We spoke to authors and attendees at Cheltenham Literary Festival.
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Monday, October 5, 2015
Which "Harry Potter" Villain Are You Based On Your Zodiac?
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“There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.”
We Know Your "Harry Potter" Trick-Or-Treating Partner Based On Your Birth Month
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Trick or Treat, be so sweet, give me something good to eat!
8 Halloween Costumes Only "Game Of Thrones" Fans Will Get
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Halloween is coming. Warning: spoilers!
Stannis Baratheon
Creative Commons / Flickr: mindfulone
Shireen Baratheon
Creative Commons / Flickr: uriel1998
Jon Snow (at least for now)
Creative Commons / Flickr: goldberg
Mance Rayder
Creative Commons / Flickr: rspeed
A Mom Called Out A Textbook Publisher For Saying Slaves Were "Workers" And "Immigrants"
Posted by Unknown on Monday, October 05, 2015
McGraw-Hill Education said it would reword the part of a geography textbook that includes slaves under a section about “immigrants” and refers to them as “workers.”
A publisher says they are rewriting a high school textbook that refers to African slaves as "workers" after a complaint by a Texas mother about the passage went viral.
Roni Dean-Burren wrote on social media that her 15-year-old son was reading his textbook for his ninth-grade geography class when he noticed a passage that bothered him.
The Atlantic slave trade between the 1500s and the 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.
Dean-Burren wrote on social media she was shocked by the language used. After getting many responses, she decided to make a video to talk in depth about the book and how she felt about it.
She said she feels it is insulting to include African slaves under a section about "immigrants" and refer to them as "workers."
Dean-Burren said the textbook also discusses how some European people came to America as "indentured servants" who received "little to no pay."
"So they say that about English and European people, but there is no mention of African working as slaves or being slaves," she said. "It just says we were workers."
A 17-Year-Old Created This Insanely Detailed "Map Of Stereotypes"
Posted by Unknown on Monday, October 05, 2015
No offence, but this is brilliant. Via Martin Vargic.
Crazy-talented 17-year-old Slovakian artist Martin Vargic has an entire book of maps out now, which features this, "The Map of Stereotypes."
You might remember Vargic from such other cartographical wonders as the Map of Literature and the Map of the Internet.
Martin Vargic / Penguin
The level of detail is insane, and the stereotypes, ranging from country-wide to regional, are quite hilarious.
Martin Vargic / Penguin
Martin Vargic / Penguin
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