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Nicole Hadley (380 KP) rated Fight to Learn: The Struggle to Go to School in Books

Jun 18, 2018

Fight to Learn by Laura Scandiffio brings interest and excitement to going to school. While most people have heard of Malala, they may not have heard of all of the great people in Scandiffio's book: people helping to change education for poverty-stricken Indians and Roma, Pakistanis denied an education because of their gender, children ripped away from schools becoming soldiers, and separate, but not equal, schools on First Nation land.

Liked that the book was divided into different challenges children face rather than by geography. It even included an example in the U.S. I also liked that the book highlighted the people, many of whom are children, who are finding solutions to this issue.

A fantastic resource for older students.

I received an ARC copy from Annick Press via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

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Marketing National Parks for Sustainable Tourism

Stephen L. Wearing, Stephen Schweinsberg and John Tower

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the key principles and challenges involved in tourism...

Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues

Charles Harper and Monica Snowden

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The sixth edition of Environment and Society continues to connect issues about human societies,...

Vampire Capitalism: Fractured Societies and Alternative Futures: 2017

Paul Kennedy

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This book argues that in recent decades an unrestrained vampire-capitalism has emerged, disengaged...

A Handful of Blue Earth: Poems by Venus Khoury-Ghata

Marilyn Hacker

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In her preface the distinguished American poet and translator Marilyn Hacker describes the poems...

A Scarcity of Love

Anna Kavan

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Rejection, betrayal and a girl's discovery of evil are the themes of this strange, haunting novel by...

David McK (3906 KP) rated Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020 (Updated Apr 10, 2023)

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

1991 | Action, Drama, Romance

7.0

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The last truly enjoyable Robin Hood movie, mostly because of Alan Rickman's sneering and preening Sheriff of Nottingham ("no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas!"), even if Costner can't do an English accent ("This is true English courage", said with a Californian drawl), that it has no understanding of English geography (apparently Nottingham is only a few miles walk from Dover) or that it is darker than you remember (ending with, essentially, an attempted rape scene).

For all that, however, this - at least - attempted to deepen and add some context to the Robin Hood legend - I think this may be the first where Robin returns from the Crusades with as Moorish companion? - and has a killer soundtrack by both Michael Kamen (especially the overture) and Bryan Adams (with *that* song in the end credits).