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Find out why students no longer get Great Expectations
1 posted on 06/27/2017 8:19:44 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
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You mean rearn, rearning english etc?


2 posted on 06/27/2017 8:21:48 AM PDT by Professional
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Graphic novel = comic book.


3 posted on 06/27/2017 8:22:36 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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Find out why students no longer get Great Expectations

In Pip's case, I thought it had to do with Magwitch being apprehended before the money could be moved out of his possession.
4 posted on 06/27/2017 8:23:52 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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Just leaning around, writing blogs...
Derpa herpa derp-de-derp.


6 posted on 06/27/2017 8:26:56 AM PDT by humblegunner
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What is that? Planet of the Amazons with really bad attitudes?


7 posted on 06/27/2017 8:27:28 AM PDT by DannyTN
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"Another graphic novel, Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick, also is a popular choice on university syllabi ..."

...but, for full effect, can only be read once a month for a period of about five-to-seven days ...

9 posted on 06/27/2017 8:37:04 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Ex Scientia Tridens)
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For some people (and academics are heavily represented here), it’s just not “real culture” unless it focuses on perversion.

Charles Dickens? Not real culture.
William Faulkner? Not real culture.
WB Yeats? Not real culture.

Some-guy-you’ve-never-heard-of-but-who-is-really-proud-of-his-homoexuality? Well, that’s Art, baby!!


10 posted on 06/27/2017 8:38:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Islam: You have to just love a "religion" based on rape and sex slavery.)
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A planet inhabited only by dogs in heat?


11 posted on 06/27/2017 8:43:42 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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"For example, Ursinus College assigns the widely acclaimed and controversial...

Ursinus College? Nevah hoid of da bum.
14 posted on 06/27/2017 9:09:48 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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The only college class that should allow comic books as a possible learning tool might be graphic arts.


18 posted on 06/27/2017 9:32:41 AM PDT by upchuck (RIP, Democrat Party, 1776-2017, Protested itself to death. h/t DarkOne)
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No wonder everybody is such a dumbass lately, required reading in college is pornographic comic books.


19 posted on 06/27/2017 9:55:12 AM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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There are some graphic novels that are true literature. Maus comes to mind. Absolutely amazing story.


23 posted on 06/27/2017 11:27:45 AM PDT by reed13k
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I’ll bet she still hasn’t learned the connection between dysfunctional and homosexuality.


27 posted on 06/27/2017 3:42:37 PM PDT by Trillian
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