frasier”
WEDNESDAY PUZZLE – Rarely does a Wednesday puzzle make me shake my head wondering how a builder managed to translate an interesting language pattern into a crossword theme, but today’s puzzle from Rich Proulx was a breathtaking intelligence. Before I dive into this theme, however, I want to do a quick grab for an upcoming …
Laugh Last – :::… The Tide News Online :::…
Title: Beyond ExpectationsAuthor: Reward AkwuPublisher: Ollybell Printing Resources, Port HarcourtPages: 136Reviewer: Boye SalauWhatever prompted Reward Akwu to engage in literary prose writing cannot, with the extreme form of clarity, be dismissed as inconsequential. Like all other journalists, Akwu is a man whose profession and the hurricane of economic survival in Nigeria would hardly allow him …
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ‘Could Fuel Dangerous Holocaust Mistakes’ | Holocaust
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas can “perpetuate a number of dangerous inaccuracies and errors” when used to teach young people about the Holocaust, according to an academic report. According to a study by the Center for Holocaust Education at University College London, more than a third of teachers in England use the bestselling book …
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Richard King, Montreal bookseller and author, dies at 76
Paragraphe bookstore co-owners Richard King, left, and Jonathan Penney in front of their store on McGill College Avenue in Montreal on June 15, 1998.Owen Egan/The Globe and Mail Richard King, the Montreal bookseller, author and inveterate book propeller, managed to bridge the gap between the “ka-ching,” as he called the ringing of the cash register, …
Beaverton’s immersive play explores the ‘passage’ in ‘Great Gatsby’
PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — Justin Heath is all too familiar with the often-needed skill of “changing code” after a decade in the corporate world. Heath grew up in a predominantly black South Carolina town, and he describes his personality and natural way of speaking as more “urban”. When he entered college, he had to …
Brazen Ending Explained: Who Killed Kathleen
Netflix’s new mystery thriller Cheeky features Alyssa Milano trying to find her sister’s killer, which leads to her going to great lengths to catch the killer in the end. One of the Netflix movies of January 2022, Cheeky comes from director Monika Mitchell as an adaptation of the novel Brazen Virtue by New York Times …
Terry Teachout, art critic with a wide range, dies at 65
Terry Teachout, a cultural critic who, in his columns for the Wall Street Journal, Daily News and other publications, has put his global intelligence to work on Broadway, ballet, bluegrass and virtually every art form intermediaries, died Thursday at a friend’s home in Smithtown, NY, on Long Island. He was 65 years old. His brother, …
Aseer Kishtwari: A man of many tastes – Jammu Kashmir Latest news | Tourism
Sadaket Ali MalikWali Mohmad Aseer Kishtwari is a renowned name from Kashmir, Urdu literature, and Jammu and Kashmir history.An emblematic figure was born in Kh. Ghulam Qadir Batt Berwari at Berwar Kishtwar village on August 2, 1954.I was brought up in local schools like Islamia Faridia School, Kishtwar and ML Upper Secondary School in Kishtwar. …
The pilot who crashed the party (A Dangerous Satire in Two Acts)
Tomorrow is Christmas and, if I needed a refresher, I just watched the 1938 film “A Christmas Carol” based on the Charles Dickens short story. Sadly, this is our second ‘Covid Christmas’, which is why I’m hoping for a well-deserved happy holiday. That’s why I’m keeping my fingers crossed. (Which could also explain the typos.) …
Writers share the lessons of the bell hooks
Photo: Joyce Dopkeen / The New York Times / Redux During her lifetime, revolutionary feminist theorist Bell Hooks wrote over 40 books. hooks, who died this week at age 69, was a prolific and incisive writer who examined race, class, gender, media, and art across multiple genres, including literary criticism, children’s fiction, and memoir . …
Stories of Grief & Sorrow win at Golden Point Awards, Arts News & Top Stories
SINGAPORE – Housewife Tamilselvi Rajarajan, 52, was heartbroken when her friend, a migrant worker in Singapore, struggled to stay stuck in a dormitory during the pandemic. Her angst became the starting point for Window, which won first prize in the Tamil short story category at the 15th Golden Point Awards, a creative writing competition for …
Heaven in its purest form, but also hell: my journey in search of the endangered Tarn | To travel
growing in Hobart in the 1980s, I walked through the magnificent dolerite uplift of the mountain framing our port city – Mount Wellington, now doubly named kunanyi. We regularly walked up the mountain road for a picnic in the fern glades at The Springs, near the site of a hotel that burned down in the …
Creator of Project 1619 and Iowa local Nikole Hannah-Jones on the importance of 1619 and how racism is taught in US history
His name and his project have been everywhere. Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who covers racial injustice for the New York Times Magazine. She is the creator of the landmark The 1619 project – an ongoing initiative that began with the 400th anniversary of the start of American slavery. The Project 1619 …
Under the sea and on land, archaeologist Justin Dunnavant creates a fairer future
In his Hulu docuseries “Your Attention Please”, actor-comedian Craig Robinson compared Justin Dunnavant to Indiana Jones. The analogy has some merit: Dunnavant, assistant professor of anthropology at UCLA, is a globetrotting archaeologist with a multitude of active hobbies, including skateboarding and surfing. Unlike the fictional character, however, Dunnavant doesn’t care about snakes. And while the …
Hester McFarland Salomon obituary | Psychology
My friend, Hester McFarland Solomon, who died at the age of 78, has devoted her professional life to the treatment of psychological illnesses, as a renowned Jungian psychoanalyst in the development school. She rose to the pinnacle of her profession as an analyst, author, teacher and administrator, and in 2007 became only the second female …
“Fun Home” arrives at Krannert’s Lyric Theater
Posted: November 2, 2021 / 5:02 PM CDT / Update: November 2, 2021 / 5:03 PM CDT From the 2006 graphic novel written by Alison Bechdel, the musical “Fun Home” comes to Krannert at the University of Illinois. When her father unexpectedly passes away, novelist Alison delves into her past to tell the story of …
This is why the Maldives are still, to this day, a dream destination for many
For someone who has never been there, it’s easy to wonder why the Maldives is such a dream destination – and these are just a few reasons why it’s worth it. Imagine it: calm, crystal-clear waters, white sandy beaches and a personal cabin that sits right above the water, so that in the morning a …
GECHS seniors recognized as recommended students on national merit
The National Merit Scholarship Program recognized Samantha Medina Pow and Ken Yaguchi, senior high school seniors at Hector J. Garcia Early College. Medina Pow and Yaguchi have been named Recommended Students by the National Merit Scholarship Program 2022. Medina Pow and Yaguchi are among 34,000 recommended students across the country recognized for their outstanding academic …
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s haunting new novel
For much of the past decade, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard was part of a cohort of writers left behind in WG Sebald’s long backdraft, whose work drew its strength from the difficult and sometimes ephemeral between reality and fiction. Sebald was interested in the subjective nature of history and the tension between the macro-scale …
Rosalie Maggio, feminist author, collector of feminine quotes, dies at 77
As the author of several books on social inequalities woven into the English language, Rosalie Maggio has always known what to say. She has often lectured to high school classes about choosing inclusive words over sexist options – for example, “staff hours” instead of “labor.” At a lecture for her daughter’s class, a student mocked, …
Take a day trip to Bainbridge Island that goes beyond the usual sightseeing stops
Bainbridge Island is a scenic 35-minute ferry ride from downtown Seattle, but it feels much further afield. You can still see the skyscrapers, 9 miles through Elliott Bay, but then you drive along two-lane roads with no shoulders, through a tunnel of trees. Farm stalls dot the roads. Pocket beaches await you. Most visitors head …
Paul Auster: “It is distress that breeds art” | Paul Auster
Paul Auster is in bed. We talk on the phone and it is in his room that his welcome is best. “I much prefer phone calls,†he says. “So much better than those terrible little squares on a screen.” Known for his elegant and pithy novels – The New York trilogy and Moon palace are …
Author encourages students to have fun with languages in new books
The world is getting smaller and communication between countries and cultures has become more and more crucial. In the Caribbean, English-speaking territories are called upon not to take their English-speaking culture for granted and to take advantage of opportunities to learn other languages, namely French, Spanish and Portuguese, the main languages ​​of the region. Foreign …
Alligator hunting is for girls!
STUTTGART – As a hunter, Blakely Stovesand was keen on the challenge of hunting dangerous game, but she also wanted something unusual and generally inaccessible to even the most affluent big game hunters. Hunting buffalo and leopards in Africa is exciting, but many people do it. Anyone can if they have the money. Stovesand was …
ROSALIE MAGGIO | News, Sports, Jobs
Rosalie Maggio, La Crescenta, Calif., Died on September 18, 2021 after a heroic battle with pancreatic cancer. Arrangements are made with Solace Cremation and Funeral Home, Los Angeles, California. Services will take place at a later date. Born November 8, 1943 in Victoria, Texas, to Irene Cecilia Nash Maggio and Paul Joseph Maggio, DDS, she …
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The new French school is all in wood and window
Design and architecture specialist Allison Arieff once complained about the design of school buildings in the USA: “The design of schools, especially the design of public schools, is often confused with the design of other institutional structures like prisons, civic centers and hospitals, with a detrimental effect. My high school, for example, had the distinction …
Solomon Airlines partners with tourism players and local schools for coastal cleanup
More than 100 countries come together each year to participate. In Solomon Islands, this year’s coastal clean-ups took place simultaneously in Munda and Honiara. Solomon Airlines, the Department of Culture and Tourism, Tourism Solomons, Travel Solomons, St. Johns School, Tanagai Community High School and Solomon Islands Scout Association joined forces on Saturday to help clean …
Climate change, pollution blamed for fish deaths in Pamlico River – WNCT
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“Dead” father took a stand against the war by remaining unregistered
KAI, Yamanashi Prefecture – The term conscientious objector was not coined when Takaichi Yamada decided to fake his own death to avoid military conscription in the Pacific War. As the years passed and Yamada continued his life as a novelist writing on anti-war themes, he allowed the masquerade to continue, without even confiding in his …
Must-see novels for young adults from the past year
Each month we’ll highlight some of the most popular books from the past year. “Applaud when you land” by Elizabeth Acevedo Elizabeth Acevedo won the 2020 Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction with a powerful verse novel about love, loss and family. Camino and Yahaira Rios didn’t even know they were sisters until their …
Teens Interact Via Virtual Soaps: The DONG-A ILBO
“Let’s break up. Let’s be honest. You are not attractive. A teenage girl named So-yeon, who is not used to being all dolled up, is dumped by her boyfriend, a follower of lookism. So-yeon is getting a makeover thanks to her friend. Then her ex-boyfriend begs her to get together.However, she is already dating another …
Keeping two Virgilles: the “figures of speech” are the beauty and the Hypebeast
The keepers – mostly white – dictate what constitutes beauty, elegance and celebration. Racism is so ingrained in American culture, how can you sew a life without its construction? “You can’t take away where we came from to understand where we are,†said Virgil Abloh during an intimate discussion at the Institute of Contemporary Art …
Lauren Berlant (1957-2021) – Artforum International
Lauren Berlant, a deeply influential American scholar and cultural critic known for her rigorous and playful explorations of intimacy, citizenship and affect, died on June 28 at the age of 63 from an Cancer. The news was announced by Duke University Press. Since 1984, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University …
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Adult News Judges Caroline Bock is the author of Carry Her Home, winner of the 2018 Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize, and of the young adult novels LIE and Before My Eyes. Bock also co-edited This Is What America Looks Like: Poetry & Fiction from DC, Maryland and Virginia from the Washington Writers’ Publishing …
Berwick’s farm boy became the father of comparative economics
It seems unlikely that a humble farm boy from Berwick, Ill. Would become one of the world’s greatest economists, help the Allies defeat Hitler, and receive the Medal of Freedom, but these are just what a handful of Calvin Bryce Hoover’s accomplishments. Born to a railroad section foreman in 1897, young Bryce (as he was …
Albion College raises the stakes to get the COVID vaccine
Some notable community partners in Calhoun County really want to see more young people vaccinated against COVID-19. As part of a vaccination program promotion with the county public health department, Albion College offers one year of schooling to a middle-aged or high school student who passes the vaccination stage at one of the next three …
How a shy kid from Nigeria became an important California legal voice and, finally, a novelist – Orange County Register
Noel Obiora is Senior Legal Counsel for the California Public Utilities Commission, where he has spent nearly two decades deciphering and analyzing all legal aspects of the commission’s regulatory process. Before that, Obiora had her own private practice in Los Angeles, and long before that, Obiora, 55, was a shy kid in Nigeria who dreamed …