Dr. Behzad Pourgharib Assistant Professor of English English Department Golestan University, Golestan, Iran Margaret Atwood: Twenty-Five years of Gothic Tales Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I’ve found: but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them. (The Blind Assassin 508). It may seem paradoxical that with all […]
Dart Thornton Fantasy Reveals Deepest Truths
One of the great finds for me in 2009, was the best selling fantasy fiction series, The Bitterbynde Trilogy, by Cecilia Dart Thornton. Over the past thirty years, I have devoured George MacDonald’s fantasies, C.S. Lewis fantasies, Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy plus The Hobbit, numbers of times, always uplifted by the adventures of […]
President Obama: Remarks at the Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize
The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 10, 2009 Remarks by the President at the Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize Oslo City Hall Oslo, Norway 1:44 P.M. CET THE PRESIDENT: Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens […]
Is Hannah Montana Really Such a Great Role Model?
First in the series: Today’s Female Role Models Who says, who says I can’t be Superman? I say, I say that I know I can. Who says, who says I won’t be president? I say, I say you ain’t seen nothing yet! (“Who Said?” Performed by Hannah Montana, 2006) It sounds like a Girl […]
Identiy and Violence
Amartya Sen’s book, “Identity and Violence’ examines the unfortunate connection between violence and our tendency to identify with one key trait — our ethnicity, or religion, for example — to the exclusion of all others. Sen argues that we can combat this tendency by rejecting this narrowly defined, limited sense of identity, and embracing a […]
Sri Lankan Team Attacked In Pakistan
Lankan Team Attacked In Pakistan The assailants ambushed the team’s convoy at a traffic circle close to the main sports stadium in the eastern city of Lahore ahead of a match against Pakistan’s national team, triggering a 15-minute gunbattle with police guarding the vehicles. None of the attackers were killed or captured at the scene, […]
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