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The controversy regarding the novel stems from the usage of the term kasta pariah ("pariah caste"), which often refers to persons from the lowest caste in the Indian caste system. [ 3 ] Interlok was withdrawn from the school syllabus on 15 January 2011 following a discussion between the Education Ministry of Malaysia and Dewan Bahasa dan ...
Notes on a Scandal in the U.S.) is a 2003 novel by Zoë Heller. It is about a female teacher at a London comprehensive school who begins an affair with an underage pupil. Heller said to The Observer in 2003 that the real life controversy of American middle-school teacher Mary Kay LeTourneau's affair with a student was the inspiration for the ...
Zodiac is a non-fiction book written by Robert Graysmith about the unsolved serial murders committed by the "Zodiac Killer" in San Francisco in the late 1960s and early '70s. Since its initial release in 1986, Zodiac has sold 4 million copies worldwide. [1] Graysmith was a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle and later also wrote Zodiac ...
Books banned in Texas include 1984, Maus, and The Handmaid's Tale, but not Mein Kampf. I'm done arguing with people over whether this is fascism.
This has led to a controversy; prompted by the announced cancellation, more than 1,000 authors and intellectuals, including Colm Tóibín, Hisham Matar, Kamila Shamsie, William Dalrymple as well as Nobel prize winners Abdulrazak Gurnah, Annie Ernaux and Olga Tokarczuk, criticized the Frankfurt Book Fair and wrote in an open letter that the Book ...
The series, based on Rebecca Godfrey’s true-crime novel, fuses reality and invention for a gutting account of teenage violence. Here's what's true and what's fiction in the series.
The 2024 Democratic presidential nominee is the digital cover star for the October issue of 'Vogue.' ... Kamala Harris' New Magazine Cover Sparks Controversy: 'It's Freaking Me Out' Yasmine Coleman.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.