Irony punctuation is an age-old (and effective) literary device writers use as a sort of wink to readers. Techniques vary, but a particularly popular device is the use of “scare quotes,” which indicate to readers the word or phrase in the quotes should be viewed with skepticism. (A less subtle way of conveying this would
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We’ve probably all heard some type of rumor about “rubber rooms” before. They’re the hangout of those in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool, a group of New York teachers who haven’t been assigned to an official position in a classroom, and instead remain in a paid, “on-call” type of status. This status originally came about
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The 2002 film Reign of Fire portrays a post-apocalyptic world in which dragons have reawakened and established their dominance over the world. Near the beginning of the film, Christian Bale and Gerard Butler’s characters do a dramatic portrayal of a scene from The Empire Strikes Back for a group of children who would have never
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The same day neo-Nazis and antifascists clashed in Charlottesville, Michael Oman-Reagan shared on Twitter a 1940s short-film titled “Don’t Be A Sucker.” The film, produced by the U.S. War Department in 1943, depicts an ornery bigot on a soap box seeking to enlist fellow Americans to his cause while denouncing Catholics, blacks, immigrants, and other groups. Oman-Reagan,
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I read Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis for the first time last December. A lifelong Christian and Narnia superfan, I’m late to the party, I know. But as the dust settled from an election that shined a glaring spotlight on our cultural divisions—political, social, economic, theological—I was feeling out of sorts. Christian leaders I respected as
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While the country is still reeling from shocking images of the violence in Charlottesville, VA last weekend, CNN reports the so-called “Alt Right” is planning nine events for this weekend, including a “free speech rally” in Boston. As expected, counter-protests are being planned, although local police in most areas are planning to take measures to
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