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Comment on “Why I’m Not Preparing My Students to Compete in the Global Marketplace” by Katie

Katie — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:17:34 +0000

I can understand the value of what the author is discussing. By engaging students in the community they live in, they can have victories and see themselves making a difference. However, the world really is a smaller place- with quicker travel and the internet. Can’t we connect both the local and global picture together and prepare effective and engaged global citizens?

Comment on A Message from Anita Hill by Trix

Trix — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:58:00 +0000

An inetlleingt answer – no BS – which makes a pleasant change

Comment on From Manhattan to Mumbai: Wrestling with the Issues of Our Time by RED! the breakthrough 'zine

RED! the breakthrough 'zine — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 20:23:00 +0000

Katherine Boo is an exquisite journalist, a writer of formidable grace, intelligence, and passion. I have read her work for years. I’ve also taught her long non-fiction narratives in literature courses I teach at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio. My students, too, grasp the kind of depthful reportage that Kate Boo achieves, which we continue to be sorely in need of today. I’m very happy that her book is coming out, and I anxiously await its arrival. My prediction already, given her past accolades, work ethic, and pure talent, is that it’s going to garner award after award. Deservingly so. I hope Kate comes to Cincinnati to sign books at some point in 2012. Sooner, rather than later. –Jeffrey Hillard

Comment on On Historical Fiction by Jimm Craig

Jimm Craig — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:48:18 +0000

Please respond as soon as possible. Thank you & God Bless.

Comment on On Historical Fiction by Jimm Craig

Jimm Craig — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:45:39 +0000

What is David Mitchell’s (the author) political stance? Is he a liberal or a conservative?

Comment on A Message from Anita Hill by john carleton hayden

john carleton hayden — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:54:39 +0000

seems timely and intriguing. We do need continuing and deeply reflective analyses of race, class, and gender in America.

Comment on A Message from Anita Hill by Jack M. Bloom

Jack M. Bloom — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:44:03 +0000

Those hearings were defining about both race and gender. I find that we still discuss the hearings in my race class. The current to-do with Cain has resurrected the same issues, and it occasions discussion of the Thomas/Hill conflict.

Comment on A Message from Anita Hill by James A Zoller

James A Zoller — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:13:29 +0000

Anyone interested in these issues must necessarily be interested in hearing again from Anita Hill. The issues that she brought to the nations attention twenty years ago are still alive and menacing. As I write, charges of sexual harassment have been raised against yet another aspirant to high national office. Among the questions that this latest charge raises is whether we can discuss the issues more constructively today than we could twenty years ago.

Comment on A Message from Anita Hill by Penny Messinger

Penny Messinger — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:40:27 +0000

I was in graduate school in 1991 and will never forget the hearings and the way you raised awareness of sexual harassment. Your testimony shifted the way people viewed the workplace and came to understand that everyone has a right to work in an environment free from abuse and harassment.

Comment on From Manhattan to Mumbai: Wrestling with the Issues of Our Time by Jeff Hillard

Jeff Hillard — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:57:26 +0000

Katherine Boo, a veteran, award-winning journalist, is one of my favorite American non-fiction narrative writers. Her journalism incorporates pure story more so than mere reportage. Her field tends to encompass economically-challenged individuals and environments. As a teacher of journalism and writing at a small Ohio college, I utilize her published pieces quite a bit. I look forward to her first book. I realize she’s been working on it a long time. I certainly await an advance reader’s copy and plan to have students buy the book when it’s available in February 2012.