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Free to Be You and Me

Free to Be You and Me

The Goldfinch By: Donna Tartt (Little, Brown and Company, 2016) It is hard to overemphasize how good a ...
1917

1917

Directed by: Sam Mendes 1917 was the odds-on favorite this year to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, ...
12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

Regency Enterprises, 2013; Directed by Steve McQueen; Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita ...
Take Shelter

Take Shelter

Directed by: Jeff Nichols Take Shelter may have been the best movie to be entirely snubbed in the awards ...
Welcome to the University

Welcome to the University

Trube, Bob "The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities" Emerging Scholars Blog (July 30, 2015) This ...
The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch

By: Donna Tartt (New York: Little, Brown, 2013) Summary: Eleven years after Donna Tartt’s second ...
Truth

Truth

Directed by: James Vanderbilt Truth is the story of the scandal involving CBS news reporting it had ...
My Name is Asher Lev

My Name is Asher Lev

By: Chaim Potok (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972) Summary: Asher Lev is a redheaded Hasidic Jew born in ...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

Directed by: Francis Lawrence The Hunger Games has proved a resilient franchise, largely because of the ...
Be Happy in Your Work

Be Happy in Your Work

Brooks, Arthus "A Formula for Happiness" The New York Times (December 14, 2013) Happiness has suffered a bad ...
Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

Directed by: Danny Boyle Steve Jobs, written by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, A Few Good Men) and ...
Bridge of Spies

Bridge of Spies

Directed by: Steven Spielberg Bridge of Spies is a fine film, and demonstrates Steven Spielberg, who ...
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