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You've already seen the headlines — conservatives are trying to BAN BOOKS! Now, there is confirmation of this nefarious far-right plot to censor what American kids are allowed to read by removing them from school libraries while keeping them freely available everywhere else.
Published: Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 @ 10:01 am
By: Babylon Bee
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Do people still read books? It depends on whom you ask. A Wall Street Journal Article posed the question differently: "Does the Book Have a Future?"
Published: Saturday, December 21st, 2019 @ 1:56 pm
By: Kathy Manos Penn
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Classic literature has fallen from favor in English class. The movement away from the literary canon, begun decades ago, has accelerated rapidly following adoption of Common Core standards by most states eight years ago
Published: Saturday, September 1st, 2018 @ 7:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Famed literary critic George Steiner once said that cultural knowledge allows one to "resist" and that "no one can make a zombie of you if you carry [cultural knowledge] inside of you."
Published: Friday, October 21st, 2016 @ 7:13 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Author Jim Grimsley will meet with East Carolina University students and read from his best-selling memoir, "How I Learned to Shed My Skin," on Sept. 22.
Published: Tuesday, October 4th, 2016 @ 12:08 am
By: ECU News Services
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This year's North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR), now on its way to readers throughout the state, celebrates the 25th issue of the publication
Published: Friday, July 29th, 2016 @ 5:37 am
By: ECU News Services
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Faculty, curators and administrators are still discovering just how momentous East Carolina University's collection of literary work, letters and mementos from famous Southern writers could turn out to be.
Published: Wednesday, August 5th, 2015 @ 2:27 am
By: ECU News Services
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The theme of this year's issue of the award-winning North Carolina Literary Review is "North Carolina Literature in a Global Context." The print issue features cover art by Chapel Hill resident Eduardo Lapetina, a native of Argentina.
Published: Sunday, July 5th, 2015 @ 11:36 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Results from the 2014 U.S. History, Geography, and Civics at Grade 8 tests were released this week.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 @ 2:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For its 2014 print issue, North Carolina Literary Review devotes its special feature section to "War in North Carolina Literature." This in-depth exploration includes an interview with author Robert Morgan, who points out, "It is one of the mysteries of human life, and human history that...
Published: Friday, July 11th, 2014 @ 3:15 pm
By: ECU News Services
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My title has two meanings. The first is that, since the 1980s at least, what calls itself literary criticism has consisted largely of abstract theory, less concerned with literature than with itself.
Published: Friday, May 30th, 2014 @ 11:59 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Thankfully, much is being made of Heather Mac Donald's recent piece, "The Humanities and Us," in the City Journal. She illustrates the decline of college English departments, where "gender, sexuality, race, and class" have taken over Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. The radicals of the...
Published: Saturday, February 1st, 2014 @ 1:21 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Every passionate reader has a first literary love - that first book that captured your attention and inspired your desire to explore and understand.
Published: Friday, November 29th, 2013 @ 2:06 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Let's face this one truth together: For a periodical to be successful that communicative device must be frequented by people ... people inspired to use your literary auspices to learn stuff.
Published: Friday, May 3rd, 2013 @ 9:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Shortly after clocks were introduced to Japan in the sixteenth century, Japanese inventors used the principles underlying the clock’s movements to create robots.
Published: Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 @ 6:17 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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On March 13, sophomores in Megan Ormond’s English IV class at Beaufort County Early College High School displayed and presented museum exhibits inspired by George Orwell’s novel 1984...
Published: Saturday, April 6th, 2013 @ 8:07 am
By: Chris Downey
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