[ad_1] History and Literature students at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland have been warned the classic novel contains ‘graphic fishing scenes’ TV and film adaptions of the 1952 classic have been given U and PG certificates The university said content warnings allow students to make informed choices By Chris Hastings for The […]
Rush Limbaugh – 5 lessons he left us on how to handle the left
[ad_1] It doesn’t seem possible that we’ve weathered an entire year since that bleak day last Feb. 17 when at 12:06 p.m. Eastern the inevitable-yet-shocking announcement was broadcast to the world: Rush Limbaugh had passed away. The radio titan, having lived his threescore-and-10 to the absolute fullest, returned his borrowed talent to God. It was a […]
Gulliver’s Travels in a Nutshell
[ad_1] By Joseph Pearce – A look at the classic tale of Gulliver’s Travels. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin of English parents in 1667, four years after Milton had finished writing Paradise Lost. Ordained as a minister of the Church of Ireland, he aligned himself with the “High Church” party at the “Catholic” end […]
Maus: Graphic novel tops Amazon best-sellers after school ban
[ad_1] Maus, a graphic novel about the Holocaust, was banned by a school board in Tennessee this month. A Pulitzer prize-winning novel about the Holocaust has topped Amazon’s best-seller’s list after a school board in Tennessee banned it. The graphic novel Maus: A Survivor’s Tale depicts how the author’s parents survived Auschwitz during the Holocaust. […]