Bestselling children’s author and Daily Wire host Matt Walsh ripped into Time Magazine after the news site published an article featuring LGBTQ children’s cartoonist and writer Maia Kobabe.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 1:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
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In history, the classical period includes the civilization of the Greeks and Romans who gave us classical art, architecture and classic languages of Greek and Latin.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 5:32 pm
By: Gary Carlton
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Some songs are performance songs and some songs are just there for you to cry in you beer songs. Bob Dylan wrote both types during his pre-mailing it in days.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 8:12 pm
By: Bobby Tony
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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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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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An East Carolina alumnus and faculty member helped choose this year's Caldecott Award winner for children's literature.
Published: Thursday, May 19th, 2016 @ 4:34 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Are the humanities in trouble on American campuses? That is certainly the impression one gets from the media today; articles in publications of both left and right describe the increasing flight from the humanities into other disciplines.
Published: Wednesday, September 9th, 2015 @ 9:34 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Enrollment in the liberal arts and humanities continues to sink, particularly in languages and literature. At Harvard, for example, almost 60 percent of the students who start in the humanities switch disciplines by the end of their second year.
Published: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 10:17 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Every field of study has its standard way of teaching it to students. Science is mostly taught through lectures and labs. Literature and philosophy are mostly taught through classroom discussion. And English composition is mostly taught through students writing essays and bringing them to class...
Published: Tuesday, June 10th, 2014 @ 7:09 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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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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Following the news of the death of Joyce Pope, State Budget Director Art Pope's mother, Governor Pat McCrory released the following statement...
Published: Thursday, May 22nd, 2014 @ 9:55 pm
By: Chris Downey
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From its title, the casual reader might expect The Value of the Humanities to be a love letter to art, music, and literature. However, this book is not for the casual reader. It is written by a specialist, Oxford professor of English Helen Small, for other specialists who are trying to stay...
Published: Tuesday, April 15th, 2014 @ 3:21 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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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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Student end-of-course evaluations are widely used by colleges and universities to determine the success of courses and the effectiveness of their instructors. Schools often use such student feedback even to determine instructors...
Published: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 @ 1:51 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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During World War II, the Nazis stole 22 million works of art. Those works included great masterpieces of European painting, sculpture, literature, and music. But a small group called Monuments Men worked to track down...
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2013 @ 1:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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