Category: Essays
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Rules for Resistance
Rating: 4/5, good Rules for Resistance is a short (200-page) collection of essays by journalists and activists from different countries giving Americans advice on how to deal with Trump. It’s edited by David Cole and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett. It was interesting, but I don’t know if it was as instructive as I was hoping for.…
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Is Lady Bird Plagiarized?
Last week, my sister-in-law posted an article by one of her creative writing teachers alleging that the hot indie movie Lady Bird, directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Saoirse Ronan, is “a white-lady Real Women Have Curves”. Michelle Cruz Gonzales says that it steals the plot, some scenes, and its cinematography style from the 2002 film…