Category: Miscellaneous
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Christmas is Coming: A George R.R. Martin Special
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It’s that time of the year where eager Christmas lovers are beginning to spread the holiday cheer in preparation for St. Nick’s arrival. Shoppers are already anticipating Black Friday’s deals long before the beloved turkey and sweet potato pie are set at the dinner table. Luckily, the great white-bearded man…
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National Novel Writing Month— Are You Up to the Challenge?
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Has there ever been a moment in your life where you have had an insatiable urge to sit down, open your laptop, and begin writing that novel you have been putting off? Well grab yourself a cup of Earl Grey and stop making excuses because now is your chance to…
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Resources for Breast Cancer Patients, Survivors, and their Loved Ones
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“Cancer affects all of us, whether you’re a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, or patient.” Jennifer Aniston Breast cancer, excluding skin cancer, is the most common cancer among women. In 2012, 224,147 women and 2,125 men were diagnosed with breast cancer. The numbers total to 226,272 lives that were…
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New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines Set the Stage for Controversy
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Breast Cancer Awareness month is a campaign designed to encourage women and men to be cognizant of the nature of Breast Cancer. So when the American Cancer Society recently announced new Breast Cancer guidelines, twelve years since the last update, we were all ears (The Journal of the American Medical…
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Stephen King: the King of Creep
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New York Times Best Selling Author and Bram Stoker Award recipient Stephen King is best known for his ability to draft thrilling and chilling psychological horror stories. Misery, Carrie, and The Shining to name just a few titles, crown him the king of creep. Misery shocks readers with the abduction…
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From Surface to Meaning: Exploring the Use of Color in History, Politics, and Art
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In anticipation of our soon-to-be-released publication titled From Surface to Meaning: Exploring the Use of Color in History, Politics, and Art, we have provided an abstract of one of the papers chosen for inclusion in this volume as well as a short biography of the author. From Surface to Meaning: Exploring the…
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Link-N-Blogs: January 31, 2014
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“Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.”–Sappho Blackboard Launching Online Bookstore: Blackboard, an online learning management system, now has plans to create a bookstore specifically for its platform. Two Poems By Sappho Discovered: “Parts of two previously unknown poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho have been discovered…