Statement that encouraging students to read historical fiction can lead to a greater interest in historical events; View that historical fiction can help one see the varied and complex issues that are part of any significant historical event; Reference to the book "Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara...
What’s Your Type Do you prefer fiction or nonfiction (or both) Fiction books, like novels, can transport you to another world or help you imagine something beyond your own experience. Nonfiction books give you the who, what, when, and why of something. 【2】 . Many of them read like...
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle In Through the Magic Door (1908), Chap. 2, 24. Science quotes on: | Book (413) | Good (906) | Great (1610) | Life (1870) | Number (710) | ...
Encouraging all that and more is a very good thing. The problem is that the phrase “Do your own research” is often deployed by people who want you to embrace opinion as fact and also reject verified fact as fiction. “Do your own research” is code within conspiratorial communities that ...
to those business colleagues he’d thought were his friends. He is a good bourgeois German, and that’s how he sees himself, even in his humiliation. ‘He was born a middle-class citizen and will die a middle-class citizen. Perhaps one on the run, but a proper citizen none the less...
Rules: A Short History of What we Live By – I have a love-hate relationship with rules so this sounded good. Finally, I loved this list of Fall 2024 new releases in historical fiction from Reading the Past. She even calls out the multiperiod novels… so I can avoid them. (Can’t ...
What I’ve now learned about The Turk is that he is a glass is always half empty kind of guy. He is a very good man who makes extremely bad decisions and will always put everyone else’s needs ahead of mine and Daughter’s. As time went on life just got harder. We spent little ...
an average human examinee. GPT-3’s inability to produce correct answers in the Letter Counting task on which humans perform fairly well, should probably be attributed to the lack of training in processing this assignment. Finally, in the EI domain, GPT-3 also performs comparably good as ...
Ultimately, Gladiator is a classic example of historical fiction, telling an original story with historical elements without feeling compelled to adhere strictly to the facts. Like any historical epic, the goal of Gladiator, first and foremost, is to tell a compelling story. Commodus summarizes the...
We have hundreds, and perhaps even thousands, of books about China, mostly written by these same people viewing the country through those same ideological lenses and thus mostly being works of historical fiction, many reprehensibly so. The ingrained notion of superiority, white supremacy in fact...