Fact Against Fiction

Author : Jennifer LaGarde,Darren Hudgins
Publisher : International Society for Technology in Education
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781564847027

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Fact vs. Fiction by Jennifer LaGarde,Darren Hudgins Pdf

Help students discern fact from fiction in the information they access not only at school but in the devices they carry in their pockets and backpacks. The advent of the 24-hour news cycle, citizen journalism and an increased reliance on social media as a trusted news source have had a profound effect not only on how we get our news, but also on how we evaluate sources of information, share that information and interact with others in online communities. When these issues are coupled with the “fake news” industry that intentionally spreads false stories designed to go viral, educators are left facing a new and challenging landscape. This book will help them address these new realities, providing strategies and support to help students develop the skills needed to effectively evaluate information they encounter online. The book includes: • Instructional strategies for combating fake news, including models for evaluating news stories with links to resources on how to include lessons on fake news in your curricula. • Examples from prominent educators who demonstrate how to tackle fake news with students and colleagues. • A fake news self-assessment with a digital component to help readers evaluate their skills in detecting and managing fake news. • A downloadable infographic with mobile media literacy tips. The companion jump start guide based on this book is Fighting Fake News: Tools and Strategies for Teaching Media Literacy.

Author : Anne Janzer
Publisher : Networlding
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781955750134

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33 Ways Not to Screw Up Your Business Emails by Anne Janzer Pdf

Business runs on emails, yet we rarely give them enough thought. Too often, our messages are misunderstood, misfiled, or ignored. In a world filled with remote collaboration and virtual teams, people who master email writing rise above the noise. You can be one of those people. Learn how to make your emails work for you rather than against you with this short, practical guide. Topics include - Crafting effective subject lines - Writing emails that people respond to - Protecting yourself from accidental misfires Whether you’re just starting in your career or have been emailing for decades, you’ll find valuable advice and tips you can put into practice right away. Read it now and see the difference you can make with a few simple practices and habits.

Author : Kathryn Stockett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440697661

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The Help by Kathryn Stockett Pdf

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure. Together, these seemingly different women join together to write a tell-all book about work as a black maid in the South, that could forever alter their destinies and the life of a small town...

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135195250

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Fact and Fiction by Bertrand Russell Pdf

Here Russell reflects on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. This book provides valuable insight into the range of interests and depth of conviction of one of the world’s greatest philosophers.

Author : Grantley Berkeley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368828981

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Fact Against Fiction by Grantley Berkeley Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780887846960

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The Truth about Stories by Thomas King Pdf

Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with its Native peoples. Native culture has deep ties to storytelling, and yet no other North American culture has been the subject of more erroneous stories. The Indian of fact, as King says, bears little resemblance to the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the construct so powerfully and often destructively projected by White North America. With keen perception and wit, King illustrates that stories are the key to, and only hope for, human understanding. He compels us to listen well.

Author : Ilka Saal
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781609387785

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Collusions of Fact and Fiction by Ilka Saal Pdf

Fictions of history and historiopoetic performances of the past -- Digging, rep & rev-ing, faking: Suzan-Lori Parks's historiopoetic praxis -- A sidelong glance at history: unreliable narration and the silhouette as blickmaschine in Kara Walker -- Stereotypes and theatricality: (Re)staging Black Venus -- Coda: wither historiopoiesis?

Author : George Browne Macdonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Methodists
ISBN : BL:A0024970205

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Facts Against Fiction, Or, A Statement of the Real Causes which Produced the Division Among the Wesleyan Methodists in Derby. Forming a Reply to the Account Published by an Anonymous Writer. 2nd Ed by George Browne Macdonald Pdf

Author : Tim O'Brien
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547420295

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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien Pdf

Look for O’Brien’s new book, American Fantastica, on sale October 24th A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Author : Callan Wink
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812983906

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August by Callan Wink Pdf

A boy coming of age in a part of the country that’s being left behind is at the heart of this dazzling novel—the first by an award-winning author of short stories that evoke the American West. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • “August reads like early Hemingway, retooled for the present.”—William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days Callan Wink has been compared to masters like Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane. His short stories have been published in The New Yorker and have won numerous accolades. Now his enormous talents are showcased in a debut novel that follows a boy growing up in the middle of the country through those difficult years between childhood and adulthood. August is an average twelve-year-old. He likes dogs and fishing and doesn’t mind early-morning chores on his family’s Michigan dairy farm. But following his parents’ messy divorce, his mother decides that she and August need to start over in a new town. There, he tries to be an average teen—playing football and doing homework—but when his role in a shocking act of violence throws him off course once more, he flees to a ranch in rural Montana, where he learns that even the smallest communities have dark secrets. Covering August's adolescence, from age twelve to nineteen, this gorgeously written novel bears witness to the joys and traumas that irrevocably shape us all. Filled with unforgettable characters and stunning natural landscapes, this book is a moving and provocative look at growing up in the American heartland.

Author : Jarred McGinnis
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781838851552

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The Coward by Jarred McGinnis Pdf

A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK After a car accident Jarred discovers he’ll never walk again. Confined to a ‘giant roller-skate’, he finds himself with neither money nor job, a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers and strangers treating him like he’s an idiot. Worse still, he’s forced to live back home with his estranged father. Trying to piece himself together, Jarred comes to realise that things don’t have to stay broken after all. The Coward is about hurt and forgiveness, how the world treats disabled people, and how we write and rewrite the stories we tell ourselves about our lives – and try to find a happy ending.

Author : Alma Katsu
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735212527

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The Hunger by Alma Katsu Pdf

"Supernatural suspense at its finest...The best thing about The Hunger is that it will scare the pants off you."--The New York Times Book Review "Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark."--Stephen King A tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical moments: the Donner Party with a supernatural twist. Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. Though they dream of what awaits them in the West, long-buried secrets begin to emerge, and dissent among them escalates to the point of murder and chaos. They cannot seem to escape tragedy...or the feelings that someone--or something--is stalking them. Whether it's a curse from the beautiful Tamsen Donner (who some think might be a witch), their ill-advised choice of route through uncharted terrain, or just plain bad luck, the ninety men, women, and children of the Donner Party are heading into one of one of the deadliest and most disastrous Western adventures in American history. As members of the group begin to disappear, the survivors start to wonder if there really is something disturbing, and hungry, waiting for them in the mountains...and whether the evil that has unfolded around them may have in fact been growing within them all along. Effortlessly combining the supernatural and the historical, The Hunger is an eerie, thrilling look at the volatility of human nature, pushed to its breaking point.

Author : Peter Deutschmann,Jens Herlth,Alois Woldan
Publisher : Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3837646505

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Truth and Fiction by Peter Deutschmann,Jens Herlth,Alois Woldan Pdf

Many influential conspiracy theories originated in Eastern Europe. This volume analyzes the history behind this widespread phenomenon as well as its relationship with representations of the present in Eastern European cultures and literatures.

Author : Barbara C. Foley
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501722899

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Telling the Truth by Barbara C. Foley Pdf

Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development of the genre over three centuries to the evolution of capitalism, but her analyses of literary texts depart significantly from those of most current Marxist critics. Foley maintains that Marxist theory has yet to produce a satisfactory theory of mimesis or of the development of genres, and she addresses such key issues as the problem of reference and the nature of generic distinctions. Among the authors whom Foley treats are Defoe, Scott, George Eliot, Joyce, Isherwood, Dos Passos, William Wells Brown, Ishmael Reed, and Ernest Gaines.

Author : Z.R.W.M. von Martels
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004247093

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Travel Fact and Travel Fiction by Z.R.W.M. von Martels Pdf

"Travel Fact and Travel Fiction" contains 18 articles by different authors on important examples of travel writing from Classical Antiquity (Herodotus) until the first half of the nineteenth century. Discussed are among others Herodotus, Egeria, Rubruck, Marco Polo, Columbus, Joachim Du Bellay, Busbequius, Gryphius, Goethe and Dickens. Central themes are fiction, literary tradition, scholarly discovery and observation.