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Angels in America—what a Gay Fantasia reveals about America
Under the current COVID-19 pandemic, the reading of the AIDS epidemic becomes especially thought provoking and resonating. During special times like this while everything around us is changing, readers cannot help but notice the progress and changes that the play is hinting at. In the 1980s, it was the worst of times, but it wasContinue…
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The shadow of neocolonialism: how a book with “righteous” purposes can backlash and hurt the journalism subjects and the potential trust between countries –book review of Without You, There Is No Us
The shadow of neocolonialism: how a book with “righteous” purposes can backlash and hurt the journalism subjects and the potential trust between countries –book review of Without You, There Is No Us Under the pandemic when reading has turned into one of my biggest comforts and books continue to act as my sanctuary, I findContinue…
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Fiction or reality: what a good story tells—The Things They Carried
“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.” Book Introduction: The Things TheyContinue…
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Nonviolence, injustice, and change–March
Book introduction: March is a graphic novel that vividly presents a first-hand account of John lewis’s lifelong struggle for civil and human rights. The inspiration of the book was drawn from the 1958 comic book Martin Luther King that inspired generations. Now, March becomes one of the books to inspire others by telling a greatContinue…
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The story behind activism—The Overstory
Book introduction: The Overstory presents a story from the root to the crown, and back to the seed. It is a story, more precisely eight stories of resistance and activism. When people understand the beauty of trees, their fates are forever changed as their embark on a road of activism that challenges the problematic system.Continue…
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The many complexities and diversity in one historical fiction—The Sympathizer
“I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces. Perhaps not surprisingly, I am also a man of two minds. I am not some misunderstood mutant from a comic book or a horror movie, although some have treated me as such. I am simply able to see any issue from bothContinue…
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