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Fantasy novels, cookies, gentle jazz music, and iced coffee. These are just some of the Book Club’s favorite things. Other than offering a comfortable place to read, the club allows PVCC students to connect with fellow book lovers. Kathleen Jeffers, the president of the Book Club, joined last fall when there were only two members. […]
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From East to West, and from ancient times to modern times, English 255 World Literature covers different types of literature from all over the world and from different periods of time. The course is taught by Professor of English Dr. Tamara Whyte. She said, “We start with Egyptian love poems, which are the oldest written […]
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On March 20 from 11 a.m. to noon, both Georgann Eubanks and Kat Maier stressed the importance of preserving and using different native plants. They stressed this in not only what they said, but what they wrote. They spoke at the Virginia Festival of the Book event that took place at the Riverview Farm in […]
Continue ReadingAntonia Florence, guest writer PVCC has about 5,000 full and part-time students who could be using the Betty Sue Jessup Library and its many resources. However, comparatively few do, according to Laura Skinner, the head of the library’s reference department. The library is centrally located in PVCC’s main building and offers a variety of resources, […]
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In today’s world of selfie-sticks and 24/7 access to social media, it is hard to imagine a person who has interacted with millions of lives yet only has a few pictures of her own. That it took between five and six decades for her to gain noticeable recognition for her enormous contributions to science and […]
Continue ReadingAfghans living in foreign countries are still witnessing and hearing about the dramatic events in Afghanistan. With the influx of technology, especially social media, in Afghanistan, stories do not stay hidden from the rest of the world. “Gumnami” (“the anonymity”), a book that was banned recently in Afghanistan, is another example of discrimination against the […]
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