Holy new course, Batman!
Instead of buying conventional textbooks, Dr. Christine Cornell is telling her students to buy Batman, Astro Boy and The Walking Dead. Manga and Graphic Novels, a second-year English course, is being offered for the first time this year. Cornell said comics are now being used to attract high school students to subjects like Shakespeare – [...]
Martel says new work is not autobiographical, despite all the similarities TORONTO (CUP) — In his new novel, Beatrice & Virgil, Canadian author Yann Martel uses Holocaust imagery to tell the story of Henry. This story opens with Henry having just finished his own Holocaust novel. He flies out to London to meet with his [...]
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Alicia Yvonne – The Aquinian – When a half giant brought 12-year-old Harry Potter a letter telling him that he had been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Potter’s life changed forever. Fast-forward a few years and Potter is a teenager living in the wizard world. He becomes something of a celebrity, the [...]
Continue reading …Danie Pitre – The Aquinian – Westminster books celebrates 35 years The staff of Westminster Books love their jobs. Gloria Nickerson, the marketing coordinator, said she and her co-workers pride themselves on offering Fredericton a unique experience when customers walk into their shop on King Street. Westminster might remind you of the 1998 movie “You’ve [...]
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Canadian writer finds inspiration in tragedy. With a new book and a new album on the way, Hill stops by the Smythe Street Cathedral on Feb 21 to raise money for Haiti.
Continue reading …The latest Goose Lane Publications release features pieces by various STU professors.
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Co-editor Joseph Masciulli says the number of STU contributions to newest book was due to university environment that focuses on teaching and research.
Continue reading …STU Social Work students team up with the Literacy Coalition of New Brunswick to bring attention to literacy statistics
Continue reading …Danie Pitre THE AQUINIAN In a tribute to her friend and mentor Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Dr. Kathleen McConnell recounts her six years as the Hundefräulein (Dog Nanny) for the late ocean activist. The Hundefräulein Papers is both a memoir and a biography expressed through poems, emails, art and prose like a time capsule. “I had [...]
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Diane Cole – The Aquinian Richards’ new book examines his religious identity Throughout history, one issue has been at the centre of arguments, confrontations and wars. Religion is the one thing we all have a firm opinion on. Some cling to their choice, while others spend their lives searching for the answer to the almighty [...]
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