Until next term, I have zero more unmarked assignments. #fistpump
Until next term, I have zero more unmarked assignments. #fistpump
Journalist Nellie Bly Began her Around the World in 72 Days Tour Nov 14, 1989
From Wikipedia: In 1888 Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days into fact for the first time. A year later, at 9:40 a.m. on November 14, 1889, and with two days’ notice,[19] she boarded the Augusta Victoria, a steamer of the Hamburg America Line,[20] and began her 40,070 kilometer journey. She took with her the dress she…
Yep, it’s time to read student papers on Flannery O’Connor.
I let her tend the rabbits.
Great production of a very moving story. The production did a good job dealing honestly with the misogyny in the script. When Curley’s wife came in wearing a red dress, Carolyn muttered, “This isn’t going to end well.”
My Student Calls Out a Mental Health Stigma in a Biased Headline — But Here’s Why We Shouldn’t Blame “The Media”
This morning a journalism student told me a friend in a different class was complaining that “the media” was stigmatizing mental illness in its coverage of yesterday’s mass shooting in California. My student told me she remembered I had mentioned that reporters often don’t write the headlines under which their stories are published, but she wondered what else she might have said. I pointed out that defending vague complaints about…
Just finished a good literature class discussion on this powerful play.
Would love to teach it to healthcare students someday.