Marcy dermansky biography of martin luther king
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Cathy Zhu &#;23 Awarded Coro Fellowship
The anthropology and psychology double major, and Asian American studies minor, will spend nine months in St. Louis with the program, which is aimed at developing emerging leaders to work and lead across different sectors.
Rhea Chandran ’23 Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
The history major, whose Fulbright Scholarship will support research in India on the prostitution industry, is one of four Fords to be accepted into the prestigious international program for the academic year.
Spring Faculty Update
Highlighting faculty professional activities, including conferences, exhibitions, performances, awards, and publications.
Edna Creelman ’23 Shares a Plate With Her Favorite Thinkers
The sociology major and philosophy and psychology minor created “The Art of Sociology,” a pottery exhibition featuring ceramic plates bearing portraits of notable figures.
Mock Trial Team Goes to National Championships
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THE RED CAR
Doerr presents us with two intricate stories, both of which take place during World War II; late in the novel, inevitably, they intersect.
In August , Marie-Laure LeBlanc is a blind year-old living in the walled port city of Saint-Malo in Brittany and hoping to escape the effects of Allied bombing. D-Day took place two months earlier, and Cherbourg, Caen and Rennes have already been liberated. She’s taken refuge in this city with her great-uncle Etienne, at first a fairly frightening figure to her. Marie-Laure’s father was a locksmith and craftsman who made scale models of cities that Marie-Laure studied so she could travel around on her own. He also crafted clever and intricate boxes, within which treasures could be hidden. Parallel to the story of Marie-Laure we meet Werner and Jutta Pfennig, a brother and sister, both orphans who have been raised in the Children’s House outside Essen, in Germany. Through flashbacks we learn that Werner had been a curious and bright
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4 New Books That'll Heat Up Your Summer
The past still echoes in Colson Whitehead's sonorous latest work. Kalisha Buckhanon's fearless new work of fiction explores a troubled woman's quest to be heard. Shrewd storyteller Marcy Dermansky's latest is a comedy of no manners. And Helen Phillips's thriller is a post-partum page-turner.
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys: A Novel
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The Nickel Boys: A Novel
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Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys (Doubleday) begins with a plain metaphor for the historical novel—the excavation of a burial ground. Present-day students from the University of South Florida discover the site on the campus of the recently shuttered Nickel Academy, an all-boys reform school that in actuality was a torture chamber of vicious beatings, rape, exploitation, and murder. Here a pattern emerges for the remainder of his story: toggling between the past (the epicenter of the boys’ trauma) and the future (where they’ll suffer its aftershocks). “It was