Category: Archive
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Alice Munro Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
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Short stories are not easy to write. The heartbeat of literary fiction—the character—takes time and space. The reader needs time to get to know fictitious characters because in many ways the reader is growing a friendship with them. Fifty thousand words is small for most. Now go on a 90%…
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Open-source History Textbook Can Save Students Money
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A new, open-source electronic history textbook published by the University Press of North Georgia with the University System of Georgia (USG) can save students nearly $100 each without sacrificing rich and fully sourced content. History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to…
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The Facetious and the Facts
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How much is a non-fiction author allowed to make up and get away with it? How much “artistic license” should we tolerate with something ostensibly factual? Jonah Lehrer found out last year that he was over the line when put a few things Bob Dylan didn’t actually say in his…
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Link-N-Blogs: Oct 4, 1013
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“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”–Voltaire 1) Science: Good or evil? As science and technology advances, we find ourselves continuing to wonder how far are we willing to push the boundaries. When Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein, Or The Modern…
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Apocalyptic visions
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“In the last few years we’ve developed an uneasy feeling that this could happen again, and advanced thinkers who even in Roman times thought it fine to gang up with the barbarians, have begun to question if civilization is worth preserving. Well, this is why it seems to me a…
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September Newsletter
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Student Spotlight: Imaad Hakim
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My name is Imaad Hakim and I am a sophomore at UNG. I was a Biology major last year and am currently a Business Management Major and am looking forward to learning a lot from working in this office. I am a very outgoing person and love spending time with…